Devoted liberal that I was—I now refer to myself as “progressive,” by the way—I defended you in subway stations, in billiard halls, in mall food courts, in tobacco shops. When others accused you of playing politics with Operation Infinite Reach and Operation Desert Fox, I came to your defense. You were my President, and I your devoted voter. (Meanwhile, of course, our military was slaying innocent lives. I am now ashamed I ever supported a person’s political existence at the expense of innocent lives.)

But what the heck, those were the gay 90s. We had a balanced budget. Everywhere we looked there was growth, growth, growth. Glass-Steagall-Schteagall. No matter how one defines “is,” after the Reagan and Bush years, it was good to support a Democratic President. I even once came to your defense in Kramerbooks, of all places.

Yet, despite my years of ardent support, this past week and with a toss of the wrist, you threw me and millions of others, Slick Willie willy-nilly-style, under the Tea Party bus.

Source: An Open Letter to Bill Clinton, from a Former Neighbor and Bernie Sanders Supporter

This clip is from the “Young Turks” Internet TV channel, showing Hillary Clinton speaking in Keane, NH in the 1990s about gangs (and, presumably, African-American kids). Some people are disagreeing in the YouTube comments, but I think it’s fair to explore the views held by Hillary during her husband Bill Clinton’s presidency. I think there’s some truth to the claim that the Clinton years were not necessarily good ones for African-Americans.

The Clinton juggernaut is losing traction. Powered by the full weight of the Democratic Establishment, it was designed to smoothly carry its idol across America and into the White House. It still may get there. But now it must traverse a far more treacherous and uncertain route than Hillary and her entourage ever imagined. The course is lined with the pundits, operatives and analysts who will cover the spectacle with their usual attention to trivia and a faith in their own perspicacity matching that of the heroine herself.

Source: The Race to Lose the White House

A grainy cell phone video of the incident showed a handful of young BLM protestors confronting Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail in New Hampshire. After expressing her ardent feminism and pride in meeting a female presidential candidate, BLM’s Daunasia Yancey forcefully confronted Clinton about her shared culpability in America’s destructive War on Drugs: “You and your family have been personally and politically responsible for policies that have caused health and human services disasters in impoverished communities of color through the domestic and international War on Drugs that you championed as First Lady, Senator and Secretary of State.” Yancey continued, “And so I just want to know how you feel about your role in that violence, and how you plan to reverse it?”

Source: The Clintons’ War on Drugs: When Black Lives Didn’t Matter | New Republic

When Bush and Cheney were building up the case for war, some of us were actually paying attention. I was horrified at the inevitable blood bath that my children would be growing into. I was horrified for the people in the Middle East who would have to live with the consequences. I was appalled at the lack of discussion on the impact of war on the planet. I remember thinking that surely there are enough smart, educated democrats who will not let this stand.

Much of the case for war showed that the evidence against Iraq was being trumped up by the administration. If Bernie could see that, and WE could see that, why couldn’t Hillary? Was she lazy? Was she stupid? Or did she just not care? To me, there was NO reason in the world that ANY senator would not jump up and SCREAM that absolutely this is all BULLSHIT and I’m not voting for the AUMF 2002 authorizing war against Iraq! Instead, Bernie was one of the few faces on the evening news who was cautioning against the haphazard bomb-fest. You know what I’m talking about: that government-funded-corporate takeover of the oil fields in Iraq while Bush watched the shock-and-awe attacks like a tweener playing video games because we had to get Saddam Hussein who started 9/11 (well, maybe not so much). I was deeply pissed off at the ‘lack of spine’ in the democrats who didn’t want to ‘look weak’ because of their careers.

Source: I Am A Feminist, So I Will Not Be Voting for Hillary.