For SHAME, Bernie would not approve!

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139. Now that is a good point.

But I have yet to see any critics of HRC here bringing up the bullshit Benghazi issue, but I don't see everything on DU. The e-mails are an insubstantial distraction, not worthy of wasting trillions of electrons on.

The people with whom a candidate chooses to associate and affiliate him/herself, the candidate's policy positions, public statements, past record, and their unwillingness to take clear stands are all fair game and raising very tough questions about them is perfectly fair. Trivialities are not.

And for the record, I voted for Obama once with great enthusiasm, but the second time primarily because he was not Mitt Romney. My disillusionment with him began when he brought Summers and Geithner on board as economic advisers - why not put two of the chief arsonists in charge of the fire department? - and HRC at State. His inviting Big Pharma and Big Insurance to the bargaining table while excluding anyone supporting a public option or single payer told me what he really was at his core - a slightly kinder and gentler corporatist.