God dammit, SAY their NAMES!

[HooptieWagon]

Willam Moore
Rev. Bruce Klunder
Andrew Goodman
Michael Schwerner
Rev. James Reeb
Viola Liuzzo
Jonathan Daniels

Just a few of the white people killed fighting for civil rights for African Americans.

Bernie Sanders wasn't killed, he was only beaten and jailed. That is a matter of record. But he was in the fight. The Swiftboating of Sanders reaches new depths of depravity, even by Clinton standards. Hillary was campaigning for Barry Fucking Goldwater at the time, a vocal opponant of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act. Jesus fucking Christ, this is a repeat of AWOL Bush saying Kerry lied about his record...worse, though, because it's Democrats doing it. I am stunned at the depths of Clinton depravity.

[Squinch]

1. When was he beaten and jailed?

[HerbChestnut]

4. Don't know if he was beaten, but he was jailed in the 60s protesting for a desegregated U of Chicago

[TCJ70]

5. Beaten is not documented. Arrested is though:

http://time.com/3896500/bernie-sanders-vermont-campaign-radical/

While demonstrating for desegregated schools.

[Squinch]

10. So it isn't a matter of record that he was beaten? I never heard of it. I was wondering if

the OP was referring to the lady who slapped him for voting for Jesse Jackson.

But no one would compare that with the beatings that people actually took for the cause of civil rights, would they?

[TCJ70]

11. No, and I wouldn't condone that if they did...

...but really, who slaps someone these days?

[Squinch]

12. Snitty racist ladies.

[Dragonfli]

13. You should learn more about him and the era, what he was doing before and afer being jailed

http://time.com/3896500/bernie-sanders-vermont-campaign-radical/

It helps to be knowledgeable on the facts rather than opposing campaign pablum.

[thereismore]

2. Depravity is right. We won't be fooled. nt

[shanti]

23. this about says it all:

?list=RDzYMD_W_r3Fg

[SoLeftIAmRight]

3. The Clinton Machine lays waste to the most energized part of the Democratic base

she is destroying her own future and with that....

[11 Bravo]

6. Is John Lewis part of that machine?

[SoLeftIAmRight]

8. I do not know!

What do you know?

[Armstead]

9. He joined today

[SoapBox]

19. Yes...and it would seem kind of sad but...

He supported her in the past.

Enough said.

[jillan]

7. I don't think he was beaten? But he was thrown in jail.

[mikehiggins]

20. Actually, if it was Chicago and he was protesting segregation odds were he was beaten.

Problem is that was so commonplace few people really bothered to complain about it.

Sanders hasn't mentioned it so it probably didn't happen but after all those guys and girls were killed something like that probably wasn't even mentioned.

[PatrynXX]

29. Why would he use it anyway.

Would seem like pandering and he's a good guy. It's enough to say he was jailed. This should be sending up alarm bells all up and down any organization supporting Black History. That she was for Goldwater and Bernie was getting jailed. Like hello something is smelling worse than Iowa right now and it's coming from the oddest places

[LiberalArkie]

14. Man in those days if you were thrown in jail you had at least had several blows to the stomach

and usually to the head. Watch video of the 1968 convention. I was lucky to have been knocked out and the police just continued grabbing others. If arrested he would have had some bruises at least. Ask anyone of that time.

[LiberalArkie]

15. Great People. There are many more who did not make the lists, who were buried in the

middle of the night or had weights tied to them and thrown in lakes. Whites back then used to take the back of the protest march so that the people would attach us first instead of the "communist outside agitators".

[arely staircase]

16. Beaten? Link? Or is this like the fake union members scandal? nt

[D Gary Grady]

18. Hillary was 16 during the Goldwater campaign

Lots of us did dumb things in high school.

[Fumesucker]

30. The question is did John Lewis meet either Hilllary or Bill between 1963 and 1966?

It doesn't seem plausible that he did meet them in that time period and he didn't quite say that he did but if he didn't then why did he mention meeting the Clintons?

[Luminous Animal]

37. This Lewis anecdote says, he had heard of Bill, but didn't meet him until 1991.

[PatrynXX]

31. yeah when I was 16

I supported some idiot called Bill Clinton. When I was 16 I saw him in LaCrosse WI in 1992. so yeah we do dumb things at that age

[liberal_at_heart]

21. K&R

[jalan48]

22. Righteous Anger Hooptie

I don't see how Hillary can hope to win the general election if she gets there. Bain Capital and now this? What does she stand for?

[pnwmom]

24. Hillary was a 16 year old high school student when she was campaigning for Goldwater.

But if she had been 6 when she was wearing a Goldwater button, we'd still be all over her for that.

[Fumesucker]

32. So when did Hillary meet John Lewis?

That's really what everyone wants to know, when did they meet? Lewis gave the implication he met both Clintons between 1963 and 1966 but he didn't flatly say that.

[pnwmom]

38. Bill Clinton said in 2000 that they met when he was 29, before he got his first

job in politics. So mid 70's.

I don't know why you thought it would have been a decade earlier, when Bill and Hillary were still in college. But they've been friends for many decades.

[Fumesucker]

39. I happen to know that, I was wondering why Lewis mentioned meeting them in the statement...

It just seems an odd thing to say when it's documented that he didn't meet them in the 1963-66 period.

[pnwmom]

41. Why was it odd? I just thought he was saying that he never met or saw Bernie

during the years when Bernie was active in the Civil Rights movement. But then Bernie went up to Vermont and got involved in Vermont politics.

The Clintons were younger than Bernie, and they both went to law school after college, so their work in civil rights began later than his. But they met John Lewis in the 70's, and they continued their friendship and their work in civil rights through the decades.

[Fumesucker]

44. Have you ever wondered what the definition of "is" is?

[pnwmom]

47. Sure. I read Sartre in college. n/t

[saidsimplesimon]

25. I'm also stunned.

"No good deed goes unpunished."

It's not Mrs. Clinton, or Democrats that disappointment US. It is the equal ownership of a race to the bottom amoung both parties.

Move On or move out of the way is my message to those that doubt "for the times they are a changing".

[Spitfire of ATJ]

26. Wait a week and we will hear about his "radical education".

[senz]

48. Yes, as happened to Obama in 2008.

Using the same playbook with "Sanders" substituted for "Obama"?

Hope so. Worked so well the last time.

[upaloopa]

27. Hillary never campaigned for Barry fucking anyone.

She was in high fucking school then.


I was an active Young Republican, and, later, a Goldwater girl, right down to my cowgirl outfit and straw cowboy hat emblazoned with the slogan "AuH2O."

My ninth-grade history teacher, Paul Carlon, was, and still is, a dedicated educator and very conservative Republican. Mr. Carlson encouraged me to read Senator Barry Goldwater's recently published book, The Conscience of a Conservative. That inspired me to write my term paper on the American conservative movement ... I liked Senator Goldwater because he was a rugged individualist who swam against the political tide.

Hillary Clinton didn't last long on that side of the political spectrum, however, reporting that "By the time I was a college junior, I had gone from being a Goldwater Girl to supporting the [1968] anti-war campaign of Eugene McCarthy."


I also supported Gene McCarthy in 1968. I had just gotten home from Vietnam. Neither I nor Hillary were political in high school. She is two years younger than me.

[NightWatcher]

28. The Politics of Rove: Take an opponent's strength and turn it into a weakness.

Hillary is using Rove's playbook to win win WIN at all costs.

[HooptieWagon]

43. Scorched earth in Feb will assure her a loss in Nov.

[PatrynXX]

33. a pro Biko link mentions Bernie Sanders

written in Sept 2015 .za? Zambia maybe don't know.

http://www.iol.co.za/pretoria-news/opinion/bikos-legacy-more-relevant-than-ever-1910325

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

34. While I understand the gist of this post

I don't think it's helpful in trying to win over black voters by co-opting the 'Say their Names' verbiage for use with white people. I think a different OP title might cause less unnecessary friction with AA readers.

[HooptieWagon]

42. The shock value of the title is intentional....

...since it was a Black Civil Rights leader who was the face of the smear job.
Bernie didn't play a big leadership role. That job had to naturally fall to Black leaders like Dr. King and Rep. Lewis. But Rep. Lewis's dismissal of Sen Sanders contribution, even implying he wasn't involved, is just a slap in the face to the many white people who were foot-soldiers and local organizers of the movement...not to mention pissing on the graves of those who gave their lives. Yes, I'm pissed. Hopefully Rep Lewis reflects a bit upon his comments and feels ashamed. I doubt the Clintons feel any shame.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

35. oh goody. a race war in DU

What fresh hell is this?

[fbc]

36. I am never stunned by how low the Clintons will sink

[valerief]

40. And Bernie's judgment was sterling even back then, while Hillary's was, well,

floppy.

[Sienna86]

45. Why would someone go this low? Is age a factor?

Really can't believe what the Clinton group does to these people. In 2008 also.
I respect Lewis from r his Civil Rights work. But to be blindly beholden to the Clintons is questionable.

[senz]

46. You are right, HooptieWagon. They are now SWIFTBOATING Senator Sanders.

And that's how Hillary thinks she'll win the nomination?

Hmm.

[Hydra]

49. Apparently they think that if they destroy Bernie and the rest of us

That everything will be great again. 3rd Way all the way! Loyalty to party, right or wrong!!