Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumAttacking Dolores Huerta or John Lewis does not help Bernie Sanders, period.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/21/1488924/-Attacking-Dolores-Huerta-or-John-Lewis-does-not-help-Bernie-Sanders-periodBy dlcox1958
I want to call to everyones attention a very balanced examination of what happened at the caucus yesterday by Angus Johnson at studentactivism.net. Angus is a historian who loves to sift through and get perspectives on things as they happened. Read this and you will come away with an appreciation for how Dolores Huerta came to her view of what happened in Nevada yesterday without imputing nefarious motives. I will excerpt a couple of key passages here:
Some people a lot of people, if my Twitter mentions from last night are anything to go by see an intentional smear, a lie spread maliciously by the Clinton camp. But Im not so sure. Lets look at where the story started, with a Facebook post from Clinton supporter Delia Garcia...
If you parse this description closely, its actually pretty accurate. The Clinton camp did ask for a translator. Huerta did volunteer. Sanders supporters did object, and did boo though they may have been booing the chair, or the attempt to put Huerta on stage, thats a pretty slender distinction. The chair did reject Spanish translation, using the phrase English only, and the Sanders camp did seem to support his decision. The claim that Sanders people demanded ENGLISH ONLY isnt confirmed by the video, but its possible that happened too that someone said it wasnt practical to have translation, so the caucus should go forward in English.
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stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)campaign to POC. The disrespect shown to Dolores Huerta, an advocate for those less fortunate, John Lewis has been smeared, we should honor these heroes, does not help in convincing POC Sanders cares.
DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)I've actually been avoiding dKos, because it's become even more toxic than GD P lately. Good diary from there!
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)brer cat
(24,576 posts)how confusing it was with so many people yelling. Nope, went straight to "it was a lie", "Hillary paid her", it was "THE HATE."
They are hurting their candidate, and that is fine with me. But it is not fine to personally attack civil rights leaders. Dolores Huerta and John Lewis literally gave their blood, sweat, and tears to make this a better country. The keyboard warriors trying to drag them down are only outing themselves as petulant narcissist who can't deal with anything or anyone not within their little cult.
Thanks for posting this MrWendel.
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)Cha
(297,317 posts)Gracias for this, MrWendel
Cha.
(Please tell me I didn't butcher that. lol)
Cha
(297,317 posts)obliged.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,235 posts)that these are just isolated incidents, or that everybody must be lying about BS' supporters, speaks to an unwillingness to recognize that there are some serious problems with some of his surrogates/supporters.
Treant
(1,968 posts)If Clinton passes 60% in Texas, you can simply close the book on the Sanders campaign right then and there. There's no coming back from that.
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)considered to be a good strategy.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511304863