Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumBernice King of Atlanta, MLK's daughter....
During Atlanta's 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Day rally, King included LGBT people among the various groups who needed to come together to "fulfill her fathers legacy."[135] When speaking at Brown University in 2013, King made statements regarding her beliefs about the origins of marriage: "I believe that the family was created and ordained first and foremost by God, that he instituted the marriage, and that's a law that he instituted and not... that we instituted"[136] and about the origins of same-sex attraction: "I also don't believe everybody's born that way. I know some people have been violated. I know some people have unfortunately delved into it as an experiment".[137] King has publicly stated that her father would have been against gay marriage.[138]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernice_King
How is this meeting perceived to be "helpful" in any way? What was he thinking? Why publicize this encounter?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/128078069
I guess when he said he wasn't a liberal, he wasn't kidding!!
BootinUp
(47,165 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)BootinUp
(47,165 posts)The timing of this run is probably as good as it would have ever been for him in terms of mood of the country. And he is getting crushed. Crushed.
So no, I don't think he thinks these things through.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)Cha
(297,321 posts)immoderate
(20,885 posts)--imm
MADem
(135,425 posts)Are they incompetent? Clueless? Do they WANT him to lose?
This woman is a BIGOT. She is a wingnut who is the darling of the conservatives.
How's she gonna help him with Democrats?
Unless he's decided he wants to run for the GOP nomination.
Walk away
(9,494 posts)I've been told several times by BS supporters that they are happy to get those republican votes
This seems as good a way as any to scoop a few out of the gutter.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)I think that helped Hillary view things differently.
What else have you got??
MADem
(135,425 posts)What else have YOU got?
Wilms
(26,795 posts)Walk away
(9,494 posts)Elizabeth Warren isn't in that photo! When is she going to jump on board the Bernie Train?
Cha
(297,321 posts)Walk away
(9,494 posts)...one of them
He is so desperate to be endorsed by anyone that he is more than willing to sacrifice any principles he may have had!
BootinUp
(47,165 posts)soon, but he still wants to cause more trouble.
Walk away
(9,494 posts)msrizzo
(796 posts)Just saw this on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/WPJohnWagner/status/668906211962691584
Click on this to see who Bernie had lunch with today. I don't know how to embed pictures on this site!
MADem
(135,425 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,989 posts)I hate seeing that attitude from anybody--it's so hurtful and harmful and evil in that hurt and harm.
If he's meeting her out of respect for her father, that's one thing, but if he's using her status as daughter of a prominent African Anerican hero for political expediency--I'm at a loss for words
okasha
(11,573 posts)He's trying to reprise his "I marched with Martin" shtick by gettng a photo op with MLK's daughter. Somehow, though, this daughter has very little of either parent in her. The meeting won't impress African Americans, and it will further alienate LGBT's.
A really clueless fiasco.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Succinct and straight through the heart to the point.
Very good summation. A really clueless fiasco, exactly.
Cha
(297,321 posts)Cha
(297,321 posts)to get out of it?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1107&pid=26215
Why did he campaign with cornel west.. the big slur thrower at Pres Obama?
Why does he say things like "I'm not running for president because I think it's my turn"?
I don't really give a shite as long as he gets no where near the Presidency.. he doesn't have what it takes.
MADem
(135,425 posts)I am amazed at the people who insist that he's "the real lefty" when he has often said that he's not a liberal. See, I tend to believe him when he says those kinds of things. His record on guns and his preference for the 'states rights' approach to legislation does bear that out.
Teddy "Shot a man on San Juan Hill" Roosevelt was a progressive, too....there are progressive conservatives in this world as well. Some people here think that P word is a synonym for Liberal, and it ain't.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/upshot/class-or-ideology-my-conversation-with-bernie-sanders.html?_r=2&referrer=&abt=0002&abg=0
Cha
(297,321 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)I don't think he has enough women on his immediate campaign staff. He shouldn't rely on his wife as the Be-All and End-All when it comes to how women feel about things--she's out of step.