This is my response to Senator Barbra Boxer’s ‘chastisement’ of Senator Sanders.
She speaks of Hillary’s fight for civil rights. I’m assuming that came AFTER her working for a segregationist. Whereas Bernie has ALWAYS fought for civil rights, marching with Martin Luther King and getting himself arrested standing up for the civil rights of African Americans.
She mentions Hillary working for the Child Defense Fund. Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch partnered and co-sponsored the Child Defense Fund…...and yes, it was a good thing for Hillary to come along and support it. (Just wanted to give credit to the sponsors of that bill.) So then, why did she betray children by this: www.salon.com/2015/10/15/the_worst_thing_hillary_clinton_has_ever_done/
Senator Boxer also praises how, as Secretary of State, Hillary fought for human rights. If one cares for human rights, they don’t rush in to change regimes, resulting in deaths, for political reasons and not looking ahead to understand the repercussions. They don’t push for a war that killed thousands of innocent victims, including women and children. You know, those children she cares so much for? And then, you don’t call that war a ‘business opportunity’. I don’t think all the dead children will understand that. Why, if she cares for children, does she adamantly say we have to send back the children from Central America? They are kids! Sending them back to that violent area is more dangerous than traveling here. As proven by five of those children being murdered upon return.
You want Bernie to retract his statements and return to positive issues. I’m trying not to be snarky but this one actually made me laugh. He’s tried to lead a positive campaign, but one can only be lied about so many times before it starts to piss you off. An example being how she told New Yorkers that the gun crimes in New York was done mainly with guns from Vermont, his state. Until a fact checker revealed that out of almost 8,000 gun crimes, only 55 of those guns were from Vermont. That is just one lie out of many.Not to mention all the shady voter suppression going on on Hillary’s side.
About Bernie calling her unqualified...understand there is a difference between ‘experience’ and ‘qualified’. And although she may not have used that exact word to describe Bernie, she has implied he’s disqualified. She’s very good at innuendo. For example, when campaigning against Obama, she never called him a Muslim. She just made sure she called him ‘Hussein’ in her robo calls and posted a photo of him in African tribal garb ‘insinuating’ he’s a Muslim. You and I both know you can get your message across in subtle ways.
So, with all due respect Senator Boxer, why don’t you ask your friend HILLARY to knock off the negative and ‘return to positive issues’?