Some are Feeling The Bern and some are Ready For Hill, and though Clinton was just endorsed by HRC, Bernie Sanders has also been an ally for many years.
Although Queerty’s political writer John Gallagher believes Hillary Clinton should be the nominee, I, like a lot of Queerty commentators believe in Bernie, who has taken actual direct action to support us.
Here are five times Bernie Sanders was a true LGBT ally (including one time where he got a homophobe all the way together right on Capitol Hill).
1. Bernie Sanders Voted Against DADT
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Way back in the day, President (Bill) Clinton made a political compromise when his poorly executed plan to integrate gays and lesbians into the military openly proved unpopular. That compromise was Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, which allowed gays and lesbians to serve only if they weren’t open about their sexual orientation. Which, of course, is not a compromise at all unless you believe the closet is a good thing.
Sanders wasn’t having it, and voted against it. Of course, the bill passed and led to thousands of discharges of lesbian and gay soldiers. Two years later, in 1995, he angrily censured a Republican for using the phrase “homo soldiers” right on the floor of Capitol Hill. And it was awesome.
2. As Mayor Of Burlington, He Helped Make June 25th Lesbian and Gay Pride Day
Two years after Sanders became Mayor of Burlington, organizers were planning the first ever pride parade, but also pushed for June 25th to be officially designated “Lesbian and Gay Pride Day.” Amidst strong opposition to the proposal, it passed. In response to a Republican Alderman’s question as to why the march needed to be coupled with an official designation, Sanders replied:
“In the city of Burlington and in the state of Vermont, people have the right to exercise their lifestyles. It’s an American right, anyone’s right to have a march… This is a civil liberties question.”
We can live with the “lifestyles” remark. After all, it was 1983.
3. He Has The Balls To Call Out HRC As “Establishment” In The Middle Of A Campaign
Those in the straightstream media who think the Human Rights Campaign is the be all and end all of gay movement advocacy are deny the existence of a much larger and more diverse movement.
It shows that Sanders (who by the way has a 100% rating from the HRC) is in tune enough with LGBT issues to know that one rich, mostly white, group does not stand for all.
4. Bernie Sanders Voted Against DOMA
Way back in the day, President Clinton signed the Defense Of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as between one man and one woman, into law. DOMA effectively banned same-sex marriage and set the stage for years of legal battles before same-sex marriage bans were finally struct down last year. Sanders voted against DOMA from the beginning, primarily on states’ rights grounds.
While he admittedly endorsed civil unions instead of complete gay marriage in 2006, it’s fair to use his vote against DOMA as an act of solidarity with the LGBT community. It serves as yet another example of him sticking his neck out for the community in a time when it was less safe to do so.
5. And Against Banning Gay Adoption In D.C.
In 1999, Sanders voted against an amendment that would’ve banned same-sex couple adoption in Washington, D.C. It’s important to realize that it’s very easy to be on the side of marriage equality right now, with a huge majority of Americans in support, but adoption is still a sensitive topic in some parts of the country. Even if you don’t want to have kids, plenty of ‘mos do, so it’s nice to know he’s on the side of family values.
So there it is, folks. Five times Bernie was an ally to the LGBT community.
Granted, Mr. Gallagher argues that Sanders may not have as firm a grasp on identity politics as Clinton, but we have to ask – so what?
Most of us aren’t single issue voters because we do not live single issue lives, and no amount of inclusion in Clinton campaign ads is going to answer fundamental questions that many voters have about her coziness with corporate interests who have lined her bank account with six figure speaking fees.
I’m undecided at this point (yes, one of those independents you’ll be hearing more about as we get closer to the end of the primary season), but open to those who have our backs for real and not just when it’s convenient.
Wil Hall
While Bernie was an ally to the LGBT community, he was no champion like his fans seem to think he was. Like Hillary, he evolved on marriage equality but he also spoke against it in Vermont. He also opposed DOMA not because he was siding with gay people, but because he felt it was a states’ rights issue. That’s no champion. If she had spoken for it in 2008, she would never have survived it. Nor would Obama have. Here’s a little article about Bernie’s history on the issue: http://time.com/4089946/bernie-sanders-gay-marriage/. My issue here is that he intentionally misrepresents his contribution and his minions swallow every drop.
joeyty
@Wil Hall: Thanks for that. Interesting. But…he IS a politician. I’m not saying he’s not a viable candidate, though. It’s still early…
Douglas Schlitz
Still 100 times better than ANY republican candidate, the likes of would deny us rights and appear on stage with people who think we should be out to death.
That is outrageous !
joeyty
@Douglas Schlitz: Like this : http://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/1370751/u-s-president-barack-obama-r-laughs-he-meets-king-abdullah-saudi-arabia.jpg
Aromaeus
@Wil Hall: She is on record being against as late as 2010. Seeing it as a states’ right issue is way ahead of being outright against it. You Hillary cons are so quick to paint Bernie in a negative light but any criticism of Shillary is just us being sexist or something. She’s flip-flopped on way too many issues while Bernie has a much better record on voting for the right things when it wasn’t good politics. Hillary throws out gay and lesbian once and awhile in a speech and you idiots act like she’s the second coming.
Aromaeus
Serious question for you Hillary supporters. Who do you think is more likely to advance our rights and fight for us in the white house? The person who was for us when it could of ended their political career or someone whose only come around to it within the last couple of years? Even if Hillary’s support is genuine do you think it’s going to be one of her top priorities as POTUS? I don’t think so.
Bauhaus
Neither Sanders nor Clinton has attacked the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage. Both support it. ALL of the Republican candidates, including Trump, have disagreed with the decision. Trump has promised to appoint judges that will overturn SSM. Still think Trump is great or even neutral on gay issues?
crowebobby
@crowebobby: convinced I NEVER would
Desert Boy
Bernie Sanders record on support for LGBT goes back decades. Unlike Hillary Clinton, who didn’t come around on marriage equality until 2013. As recently as 2008, in an HRC sit-down with Obama, Hillary said she opposed the repeal of DOMA — only Article 3 which dealt with benefits for federal workers.
Bernie Sanders also wants Single Payer healthcare. This approach builds on Medicare and covers every American. Gone would be the disastrous Affordable Care Act, which as seen premiums double from one year to the next. Also, if you have a plan through the ACA and receive a federal stipend to help you pay for the $900 to $1,400 month plan, be ready to pay income tax on that stipend. The Affordable Care Act is a mess.
Hillary Clinton does not support Single Payer — naturally, as she has deep ties to Big Pharma, the insurance industry and Wall Street.
joeyty
@Bauhaus: If Trump takes that position (so Federal anti-same-sex marriage) I doubt I could support him for President. It’s disappointing to me because I was hoping it would come down to Trump versus Sanders so I had two viable candidates to choose between.
joeyty
@joeyty: excuse me ; I mean “so anti-Federal-same-sex marriage”
Captain Obvious
@Wil Hall: He’s still light years ahead of Hilary Clinton and the only viable candidate we have who can get in and supports ALL minorities not just gay or black.
We don’t really have the luxury of voting all over the place when Trump is pretty much the Republican candidate who is getting an increasingly larger chance of getting into the White House.
Bauhaus
@joeyty:
He took that position!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/31/trump-attacks-supreme-court-decision-legalizing-same-sex-marriage/?hpid=hp_rhp-more-top-stories_no-name%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
Stefano
@Bauhaus: Trump have the support of the religious nuts ?!! I’m shocked ! Loll
martinbakman
It’s just that Hillary Clinton seems to be a lying sack, just like her husband.
We don’t need any more Bushes or Clintons in the White House. They’ve all contributed to a total shit storm across the Middle East and at home.
joeyty
@Bauhaus: He could be lying to assure the votes of THAT bunch, but….even if that’s the case, it’s not acceptable. The candidates should be beyond THAT much pandering.
Henry Calderon
bbg372
More disingenuous garbage from Rob Smith.
1. Clinton originally advocated for the repeal of the prohibition against homosexuals serving in the military. When Republican opposition prevented that, DADT was drafted as a compromise. The purpose was to prevent gay and lesbian service members from being discharged by making it impermissible to ask if someone is gay or to tell if someone is gay. If he could not change the rule that made homosexuality incompatible with military service, he could at least make it impermissible to identify who is gay, thereby allowing gays and lesbians to serve. It was the first step to allowing LGBT people to serve openly. Sanders’ ideological purity on the issue was the enemy of incremental progress and did nothing to help the gay and lesbian people who were serving at the time. He cast his symbolic vote and left them to languish under the existing rules. Some champion.
3. Each time Sanders has spoken of the organization, he could not even properly name it. He did not label it “establishment” because of his breadth of knowledge of the LGBT movement, but because it is his and his supporters’ go-to debate tactic and talking point. He has since walked back his statement, and said that they are not “establishment” after all, yet his supporters continue to cling to his original statement. So which is it? Why are you contradicting him?
4. After the Hawaii State Supreme Court found the refusal of the state to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples discriminatory in 1993, conservatives were concerned that the full-faith and credit clause of the constitution would ensure that same-sex marriage would spread from Hawaii to the entire country. At the time, there was enough votes to amend the federal constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage, so when DOMA was proposed by Republicans with a veto-proof majority in 1996, it was a tactical decision by Clinton to sign the legislation into law. It was far better to pass a federal law that does not comport with the constitution and would eventually be struck down by the courts, then to fight the law with no chance of being able to defeat it, and risk a federal constitutional amendment which would prohibit same-sex marriage for all time. Once again, Sanders cast a vote for ideological purity ambivalent to the fact that it could have doomed marriage equality in this country.
Sorry, Sanders supporters, some of us are old enough to remember the Clinton administration.
badtungsten
@Aromaeus: That’s a very disingenuous question. Bernie Sanders could afford to support our community because he was elected from Vermont, one of the five most liberal states in the entire country. He has never had to consider practicality in his positions. One can’t fight for equality in Congress if one can’t get elected to Congress, after all.
We all seem to have come down with some huge case of collective amnesia when it comes to the political climate that existed in the 1980s and 90s. Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act. Yes, Bill Clinton signed DOMA. However, you can’t look at that event in isolation from the context of what was happening in the broader culture at the time. The Republicans had taken over Congress in 1994. They had the votes to send a CONSTITUTIONAL ban on gay marriage to the states. DOMA was a compromise worked out between the White House and Congressional leaders to avoid taking a vote on the marriage amendment. Had the marriage amendment passed and been sent to the states, it would have become part of the Constitution without a doubt and there would be no same sex marriage today in any part of the United States. By signing the unconstitutional DOMA, Bill Clinton actually ensured that marriage equality would eventually come to the entire country.
As for Hillary Clinton, I will caucus for her in Nevada with pride and will vote for her with a smile on my face from this purple state in November. Hillary is a politician, but she’s also a very gifted pragmatist. Her experience dealing with Republicans and non-liberal voters informs her decisions, as it should. The huge leaps we’ve seen in acceptance and in the courts have come not all at once, but in tiny chunks that build over time to the desired end result. Hillary understands this, but Bernie does not. Revolutions rarely produce the results desired by the revolutionaries. Our own revolution against Great Britain had dire unintended consequences that almost tore apart our fledgling nation.
I really have no major issue with Bernie Sanders. I would gladly vote for him in November if he happened to win the nomination. But, I believe he is the weaker candidate in the general election. He holds little appeal to the Obama coalition outside of college students and liberal whites.
MikeColling83
If you like Hillary, vote for her. If you like Bernie, vote for him. If you like religious oppression, vote republican. It’s not that hard people.
Curt Simmons
Whatever reasoning Senator Sanders had for his support doesn’t matter all that much. He took the tough votes when it mattered most. He didn’t and doesn’t allow the political winds to change him to the same degree as other politicians. The same with his votes against The Patriot Act and the War on Iraq.
youarekiddingme
@Wil Hall: Thanks for the link Wil. I actually read it…and the attached video. Did you? It actually does more to SUPPORT BERNIE than it does to detract from him…
1. Admits he was ahead of Hillary of LGBTQ Issues. (Perhaps not as far as some have said) but still ahead).
2. Video was great where he defended Gay Servicemen/women who served/died for this country who were called “Homos” by “the Gentleman from California…”
Your argument against Bernie is a bit weak at best.
Many people like to use the term “evolved on same-sex marriage.” Hell, the LGBTQ Community didn’t initially support the idea of same-sex marriage. The idea of the term “marriage” was shunned at first as a “straight” acronym for a ceremony that wasn’t applicable in the LGBTQ Community. So EVERYONE has evolved. The question is WHEN.
Masc Pride
I like Bernie, but I think his first plan of action should involve buying a comb.
1EqualityUSA
Bern will be bowled over and flattened by the GOP obstructionists. The fi’thy Republicans never gave Jimmy Carter a chance. Bern will have four years of complete frustration and will cry foul and call for his “revolution.” Just shut the Hell up and build on what Obama has managed to wrangled, despite GOP push-back and unfair dealings. Big Business will stomp Bern back into oblivion straight out of the gate…while Bern is studying Middle East 101 for the first six months. Give me someone savvy enough to circumvent the man-made icebergs floated by the Tedious Right. At least Clinton knows who the players are, beyond our border. Clinton knows who to trust, who to screw sideways, and who she wants in key positions of her administration. She knows the game. Bill Clinton was a very shrewd mind in his dealings with other politicians. She will have a great advocate. Her experience on the world stage will keep her from being vulnerable by the Donald Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz breed of cat. Your feel-good vote could land us with 3 to 4 conservative Supreme Court Justices on the bench for lifetime appointments. Like Ralph Nader, I will never forgive this goofball if he causes us to lose the Casa Blanca in 2016.
benandy
Sorry, this is FOUR times when he stood with us, in the past. CURRENTLY calling out the HRC as “establishment” is not actually standing with our community nor is it in the past. It is NOW. And it is a reaction to them endorsing his opponent for the nomination. In fact, it is petty and somewhat beneath him. Trump belittles those who endorse other Thugs. Bernie looks more like Trump when he does so, an old, angry, white man.
Stephen Devine
Yeah but no. When he had a chance to take a stand for us, on the floor, he didn’t. There is no comment from him why he voted no. But he tries to pretend it meant he was pro gay marriage. Ah but he wasn’t. He said in 2006 he supports civil unions and only by state by state case. He evolved just like everyone. His support is welcome but gay rights gets in the way of his obsession with super PACs and Wall Street. Don’t be fooled. No one knows of Bernie as a gay rights leader because he has never lead on gay rights.
Alistair Wiseman
@1EqualityUSA:
If Hillary were to win the presidency, it would be an interesting footnote in history to have two impeached Clintons. 🙂
1EqualityUSA
Alistair, How you could possibly want TrumpCruzoranyoftheclownsrunningintheGOPisbeyondme.
Sweetie Pie
I’d give him a mercy blowjob…in gratitude
Ridpathos
Vote Democrat no matter if it’s Clinton or Sanders. I hope its Sanders, but even if it isn’t, if a Repuglican wins, ANY Repuglican, you can look forward to 8 years of attacks on gay rights, racism, and tax breaks for the rich.
Ridpathos
@Alistair Wiseman: Are you saying that Chelsea would run, because if you actually know your history (which you don’t obviously), Bill was never impeached.
1EqualityUSA
Ridpathos, Alistair wants to use the word “impeached” over and over and over again, so don’t engage, as this is his schtick. It is about saying the word repeatedly. It’s one of the wormy-trollish things he does on this supposedly “unimportant” site.
Alistair Wiseman
@Ridpathos:
I love how you lefty’s love to re-write history.
President Clinton was acquitted in the Senate, but was impeached in the House of Representatives on December 19, 1998 on one charge of perjury and one charge of obstruction of justice.
Denial or ignorance does not change the the official United States House of Representatives Congressional Record.
https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/105th-congress/house-report/830/1
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/20/us/impeachment-overview-clinton-impeached-he-faces-senate-trial-2d-history-vows-job.html
1EqualityUSA
Try not to take the bait, Ridpathos…he’ll repeat the word over and over as if this republican coup in the late ’90’s is going to sway the gay. Red herring, by a guy whose party is sinking into the abyss. Attack away, Alistair. Hillary Clinton is still more qualified to lead, day one, than any of the poofs for whom the Koch bros paid. Buying elections won’t do it because the message has a foul odor.
youarekiddingme
@1EqualityUSA: Yea, he’s just a silly duck who ignores the fact that the Senate ACQUITTED Clinton. He pretends not to know the meaning of the word acquitted…(not guilty of charges). He also forgets that because one group thinks you did something doesn’t mean you’re guilty. Has something to do do with innocent until proven guilty??? I heard that somewhere before??
You’re right though, loves that “word!”
bluespider10
that was obviously him being a politician in order for him to appeal to straight and gay people at the same time the first video in this article obviously shows that by the way that he refers to the gay military servants as people who fought for this country. Bernie’s goal is to coax the people to do the right thing by appealing to their conscious and emotions. Hillary uses fear.
bluespider10
@ Wil Hall that was obviously him being a politician in order for him to appeal to straight and gay people at the same time the first video in this article obviously shows that by the way that he refers to the gay military servants as people who fought for this country. Bernie’s goal is to coax the people to do the right thing by appealing to their conscious and emotions. Hillary uses fear.
bluespider10
@benandy: I watched the actual interview and he did not specify that HRC was part of the establishment. He barely even implied that. He said that Hillary Clinton has been in HRC for a long time. Then he said “some of these groups are part of the establishment” without specifying which ones. You are misrepresenting his words to suit your agenda. He is correct in his belief that Hilary Clinton,as an establishment candidate, has feelers everywhere that would suggest conflicts of interests (the daughter of one of Planned Parenthood’s leaders is a spokeswoman for Hillary)
bluespider10
@Stephen Devine: You can’t deny that he was pro gay people much earlier than Hillary CLinton was. In 1983, as mayor of Burlington, he signed a Gay Pride Day proclamation according to Times. Bernie might not have been 100 percent ready for gay marriage as soon as it was a thing in 1970 but in that same year he did send a letter to the Liberty Union saying “Let’s abolish all laws dealing with abortion, drugs, sexual behavior…” . At least he was supportive of gay rights from very early on and he voted against DOMA while Hillary voted for it. That is why the gay community and the HRC should support him. He was fighting for your rights to love each other and be happy before you even cared about getting married.
bluespider10
@badtungsten: The job of the Congress is to defend our rights to the Pursuit of happiness. If the Clintons truly believed in Human Rights they would have vetoed DOMA and used their power to convince the public. It would have been a situation similar to the desegregation of schools in which they would have moved slow (starting in very liberal areas)by opening one or two court houses to same sex marriage. The bigots would resist but would eventually accept it because in a lawful society pieces of paper matter and that marriage license would have opened so many doors to acceptance for many gay people. There are things that are objectively good. If two consenting people love each other they should have the freedom to pursue the happiness of marriage no matter who they are.
badtungsten
@bluespider10: Sorry, but you’re allowing your hatred of Hillary to get in the way of the facts. Hillary Clinton didn’t vote for DOMA. She was First Lady of the United States at the time DOMA was passed. How could she have voted for it? Her husband was president, but she had no ability to cast a vote either for or against it.
badtungsten
It all comes down to the fact that Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are two sides of the same coin. They have each tapped into rage and fear on the part of middle and lower middle class white people. The expressed targets of that rage may differ along the ideological spectrum, but the cause is the same. White people will no longer make up a majority of Americans within 20 years. I believe the discontent fueling both Trump and Sanders is bubbling up from this cauldron of discontent. The traditional power structures in American society are changing and that is very unsettling to those who have historically held those levers of power. Throw in the changing realities of a truly global economy and you get agitated people who are ready to trash every institution that has served to stabilize our country for over 200 years.
badtungsten
@bluespider10: You are incorrect on the role of Congress. The Constitution simply states that “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.” Nowhere does it mention an underlying purpose for Congress to exist as you assert. I fully agree with you on the legality of same sex marriage. I am man who is married to another man, after all. But, just because something ‘should’ be the case doesn’t mean that it is or will be. Also, you claim that the Clintons should have somehow allowed gay marriage in a few courthouses back in the 90s. How exactly could they have done that? The executive branch only has very specific and limited powers to compel States to act in any certain way. The Presidency is not an office with unlimited power per the Constitution. The president can only enforce the actions of Congress. He or she can’t just decide to force the Green County courthouse in Kentucky to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. The Supreme Court can do that as remedy to a Constitutional violation, but the president absolutely can’t.
Realitycheck
Bernie Sanders is NOT electable and these are the reasons why!!
1) He said he will raise taxes, that is an election killer
2) He is perceived as a lefty extremist
3) He said himself all the things he wants to do are impossible to achieve
because he doesn’t have the needed support in congress
4) He is too old, if elected he would die in the middle of his term
5) He sounds exactly like a South American dictator promising everything he can to get elected and then delivering nothing
6) he doesn’t have the dealing skills of Clinton and with out those skills and congress support he is a lame duck from day one.
7) he will say anything to get elected, anything..
Realitycheck
@bluespider10: Reality check!!! Support for marriage equality had to grow, and until few years ago it was less then 30%
so it is pointless to claim it could have been done when….NO It could NOT have been done, it would have been political suicide.
In life everything is made a baby step at the time, it is that simple.
And more importantly Sanders doesn’t have the political support to deliver what you would like, zero support because he is seen as a left extremist.
Hillary Clinton does have the support and she is well known and respected for her ability to cut deals, and in politics it is all about deals, make no mistakes about that.
Clinton might be the established candidate, meaning she has the most experience and credentials for the job, while Sanders doesn’t.
joeyty
@badtungsten: True. And Trump is trying to grab the growing non-white population by promising he’ll reverse the gay marriage thing. (Ugh, we won’t even have to wait that 20 years).
JessPH
Hillary has been more vocal about her support of LGBT rights. As a Secretary of State, she promoted equal rights for LGBTs in many states she visited including those hostile to homosexuals. Bernie Sanders is a lofly idealist whose far-left beliefs and policies are divisive and hardly realistic to happen. Hillary is a down-to-earth pragmatist who can cross the aisle and get things done.
1EqualityUSA
Bernie will flounder amid all of those in the dark party working to undermine him. That is if he is able to win at all against a Republican. I will NEVER forgive this goofball if he pulls a Ralph Nader on us. We got Bush because of Ralph Nader, and consequently to that, Alito and Roberts were appointed. Clinton will navigate the GOP-manufactured death traps concocted by the dark ones. She knows who to trust and who to appoint for key positions. Clinton knows the players beyond our border and will not be made vulnerable by clowns such as Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. She’ll play her cards well and have a shrewd, experienced ex-president to use as a sounding board. Madeleine Albright comes to mind. The others would be pants-shitting, taking Middle East 101 classes for the first six months of their presidency, or worse, delegating these tasks to dark souls ever-so-willing to take the reins in a Wolfowitzian sort of way. Your feel-good vote will amount to frustration. Jimmy Carter can tell you just how ugly it can be. He lasted four years. Republicans then took over for an eternity after Jimmy. I do not have a good feeling about Bern. He looks frail. The blanched, white cardiac lip, the veins bulging out when he gets agitated, the looney calls for revolution are too much. Simply, build on the slow, steady progress that Obama was able to wrestle away from the dark party.
Ronbo
I love Sanders policy positions and focus on equality… including pro-choice.
I love Clinton’s pro-choice positons; but, her policy positions are pure Republican-lite trickle-down nonsense. She has supported the recent 4 regime change wars that have resulted in ISIS recruitment and terrorist blow-back. Sanders is against domestic spying. Sanders is against prosecuting whistle-blowers like Snowden. Sanders is against private prisons and imprisioning minor drug offenses. Hillary supported repeal of Glass-Stegal which resulted in the Bush economic meltdown. Unlike Sanders, Hillary supported NAFTA and TPP and Keystone oil pipeline and the Patriot act.
Current polling shows that Sanders beats ALL Republicans by a wider margin than Clinton.
Remember, a pro-choice Republican is not a Democrat. She just can’t get elected as a Republican.
1EqualityUSA
Ralph Nader for VP?
homosuperior
Sanders/Warrren 2016. Warren is a real progressive.
“Shillary” made me laugh, btw. Hadn’t heard that before. Glib, but accurate. She’s a triangulator, like her husband. She’s never taken a risky position in her political life
Isn’t it time, after the baby-steps forward with Obama, to really move forward instead of back? Hillary had her chance, and we saw what she was made of in 2008.
D P
Whether or not Bernie Sanders is fully invested in our community’s best interest or just partially invested, I’m glad, Queerty, that you profiled the candidate here. I hadn’t known, so this was a good educational opportunity for me. Thank you.