20:04 – I don’t know why everybody is ragging on Bernie’s age. He looks sensational for 74. And his energy level is out of this world.
20:06 – all these townhalls go the same for me: first, I get convinced by Bernie but then I listen to Hillary and realize she’s still better.
20:10 – Bernie finally recognized that he will be raising taxes on modest earners. At least, he’s finally being honest about it. Of course, I’ve got to say, paying even more taxes to get the kind of crappy care people get in Canada does not inspire me.
20:20 – I wonder if there is a single person on the planet who hears Bernie’s “Muslim troops will crush ISIS because it hijacked their religion and Russia will help” and thinks it’s not the most insane statement possible.
20:26 – the question on veterans was a gift to Bernie. Great answer!
20:29 – a 75-year-old woman in the audience also looks sensational. So good to see. In my country, people consider themselves ancient after the age of 50.
20:41 – it is really fucking fantastic to hear Democrats battle each other for who is more progressive. That’s a very big deal.
20:48 – kudos to Bernie for mentioning overprescribing doctors and their contribution to drug addiction.
20:52 – Bernie has a brilliant standup act mocking Trump. He’s the best!
[Off-topic: does anybody else think Bill Clinton looks very frail and unwell these days?]
21:05 – Hillary is brilliant. She delivers a blow hidden in every seemingly casual statement.
21:06 – as for why young women prefer Bernie and don’t like Hillary, that’s easy. At this age, they yearn for a kind Daddy and not for a strict Mommy.
21:09 – every word Hillary says is calculated and carefully planned. Love this about her! Love people who are manipulative in professional contexts! (This isn’t sarcasm, I really do.)
21:23 – Hillary gives a brilliant answer to the inane question about her Iraq war vote.
21:31 – a rabbi – who else? – asks the only profound question of the evening.
21:44 – I think it’s absolutely damn shameful and a fucking disgrace that Hillary has to be persecuted about the money she made making speeches. Yeah, ’cause women should only work for free and never make any real money. Sexism flourishes and stinks up the world.
CONCLUSION: Bernie is great but I’m with Hillary.
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In Canada, if you are bleeding on the sidewalk about to expire, you’ll get fantastic care. But until you are about to kick the bucket, forget it. Preventative care is non-existent.
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Bernie needs to drop the “Hillary voted for the Iraq war” issue — politically that’s ancient history.
Now he’s criticizing her for the few things she did right (but pretends she no longer supports)– like endorse free trade agreements and the Keystone pipeline.
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I agree. “I’m good on foreign policy because of a single vote back in 2002” sounds weak.
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Bernie’s right that it’s ridiculous to prescribe a whole bottleful of pain medication for a severe but very transient pain like having a tooth pulled.
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In such a situation, I even had the dentist’s receptionist call me offering a refill. That I didn’t ask for!
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“The wages are too high, but the rent isn’t”.
“I want Trump to run the nomination” 0_O
9:52 p Pageant time
“I have the smallest Chevrolet”
“I can’t sing.”
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I don’t know why I’m required to sign up with my cable provider to watch this online. Half of people watching it online are cord cutters. Meh.
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What is a cord cutter? Are they doing something illegal?
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?? Can’t you just go to the CNN.com website where it’s being streamed live? That’s all I had to do.
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I am actually there at CNN go. They want me to sign in after 10 minutes with my cable provider.
Cord cutters are people who have stopped getting cable because they stream all of their shows online or on their phone.
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Gosh, I’m so behind the times. Even Bernie must know the term cord cutters.
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Now the questions are getting silly: “What kind of car do you drive?”
Are they going to ask Hillary if she still has a driver’s license, since she apparently haven’t driven a car herself in years?
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No, they will ask her if she keeps any state emails in her car.
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Ha.
Or they’ll just make them listen to this :-p
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Well, I just played one of those mosquito ringtones and didn’t hear anything but total silence — but my cat panicked and jumped two feet straight back from my computer speaker. (I can hear real mosquitoes — or at least I could, the last time I actually saw one in here in the Arizona desert.)
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Poor cat.
Nothing? Not even the click at the end? I can hear one tone higher through the headphones than through the speakers.
Gunfire is notoriously hard on ears though.
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I won’t even try it, then. I have an inherited hearing problem: I can only hear myself.
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I was in the Air Force, not the Army — but as I flight surgeon I flew in a lot of roaring jet aircraft. Not easy on the ears either, even with mandatory earplugs.
No gunfire here in Arizona. We have no gun control laws at all, so everybody is peaceful. You could hear a gnat buzz, if we had any.
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What, you don’t practice shooting at the gun range in your ample spare time?
Being armed is almost pointless if you can’t aim properly.
I can’t hear all the tones. I can say I don’t miss the loud hissing silence of a quiet house. Nor do I miss being able to hear a watch ticking in a closed drawer across the room.
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Ticking clocks drive me up a wall. I can hear them two floors down, it’s a curse. I hunt them and kill them everywhere I go.
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My parents’ home had a ticking grandmother clock in the hallway outside my bedroom. I never noticed it as a child, but whenever I came home on college breaks, I had to go into the hallway and STOP the clock at night before I could get to sleep, even with my room door closed.
Tick TOCH, tick TOCH, TICK TOCH — AUGAAAH! Just like in a horror movie.
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Why would I need to be armed in a Republican state as peaceful as Arizona?
Now if I lived in a Democratic free-fire zone with Gestapo-level gun confiscation like Illinois or Washington, D.C., I’d need to drive around in an Army tank instead of a Cadillac.
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My part of Illinois is very safe. The real war zone is across the river in Missouri.
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Well, some of us older men prefer Hillary. She reminds us how smart we were never get married.
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If you still need reassurance it was the right decision, it means you are still not sure. 🙂
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Oh, I’m QUITE sure of the three smartest decisions I made in my life:
Become a doctor.
Join the military.
3.Never forget that when it comes to human relationships, marriage is a form of extremism.
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I’m kidding, I’m kidding. One thing the world does not need is one more miserable marriage.
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Absolutely. In America, there’s nothing wrong with being a successful capitalist.
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Exactly. This resentment against somebody who gets paid well reeks of Soviet mentality. Bleh.
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Interesting how the Republicans are running ads on CNN during the Democratic town hall…
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Really? I only noticed the one with the frying pan.
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Some of the ads are by PACs and never mention Republicans — like the one on limiting legal immigration — but it’s obvious whose side they’re supporting.
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Ah, that one! Yes, I saw the scary ad on immigration many times.
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Was there a SINGLE question about Hillary’s e-mails and FBI investigation??
Like whether she would have to take the Presidential oath of office in an orange jump suit, instead of her usual pants suit?
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Nobody takes this seriously. It’s a non-issue to top all non-issued.
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It’s a non-issue as long as Obama’s Department of Justice is calling the shots. Hillary could sell nuclear secrets to the Russians like the Rosenbergs (who were executed for treason in 1953), and she wouldn’t get indicted.
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After she gets elected, it will be even less of an issue.
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After Rubio is elected, she’ll get a Presidential pardon like Nixon did — “for the good of the country.”
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