Hillary campaign: Obama too liberal, against minimum sentencing
While the headline is misleading, this is really sickening. So what if Republicans attack him as being too liberal? The more they scream, the better for him. I’ve been really tolerant about Hillary, but I am reaching my limit. That said, I’d be interested in seeing an analysis of where the top three Democrats stand on the drug war and the prison-industrial complex .
Hillary Hits Obama For Opposing Harsher Prison Sentences
By Thomas B. Edsall
Hillary’s aides point to Obama’s extremely progressive record as a community organizer, state senator and candidate for Congress, his alliances with “left-wing” intellectuals in Chicago’s Hyde Park community, and his liberal voting record on criminal defendants’ rights as subjects for examination.
Along the same lines, ABC reported that Clinton aides gave the network various examples, of Obama’s controversial stands. The aides cited Obama’s past assertion that he would support ending mandatory minimum sentences for federal crimes, pointing to a 2004 statement at an NAACP-sponsored debate: “Mandatory minimums take too much discretion away from judges.”
