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Hillary Clinton said Thursday that the first step in addressing police violence against minorities is to acknowledge and believe that black lives matter. This is not just a slogan, she said at a forum with local mayors and elected officials in West Columbia, S.C. This should be a guiding principle. Although her trip to South Carolina -- her third since announcing her run for the Democratic nomination for president -- was billed by her campaign as an stanley cup opportunity to talk more about her economic vision, her first appearance there was bookended by stanley cups a discussion of race. Clinton, along with her rivals for the nomination Sen. Bernie Sanders and Martin O Malley, have rushed in the past week to lead the way in their support of the black lives matter movement since a group of protestors disrupted a presidential town hall at Netroots Nation, a progressive gathering in Phoenix, Arizona, on Sa stanley cup turday. Sanders and O Malley were criticized for responses viewed as inadequate and that misunderstood the movement s purpose. Clinton did not attend, but she s been previously criticized for using the phrase all lives matter at a community gathering at a church in Florissant, Missouri, which was similar to Thursday s event in West Columbia.In her remarks on Thursday, however, Clinton did not wait to address the recent church shooting in Charleston and the death of Walter Scott, a black man who was shot and killed in North Charleston by a police officer Zwmt Family Ties
CBS From CBS News John Bentley: Calling Barack Obama naiuml;ve and inexperienced, John McCain sharpened th stanley cup price e Republican criticism that President Bush alluded to earlier today. Why does Barack Obama want to sit down with a state sponsor of terrorism McCain asked today, referring to Obama s willingness to negotiate with Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad. What does he want to talk about with Ahmadinejad, who said that Israel is a stinking corpse, who said that he wants to wipe Israel off the map, who is sending the most explosive devices into Iraq, killing Americans. While not mentioning Obama directly, Bush had harsh words for those who would negotiate with rogue states. Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along, the president said at a celebration of Israel s 60th anniversary. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided. We have an obligation to call this what it is ndash; the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history. McCain did not call Obama an appeaser, either, but did say he believed Obama needed to further explain his views. stanley cup I think Barack Obama needs to sit down and expla stanley cup in why he wants to talk with the man w |
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