When I was a kid, my dad would tell us air conditioning would soften us up for the commies. I grew up in a wealthy suburb of Washington, D.C., in a house with 18 rooms, a big backyard and half a block from one of the best public high schools in the country. We weren’t rich, but we were definitely comfortably middle…

Hillary Clinton is not interchangeable with any Republican politician — except on national security issues. And when you find yourself in a ruinous war in the Middle East, that can seem pretty important.

but I haven’t been impressed by his apparently lack of awareness of how race and sex can factor into a disparity of outcomes.

No, I got your point — you can have John McCain’s foreign policy views and still be a progressive.

Yeah, I care about the positions politicians take and those positions affect my votes and donations. I’m not sorry if that seems strange to you.

Well, that’s a good point. Obama fudged and fussed on gay marriage, for example, but he actually came out in support of it months BEFORE the 2012 election. He wasn’t the bravest, but he looks courageous compared to Hillary Clinton on that issue.

Wars tend to be more important than other things, partly because of all the people dying and also because of the damage stupid wars do to the country’s national interests.

Progressive cred? On virtually every single important national security issue of the last 13 years, she’s been wrong. Opposing ruinous wars in the Middle East isn’t “far left” unless you’re fucking Dick Cheney.

That’s true. Akin was close to defeating her before he introduced the world to his, uh, interesting views on rape and abortion.

Her national security views are not progressive. Sorry, if you voted for the Iraq War, supported military intervention in Syria’s civil war, and supported military intervention in Libya — and got it, with catastrophic consequences [see Libya’s export of terror to Egypt & Tunisia], you’re not a progressive.

Yeah, that’s what I heard in 2008 from women. Heard it a lot.

I’m gonna vote for you Hillary Clinton, but I’m only gonna do it for the same reason I’m getting a colonoscopy next week. Because I have too, and if I don’t, I might unexpectedly die in the next few years.

Talking to reporters is part of the job. If she doesn’t like it, she should find another job.

For any candidate this looks bad. For a candidate who dodges the press at every opportunity, and has developed a reputation for doing that, it is just an own goal. It’s bad optics in an event which is entirely about optics. Ms Clinton can’t even get the easy parts of campaigning correct.

Nice to know I’m not a fan of any of those bands/artists.

This is the problem with playing football at FSU. It’s illegal to punch a woman in a bar, but they won’t let you play first string until you do it.

“I shot my ass full of steroids for months FOR THIS??!?!”

Hold that position. Hold it! Hold it!

I know you’re kidding, but just to treat your comment seriously...