So I chime in every little while about the ongoing US presidential election and lol it’s a lot of fun.  The candidates on the Republican side are fighting over who’ll be tougher yet more scared against ISIS, illegal immigration from Mexico (more are leaving the US than entering) and who will cut taxes most to spur the economy (because the last 30 years of that have worked great).

Well Hillary Clinton and her surrogates didn’t want to be left out of the fun and now they’re trying to shame women into voting for Clinton because she’s a woman…  Isn’t that great, it comes off as extremely desperate and while yeah she won Iowa by a razor thin margin Bernie is going to win New Hampshire and I can’t wait to see how the Clinton campaign freaks out afterwards…

I quite enjoyed this op ed piece in the Guardian, a woman explaining why Bernie is the better choice for women voters.

I am a feminist. And I would like to one day break the glass ceiling with a progressive woman who sees class and race as fundamental problems in American society.

But I don’t believe that the divide the Hillary Clinton campaign has created meets that standard – especially not after the destructive political dilemma that Clinton campaign surrogates Madeleine Albright and Gloria Steinem attempted to create last weekend when they accused young women who support Bernie Sanders of being insufficiently feminist. (Steinem has since apologized and Clinton made excuses for Albright.)

As he has repeatedly said, Bernie Sanders is a feminist, too. And he’s the feminist who has my vote.

I am the executive director of the largest nurses union in the US: my members are overwhelmingly female and, not by accident, we were the first large organization to endorse Sanders. Nurses recognized Sanders as one of their own as soon as he got into the race, because they, like he, believe that all people should be treated equally – especially when it comes to healthcare – regardless of race, gender or ability to pay.

Source: The Guardian

I’m not a feminist but I do believe in equal rights for everyone and Bernie has been so consistent in his career about his values…  Sure Hillary has more experience but as Mr. Sanders suggested, Dick Cheney has a lot of experience too and we wouldn’t want him anywhere close to the presidency again. The sleazy Clinton campaign is getting desperate and more dirty tricks will come out when she starts losing (remember her suggesting someone could kill Obama during the 08 democratic nomination?) and I couldn’t be happier.

I wish I could vote for Bernie Sanders, this is one Canadian that FEELS THE BERN!