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In reply to the discussion: Poll: If you could have Hillary Or Bernie for President, who would you pick?? [View all]joshcryer
(62,513 posts)It's not new or controversial at all: http://www.ontheissues.org/Archive/2007_Dems_Brown_Black_Hillary_Clinton.htm
What's important is that she's making a national speech in a time of crisis and not backing away from it or waiting a few weeks to get the message down. She likely had the speech written up the night of the riots or the next day. Like Brooklynite said, they aren't getting much sleep.
A lot of the stuff people say Clinton doesn't champion or hasn't championed is just silliness, she's a Democrat, if it's part of the platform, she likely supports it.
What's interesting is how she channeled inequality in the speech, not just mass incarceration, but economic inequality, talking about how in less than a 5 mile radius between two areas in Baltimore life expectancy dropped 20 percent.
If you look at her crime and civil liberties votes they're not too shabby:
http://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/55463/hillary-clinton/20/crime
http://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/55463/hillary-clinton/13/civil-liberties-and-civil-rights
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