You headline is priceless..just what she needs to be sent packing to hang out with her one percent buddies on Wall Street.

I thought The Stranger was done posting fan fiction after Mudede tricked you guys into publishing his Amanda Knox jack off fantasies.

@1: Yes, what we really need instead is a Rat-faced Bircher who's literally fucking a Wall Streeter. Or a narcissistic, authoritarian Real Estate Developer who imports his wives.

But its better than someone with 1% Buddies!

Keep tearing her down, The Stranger. You're doing great. Don't forget to mention the earth tones in that suit, either.

I'm not sure whether your posts on the Democratic primary are trollish, click-bait or if you're really that out of touch with what is actually happening.

I have a theory too! Hillary Clinton has worked her way up to the top of the party ladder, and has been picked as the most deserving candidate. Even though most people don't like her, she has to win because her opponent would be a total disaster... exactly like it worked with Al Gore & John Kerry.

@7 Spot on
The side that activates the base best wins.

Personally, I kind of like her. I think there are a lot of people who do. It would give me great pleasure to see her come out on top after 40 years of resisting the beat down by men who want to see her keep to her place.

However, given the problems we face ( by that I mainly mean climate change catastrophe ), I just don't see her breaking whatever promises she has made to the big energy industry to get where she has gotten. I would guess Sanders has made fewer promises in that direction and so has a somewhat higher likelihood of attacking the problem head on. Of course, we don't really know what promises Sanders has made, but if he has a shot at winning, then I am leaning strongly in that direction for my primary vote and am very close to trying to find some money to send him now too.

BTW re @12. I was an Obama supporter over Clinton.

Jeb Silver Spoon Bush ftw!

@5 Baume is just one of those classic gays who obsess over strong powerful women to the point that they blind themselves to those women's faults*. (See also: Dan Savage's husband) The problem with this is that they raise imperfect people as scions of a cause and then get all butthurt when nobody buys that bullshit. They hate it when I point out that Hillary wasn't pro-gay until 2013 when she couldn't do anything about it (one friend said she was playing the political long game...HA!). They hate it when I point to her votes for the Iraq War and the PATRIOT Act as proof of her kneejerk behavior (they say that she apologized for the Iraq War as a mistake, as if it were spilled milk...and they don't know how to respond to her PATRIOT Act votes even though they're against it).

These gays really just want to cheer a strong woman. Which is cool. But, I'm not willing to put our economy and national security in the hands of anybody just because they happen to have a vagina instead of a cock. Clinton's politics have always been for sale, and it's why she's gotten this far.

*I had a friend say that anybody who didn't support Clinton was a dirty misogynist who wouldn't ever vote for a woman. I told him I voted for a woman in 2012 (Jill Stein), yet he stuck with the male nominee and he could go suck it with that whole Clinton is proof of your feminism bullshit.

@17 "A Trump vs. Sanders choice in November would be too excruciating for Americans to bear and Trump (or whomever the Republican nominee is) would win decisively."

lmao that's cute. Let us know when you've arrived in 2016 and are aware of the power of social media and millenials.

I remember in the early 90s when HILLARY and Beel went on an international relief mission. They flew out of Little Rock and expressed shock and horror when they looked out of the airplane window at the desperate poverty and inhumane misery of the peasants below... Until one of their advisors informed them that they were flying over Pine Bluff.

@18 isn't it cute that Gay Dude for Romney pretends to be a liberal, or someone whose opinion anyone cares about

@19: hilarious. i'll put you down as a vote for Cruz, then.

The practical reality is that Hillary is a centrist-democrat, and Bernie is a far-left democrat/socialist. So of course the more left-leaning primary voters are going to look favorably toward Berne. More extreme candidates from either party tend to look good this early in the primary season. Centrist candidates (from either party) tend to struggle more in primaries, and do better in the general election. You can similarly see that all the centrist republicans are currently struggling in their own primaries.

Furthermore, New Hampshire is practically Bernie's back yard. If he can't win the New Hampshire primary, his campaign is toast. New Hampshire is a must-win for Bernie, or it ends there for him.

Add to that, Hillary has a fraction of the charisma that her husband had or Obama has. Even if her policies would be very similar, she just isn't as personable. It is harder for voters to warm to her. This is largely why Obama beat her in 2008; their policies were almost mirror images of each other, but Obama was much more likable and charismatic. Hillary is a policy wonk, but she has a hard time swaying a crowd. It will be a tough campaign for her.

@10: "I would vote for Trump"
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@23 RE: Why Obama beat her ... Don't forget that Obama was against the war in Iraq from the start, while HRC belatedly claims she made a "mistake" by voting for war.

Bernie was against the Iraq War from the start.

@26 but when you add it to the subset of those people who are upset about NAFTA, financial deregulation, the destruction of American manufacturing, the Clinton dynasty, banks that are too big to fail, austerity, more wars (declared or not) that one wishes to think about, and much more, it amounts to a whole lot of people.

It would be nice if there was a writer on the Stranger staff that wrote about national politics. Specifically national progressive politics. Instead, we have someone who treats the subject like so much fashion.

"Oh dear," and he casts the back of his hand against his forehead, "stances on policy, fitting the Democratic nomination into greater social context, doing actual *research* into the campaigns, it's all so dreadfully _dull_. I have a post to write, what shall I do? All my smart friends simply adore fan fiction, it's all the rage, I shall do the same!"

Hilary is a great humanitarian who has always fought for the powerless and advancement of equality.

@28, see #29 for your fiction.

@29 AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

When? She wasn't even against DOMA until 2013 (unlike Sanders who was announcing gay pride days in 1983 and against DOMA in the 90s).

did hillary get that cigar from bill?