Bernie Sanders' Superb Civil Rights Record the REASON for the Rovian Smears We are Seeing.
This Weeks Corporate Funded Talking Point? Bernie Wasn't Bernie. The arrest record, the CORE leadership. Sssshhhh, they don't want you to KNOW about Bernie's excellent record on Civil Rights AGAIN when it COUNTED.
Does that mean they are beginning to really worry that people ARE finding out about his history regarding Civil Rights?
There really is no doubt about Sanders Civil Rights Record, where he was, what he was involved in during the Civil Rights Era.
So seeing the Rovian attempts to obliterate that history SHOWS US how FEARFUL his enemies are that the PEOPLE will learn about it, as they ARE and maybe wonder: What was Hillary DOING at that same time?
The LATEST TALKING POINT?
You've seen it, a few times now today. Frankly I am encouraged to see the EFFORT and MONEY going into the smear campaign to try to stop Bernie's momentum. You should be too. Because NOTHING says Bernie is WINNING like his enemies desperately turning out talking point after talking point and failing with every single one so far.
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Bernie Sanders a member of the steering committee, stands next to George Beadle, University of Chicago president, who is speaking at a Committee On Racial Equality meeting on housing sit-ins. 1962.
Now the real question regarding that era when two of our Dem Candidates were around. We KNOW what Bernie was doing.
But where was Hillary?
I am hearing that question a lot lately!
Go Bernie! Best Civil Rights Record of almost anyone, not just in THIS campaign, but in Congress!
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capable of handling my own affairs, and have done so for more than a decade with issues like this. Thanks for the concern though, but I will deal with it myself, I'm kind of independent that way! 
Call it phase one of dealing with internet stalking. .
As I said, it's not your concern and I'm handling it just fine right now.
that would be appreciated!
Though at that time never thought it would come in handy on a Dem forum!
fine to threaten, hijack with viruses, or do whatever possible to silence the 'left'. I learned how to get around all their tricks and didn't just survive, but learned a lot about 'talking points' and tactics which has become very useful. Many of us Dems have noted the similarity between those right wing tactics and the third way. I was watching a conversation a few years where Third Way Dems put forward the idea of 'emulating Rove' who they claimed, knew 'how to win'. It was revealing to say the least. I thought we were supposed to fight dirty political tricksters, not become them.
Anyhow, thanks for your comments, I'm not sorry I had those experiences, it makes it much harder for the would be 'ankle biters' to gain any traction. I'm sure you learned a lot also!
Have a great evening!
to go unnoticed. I suppose they THINK people are not noticing but that's not my problem. I will call them out each time they appear in my threads with their 'clever' little games. If they don't like it, they have the option to stop. Either way suits me fine!
Thanks bvar, I appreciate your observations as I do all the others since this particular stalking tactic began.
threads, but in fact, they tend to help, inadvertently of course. I use such comments to keep good threads kicked AND to point out things that 'make DU suck'!
I appreciate your comments LiberalLovinLug!
I'm so sorry about your dad. Peace and strength to you, and may he R.I.P. 
After that, nothing said by those who participated in that horrible thread is credible.
creepy, hang in there sabrina 1 you have a strong soul 
and they all come across as looking desperate and a bit ............ let's see, I'm trying for a nice word ........... obsessed! That's it! 
paid for by Corporations, than they used to. But now that they have RAISED This issue AGAIN, probably planted by Brocks Hillary Super Pac, since we know he is doing this, I think it's time to do a real comparison between these two Civil Rights Era Candidates to see how they compare!
It's funny because initially they were dismissing Bernie's record, making ridiculous claims like 'that was 50 years ago and doesn't count' kind of thing.
I hadn't yet looked at Hillary's record at the time, and wondered how ANY Democrat could actually dismiss that entire era as 'not important'. Now I know! Lol, their own attempts at smears CAUSED people to go look at Hillary's record, and that explained the whole thing.
Sorry I assumed you'd be a Hillary supporter.
And although I can empathize with the black community always taking a white person's opinion with a grain of salt (or maybe pepper) based on the history of the two races, I just find any belief system that self imposes a censorship based on the speakers race, sex, orientation, or for that matter anything..height, hair style, attractiveness...to be limiting and I pity those that first look at who said it, and not the validity of what was being said. Or that someone who is the "other" cannot have any insight whatsoever into another groups needs, or at least should never speak it. Its more that I am baffled than that I want to start an argument about it.
Have a good day
but that I am learning what matters to those most affected.
Why it matters, and so on.
It is an education for a white guy, believe me 
My privilege allows me to make observations that may not have any credibility whenever it comes to race.
I get such a kick out comments like yours, frankly.
We all do now.
But keep up the good work, you have no idea how effective it is for us when we are signing people up for Bernie, to show them these kinds of comments.
get attention for these excellent comments, just some advice, don't put them in those talking point threads. People are refusing to kick them.
But start your own OP so that people get the facts. They will be lost in flame bait threads as more and more people realize that kicking them is what they want you to do and they don't care whether you are posting facts or not. Also a lot of people have then on ignore.
That thread you posted in is a perfect example of a talking point, nothing more.
much support is that, and I hope you won't mind my saying this, it does acknowledge a talking point which has little basis in fact as evidence by who was quite happy to kick it.
The ONLY problem Bernie has with AAs is NAME RECOGNITION. Same as he had with everyone else.
Any other claim is a lie. To ackowledge the tallking points only strengthens them.
Bernie's support from AAs and other minorities, is growing by the day as evidenced on Social Media where each day I have to add Minorities for Bernie to my follow list and I can't keep up with them as more and more minorities learn about him for themselves.
The 'he has a problem' with AAs meme is just that, it's a lie. I am eg. working with longtime family friends from Virginia AA family, who are working there to introduce Bernie to AAs who never heard of him, but once they do, are enthusiastic about him, and when I show them some of what has been posted here, they just sigh. As I've said and will say again, none of those on this forum claiming to speak for AAs have any influence or right to make that claim.
Hope you don't mind my offering my opinion. I didn't kick it myself because it did feed into that meme.
My purpose for reposting it wasn't to validate that opinion per se, but to point out to the original poster that if what this guy says is true, it works against the Bernie sux with PoC meme. I tend to agree with you, the more unadulterated exposure Bernie gets with all demos, the more people support him. Simply, I was using a respected AA pundit's opinion (factual or not) as a counter argument to the it's all Bernie's fault meme.
be as honest as you are and will jump on things and take them out of context which I have learned the hard way after so many years dealiing with the right back in the old Bush era.
I've learned to focus only on the positive. Even to contradict their talking points I found out by using them as a foundation for a discussion, feeds them and they will make sure to use them that way.
So now I post the FACTS about Bernie, THEN slam the lies, but never in their threads. Too bad we all had to learn to watch out for the deviousness that devours our system, especially people who are naturally honest and themselves would never engage in such tactics.
But sadly we do have to be aware. We don't have the funding and Super Pacs, Think Tanks etc to fight for Bernie, so we have to do it ourselves.
Love your posts, didn't in any way mean to criticize YOU, I was just pointing out how careful we have to be because not everyone is interested in honest discussion and likely to twist our words!
I admit half the stuff spontaneously issued from my virtual pie hole deserves criticism. And you have my blessing to call me on it anytime 
people I respect and tried to absorb it and remember the mine field we are trying to negotiate, sadly. I like to hear from people I respect on what I might be doing wrong, we all do. I don't, however pay much attention to people I do not respect for whatever reasons.
desperate to keep people from learning about the ONLY candidate in the race who represents them.
And the reason why we must destroy their well-funded lies and smears everywhere we see them.
Because in the past, they worked, destroying candidates who could have taken this country in a whole different direction.
They are getting more push back now than they ever did before with these old smear campaigns.
We the people have some powerful tools at our disposal that we didn't have in the past, the Social Media for one, which thankfully they tend to dismiss.
So no, we are not in denial about anything, but it is going to be a huge fight to keep them from distorting and smearing those who we know and the people now, will be the best choices for this country.
Rove is jealous he didn't think of it first.
corporate funded entities, Super Pacs, have been caught trying to plant smears against Sanders in the media. We also know that the Corporate money in politics, is used, millions of dollars in every election, to stop people like Bernie who is challenging the system.
Sadly the Super Pac run by David Brock who was exposed trying to smear Bernie, without having his own name attached to it, works in cooperation with the Hillary campaign.
Bernie has no Super Pacs as they are the means by which Corporate Donors can get around the Campaign Finance laws and pour money into these Super Pacs, anonymously and in unlimited amounts. Citizens United made this possible.
And we know that the talking points re Bernie, obliterating his Civil Rights record, come from the Hillary Campaign.
It would be nice if Hillary herself condemned all of this, as Bernie does.
But she hasn't. As for what she was doing which has only become a question since her campaign began attacking and actually lying about Bernie's record? She was a Republican working for Goldwater, while other High School students were involved in the Civil Rights movement.
No one was making an issue of any of this, until the nasty, daily attacks began against Sanders and his supporters.
That's what happens when you decide to go on the attack, rather than stick to the issues. People begin to look at YOUR record also.
Thanks for your post ...
