Month: July 2016

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Mothers of Black Victims Emerge as a Force for Hillary Clinton

The mothers of Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner and Tamir Rice, and a half-dozen other black women who had lost children in clashes with the police or in gun violence, were flown in from around the country and invited to gather around a table. They were joined by Hillary Clinton, who asked them, one by one, to tell her their stories.
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Since then, these mothers, many of whom did not know one another before the Clinton campaign flew them to Chicago to convene, have blanketed the primary states, appearing with Mrs. Clinton in churches and barbershops from Ohio to South Carolina. They starred in an ad that aired in Cleveland, Chicago and St. Louis. And the campaign has paid their travel expenses so they could attend the Democratic presidential debates.
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Having these women by her side has provided Mrs. Clinton with powerful and deeply sympathetic character witnesses as she makes her case to African-American voters. And they have given her campaign, an often cautious and poll-tested operation, a raw, human and sometimes gut-wrenching feeling.

The presence of the mothers has also proved a shrewd political move, influencing black leaders and lawmakers to back Mrs. Clinton.

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The First Night of the RNC Was a Cynical Exploitation of Grief

… Instead, we heard from Patricia Smith, whose son Sean was killed during the 2012 attack on the US diplomatic compound in Benghazi. “I blame Hillary Clinton personally for the death of my son.” And we heard from Sabine Durden, Mary Ann Mendoza, and Jamiel Shaw, who each had a son killed by undocumented immigrants.
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… in its eagerness to parade and exploit these grief-stricken survivors, Trump’s Republican Party seemed to me to have reached a new low.

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Mirrored from Gears and Springs.

Практически все, в чем демократы обвиняют Трампа заранее, они сами успешно делают уже сейчас. И их целевая аудитория воспринимает это как должное. Оно и понятно: травить с помощью IRS консерваторов – это же хорошо и правильно. Но ведь не дай бог будет наоборот, это получится покушение на основы государства и общества.

Из этой же серии еще одна история: владелец ресторанчика попросил полицейских не ходить больше к нему обедать. А то другие посетители не одобряют. Тамошний шериф про это написал в Фейсбуке, в том духе, что у владельца бизнеса есть право отказывать кому угодно, но и у них, полицейских, есть право носить деньги за обед в другие места. По этому поводу возникла оживленная дискуссия, в результате которой ресторатор, весь в слезах, сослался на недоразумение из-за языкового барьера, принес полиции извинения и предолжил бесплатные обеды. У его действий, однако, нашлись защитники с вот такой аргументацией:

However, some people said others should not be so quick to vilify the business.
‘It’s quite sad that cops and their apologists are trying to ruin a business simply for trying to make a wise business decision,’ Chris Larmore wrote.
‘If a person went into any restaurant with an array of lethal and nonlethal weapons, they would be banned. If said person had immunity from the law then it would only strengthen the case against the person.
‘Furthermore, a business owner has the right to deny any customer they choose. If that person(s) then decides to financially ruin the business via slanderous propaganda, then that is illegal.
‘Police breaking the law…say it aint so…who would’ve thought.’

Судя по тезису об оружии, это говорит не либертарианец или консерватор, а либерал. Интересно, что он писал, когда неподалеку оттуда – это в окрестностях Сиэттла – происходила известная эпопея с отказом кондитера-христианина делать свадебный торт лесбийской паре. Вот эта мысль – a business owner has the right to deny any customer they choose – приходила ли ему тогда в голову?

Mirrored from Gears and Springs.