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Iamaartist

(3,300 posts)
Sun Apr 17, 2016, 04:48 AM Apr 2016

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar endorses Hillary Clinton

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/kareem-abdul-jabbar-endorses-hillary-clinton-222053


For Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, voting for Hillary Clinton in November is a slam dunk. Or perhaps a sky hook.

In a column for The Washington Post published online Saturday, Abdul-Jabbar — the NBA’s all-time leading scorer — says Americans have a choice "between hell and reason.”

“We are in a defining battle between the resurgence of the irrational, and all the horrors that have historically gone with it — violence, bigotry, fascism — and reason, with all the advances that have accompanied it — justice and freedom for all, regardless of ethnic background, social status, gender or sexual orientation,” he writes.

Abdul-Jabbar said that Clinton “possesses that rare but crucial combination of idealism and pragmatism.”

Of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, Abdul-Jabbar said the leading Republican candidates have rejected “foundational ideals in favor of a hellish chaos of lies, misdirection, attacks on the Constitution and, most harmful to the country, a rejection of reason."



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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar endorses Hillary Clinton (Original Post) Iamaartist Apr 2016 OP
K & R SunSeeker Apr 2016 #1
Yes he does and it's been posted here but it doesn't hurt to post his endorsement again. Cha Apr 2016 #2
Yes, another endorsement in California, I am looking forward to their delegates. Thinkingabout Apr 2016 #3

Cha

(297,535 posts)
2. Yes he does and it's been posted here but it doesn't hurt to post his endorsement again.
Sun Apr 17, 2016, 05:18 AM
Apr 2016

Thank you, Iaaa~

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
3. Yes, another endorsement in California, I am looking forward to their delegates.
Sun Apr 17, 2016, 08:11 AM
Apr 2016

When it gets to the convention California delegates are going to count as much as Iowa.

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