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(118,659 posts) Sat Jun 20, 2015, 08:37 PM Jun 2015

Clinton seizes the center on race and guns in wake of GOP's silence

Clinton seizes the center on race and guns in wake of GOP's silence

by Jonathan Allen at Vox

http://www.vox.com/2015/6/20/8818611/clinton-Charleston-race-guns

"SNIP...............

If Clinton is to win the presidency, part of the reason will be Republicans' unwillingness to seriously confront realities that threaten the stability and strength of American society, from race and gun violence to income inequality and climate change.

It's hard to come up with solutions if you refuse to identify the problems. Clinton didn't advance the ball much on the former Saturday, but she delivered on the latter — putting tremendous distance between herself and field full of Republican gun-and-race deniers. One would think the GOP would have learned this lesson from the 1990s: If you give a Clinton the obvious middle ground, she'll take it.

Clinton on Race and Guns

Here's part of what she said on race.

"Bodies are once again being carried out of a black church. Once again racist rhetoric has metastasized into racist violence. Now its tempting, it is tempting, to dismiss a tragedy like this as an isolated incident. To believe that in today’s America bigotry is largely behind us, that institutionalized racism no longer exists. But despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America’s long struggle with race is far from finished."

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