Am I one of the few on DU

[gabeana]

that is supporting Bernie but likes Hillary
This election is too important for us to be divided

[Kalidurga]

1. We won't be divided after Bernie gets the nomination.

[daleanime]

2. Oh, I like Hillary.....

I just don't want to vote for her. Things about bad war decisions and different values. Sorry about that.

[drm604]

3. I'll vote for her if Bernie doesn't win the nomination.

I'm sure that we're not the only ones.

[Wilms]

4. I feel bad for her and her supporters.

She was, in many ways, the perfect candidate to become the first woman president. And I'm just realizing, she could have done it on a shoe-string easier than Bernie has. Tragic.

[TSIAS]

5. Hillary isn't that bad

It's her supporters that completely turn me off to her.

[rusty quoin]

6. You are like Thom Hartmann.

He has had Bernie on as a guest...let me think...since maybe 2004 on his radio show every Friday. Bernie became a Senator, and he took unscreened calls. He's the only one that close to the people, at least on the left.

But Thom, as much as he likes Bernie likes Hillary too. His eyes are on the prize.

[ram2008]

7. I admire her strength and tenacity

But I dislike her tendency to bend the truth, flip flop on every issue, and generally just not being honest overall.

That being said honesty is only one quality of many a President needs, so I will vote for her should Bernie not win the nomination. But for now, the gloves are off.

[bklyncowgirl]

18. Well stated.

I admire many of Clinton's attributes but I support Sanders for the reasons you outlined above. If she wins in the end, unless I will vote for her and work for her and unless it is an egregiously unfair fight, I will also work to make her the next president.

[sabrina 1]

8. I don't know any of these politicians personally. I like my friends and family, but politicans are

part of my circle of friends. So I stick to liking or not liking their POLICIES.

I don't like Third Way, neo-liberal, war mongering policies.

I do like Progressive Democratic policies.

So I am supporting the politician whose policies I agree with.. Which of course is the most Democratic candidate in this race, Bernie Sanders.

We are not required to LIKE politicians.

It's quite possible I might 'like' Hillary better than Bernie, who knows, or cares?

All I know is I like Bernie's policies. I don't like most of Hillary's. The do not benefit the people I know and like, my family and friends.

[djean111]

15. Exactly right. Me too, on everything you said. n/t

[Sunlei]

9. I support /w donations only to Senator Sanders. Either is ok as President, they'd be best as a team

We know what crap to expect from Republicans if Mrs. Clinton wins the primary, she's prepared to take them on.

Republicans haven't even started to discredit Sanders much, yet. They don't expect him to win the primary.

If Republicans didn't have their Trump 'problem' they would vote in the D primary against Mrs. Clinton.

[Cracklin Charlie]

10. I'm with you

I like all of the Democratic candidates. I like to think that when we work together, we work better. And, I think that it's a bit of a loser's game to constantly talk about your opponent's weaknesses, instead of your own strengths. Unfortunately, primary season is upon us; so, when it all becomes too much, go to your happy place.

And you are absolutely right about the importance of this election. The stakes are high.

[Le Taz Hot]

11. Don't look now

but the party has been divided for 30 years. WE didn't do that -- THEY did.

[delrem]

12. She's a war monger who serves the interests of war profiteers.

She's a neo-con through and through, and is blessed by Kagan, who is one of the founders of the neo-con movement.
Kagan is no small potatoes, and neither is his wife, who Hillary hired as high-level assistant and adviser and executive. That blessing isn't empty of content.
Hillary Clinton isn't "really" a progressive, under all that.
That is what she IS.

I don't like her. Not at all.
I think it's instinct.

But then, I'm not a US citizen so don't know of the conflict that Democrats and Republicans have as they identify their heroes.

I do think that Third-Way has stretched it past all breaking points.

Just how much war do you all want?

[Eric J in MN]

13. Personally, I'm a Bernie Sanders supporter who

...trusts Hillary Clinton on some issues and not others.

I think Hillary Clinton would make good Supreme Court nominations (as would Bernie Sanders.) In that sense, I trust her.

However, I don't trust her to...
- protect Social Security from benefit cuts (she floated the idea of raising the retirement age for workers who don't do manual labor)
- protect Free Speech (she talked about fighting terrorism by restricting the internet in a way which will alarm advocates of Free Speech. What restrictions? She didn't say, but I'm concerned.)

[safeinOhio]

14. I like and have always like Clinton.

I love Bernie.

[LWolf]

16. I disliked her

from the first moment I saw and listened, back in Bill's first presidential primary. That dislike has nothing to do with Sanders, and everything to do with her.

[m-lekktor]

17. well, most here would vote for anything with a D at the end of the name. nt

[baldguy]

19. There are quite a few out there who think the Clintons are Evil Incarnate.

They've swallowed the RW bullshit whole, spread RW lies, and use RW tactics in their effort to defeat her.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

20. You are.

DSB

[newfie11]

21. Sorry, Bernie only for me.