Yeah, I just couldn't find a better picture to use.
I still think looking at just a yes/no voting record is pointless. You need to know their reasons behind what they did and why they did it. You can't just say "Bernie voted for the crime bill to punish blacks!" or "Bernie voted for Iraq so he loves war!" without looking at WHY he voted for it because that's not true, which is what I've been trying to say.
Bye that's what I've been saying all along!
Y'all (not just you, but publications) tried to use the Crime Bill against Hillary but you gotta look at why she supported for it (never voted for it) at the time and the realize she wasn't president at the time. It's a two way street
The Crime Bill is a non factor with regard to both Hill and Bernie
Honestly, yes. They don't care about her past. They just want a woman in the white house and so they can, like I've said before, shout "YASSSS QUEEN" at the tv screen. Anyone who's done proper research on her past positions, terrible foreign policy decisions, etc would never vote her into office (unless you're a republican - but even they don't like her).
I really can't believe black Americans support Clinton. It's mind boggling how much crap the Clinton's have been able to get away with in regards to the black community. Sanders' ideas attack the very foundation which has destroyed the lives of African Americans in this country from healthcare to income inequality to the way our justice system is designed (which Bill Clinton had a helping hand in creating). It's not a full solution but it's a starting point and goes further than anything Clinton or any republican supports.
I'm also amazed gay people support Clinton as well. It's just mind boggling to me. The Clinton's have had anti-gay views for the longest (up until recently).
Though I'm rooting for Queen Hillary, I would be pleased with either her or Bernie. I just cannot stomach a republican taking the office again. No matter who wins, democrats better come out and support that candidate. The amount of ignorance that the republicans talk (especially Trump) and support is just frightening.
Slightly important change of topic, "The 2016 Senate election takes place on November 8, 2016. There are 34 seats up in 2016, of which 24 are held by Republicans. Democrats will need to gain 4 or 5 seats to take control." Just a reminder of how there is more at stake in November than just the Presidency.
Would be shocked if if Democrats picked up 5 seats. Most of them are lock in incumbents anyway and there are only two are true tossups (Florida and Nevada). Tbh I could see both of those going Republican actually anyway.
Would be shocked if if Democrats picked up 5 seats. Most of them are lock in incumbents anyway and there are only two are true tossups (Florida and Nevada). Tbh I could see both of those going Republican actually anyway.
Yeah unless something drastic happens i don't think the democrats will get it
Just finished reading an interesting NY TIMES article about Hillary's work in 1972, playing as an investigator in Dothan, AL for Marian Wright Edelman. Can't believe she went out there by herself doing what she did. Hillary easily could've ended up like some of the Freedom Riders in the 1960's who invaded the south, helping end the segregation in those parts, some being killed viciously.
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The future Mrs. Clinton, then a 24-year-old law student, was working for Marian Wright Edelman, the civil rights activist and prominent advocate for children. Mrs. Edelman had sent her to Alabama to help prove that the Nixon administration was not enforcing the legal ban on granting tax-exempt status to so-called segregation academies, the estimated 200 private academies that sprang up in the South to cater to white families after a 1969 Supreme Court decision forced public schools to integrate.
Her mission was simple: Establish whether the Dothan school was discriminating based on race.
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“It was dangerous, being outsiders in these rural areas, talking about segregation academies,” said Cynthia G. Brown, a longtime education advocate who did work similar to Mrs. Clinton’s.
She added, “We thought we were part of the civil rights struggle, definitely.”
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A look at Mrs. Clinton’s efforts that summer, through archives and interviews with more than 50 local officials, civil rights activists and people who knew her, reveals a summer job that was both out of character for the bookish law student and a moment of awakening.
Until her trip to Alabama, she had been relatively sheltered, her activism mostly confined to Ivy League debates and campus turmoil. Like many white activists from the North who traveled south to help on civil rights issues, Mrs. Clinton confronted a different world in Dothan, separate and unequal, and a sting of injustice she had previously only read about.
“I went through my role-playing, asking questions about the curriculum and makeup of the student body,” Mrs. Clinton wrote in “Living History.” “I was assured that no black students would be enrolled.”
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In summer 1972, Mr. Clinton was in Miami working on George McGovern’s presidential campaign when Mrs. Clinton traveled from Washington to Atlanta to meet with civil rights lawyers and activists, then rented a car and drove the nearly four hours to Dothan.
“Hillary was not a derring-do type of person. It wasn’t her normal mode,” said Taylor Branch, the civil rights activist and author, who was a close friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton at the time. “But,” he added, “you do these things when you’re young, and this was the era when young people did more of that than normal.”
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While Mrs. Clinton favored corduroy bell-bottoms for casual wear, the dress code for the investigative work called for conservative blouses and skirts, her colleagues said.
She drove over the railroad tracks near downtown, east of Park Avenue, to the black part of town. There, she met local contacts who told her over a lunch of sweetened ice tea and burgers “that many of the school districts in the area were draining local public schools of books and equipment to send to the so-called academies, which they viewed as the alternatives for white students,” she wrote in “Living History.”
Years later, Mrs. Clinton does not say she ever felt afraid, but a white woman traveling alone in the South would have been “looking over her shoulder,” said Marlene Provizer, who did similar research into segregation academies in Mississippi and Georgia in the same era.
“There weren’t many folks doing this work,” she said. “I was very conscious of being ‘the other.’ ”
There were other interesting parts, but I don't wanna post entire article here and rip The Times off of the click. You can read the full article HERE.
Slightly important change of topic, "The 2016 Senate election takes place on November 8, 2016. There are 34 seats up in 2016, of which 24 are held by Republicans. Democrats will need to gain 4 or 5 seats to take control." Just a reminder of how there is more at stake in November than just the Presidency.
Ted Strickland is mounting a decent campaign against Rob Portman in OH. Last big poll was in October, so take it with a grain of salt, but the HuffPo tracker has them 0.3 within each other.
"She didn't vote for the bill so it doesn't matter"
Yeah because she wasn't in Congress? She was a First Lady? But she was still in favor of the bill at the time while Bernie wasn't and explained clearly why he voted for it?
I'm not justifying Bernie's vote, but this shouldn't be an argument against him when his opponent was in favor of it, how does it even make sense to use the "but Hillary didn't even vote for it" argument when she didn't even have the constitutional right to do so she was a ****ing First Lady
Sanders' ideas attack the very foundation which has destroyed the lives of African Americans in this country from healthcare to income inequality to the way our justice system is designed (which Bill Clinton had a helping hand in creating). It's not a full solution but it's a starting point and goes further than anything Clinton or any republican supports.
She was a First Lady? 
she was a ****ing First Lady