Posted on 08/15/2015 6:39:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Last Saturday, for the second time in a month, protesters who identified themselves as members of the Black Lives Matter movement leapt onstage to interrupt a speech by Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
“I was going to tell Bernie how racist this city is, even with all of these progressives, but you’ve already done that for me,” said Marissa Johnson, who was roundly booed before demanding and receiving a four-minute moment of silence for the death of Michael Brown, as Sanders stood behind her and fellow protester Mara Willaford.
The Seattle protest sparked a particularly strong counter-reaction, especially among the white liberals who form the core of Bernie Sanders’ base. Sanders is not the frontrunner to win his party’s nomination. Many on both the left and right are asking: Why him?
Sanders currently trails Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, whose events have not yet been successfully interrupted, by 38 points in Quinnipiac’s most recent national poll. He has made criminal justice reform a tentpole issue early in his campaign. Jeb Bush, who trails Republican frontrunner Donald Trump by 10 points, allegedly reached out to local Black Lives Matter leaders a night before, then was shouted down at a campaign event less than 24 hours later.
Why protest Bernie and not Hillary? Why Jeb and not Trump?
Interviews with 10 members of both local and national branches of Black Lives Matter—as well as with the political campaigns they’ve tested—reveals no single, easy answer. It’s one part logistical—from the less stringent security of a second-tier candidate to the simple timing of a speech.
And it is another part—a larger part—purely organizational.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
George Soros?
Sanders has as much chance of being President as Stalin did of becoming Emperor of Russia..
WAIT!.......
With the massive voter about to happen in 2016....
*-NEVERMIND-*
People who like to repeat themselves?
Leftist A-holes
As if thedailybeast.com isn’t in on the charade.
George Soros..I read a few days ago that these goons get paid 5,000 EACH to go around the country and protest..bet they couldn’t ID Michael Brown’s picture if their lives depended on it. It would be worse than those Jimmy Kimmel skits where they ask people who this person is and they have no clue
Who runs ‘Occupy’?
Who runs “J Street”?
Who runs Code Pink?
Who runs “spontaneous” demonstrations all over the US? (and abroad).
Who runs Obama?
Who runs the Daily Beast?
SOROS is my first SWAG !
Hillary does.
These “spontaneous” demonstrations are popping up all over the place.
And they are “mostly peaceful.”
Start at REVCOM and follow the money.
Same people who ran the Occupy movement.
Bush has been a 2nd tier candidate?
I still don’t understand what Occupy Wall Street was all.about, but remember some stark images such as defecation on police cars. I similarly don’t understand what black.lives matter is all.about. they are upset that a criminal thug was killed in a police struggle?, A struggle which further investigation showed no laws broken by the police officer? Their poster boy for the issues of blacks shot by white cops is a thug who.instigated the whole incident and caused his own demise??? What is with these people???
Betcha Revrund Charlatan has his hands in it only for the money it generates.
Found this: “Black Lives Matter wants the two women who shut down a Bernie Sanders event in Seattle on Saturday to publicly apologize to the Senator and Presidential Candidate.”
“The group that Johnson and Willaford associate with has a very different approach and agenda.”
“The group is called Outside Agitators 206.”
I don’t know. Hmmm. Could it be...Soros?
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