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we cant all work for wall street. or like israelthe amount of bellyaching when she wins
The Official Primary Thread
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My pops used to leave it on CSPAN, he was always telling me to peep game when Bernie was onYou mean besides being an associate member of the Congressional Black Caucus and pushing legislation against privately owned prisons?
I'm starting to realize how little most posters in HL really know about politics
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let me know when hillary talks about 'murdered palestinians' on national tv
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At Columbia University, Daring to Back Clinton
From left, Jessica Grubesic, Caitlin Carey and Cian Saunders, students at Columbia University.CreditEmon Hassan for The New York Times
Big City
By GINIA BELLAFANTE APRIL 15, 2016
Very brave
From left, Jessica Grubesic, Caitlin Carey and Cian Saunders, students at Columbia University.CreditEmon Hassan for The New York Times
Big City
By GINIA BELLAFANTE APRIL 15, 2016
- Not long ago, Shailene Woodley, who, as the star of the “Divergent” films is a kind of living symbol of the millennial force field, was making her way around Columbia University, canvassing on behalf of Bernie Sanders. Campaigning for the Vermont senator’s presidential bid at a Northeastern university — or any university, for that matter — seems a little like walking into Peter Luger to persuade people to have the steak. Regardless of the advantages that accrue to Ivy League students, and whatever privileges might have landed them there in the first place, Columbia falls within the vast psychographic jurisdiction of Mr. Sanders, enemy of the indulged and fussed-over.
On the day that Ms. Woodley, who is 25, alighted on upper Broadway, she stopped a freshman named Jessica Grubesic and asked her if she wanted to participate in a phone bank. Ms. Grubesic came to Columbia from Albuquerque, where she attended private school and where her mother and father are lawyers. “My parents brought me to Naral rallies when I was, like, in first grade,” she told me, referring to the abortion rights organization. In some sense her political affinities were preordained. When she was approached by Ms. Woodley, Ms. Grubesic recalled, “I said, ‘I already phone-bank.’” What Ms. Grubesic did not disclose is that she makes calls for someone else, or rather the woman who in this context might be considered the other presidential candidate in the Democratic field.
To be 18 or 25 or in your early 30s and support Hillary Clinton can be compared to loving synthetic wool in New Zealand. It is a lonely and alienating relationship that will leave you vulnerable to accusations that you fail to appreciate the genuine, the authentic. Early in the academic year, when the notion of Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee seemed to be a foregone conclusion, Cian Saunders, also a freshman, sent an email blast to the Columbia University Democrats in an effort to start a pro-Clinton group. Three people wrote back saying they would like to be involved in helping to lead it. The group, in which Ms. Grubesic and another student, Caitlin Carey, play active roles, holds weekly meetings. Typically no more than a half-dozen people show up.
The affection for Bernie Sanders among the young transcends even certain racial divisions. Although blacks are overwhelmingly appreciative of Mrs. Clinton, exit polls in 21 primaries and caucuses suggested that more than half of black voters ages 17 to 24 favored her opponent, according to Edison Research. Among Hispanic voters in the same age group, nearly three-quarters favored Mr. Sanders, the Edison figures indicated.
“There’s a feeling of having to come out as a Hillary supporter,” Ms. Grubesic told me on Wednesday afternoon outside John Jay Hall, where she was sitting with Ms. Carey and Mr. Saunders, as thousands of people were making their way to Washington Square Park for a Sanders rally in advance of Tuesday’s New York primaries.
“I hear it more than once a week,” Ms. Carey told me. “‘Oh, there’s a Hillary group on campus? I thought I was the only one.’”
In February, the Columbia Political Union sponsored a debate between representatives of the Clinton and Sanders organizations. A straw poll conducted at the end had the Clinton camp winning. This shocked Ms. Carey, she said, because the love for Mr. Sanders on campus is so far-reaching and intense, the questioning of his supporters virtually nonexistent. “It might be some of the reason we’re so well-spoken on the issues,” Ms. Carey said. “We’re constantly having to defend our positions.”
Millennials who support Mrs. Clinton typically cite as their reasons her experience, her pragmatism, her stances on gun control and reproductive health. There is the temptation to classify them as wealthier (or rather, born to wealthier families) and more conventionally ambitious, because Clinton supporters are more affluent generally and because there is a distinct Clinton leaning among the stylishly entrepreneurial in New York. Lena Dunham is a Clinton supporter. Her best friend, Audrey Gelman, who was the subject of a profile in The New York Times headlined, “Audrey Gelman, the Girl Most Likely,” hosted a pre-primary Clinton fund-raiser at Diane von Furstenberg’s studio along with the former Lucky magazine editor Eva Chen. Another supporter, Polly Rodriguez, who is 29 and lives in Chelsea, described her tech business, Unbound, to me as a “sexual lifestyle company for millennial women.” One form of applicable shorthand for Mrs. Clinton in the city might be that she is the Condé Nast candidate.
At Columbia, the alma mater of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, who is gay, and around the country, support for Mrs. Clinton among L.G.B.T. voters is very strong, despite the fact that she came relatively lateto marriage equality and, after Nancy Reagan’s funeral, suggested that the Reagans had handled the AIDS crisis laudably. “Within the 48 hours that followed, she outlined her plans for addressing AIDS and H.I.V. in her administration,” Matthew McMorrow, in his 30s and formerly the director of government affairs for the Empire State Pride Agenda, said when I asked him about her popularity. “She immediately corrected course.” When Mrs. Clinton spoke to a group of L.G.B.T. supporters last month at Capitale, an event space on the Bowery, he said, he was moved by the way that she talked about ending homelessness among L.G.B.T. youth, conversion therapy and discrimination against transgender people.
On Wednesday afternoon, members of the Clinton group at Columbia showed me T-shirts they had designed and planned to circulate. Mr. Saunders pulled one out of his knapsack. On the front it said “CU for Hillary,” and on the back, “Dare to say the C word.”
- http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/nyregion/at-columbia-university-daring-to-back-clinton.html
Very brave
You mean besides being an associate member of the Congressional Black Caucus and pushing legislation against privately owned prisons
I'm starting to realize how little most posters in HL really know about politics
So now we giving Bernie credit for being part of a collective group that pushed for something? What has Bernie done himself for Black people?Let me help you with what Bernie has done in the 25 years in congress with some help from my friends at the Washington Post:
Cry baby ass Bernie Stans, snitching is in your DNA.
Get the hell out my thread. Get AIDS and die slow.Nicca shut the fukk up clown. You can't do nothing and don't run shyt
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It was crazy the way your state disrespected Bernie, Bro
The guy's done alot for the poor and middle class people in congress, it's crazy how you just post the post office stuff
Let me help you with what Bernie has done in the 25 years in congress with some help from my friends at the Washington Post:
Great Job Bernie, renaming the postal service definitely helped our community!!
Alot of Obamacare that yall love so much was Bernie.
Let me help you with what Bernie has done in the 25 years in congress with some help from my friends at the Washington Post:
Great Job Bernie, renaming the postal service definitely helped our community!!
K dude