I don't hate Hillary! And I don't love Bernie! And I think there are more on DU like me...

I have supported Hillary throughout the years beginning with the Whitewater witch hunt. I think she is a smart, tough candidate. If she is nominated I will support her 100%.

But she doesn't set me on fire.

When I first heard that there was this guy Bernie Sanders, a Democratic Socialist, running for President, my curiosity was piqued.
I listened to him talking about reining in the banksters with no apologies, getting health care for all under a sane workable and less expensive system, and finally making the one percenters pay a reasonable share of taxes, I started to get excited.

This is the kind of talk that I have been waiting for for the past 40 years, since I starting voting, often feeling despair as we faced Nixon, Reagan, and the Bushes, who courted the worst elements of human nature and attacked liberals incessantly.

I thought that President Obama was going to change everything. I hoped...but that hope was stomped on by Republicans and their phoney Tea Party acolytes. And he unfortunately listened way too much to the Wall Street banksters. It has been discouraging.

I don't hate Hillary and I don't love Bernie. I just really like the fire he puts into his ideas and the way he is unafraid to go where Hillary fears to tread.