Bernie Sanders will still be the Democratic Nominee

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81. It's interesting that you blame

every wrong on Hillary rather than recognizing that she is a cog in a very Big Wheel. Is she perfect? No. Does she always make the right decision? No. Do I wish that she had made different choices in some instances? Yes, very much. But to imply or outright state that she is SOLELY responsible for any of the events you mention is simply preposterous.

Glad to hear that we are of a generation, although I am still senior to you, LOL. Other than that, we really have nothing in common, especially since you believe that I am "too blind or too self absorbed" to see Bernie's virtues. Yes, I am so self-absorbed that I actually volunteered for service to my country at a time when I could have gotten a well-paying job because I was one of the comparatively few four-year college graduates in the early 1960s. That service was not in a military capacity because I am anti-war; it involved living and teaching in a foreign city where I was the lone American citizen. Has Bernie performed anything comparable? Yes, he applied for CO status to avoid going to Vietnam, but did he really do anything - as many of my male colleagues in international development did - to benefit anyone else in the meantime? He is from my era too and chose instead to opt out in Vermont before getting his first full-time job - in politics - in 1981, when he was 40 years old.

I can speak directly to his lack of knowledge in foreign affairs and diplomacy, however, as they are among my specialties. He certainly violated the niceties of diplomacy with his grandstanding visit to the Pope in the middle of a primary election, which placed the Pontiff in an extremely difficult position at a time when he was trying to make a symbolic humanitarian gesture. And Bernie was in Congress during every episode that you mention and blame wholly on Hillary. Why didn't he do anything meaningful then other than occasionally rail against policy? Some of the policies you decry, he actually voted for.

But since you believe that Bernie is "by far the better candidate for women" - why don't you speak to that and tell me what specifically he has done for women and for their concerns about their young children instead of telling me that Hillary is responsible for everything wrong in the universe whether she was in office or not? Please provide specifics of legislation or policies for which Bernie has been directly responsible in actions, rather than in words, that have improved life for women.

It will be a very short list.