Hillary Clinton Can’t Stop Coughing

“This is a civil rights issue and we can’t ignore it any longer”, she said.

“You know, to quote Dr. King”, Clinton said, “‘The time is always ripe to do right.’ No matter who you are”.

Sharpton, who sat down last week with Clinton’s rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen.

While the former secretary of state has been leading opponent Bernie Sanders with black voters, the Vermont senator has attracted a number of endorsements from high-profile African-Americans.

Despite never raising her voice, at the ten-and-a-half-hour mark Clinton broke down in a coughing fit that ended only after she took a lozenge from her purse and then rejected a suggestion of a short break from Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican.

“The only disagreement we had is when she didn’t support me for president, but I got over that”, he said, drawing chuckles around the conference room.

Mrs. Clinton opened by thanking the group “for the extraordinary advice that they have given to my team at the campaign”.

Hillary Clinton met with Rev. Al Sharpton Tuesday as she sought to secure more support from the Black community ahead of the SC primary.

Topics brought up during the meeting with Clinton covered policing, criminal justice reform, prisoner re-entry, historical black colleges, judiciary appointments, voting rights and the economy, Morial said.

Repeating the same promises and platitudes that African-Americans have heard for years from the Democrats who claim to represent them, Hillary Clinton on Tuesday went a step further: She mentioned her (white) “privilege”; and she said Democrats need to hold candidates accountable, “not just every two or four years…but every single day”. During that discussion, Sharpton said he quizzed Sanders on such issues as affirmative action, police misconduct, and the tainted-water crisis in the black-majority city of Flint, Michigan.