Posted on 04/23/2016 2:48:21 AM PDT by Fasceto
This month, having lost massively to Hillary Clinton across the Southeast, Sanders commented that the bevy of early Southern primaries “distorts reality.” In other comments soon thereafter, perhaps covering for what was obviously a lapse in political acumen, he clarified that those early states are the most conservative in the country.
Not really. And not really.
While some segments of the South are undeniably conservative, Dixie is also home to a large and reliably Democratic cohort — African Americans. Many of the most liberal people serving in today’s Congress were elected by Southerners, and especially black Southerners. The reality is that Sanders failed to earn their votes in part by treating the South as a lost cause.
Many took Sanders’s remarks as insinuating that the black vote isn’t all that important. Adding to the insult, actor Tim Robbins, a Sanders surrogate, said that Clinton’s win in South Carolina, where more than half of Democratic voters are African American, was “about as significant” as winning Guam.
Not cool, Mr. Robbins, but you were great in
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Well, she just kicked his ass in New York. Sanders is a secular Jew, but he’s still a Jew and blacks don’t like Jews but they love Clintons.
No, they REALLY don’t like Jews in NYC, especially around Crown Heights.
That’s why Jews voted at MUCH higher percentages for the republican for mayor this past election than almost all other groups.
And now we are seeing the Crown Heights attacks that Dinkins ignored coming back.
Where have you gone, Rudy Giuliani?
All uninformed, woefully lacking in knowledge of history and economics, gimme dat lives matter.
Kathleen Parker:
IF Bernie Sanders was really running for President - - rather than assisting Hillary - - the airwaves would be filled of the Simon and Garfunkel ad “America”.
When will we see the AMERICA ad again? When Hillary is running with Bernie as her VP...
Watch for it Kathleen Parker and fellow gullible idiots at the Washington Post... it’s coming.
Many of the most liberal people serving in today’s Congress were elected by Southerners, and especially black Southerners
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Many of the most stupid people in Congress were elected by districts that were racially gerrymandered
Hank Johnson - Guam is going to capsize
Sheila Jackson Lee - Will the Mars rover see the flag the astronauts left?
Maxine Waters - We’re going to socialize/take over your industry
The list goes on
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