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18. As a Hillary supporter, I have

never considered her "inevitable."

I have considered her - and still consider her - the BEST choice. My belief in that is not shaken, nor will it be, whatever happens in IA and/or NH. Secondly, Bernie Sanders is NO Barack Obama and NEVER can be.

Appealing as his economic ideas are, Bernie is simply not the vibrant, charismatic, well-rounded, young, biracial candidate with a consistent Dem track membership who was - and is - a de facto symbol of specific empowerment for those Americans who have been less empowered for centuries.

For all of his strengths, Bernie can never be PBO. And Hillary did not lose by much even to the wonderful candidate that PBO was.

I don't think of HRC's candidacy as "inevitable." I think of her candidacy as promise.