The senators standard stump speech a call for political revolution does not include much specifically aimed at Latino or African-American voters. Asked specifically what hes done for black Americans Saturday, he cited his vote for Obamacare. Asked to offer concrete proposals on what hed do to help blacks if elected, he initially responded: Were going to transform the economic system so we create millions of new jobs. The generalities only made the protesters angrier. I want Bernie Sanders to say my name, they chanted as the senator tried to speak. The event went so off the rails that the moderator abruptly ended it 15 minutes early. Okay, good, said a peeved Sanders. He then skipped a scheduled meeting with black activists.In other words, it's not enough to support policies that benefit black and hispanic people if those policies also benefit poor whites. To be a pro at the race pandering game and a real player in the Democratic Party, you have to talk about policies that SOLELY benefit blacks and hispanics at the expense of whites. Bernie needs to learn to play the rules of this game if he wants to compete with Hillary. Same with Mark O'Malley, who got into the hot seat a few days ago for daring to suggest that non-black lives might matter too.
To: ek_hornbeck
The Daily 202: Bernies base problemsIt's all about the base, about the base. No? Trouble!
2 posted on
07/20/2015 5:51:34 AM PDT by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(Today's Civil Rights movement: Black Lives Matter--unless they are cops.)
To: ek_hornbeck
So the socialist Hispanics and blacks prefer the old white quasi socialist woman to the old white socialist man? Hmmm......
3 posted on
07/20/2015 5:51:49 AM PDT by
C. Edmund Wright
(WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
To: ek_hornbeck
Oh yes, the northeastern liberal, who are the whitiest white of the whitey whites, now being asked to pander. Sadly, this country at one time had not elected a northeastern liberal since FDR, but I am afraid my once sensible country is going to commit suicide.
To: ek_hornbeck
This is an issue that really deserves more attention from the media. Its completely insane that democrats are now expected to specifically exclude whites.
Its no different than declaring that Aryan lives matter and everybody else needs to shut the hell up.
6 posted on
07/20/2015 5:57:34 AM PDT by
cripplecreek
(Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
To: ek_hornbeck
That’s how it is, in our brave new world. If you say “All lives matter”, you will be howled down. Only black lives matter, to these loons. But they seem to forget that, when blacks are steady killing each other.
7 posted on
07/20/2015 5:58:35 AM PDT by
mrsmel
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: ek_hornbeck
People are stupid. I don’t support Bernie, but he had ‘skin’ in the game back in the 60’s for ‘civil rights’. He was arrested and such fighting for desegregated schools in Chicago.
9 posted on
07/20/2015 6:01:23 AM PDT by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: ek_hornbeck
Bernie has 2 base problems:
1. Gun Control Nazis who don’t like his relatively benign stance on the Second Amendment.
2. Paid Clinton Machine hecklers.
To: ek_hornbeck
Apparently, #SandersLifeDoesn’tMatter
12 posted on
07/20/2015 6:06:16 AM PDT by
sauropod
(I am His and He is mine.)
To: ek_hornbeck
Silly Sanders. He told black activists that he would get them jobs, and they got pissed.
A politician has to know his base.
14 posted on
07/20/2015 6:10:25 AM PDT by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: ek_hornbeck
The irony is what has the democrat party really done that is positive for minorities? Ghettos still exist. There are more blacks unemployed today than ever before. If it’s about giving away things and making minorities more dependent on government is considered “helping” minorities, then yes, the democrat party has done a swell job.
16 posted on
07/20/2015 6:12:59 AM PDT by
bcr100
To: ek_hornbeck
Blacks and Hispanics will not support a Jew
17 posted on
07/20/2015 6:15:53 AM PDT by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
To: ek_hornbeck
In the summer of 2008, in the midst of a extended family argument, my cousin's son (a privileged, young white college student, who was working for The Won on his college campus) e-mailed me and a few other family Conservatives this : ‘when Obama is President, whites are going down’. Well, I guess Obama has been pretty successful as whites are now being denied even the slightest civility. Sanders, Clinton and the rest of the Socialists really don't get what the head of their party has done. He wanted a race war and even his party hacks will be cannon fodder.
19 posted on
07/20/2015 6:21:30 AM PDT by
originalbuckeye
("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
To: ek_hornbeck
I love it when the leeches turn on each other.
20 posted on
07/20/2015 6:24:26 AM PDT by
Seruzawa
(All those memories will be lost,in time, like tears in rain.)
To: ek_hornbeck
Trouble in Bernard Sanders land. When a hardened Marxist like Sanders is jeered by Netroots—composed of every misfit out of the fever swamps of the Left—then who are you going to turn to? They don’t come any more leftist than Bernard.
26 posted on
07/20/2015 7:09:53 AM PDT by
SharpRightTurn
(White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
To: ek_hornbeck
A person who’s white AND a democrat makes as much sense as a person who’s black AND a KKK member.
30 posted on
07/20/2015 7:59:49 AM PDT by
GOPJ
(They are not undocumented and they are not immigrants. They are illegal aliens. Lurkinnamloomin)
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