So after Bernie Sanders bombed at Netroots because of his incapacity to say “Black lives matter”, Hillary Clinton posted a message on Facebook that says “Black lives matter.”
Of course, it’s great that she managed to squeeze it out (after refusing to do so and hiding behind the profoundly idiotic “All lives matter” only a couple of weeks ago). But God, does she have to do this naked opportunism thing in such an obvious and contemptible way? This reminds me of the worst moments of her campaign back in 2008 (“Oh, how dare he say anything against guns? I crawled out of my mother’s womb with an AK-47.”)
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Yeah, that’s a big reason why I’m not excited for her. She never EVER takes a stand until it is 100% safe for her to do so. Even by the abysmal standards that one places on politicians, she fails.
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In other BLM news, texas police released the dashcam video of Sandra Bland’s arrest.
It was doctored.
http://bennorton.com/dashcam-video-of-violent-arrest-of-sandra-bland-was-edited/
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Pretty much every politician running for President has trouble saying “Black Lives Matters” because a significant proportion of voters have problems with it.
Hence the weird hedging statements about the Confederate flag that Nikki Haley has made (and she’s not running for office again).
I don’t know how much of this is due to her actual personality or she gets super burnt when she expresses an opinion or doesn’t parse statements to within an inch of her life.
For example,you’d love this statement Clarissa (20 second video), but the voters at the time, did not.
And yes she is a naked opportunist.
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Great video. 🙂 I guess she had to learn to stop being honest. We have nobody to blame but ourselves if we prefer lying politicians to honest ones.
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