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MrWendel

(1,881 posts)
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 09:49 PM Feb 2016

Attacking 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-period

By dlcox1958

I want to call to everyone’s 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 I’m not so sure. Let’s look at where the story started, with a Facebook post from Clinton supporter Delia Garcia...

If you parse this description closely, it’s 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, that’s 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” isn’t confirmed by the video, but it’s possible that happened too — that someone said it wasn’t practical to have translation, so the caucus should go forward in English.


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Attacking Dolores Huerta or John Lewis does not help Bernie Sanders, period. (Original Post) MrWendel Feb 2016 OP
I'm sorry if I don't take advice from Hillary supporters bobbobbins01 Feb 2016 #1
must be the meme of the day Duckhunter935 Feb 2016 #2
Dupe. nm floriduck Feb 2016 #3
Post removed Post removed Feb 2016 #4
Wow, wearing feces for Hillary? joshcryer Feb 2016 #10
If they fling it, it may blowback on them. HooptieWagon Feb 2016 #14
Please just stop. Ken Burch Feb 2016 #15
Give it a fucking break. azmom Feb 2016 #5
Pretending that they are being attacked doesn't help Clinton loyalsister Feb 2016 #6
Elderly icons attacking the hopes and dreams of young activists does not help Democrats win the GE, Dems to Win Feb 2016 #7
Sanders will pay a dear price with minorities. nt LexVegas Feb 2016 #8
As I said, the result was English only. joshcryer Feb 2016 #9
Did you see this video. DURHAM D Feb 2016 #11
These folks blatantly lying for political back scratching does not help the party. Joe the Revelator Feb 2016 #12
The smears against Bernie and his supporters will probably doom HRC in a GE brentspeak Feb 2016 #13
Getting the record straight is NOT an "attack". Far from it. 99th_Monkey Feb 2016 #16

bobbobbins01

(1,681 posts)
1. I'm sorry if I don't take advice from Hillary supporters
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 09:50 PM
Feb 2016

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)
2. must be the meme of the day
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 09:52 PM
Feb 2016

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.

Response to MrWendel (Original post)

 

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)
14. If they fling it, it may blowback on them.
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 10:52 PM
Feb 2016

Appears to be the case. If they don't want to be covered in feces, they shouldn't fling them.

loyalsister

(13,390 posts)
6. Pretending that they are being attacked doesn't help Clinton
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 10:30 PM
Feb 2016

Most of us see through the exploitation of racial divisions for what it is.

 

Dems to Win

(2,161 posts)
7. Elderly icons attacking the hopes and dreams of young activists does not help Democrats win the GE,
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 10:31 PM
Feb 2016

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.

 

Joe the Revelator

(14,915 posts)
12. These folks blatantly lying for political back scratching does not help the party.
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 10:34 PM
Feb 2016

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)
13. The smears against Bernie and his supporters will probably doom HRC in a GE
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 10:40 PM
Feb 2016

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)
16. Getting the record straight is NOT an "attack". Far from it.
Sun Feb 21, 2016, 11:37 PM
Feb 2016

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.

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