THE GUARDIAN: Meet the new Bernie Sanders: he's now a real candidate, against Clinton's robot

[beam me up scottie]

1. But but but the guardian is a right wing rag...or something.

Great read!

When a town-hall participant asked Sanders a question about how his parents would feel about his campaign’s success, he was visibly – even honestly – moved. He said they never would have believed it. This was the foundational story that the second-generation Cubans Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio still haven’t been able to muster, that Clinton couldn’t dream of when her origin story is – at this point in the Iowa hive-mind – based out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

For her part, Clinton came off as little more than condescending. “When I worked on healthcare back in ’93 and ’94, and I don’t know if you were born then, I can’t quite tell,” she charged at one questioner. “But, if you’d been around and had been able to pay attention, I was trying to get us to universal healthcare coverage, working with my husband.”

So, yeah, there was that.

Another time, when Clinton was asked to address her use of private email at the State Department, her answer seemed to amount to, well, um, you see: I did nothing wrong! Asked about her vote for the Iraq war, she wound her way down a long rabbit hole that ended somehow with a discussion of ... internet freedom?