Posted on 08/19/2013 5:17:45 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
She makes a polarizing pitch that ignores trends in voter turnout.
Hillary Clinton began her 2016 march to the White House last week, and it wasn't a promising debut. The former first lady and Senator used her first big policy speech since leaving the State Department to portray American election laws as fundamentally racist. The speech was longer on anecdotes than statistics, so allow us to fill in some of the holes.
"In 2013, so far, more than 80 bills restricting voting rights have been introduced in 31 states," Mrs. Clinton told her political base of lawyers at the American Bar Association. She portrayed these laws as part of an effort reaching back years to "disproportionately impact African-Americans, Latino and young voters." And she threw the Supreme Court in as part of this racist conspiracy, assailing its recent decision finding the "preclearance" section of the Voting Rights Act to be unconstitutional.
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Ahhhh.....that black base....
The real problem is that the republicans fear calling democrats out on racial politics, and this is hurting America big time.
Overall republicans have been unable to articulate the democrat party’s move left.
(is that a racist designation ?)
Hay Hillary, didn’t your husband get himself sued for “VOTER DISENFRANCHISMENT” when he was governor of Arkansas.
Just didn’t like the way blacks voted, right Hillary.
Maybe you should also tell us about your husband getting himself sued for “RACIAL PROFILING”.
Just didn’t like those people of color driving through his Arkansas, right Hillary.
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