I thought Bernie did very well last night but I'm not sure he "beat" Hilary. Bernie's stance on guns isn't fantastic, but its one of the very very few issues that I don't agree 100% with him on.
Hilary did great for someone who seems like she realized what it means to be a liberal a week ago. If Bernie's real goal in this election is to pull Hilary to the left then he's certainly done that. I'm gonna be in real trouble come primary time if Hilary manages to convince me that she's actually going to be aggressive on liberal issues. My only real concern with Hilary is that she doesn't actually support many of the issues that she purports to, and is just saying whatever is popular in recent polls. We'll see.
I appreciated Jim Webb being very classy about Bernie's conscientious objector status during the Vietnam war, and I very much appreciate that I'm in law school right now in no small part due to his activism on veterans' benefits. But I'm not sure I was with him on many issues, including affirmative action.
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