Very well said.

It's really almost mind-blowing what she's had to endure for so many years. I think it's starting to introduce people to another Hillary than they've heard about. The one who seems to have a perpetual target on her back. Just for existing! Just Because. Because she's there.

Now they're attacking her, her lungs, her joints, her cerebrum. . . fuck them.

Baseless slime ball attacks for 25 years.

No Kidding it's been going on a long time! A cool quarter century. And that's not even counting whatever was thrown at her while she was First Lady of Arkansas. Not certain about that period. But CRIMINY! There is indeed a "vast right-wing conspiracy" that has been cranking full-speed against her since she arrived on the national scene during her husband's first Presidential campaign. They have picked on her relentlessly since 1992, which is approaching a quarter century's worth of nonstop persecution.

I'm just fucking tired of it. Just sick and tired of it. Enough already! Leave her alone and get OUT of her way so she can get to work.

I'm actually hoping that maybe a change is developing in the zeitgeist - in which Hillary is starting to become viewed, more and more frequently, as a sympathetic character. Seriously. As Howard Dean recently put it - "what more do you want?" Had enough? Twenty-five YEARS of constant persecution and criticism and fault-finding and trash-talking? Are we done yet? Can we move on, finally?

And IF it turns out to be the case that her shift leftward for the primary is legit and she really did get the message,
She will be the economically liberal transformative president we had hoped we were getting with Obama (who was transformative for sure, but I think not in the ways we expexted). If that's the case, the GOP will be dead in less than another decade.

..... can't beat 'em in an election.

presenting people and ideas that aren't appealing to the largest numbers of people in the biggest elections (like the Presidential cycles). They can't win nationally on their ideas or proposals or candidates so their solution is to try to keep people from voting - most especially those groups of voters they know won't vote for CONS. They try to rig the system as far as how districts are drawn up, strategically, to benefit the GOP. They try to cut early voting, numbers of precincts and specific Catch-22-type photo ID cards, and more.

Gee whiz - I don't imagine it would ever occur to the republi-CONS that maybe the way to gain more votes is to change some of their positions according to the way a majority of Americans feel and have evolved? That might actually work for them, to some extent, 'cause they sure can't get elected on their ideas now.

"A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes."
Mark Twain. And that applies to all these email, benghazi, HRC's server, and clinton
foundation bullshit stories.

A long time ago as kid our next door neighbor was the county DA and his brother was
governor of PA and we lived in a middle class neighborhood in Meadville, PA. His name
was Ray Schafer. He liked to play w/the kids in the neighborhood ..... baseball, basketball,
and other games too .... it was a different time and nobody would think of bugging him
outside of saying "Hi Governor you can stop by for dinner but you have to do the cooking."
Sometimes us kids would be playing and the Governor would be cooking the hot dogs and
burgers on the grill.

About 15 years ago I looked up his record and he was pro education, civil rights, infrastructure,
the environment, unions, he was decon in the episcopal church too, and he was a republican too.

Ray would have no home in the republican party today.

What I am seeing now with Trump and HRC makes me think of 2000 when we had a quality
person in Gore and unqualified idiot w/3 failed businesses and a history of cocaine and alcohol
abuse in w bush and yet much of the media is now selling the "you can't trust Hillary" meme but
skipping over so much of Trump's cons, crimes, and history of being a bigot.


sorry

The extent of sexism--the extent of it culturally, which is more than I can fathom.
Imagine that! Me, the bid feminist!

And the extent of my own internalized sexism. Imagine that! Me, the big feminist!

sexism is far more pervasive than racism

I understood about sexism but I didn't understand about how horrible the age discrimination in this country is until I got older.

...older than Hillary; but hey, men age like wine and women like milk, right?

Just posted this on my Facebook page.

I'm not voting for the candidate just because she is a woman.
I'm not voting for the candidate just because she is not Trump.
I'm not voting for the candidate just because I'm a democrat since birth.

I'm voting for Hillary Clinton because she is Hillary Clinton. She is highly intelligent, experienced and capable of taking on this very difficult job. She is going to do a great job as president. The sexist responses to her are not surprising but are still totally infuriating.

if we can not only elect her, but give her a congress to work with.

The rampant sexism of the M$M is blatantly shameful. Compared to President Obama - our first black President, Hillary has had a much tougher hill to climb. There are too many obviously sexist digs to count, yet the M$M acts like it's perfectly normal to talk about her hair, her clothes, her earrings, and her voice, her shoes, and her age.

I expected the typical Clinton bashing but I did not expect the sexist assault she has had to endure. Trump's appearance is off limits - but with Sec. Clinton... Maybe Rudy Giuliani said it best... "It's a war, anything is legal in a war..." The M$M sure seems to think so...

And I totally agree. It is absolutely appalling.

Comare and contrast is a cinch.

about Bill. And we all know how that turned out for us eight years later!

Katie Couric 1992: Lingering questions about Bill's character and trustworthiness
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512414123

end. the fact that she has never once lost it in public is almost beyond imagining, despite all the crap thrown at her every single minute of every single day, on every front imaginable.

Enough already.

time and still do her job.

That's all just starting to sink in -- the rare focus and determination of someone who has been vilified quite literally for decades. And no speech that we won't have Hillary Clinton to kick around anymore.