2016 Postmortem
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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bobbobbins01
(1,681 posts)Its not like they have an agenda or anything. They just want Bernie Sanders supporters to keep their mouth shut and pretend the rat-fucking didn't occur.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)This is like the 7th time this has been posted. Funny that pointing out miss statements the those people subsequently adjusted after are attacks that are said to destroy them.
floriduck
(2,262 posts)Worthless.
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joshcryer
(62,276 posts)Please, tell us what you really think about them.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Appears to be the case. If they don't want to be covered in feces, they shouldn't fling them.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)You're better than this.
azmom
(5,208 posts)This race baiting doesn't help either candidate.
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)Most of us see through the exploitation of racial divisions for what it is.
Dems to Win
(2,161 posts)period.
This strategy of the Clinton campaign and Democratic leaders is so stupid, I can't believe I see it happening in front of me.
LexVegas
(6,067 posts)joshcryer
(62,276 posts)It doesn't really matter what was said.
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)Susan attacking and lying to Dolores earlier in the hall.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110752344
Joe the Revelator
(14,915 posts)G-D himself could come down and endorse Bernie Sanders, but if he lied while doing it, he'd need to be called out.
brentspeak
(18,290 posts)There's a lot of things a losing primary candidate's supporters might forgive later on in a GE, but being smeared in this manner isn't among them. Many Bernie supporters (and some others) who would ordinarily hold their nose and vote for Hillary in a general election might simply sit this one out, even if Bernie himself requests otherwise.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)And calling out Hillary's penchant for putting-up well liked surrogates to lie for her
is NOT an honorable way to conduct her campaign.