2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRacists were trolling Twitter today, agreeing with Bill Clinton "for once"
When BLM showed up at Clinton's half empty small room rally today, Clinton threw out his collection of strawmen while the crowd of dozens tried to get him to move on.
Bill Clinton would not move on. He escalated to telling the people who were risking arrest and brutality to get urgently needed progress and stop the killing of unarmed black children in this country:
Earning him attaboys from some of America's biggest racists.
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)Onlooker
(5,636 posts)... His point was simply that by "superpredator" Hillary was referring to gang leaders, but the Bernie campaign which is largely a white campaign is desperate to frame the argument differently. Bernie's supporters are trying to exploit BLM, which refuses to endorse anyone, in their own opportunistic way -- just as Bernie became a Democrat for opportunistic reasons, now his movement is trying to steal the show from BLM.
BLM has every right to their objection, since they are a movement fighting for black lives when even among the Democrats you have Bernie who seems to think that economics and race issues are the same and the Clintons who have a mixed record on race issues, but a good enough one to win them substantial AA support.
jack_krass
(1,009 posts)Nope, he doesn't
npk
(3,660 posts)Bubba is going to be fair game since he has put himself front and center in this primary. This is why I never liked Hillary running.