I think this campaign has helped me work out my feelings about Hillary. I’ve always had a soft spot for her, and now I see why.

Not a linguists’ take (and written in mostly yelly caps), but this piece resonated with me as far as how Hillary is viewed and discussed:

I sure hope you are getting paid to regurgitate that list, which I’ve seen in more than one place.

http://www.pajiba.com/politics/an-al…

This article screams everything I have been wanting to scream for months, now. I agree with everything you’re saying, too. If she has a hair out of place, there is bitching because she isn’t “professional looking.” If she sweats, she is incapable of handling running the country.…

YES, GIRL, YES. (I assume you’re a girl. If you’re not, please substitute the appropriate pronoun.)

If all of that bothers you, you’re going to be really pissed when you come across Sanders’ campaign manager’s statements.

I was talking to a friend about that today. I am ok with either, but do lean more towards Clinton. The thing that kinda drives me that way more and more is how rabid sander’s supporters have been. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read them call Clinton, or her supporters, horrible names. How many times they’ve…

Yes x 1 million billion. Thank you for saying this.

Damn. No matter if you support Hillary Clinton or not, it’s such a huge oversight on Jezebel and the rest of the Internet that this day isn’t marked as history. This is huge news that a female candidate came this far.

I’m so with you. I actually said last night to my wife “I can’t wait to see Jezebel in the morning “ because silly me, I thought it would be treated, oh I don’t know, as historic. I would like to think that as Democrats we could take a moment to appreciate the moment, but no. I got into it with a Bernie supporter…

Thank you so much. That means a lot, especially because I know firsthand the harassment you expose yourself to when you publicly support a woman. We Hillary supporters tend to stay silent ( I was for a long time), because we are afraid of being harassed (rightfully so, I get called uneducated bitch, feminazi daily by…

Don’t worry, we blacks and Latinos are about to come in and save liberal white America from itself very soon.

I used to be a “head is for Clinton, heart is for Sanders” Democrat until I read this:

“I sure hope — we’re in Bernie Sanders’ backyard here in New Hampshire — I sure hope he intends to show up in his neighboring state”...“There is nothing worse than a debate about debates.”

What Sanders wants and what he can do are two totally different things. I don’t believe Sanders is capable of effectively enacting policy, not on a national level. He does not have the diplomatic or managerial skills to bring about his proposed progressive reforms. His methods and intractability will mire us in…

I do understand that. But it’s not how this whole system is designed - we humans are not fundamentally altruistic animals, we will always fight for our own interests. It’s a wonderful idea to think that the world could transform overnight but the cold reality is that change is slow, ponderous and painful. Hillary is…

Unpopular opinion: Full disclosure, I’m a lobbyist. “The establishment” is going nowhere. Sorry, but as Clinton herself said in 2008, special interests aren’t just going to disappear. American government is inherently transactional; it runs on deal-making, and it can’t really function any other way. You want to…

Right, I understand that. I guess the issue is that they are defining ‘establishment’ differently and both hoping their definition will stick.

Hillary is just stating the simple fact that a 25 year congress person raging against the machine is rather hypocritical. She’s not denying that she is a politician...she’s saying that she and Bernie are obviously part of the same political system.

Tl;dr They are both establishment. Quit playing like you’re grassroots activists with no national/international level experience, folks.