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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Black Leaders who support Hillary Slam Bernie Sanders on race issues [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)20. His strategy of not building a relationship is SO MUCH SMARTER
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Black Leaders who support Hillary Slam Bernie Sanders on race issues [View all]
bravenak
Feb 2016
OP
Funny how the only "issue" in the article was voting for a bill that Clinton signed into law.
arcane1
Feb 2016
#1
No doubt the constituency cares about many issues, one of which is welfare. I care about it too.
JonLeibowitz
Feb 2016
#184
President Obama By His "Governance"NOT His Rhetoric Is A CORPORATIST President!
CorporatistNation
Feb 2016
#220
You are entitled to your opinion and other voters who like President Obama are free to disagree
Gothmog
Feb 2016
#222
You are entitle to your own opinion but you are not entitled to your own facts
Gothmog
Feb 2016
#242
It's been said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Consider me flattered.
Electric Monk
Feb 2016
#244
I am me. I am not Sanders. And I don't like our current "pay to play" political system.
mhatrw
Feb 2016
#240
Oh, so he's slammed for not supporting Barry Goldwater, such a GREAT supporter of civil rights?
cascadiance
Feb 2016
#39
1968: Bernie invokes his white privilege to move to a state where he's unlikely to encounter black
Empowerer
Feb 2016
#72
So, 20 years after moving to lily-white Vermont, Sanders endorse Jesse Jackson
Empowerer
Feb 2016
#111
You can support someone for re-election and still be in favor of them not being unopposed
jfern
Feb 2016
#146
ObamaCare is already part BernieCare, he got community health clinics to cover another 10 million
jfern
Feb 2016
#151
Um no. The way you guys give Bernie credit for anything good from obamacare and act like bernie
bravenak
Feb 2016
#155
It's kind of crazy how many people ignore all the anti black things the Clintons have done
jfern
Feb 2016
#147
Bernie is the first candidate I've ever heard of that is being asked for a 40 yr civil rights resume
virtualobserver
Feb 2016
#153
Where was Sanders in 1956, what was he doing that year, the Civil Rights Movement began
Thinkingabout
Feb 2016
#84
Yes, expectations of both candidates should be the same at the same age.
Thinkingabout
Feb 2016
#122
Damn straight! Unless there is a reason that SHE deserves more criticism than HIM
bravenak
Feb 2016
#125
Where was Hillary? Campaigning for Goldwater and later as a Republican in college...
cascadiance
Feb 2016
#231
So she wasn't capable of thinking rationally in high school or as a freshman in college?
cascadiance
Feb 2016
#235
Google, like google to determine the ages of Sanders and Hillary in 1962?
Thinkingabout
Feb 2016
#117
In the 50's Hillary was 3-13 years old, this is what some people needs to understand.
Thinkingabout
Feb 2016
#143
Not all union members agrees with the decisions made, in particular the CWA decision.
Thinkingabout
Feb 2016
#87
Since this story first came out and was SPUN- we have come to learn that the Black Caucus
Ferd Berfel
Feb 2016
#270
Like the hedge fund PAC which is running ads against Hillary, who'd thunk?
Thinkingabout
Feb 2016
#273
Do ANY of These So Called Black Leaders Realize That Bernie Was ARRESTED For Standing Up Against...
CorporatistNation
Feb 2016
#218
They slam the ONLY candidate that has been areested FIGHTING for Civil Rights
Ferd Berfel
Feb 2016
#6
We get arrested for walking down the street why should his five minute police contact sway us?
bravenak
Feb 2016
#13
Sanders has done nothing for African Americans except for the things he's done.
Renew Deal
Feb 2016
#8
I guess he really wants to tear down prisons that your friends love so much having so many in?
cascadiance
Feb 2016
#42
I know, you can't even address my actual questions let alone answer them. It's ok. nt.
polly7
Feb 2016
#68
Guess you really didn't care about anyone 'dissing' Obama. Should have said that
polly7
Feb 2016
#75
Apparently, he has - I've never heard him "yelling out the stupidity" of calling our President a
Empowerer
Feb 2016
#78
You're right, he would have done that, as well as denounce the claim itself because
polly7
Feb 2016
#261
So why does HE have a black spokesperson who he *hired* and Hillary hasn't *hired* one?
cascadiance
Feb 2016
#61
He looks to be face to face in this picture. Why do you feel the need to lie about him?
cascadiance
Feb 2016
#101
As first lady she was one of the most photographed people in this country...
cascadiance
Feb 2016
#121
Why should we be in ecstasies over it just because some other people want us to be?
bravenak
Feb 2016
#188
So, stop avoiding this. Why do you support someone who campaigned for Goldwater...
cascadiance
Feb 2016
#194
Explain, or otherwise, you're just criticizing Bernie mercilessly without basis!
cascadiance
Feb 2016
#215
I'm sorry but that pictured showed him walking and Lewis was walking next to him...
cascadiance
Feb 2016
#214
Michelle Alexander: Here's Why Black People Should Think Twice Before Voting For Hillary Clinton
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2016
#10
People generally have very little control over what other people do, at the end of the day
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2016
#49
No way. You mean that people who rely on the Establishment to get paid thanks to the...
Shandris
Feb 2016
#15
we're told that Vermont the state that Sanders is representing as a Senator as a Congressman
azurnoir
Feb 2016
#16
Tell that stuf to Keith Ellison and Ta-Nehisi Coates both of whom are supporting Sanders
azurnoir
Feb 2016
#99
I'm sure you understand us much better than the people we ourselves choose to lead
bravenak
Feb 2016
#35
Yiu think that answer will shut this whole thing down because YOU and LA are fine with it?
bravenak
Feb 2016
#37
If you are running to be the nominee of the party, then you should care about the party
Gothmog
Feb 2016
#236
What evidence do you have that he doesn't care about the party or down ballot candidates?
frylock
Feb 2016
#237
The fact that we were already there and it was about us and our leaders who suffered the racism
bravenak
Feb 2016
#179
Detail - she'll continue the Obama legacy, that's friend enough for a lot of blacks
uponit7771
Feb 2016
#257
"There’s no credibility to the things that are being said at the twilight of his political career."
riversedge
Feb 2016
#259
"He only really started talking about issues concerning African Americans in the last 40 days,"
workinclasszero
Feb 2016
#271