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In reply to the discussion: Personally, I think if we vote the same people back into office [View all]brooklynite
(94,333 posts)54. Clinton voted against the Bush tax cuts...she voted for the elimination of the Bush tax cuts
She's pro-choice, pro-gay rights, anti-SS and Medicare privatization...
As for Ferguson:
At her speech at the Nexenta OpenSDx Summit in San Francisco, she said we cannot ignore the inequities that persist in our justice system. And then she did what few of her prominent fellow white Democrats have done in the context of Fergusonshe acknowledged the well-known statistics that show that blacks get treated differently than whites when it comes to everything from traffic stops to sentencing. But rather than just listing the statistics, she got personal by asking whites to put themselves in the shoes of black Americans:
Imagine what we would feel and what we would do if white drivers were three times as likely to be searched by police during a traffic stop as black drivers instead of the other way around. If white offenders received prison sentences ten percent longer than black offenders for the same crimes. If a third of all white men just look at this room and take one-third went to prison during their lifetime. Imagine that. That is the reality in the lives of so many of our fellow Americans in so many of the communities in which they live.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/08/29/hillary-clinton-was-surprisingly-bold-on-ferguson/
Imagine what we would feel and what we would do if white drivers were three times as likely to be searched by police during a traffic stop as black drivers instead of the other way around. If white offenders received prison sentences ten percent longer than black offenders for the same crimes. If a third of all white men just look at this room and take one-third went to prison during their lifetime. Imagine that. That is the reality in the lives of so many of our fellow Americans in so many of the communities in which they live.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/08/29/hillary-clinton-was-surprisingly-bold-on-ferguson/
Since no candidate is going to deliver 100% of what you want, I assume you think they're all Republican light?
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Personally, I think if we vote the same people back into office [View all]
MannyGoldstein
Mar 2015
OP
voting for Hillary Clinton and expecting to get Democratic policies out of that
Man from Pickens
Mar 2015
#28
Democratic policies like progressive taxation, a social safety net, civil rights...
brooklynite
Mar 2015
#38
Clinton voted against the Bush tax cuts...she voted for the elimination of the Bush tax cuts
brooklynite
Mar 2015
#54
That's for sure, Dems who adhere to Dem principles. Just provide them and voters will
sabrina 1
Mar 2015
#8
Manny, why don't you run for public office? You can start at the local level and move up
still_one
Mar 2015
#31
So you are saying that anyone currently holding office should not be considered?
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2015
#39
Personally, I think that is who both parties put on the ticket. Corporate candidates!
TheNutcracker
Mar 2015
#44