Ugh, I HATE Douthat. Absolutely despise him.

I assume this was directed at me, so I’ll respond: there is no amount of time that guarantees anyone the presidency. That’s why Hillary Clinton has never said that she is owed or guaranteed the presidency, and is in fact traveling the country and talking about what she has accomplished and hopes to accomplish, exactly…

Did you not live through the late nineties? Because every news channel and radio host was speculating on why Hillary couldn’t keep a man.

Well I should hope not! Christ, what’s next, PANTS on a woman?

You have said that you feel these things, and what I have said is that people seem to feel these things without actual evidence for them, or bad action on her part. You are welcome to do that, but it doesn’t mean your feelings are correct or based on facts. What it does mean is that you now see everything she says and…

I mean, I agree with you that she’s not a natural-born campaigner. I’ve worked for brilliant candidates who are not great at campaigning. You get a Barack Obama or Bill Clinton level campaigner once in a lifetime if you are exceedingly lucky - but again, I don’t personally think that makes her seem entitled.

The money was not from student tuition, so I’m not sure what say they had. And if union leadership wants to pay that much money for a speaker, then perhaps the workers need new leadership.

Sorry, I meant that she has been hammering charters as a bad thing (which I also believe - they’re a sneaky way for rich and middle income white families to get their kids out of public school while still getting the benefits of tax dollars). I appreciate the insight about the standardized testing and VAM support…

Got it. Will include a note with my next contribution that asks her to talk about how she alone is responsible for our country’s decades long, disgusting relationship with women-hating dictatorships, and how capitalism means not taking money from organizations for your time.

Excuse me, are you suggesting that words do not just mean whatever the speaker wants them to mean? Is this not still AMERICA?

Curious about what you dislike about her approach to education? She has hammered charter schools relentlessly, which is a major relief to me as an ardent supporter of public schooling, and It Takes a Village was a fairly well-regarded book that took on a holistic approach to primary education.

Okay cool, so what could Hillary talk about that wouldn’t come off as entitled since facts, jokes, and observations are out?

But what quotes and mannerisms? You pointed me to one stump speech that sounded no more entitled than Bernie’s stump speeches. What I’ve observed is people attributing far more entitlement to her actions and words than actually exists. Maureen Dowd has been doing that for 25 years. Hell, you just did it when you…

I think it’s important to keep in mind that we are living in a very different political landscape than existed even twenty years ago, and Hillary Clinton has been in the political landscape for nearly forty. In that time, she has been unwavering in her commitment to poverty relief, children’s welfare, and women’s…

Yeah, she called the woman her husband cheated on her with a narcissistic loony tune in a private conversation that was made public nearly twenty years after the fact. You can dislike Hillary all you want - and it’s pretty clear that you do - but this is grasping at straws.

No? It’s a fact, and one that is relevant to the position she’s running for. Is it entitled for governors running for president to talk about how great they were at it? This is a normal political campaign, and far less grandiose than anything we’re seeing on the Republican side even from people who’ve barely…

Uh, she was absolutely blamed at the time. She was raked over the coals for being cold, frigid, emasculating, unattractive - you name it, they said it about her. And I think it is completely possible for someone to believe that rape victims should be believed while still being unable to believe that the man you love…

I’m curious as to whose fans give their candidate a good name. I know on the Dems side, the Bernie people are convinced that if you aren’t voting for Bernie, you must not know much about him because it is unfathomable that someone wouldn’t vote for him. On the other side, Ted Cruz’s supporters literally think he’s…

Also wanted to add - no, you cannot hear the voice in her head. That is something that you are personally projecting, and I’m questioning why that is. She didn’t grow up rich with a dad for a governor like Mitt Romney, or as the trouble-making kids of the head of the CIA and later vice president like the Bushes. She…

I mean, that’s true of literally every candidate though.