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RNC: A Paul Ryan - Eldridge Cleaver rhetorical connection

When he was a leader in the militant Black Panther Party back in the 1960s, Eldridge Cleaver became associated with the saying “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.”  It was also an advertising slogan for VISTA, the Volunteers in Service to America founded in the sixties, as described here.

Excerpts from tonight’s prime-time speech by the GOP vice-presidential...

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