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She finally explained it to me in a way that I can understand and agree with 100%.
And I said Wow before I even saw your post. I wonder how many wows we can line up here. 
OK, after watching the Sarandon interview and how obnoxious Chris was, and then this one, and he was virtually speechless, I am so ashamed of him.
He was afraid to take on a black woman. It was OK to disparage an old white woman who is just an actress, but he could not bash Bernie or push Hillary with this woman because he was afraid to look like a racist. What a tool he is.
At least that's my take on it.
I knew older blacks supported the Clintons and I knew a little bit about that, but did not know how to explain away the problems they had with the Clintons and why they were always being "forgiven" for doing things that hurt the black community.
Now I know. Most of them probably don't even know just how bad the devastation against their community was. For example I was told Hillary helped many people with CHIP (1997), well of course she did. She had to after Bill screwed up everything with the passage of welfare reform act in 1996.
Here is a little info on Hillary on the welfare reform act, and Bernie
In 2002, when Congress was debating whether to reauthorize the Clinton-era reforms, then-Senator Hillary Clinton said:
Now that we’ve said these people are no longer deadbeats—they’re actually out there being productive—how do we keep them there?
Bernie Sander, on the other hand, voted against the 1996 welfare reform legislation as a member of the House of Representatives, and strongly denounced it as cruel. Here’s how he described the legislation in his 1997 book, Outsider in the House:
The bill, which combines an assault on the poor, women and children, minorities, and immigrants is the grand slam of scapegoating legislation, and appeals to the frustrations and ignorance of the American people along a wide spectrum of prejudices.
So Michelle said that the Clintons are comfortable with black people (I got that form another poster here too, so I get that)...but I wonder if Hillary is as comfortable as Bill is. I just finished rereading a novel I have for the third time, and I read it again this time because someone here revealed who the novel was about (doh! I can't believe I didn't see that). It was about the Clintons and that went right over my head the first two times I read it. So I read it this time, putting them in as the couple. And boy howdie...this beautiful and intelligent woman is right on there. Bill just loves people, and he doesn't care what color their skin is. He just loves people and living in the south, that included blacks and their culture. He was warm and welcoming to them. And they knew it. And it was the first time a President treated them that way, and they loved him for it. I am not so sure Hillary really is (even though she tries to be). I think she is pretty good, but I think she has to work at it more. She is a natural authoritarian, where I don't think Bill is. So Bill was probably influenced a lot by her in passing the bills that hurt black communities so badly. And I don't think either of the Clintons would have done that if they'd known what the outcome would be.
But Bernie knew it was the wrong way to approach the problems, and said so...and he was right. As he has proven over and over again, he just makes sound, moral, and humane decisions. He is the kind of leader we need. This clip needs to go viral. All of you who do social media (I don't), please post it.
So OK...before I leave this thread, I'll tell you what book to read...Primary Colors. You'll get an eyeful. It's just a novel, so don't get your hopes up. Nothing in the novel happened in real life. But I do think it portrays the Clintons pretty well. It's a good read too.
AlterNet, 'The Tragic End of the Woman Bill Clinton Exploited As Poster Child for Gutting Welfare', by Zaid Jilani, May 11, 2015.
"Eliminating the safety net for Lillie Harden did not transform her family the way Clinton boasted. The pride she had in getting a job gave way to the harsh socioeconomic realities of her life.
The same was true for many others across the country—the loss of government aid did not instantaneously create living wage jobs with benefits, but rather sunk them further into poverty. This was perhaps most obvious during the Great Recession. One of the changes the welfare reform law made was to transform TANF into a block grant of money given to the states. That means that even as unemployment skyrocketed, “because the block grant has never been increased or adjusted for inflation, states received 32 percent less in real (inflation-adjusted) dollars in 2014 than they did in 1997,” according to a report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
>It's a stark illustration of how President Bill Clinton presided over one of the harshest systematic cuts to the poor of any president."
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/tragic-end-woman-bill-clinton-exploited-poster-child-gutting-welfare
Everybody has their opinions. 