Bubba Clinton Shouts Down BLM Hecklivists

Surprised not to see a thread on this, but it is definitely trending:

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In a prolonged exchange Thursday afternoon, former President Bill Clinton forcefully defended his 1994 crime bill to Black Lives Matter protesters in the crowd at a Hillary Clinton campaign event.

Bubba came back with a pretty strong response:

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"I don't know how you would characterize the gang leaders who got 13-year-old kids hopped up on crack and sent them out onto the street to murder other African-American children," Clinton said, addressing a protester who appeared to interrupt him repeatedly. "Maybe you thought they were good citizens .... You are defending the people who kill the lives you say matter. Tell the truth. You are defending the people who cause young people to go out and take guns."

Clinton went on to tout the results of the 1994 crime bill:

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Because of that bill, we have a 25-year low in crime, a 33-year low in murder rate. And because of that and the background check law, we had a 46-year low in the deaths of people by gun violence, and who do you think those lives were? That mattered? Whose lives were saved that mattered?"

That's skirting awfully close to the much-derided (by liberals) observation that if Black Lives Matter, why don't the activists focus on black-on-black crime (which kills far more blacks than police officers do), and the Big Dog istaking some heat for it:

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I wonder if there’s a part of Bill Clinton that doesn't really want Hillary Clinton to become president, particularly if she has to distance herself from his legacy to do so. How else to explain why one of the world’s most talented and agile politicians is so consistently flat-footed and destructive when advocating on his wife’s behalf? How else to explain his terrible and destined-to-be-viral confrontation Thursday with Black Lives Matter protesters in Philadelphia?

Politically, of course, Clinton's response was problematic. The correct thing for Democratic politicians to do when BLM activists harass them is to assume the position, acknowledge their wrongdoing and resolve never to make the same mistake again.

For Hillary, Bubba's response is potentially a disaster in the making. Black voters have been supporting her in overwhelming numbers, and this incident will almost certainly have some of them wondering if it's time to feel the Bern.

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