What Secretary Clinton was subjected to yesterday, for 11 hours, was a disgusting show of GOP hostility and overreach -- veering constantly between pointless and abusive and back and forth again and again.
I know many of us are passionate about supporting one particular candidate against the other, in this contest for the Democratic nomination. And that's as it should be.
But I gotta say it moved me very much to see so many Bernie Sanders supporters speaking up to say how they felt. It was disturbing and shameful, watching the Republicans spend hours and hours and hours and hours hectoring and bullying Clinton in a beyond-obvious partisan attempt to try to make her lose her composure or utter some kind of mega-gaffe. They didn't give a shit about how and why Benghazi happened and what State Dept might do different for similar events in the future. They never once asked her that and they never will.
THANK YOU, so many Sanders supporters in here yesterday. You gave me more faith that you get it, what's at stake in this upcoming Presidential election. By all means, let's continue to stump and argue and attempt to persuade in favor of our preferred candidates. I admire them both greatly. Planning to vote for Sanders in my primary. He is the one who's out there speaking the most passionately and bluntly the economic issues that are crippling so many of us in this nation. He gets it, has gotten it for decades. Issue by issue I'm closer to him than to Clinton. Yet I see much more "Ready on Day 1" experience in her candidacy, knowledge and temperament. And I saw a real profile in courage yesterday, the way she handled that ordeal with more grace, grit and intelligence than just about anyone else I can think of.
So, yeah, a return to "game on" in here, this next few months will be the most intense. But again my gratitude for an underlying sense of unity that has seemed absent beneath the turbulent surface in here lately. We're on the same side for good reasons, real reasons. That became absolutely clear yesterday. Go Bernie! Go Hillary! Go us, may we manage to keep the Presidency, the federal administration, the Cabinet, and the next several years of SCOTUS appointments in safe and sane and wise hands come November 2016.