Black Lives Matter Protesters Interrupt Bill Clinton in Philadelphia

[dana_b]

Uh oh...

Then security tries to throw a guy out. Not good.

Edit -

a longer version with repeated clashes

[merrily]

1. Is Bill running again?

[dana_b]

2. well they do come as a 2 for 1!! n/t

[merrily]

7. Most of the time, they (wisely) disavow that and she is the candidate, not him.

He is a private citizen with no ability to legislate or sign legislation. Seems as though they would be interrupting her, rather than him.

BTW, wasn't the deal they could only shut down Bernie, not her because she had Secret Service protection? What happened to Bill's Secret Service detail?

I don't really understand this, so I should really stay out of it. Forget I said anything.

[HereSince1628]

30. What does it matter? Disqualify and destroy her surrogates!

Turnabout -is- fairplay

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

33. LOL! You could have fooled me!

[questionseverything]

3. sad to see what he has become

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017351637

[jwirr]

32. I think he has always been like this. We are just getting

better at seeing it. No one who really cared would have be defending those two laws he is so proud of.

[dana_b]

4. "I'll tell you a story about another place where Black Lives Matter: Africa,"

uhhh..... whoosh!!!

[Politicalboi]

5. Look at that crowd!!!!!!!

NOT.

The only crowds he can get these days is at polling places where he doesn't belong.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

22. I've seen a larger crowd at a book signing.

[phazed0]

23. Yeah right! What 50 people in there? Can't even fill a HS gym! nt

[awake]

6. Wow what a small crowd

[me b zola]

8. I can't help but notice the tiny crowd that the former president was able to assemble for his wife

Back on topic: I am so proud of this generation of young people. Well read and active in their communities and politics. Don't let anyone shout you down or turn you around, no matter who they are!

[roguevalley]

9. it takes a lot of guts to step up and I agree. Kudos to activist kids these days. :D

[840high]

41. They are good. Proud of them. For one

I'll never forget the young lady that Hillary dismissed and turned her back on.

[JimDandy]

10. So Clinton can characterize Blacks as 'poor', but woe be it for Sanders to do so.

Bill Clinton speaking to Black Lives Matter protesters: "Hillary was trying to get health care for poor kids. And who were they? Their (Black) lives mattered."

[SammyWinstonJack]

31. Ugh.

[me b zola]

11. OMG, the second video where he attempts to explain away the crime bill he signed into law

...amounted to, 'I talked to a couple of Black people who wanted more people locked up...'


The gig is up, Bill. People see you and your wife for who you really are.

[ViseGrip]

17. I know, what a telling comment for him to make! Couple of people who were black wanted more

locked up. What an azzhole!

[840high]

42. "Predators" - don't u know?

[phazed0]

24. Yeah, we SEE what good it did, or rather, what it was intended to do.

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[me b zola]

25. People are protesting Bill's little gathering because they disagree

...Clinton era policies have had a harmful effect on all working class families and had a disastrous effect on the Black community in particular. Mass incarceration of African Americans is what was intended? Good paying jobs leaving for overseas was intended? Throwing people off of welfare, leaving children to fend for themselves as working class parents went off to work without child-care, that was intended?

I think that you should make political ads for Hillary. People will pay attention to your message.

[phazed0]

26. Sorry, forgot the sarcasm tag..

Re-reading my post, it isn't very clear..

What I mean to say is that the bill was sold as a crime bill to help but it was obvious that it was not for that at all.. The past 20 years are proof that the Clinton era stuff was to pander and help those in power even further.

Please, continue the flogging on the board!

Go Bernie!

I added the sarcasm tag lol

[me b zola]

28. LOL, no worries, sometimes I lose my funnybone

Lately up seems down and down seems up. I've seen the craziest things posted here to defend the indefensible. It is becoming more difficult to tell satire from reality.

Rock on, phazed0!

[jwirr]

36. Someone find that picture of him and his southern cronies

speaking to the cameras with their backs turned against a group of black prisoners. It was on DU about a week ago. This is that Bill Clinton that we see in that picture.

Also wouldn't hurt to find the one where he is setting with poppy bush and George Wallace.

This is the Clinton attitude toward not just POC but toward anyone who is not in the 1%.

[840high]

34. His whole statement - wtf is with him?

[me b zola]

39. I think that they are baffled by the entire idea of having to speak to "little people"

With very few exceptions, Hillary has done no campaigning other than $5K plate fundraisers and squeezing people for their endorsements. The Clinton's idea of campaigning is backroom deals, so this entire idea of having to meet with the unwashed just twigs them out. Just my .02 cents.

[840high]

40. Maybe this is his real feelings - wonder

what dinner conversation is like about black lives.

[thereismore]

12. "We were there for you" - wag finger wag. So you owe us.

He is clever but I'm up to his old tricks.

[thereismore]

13. OMG 1:40 first video - he has literally 10 people in front of him with signs and the rest are just

kinda wondering about. This must be demoralizing to him. A far cry from 1992.

[jillan]

14. Other than his despicable remarks, look at all that hand and arm waving - and read this...

From a Hillary event:

Later, at a Philadelphia job training center, Clinton said people should know what she would do if she's elected president, "not just lots of arm-waving and hot rhetoric.

http://abc7news.com/politics/clinton-hits-sanders-on-gun-control-sharpens-attacks/1280502/

[ViseGrip]

18. Another great ad....Hillary speaking and Bill waving and wagging about...

[ViseGrip]

15. Bill brings up crack on the streets....well do your homework people.

Start with the airport in Mena, AR and the start of the 'drug war' and keep going.

How dare he bring it up and say they tried to clean it up.

Just read Barry and the Boys, about a civil air patrol pilot, and what he flew around, and who he flew it for. For their black op funds, they throw that shit in the low income neighborhoods, for THEIR money. They do not care about those lives. And now the heroin epidemic. We should begin to trace that,,,,starting with the Afghan war....

[840high]

35. Yes - I am very

familiar with the Mena story.

[jwirr]

38. And while you are at it keep in mind the recent admission

that the drug war was started to destroy Hippies and Blacks. Follow the dots.

[ViseGrip]

16. Hill and Bill have a bad habit of waving their fingers in little people's faces. Awful.

[liberalhistorian]

19. It is long past time that both he and Hillary

recognize, apologize for and begin to address the horrendous damage that terrible "crime" bill did and is doing to an entire generation of African-Americans and other minorities. His arrogance and defiance here, however, is disgusting and does not bode well.

[thereismore]

20. Bill just told me he saved us from sure death from gangsters hopped-up on crack with his crime bill.

Cool story.

[snort]

21. What a crowd. Bill can really pack them in.

Inspiring. Oh, and would those pesky ingrate blacks who don't have a clue about black lives please shut up? Thank you.

[Dont call me Shirley]

27. BC reminds me of my ex, and not in a good way.

[florida08]

29. well

He and Hillary were not to kind to the first black president when he was running. Black lives didn't matter so much then. She's still not a beacon of civil rights on all the AA murders that have taken place either.

http://freebeacon.com/politics/ebony-is-hillary-clinton-ready-for-black-voters/

[JDPriestly]

37. He needs to hush and listen to what the Black Lives Matter activists actually have to say.

Why didn't he invite them on stage to speak and ask him their questions?