the logic you just laid out is sound (and yes - what Hillary said is fairly benign and she was trying to make a larger point on race, albeit while still harnessing her moderate, white base), but the way the media and the general public respond to Sanders and Clinton respectively as it pertains to race is wild.

When Hillary says something that can be interpreted as saying something out of sync, people go Claire McCaskill and give a Press Secretary explanation on what Hillary really means/says.

In contrast, the Sanders NetRoots situation saw nobody trying to contextualize anything - no similar logic applied, just a tsunami of hashtags denigrating his public service.

Contradictory clauses, indeed.


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