AS WISHED, HILLARY WONS SOUTH CAROLINA – FIRST EVER WOMAN TO WIN THE SOUTH CAROLINA PRIMARY

AS WISHED, HILLARY WONS SOUTH CAROLINA – FIRST EVER WOMAN TO WIN THE SOUTH CAROLINA PRIMARY

 

·     We made history again tonight: Hillary Clinton is the first woman to win the South Carolina primary.

·     Hillary might have money but she uses it to make the world a better place...not for personal luxuries

 

·     A woman's touch is what we need to heal the dissension in our country.

·     SHE'S BRILLIANT SHE'S BEAUTIFUL SHE'S BELOVED!!!!

·     Very pleased to see Hillary win.. Let’s keep America safe HRC 16

·     Let’s unite and win with Hillary! We can't let the Jerry Springer GOP show run the Country!

In South Carolina, will Clinton’s expected victory shift momentum?

In South Carolina, will Clinton’s expected victory shift momentum?

Courtesy: Anne Gearan and John Wagner –www.washintonpost.com

The Democratic presidential contest moves to South Carolina on Saturday, a primary that serves as two starkly different milestones for Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sander

Hillary Clinton is looking to her expected victory here to prove her strong support among African American voters — and to cement her status as the presumptive front-runner heading toward Super Tuesday three days later, when six of 11 Democratic contests will take place in Southern states with large populations of black voters.

Hillary Clinton began a barnstorming tour of South Carolina on Tuesday. She and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, crisscrossed the state on separate itineraries, hitting a total of about a dozen events over three days, speaking to predominantly African American audiences of a few hundred in cities and small towns. Each drew on decades of experience with the powerful church- and civic-based black voting turnout machine.

The nature of the events and the supporters who attended them illustrated how hard it will be for Sanders from Vermont to break a bond with black voters forged first by Bill Clinton.

“Hillary has done a lot for us, and her husband has done a lot for us,” Marshall said. During her tour, Clinton billed herself as a unifier who would address the problems of South Carolina’s impoverished and under­educated. She name-checked local issues, trashed the Republican governor and wrapped her arms around locally prominent African American leaders.

A black pastor welcomed her to his church. A black woman in braids warmed up the crowd at an appearance to which Clinton arrived very late. The black mayor of Columbia introduced her at an event Wednesday and starred in an evocative television advertisement for Clinton, done in the form of a letter to his young daughters.

HILLARY CLINTON MAKES IMPASSIONED PLEA IN SOUTH CAROLINA

HILLARY CLINTON MAKES IMPASSIONED PLEA IN SOUTH CAROLINA

Courtesy: Andrew Buncombe- www.independent.uk

Hillary Clinton has delivered an impassioned appeal to South Carolina’s African American community - her final appearance in the state before Saturday’s primary.

With polls showing her as many as 30 points ahead of Democratic rival Bernie Sanders, Ms Clinton may have decided to have skipped events such as the one at the Royal Baptist Church in North Charleston. Rather, she used the opportunity to underscore her claim to be the natural choice for black voters and vowed she would deliver on healthcare, education and jobs.

She also talked about the need for reform of the police, and the criminal justice system, and said too many people were the needless victims of gun violence. 

Data suggests that black women will make up the largest single voting bloc on Saturday. “The other night I met with five women who have lost their sons - some to police shooting, others to senseless gun violence,” she said. She added: “I can’t say that I will be able to do everything but it’s worth trying to do something. On average, ninety people a day are dying from gun violence.”

It’s incredibly humbling. These woman have experienced probably the worst tragedy any mother can. The loss of a child, however it happens, is an extraordinary blow,” she said. “The way it happens to these women makes it much harder.

Hillary added: “I came away so overwhelmed by their courage and their determination to turn their mourning into a strategy. I am glad to have their endorsement. But I am also endorsing them.”

Congressman Jim Clyburn Firmly Believes that Hillary Clinton is the best choice for our nation

Congressman Jim Clyburn Firmly Believes that Hillary Clinton is the best choice for our nation

There are only two days until South Carolina’s primary, when voters across our state will converge at the polls to make their voices heard.

I believe that Hillary Clinton is the best choice for our nation. She’s the fighter that all Americans need and she believes in progress.

 

 

 

 

In recent months, things have been a little tense in my household. I’ve been getting pressure from several of the women in my family to get behind the candidate who could be our first woman president..

But my heart and my head have converged, and last Friday I made public my support for Hillary Clinton. I honestly believe Hillary will fight to protect and preserve the progress we have made under President Barack Obama.

In the early 1970s, my job in the office of Gov. John West took me to some of the most remote corners of South Carolina. I didn’t know it at the time, but Hillary wasn’t far away. She had just graduated law school, and instead of going to a big law firm, she worked with Marian Wright Edelman – a native of Bennettsville – and the Children’s Defence Fund, coming to South Carolina to investigate the conditions juvenile offenders faced while incarcerated in adult prisons.

Her efforts helped change the system, so young people who made mistakes would have a better chance for the second chance they deserved. She even went to Alabama to expose segregation in schools and started a legal aid program at the University of Arkansas.

Since then, much has changed. But not all those changes have been for the better. Today, in South Carolina, many of our students and teachers spend their days in dilapidated classrooms and using malfunctioning restrooms. Health disparities in communities of color are worse than ever. Many diseases – including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, certain types of cancer and infant mortality – more severely impact minority communities and kill African-Americans at much higher rates than their white counterparts.

Our state is still scarred with too many pockets of poverty and the I-95 corridor is not our only “Corridor of Shame.” In rural areas, many poor and minority residents have been neglected for decades and are struggling against nearly impossible odds trying to pull themselves out of poverty.

Hillary agrees this is not right and has gone on for too long. That’s why her campaign has repeatedly shone a spotlight on cities like Flint, Michigan, and towns like Denmark, S.C. – places where African-Americans have faced neglect and indifference for generations. Last week, she went to Harlem, New York, and spoke out against the systemic racism that still exists in our society. She challenged white Americans to interrogate their own privilege and perspectives, in a way that I’ve never heard a public figure do before.

She has matched her words with concrete plans, including a serious strategy for creating jobs in struggling communities. Her “Breaking Every Barrier” agenda will invest $125 billion in jobs, infrastructure and housing, specifically in places where people have been left out and left behind. It’s a strategy modelled on my own 10-20-30 plan (direct at least 10 percent of investment to places where 20 percent or more of people have lived in poverty for more than 30 years). This formula was tested in the “Recovery Act” and it worked beautifully. In making higher education more affordable, she will not jeopardize the stability and viability of HBCUs (historically black colleges and universities).

Disparities in wealth, jobs, education, health care and access to justice cut across racial and ethnic lines in profound ways. We can’t put all our faith and efforts in just one solution.

Hillary agrees we need to rein in the excesses of Wall Street, but she also understands that alone won’t solve the problems of systemic racism. It won’t fix deteriorating schools, or cure chronic disease, or reduce rampant gun violence. For those problems, we need different solutions. We need a presidential candidate who has been fighting to make progress against all these issues for her entire career.

Although the problems we face sometimes seem insurmountable, progress is still possible. Just look at the 18 million people who can afford to see a doctor, thanks to Obamacare. Look at the millions of Americans who have found new jobs since the Great Recession and the record- setting sales in the automobile industry, thanks to President Obama’s policies. Hillary Clinton will build upon Obama’s tremendous record of economic growth and progress.

Hillary Clinton is a fighter, and she’ll keep fighting for what’s right. With her in the White House, my spouse, daughters and granddaughters will have a reason to be proud, and so will yours. We all will.

Things We Learned From Hillary Clinton's Nevada Victory

Things We Learned From Hillary Clinton's Nevada Victory

COURTESY: CARRIE Dann- NBC News

 

1.Clinton's appeal to traditional Democrats paid off.

At an MSNBC town hall two days before the caucuses, Hillary Clinton made her first direct attack on Sanders' political affiliation, saying that "Senator Sanders wasn't really a Democrat until he decided to run for president." In Nevada, where 80 per cent of the electorate described themselves as traditional Democrats rather than as independents, it was a strategy that worked. Among the eight-in-ten self-described Democrats who participated in Saturday's caucuses, 58 per cent supported Clinton, versus just 40 per cent who backed Sanders. And while Sanders won by an overwhelming three-to-one margin among self-described independents, their share of the electorate was too small to boost him to victory.

2.Unions made a difference.

In the mid-day Nevada contest, labour unions hold significant sway, particularly in union-dominated casinos in Las Vegas. In Saturday's contest, 28 per cent of voters said that they or someone in their household belonged to a labour union. While Sanders and Clinton ran about even with those NOT affiliated with a union, Clinton bested Sanders with labour-affiliated voters by 11 points.

3.She performed relatively well with liberals.

In New Hampshire, where Sanders notched a 22 point victory over the former secretary of state, Clinton badly lost both voters who described themselves as liberal and those who called themselves more moderate. But in Nevada, her margins with liberals looked much like they did in Iowa, holding Sanders to a single digit advantage with liberals and beating him decisively among moderate and conservative Democratic caucus-goers.

 

4.Sanders may have exceeded expectations with minority voters, but it wasn't enough.

 Early entrance polls showed Sanders leading Clinton by high single digits among Hispanic voters, a margin that political experts are eying with skepticism after seeing the final results in the state. But even if Sanders did better than expected with Latinos, Clinton's apparent dominance with African-American voters - who made up about 13 percent of the electorate -- boosted her to an overall double-digit lead among non-white voters and helped underscore her campaign's argument that Sanders can't be as competitive with minority voters as she can.

 

Hillary Clinton is winning among voters who don’t want Sanders’s revolution

Hillary Clinton is winning among voters who don’t want Sanders’s revolution

Courtesy: Greg Sargent- The Washington Post

In Nevada, more voters wanted to “generally continue Barack Obama’s policies” than wanted to “change to more liberal policies” by a 50-41 margin. Hillary Clinton won among that former group, by 75-22, while Sanders won among the latter group by 77-21.

A pattern is emerging: In Iowa, New Hampshire, and now Nevada, the data suggest that Clinton won overwhelmingly among those voters who want to continue Obama’s policies, while Sanders won overwhelmingly among those who want a decisive break from them in a more liberal direction.

As I and others have argued, Sanders’s candidacy is premised on a serious critique of the Obama years. In his telling, Barack Obama failed to deliver reforms commensurate with the epic scale of our challenges, because he failed to mobilize the grassroots to break oligarchic control of Congress and because establishment Democratic politicians continue to acquiesce in that oligarchic paralysis of our political system in any case, by accepting Wall Street and corporate contributions (and in Clinton’s case, Wall Street speaking fees).

 

Hillary Clinton agrees there is still a great deal of work to be done — wages are still stagnant; universal health care is unrealized; there still isn’t sufficient oversight and accountability for Wall Street; and so on. 

 As Vox’s Jeff Stein and Steve Benen both document, another key tell to emerge from the Nevada caucuses is that turnout among Democrats was down from 2008, just as it was in Iowa and New Hampshire. This casts some doubt on .

It should not be seen as radical, crazy, or beyond the bounds of acceptable discourse to run for president on the idea that a country as rich and great as this one should guarantee to everyone a minimally decent standard of living and a reasonable measure of opportunity — in the form of guaranteed quality health care, a guaranteed college education, and a guaranteed retirement with dignity.

But we are now entering a string of contests in which nonwhite voters will be decisive, and polling has shown that nonwhites think Clinton, not Sanders, is the candidate best equipped to bring “needed change” to Washington.

Whom you want to elect – Tolerance or Hate ?

Whom you want to elect – Tolerance or Hate ?

Torture doesn't work. It's wrong. These dangerous words from Republicans have no place in our country- Comments by Hillary Clinton on Trump Speech.

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Donald Trump hails torture, mass killings with ‘pigs’ blood’ ammo in SC

Donald Trump closed his South Carolina campaign on Friday with a rambling speech highlighted by a giddy, almost childlike, enthusiasm for torturing and summarily executing the suspected enemies of America in the name of safety. 

Trump was in free-association mode dwelling on one topic, like heroin in New Hampshire or Japan’s monetary policy, and then jumping to another. 

. Trump repeated – favourably – an apparent myth about how General John Pershing summarily executed dozens of Muslim prisoners in the Philippines with tainted ammunition during a guerrilla war against the occupying United States.

“He took fifty bullets, and he dipped them in pig’s blood,” Trump said. “And he had his men load his rifles and he lined up the fifty people, and they shot 49 of those people. And the fiftieth person he said ‘You go back to your people and you tell them what happened.’ And for 25 years there wasn’t a problem, okay?”

The moral of the tale, according to Trump: “We better start getting tough and we better start getting vigilant, and we better start using our heads or we’re not goanna have a country, folks.” 

 “Is it torture or not? It’s so borderline,” he said. “It’s like minimal, minimal, minimal torture.” 

He tied the San Bernardino shooting into an argument over gun rights, saying the body count could have been minimized if the office workers who were murdered had been armed.

“If there were guns on the other side pointed at the other direction so the bullets are flying both ways you, wouldn’t have had that happen,” he said.

Trump’s speech was a hit with the audience, which cheered throughout.

Courtesy - benjy-sarlin - MSNBC