Could Hillary Clinton Ever Have Imagined This? NY Magazine

The good news is that comics today are spending way more time talking about Donald Trump's hair than Hillary's. After that, the high-probability matchup between Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican renegade candidate Donald Trump promises to be a free-for-all, Trump style.

Rebecca Traister argues that Donald Trump might be "just the thing to drive actual enthusiasm for Clinton -- not just as the lesser of two evils but as a vanquisher of the clearly more horrifying one." Traister then strike a pov that resonates with me: "Never does Clinton look better than when doing battle with monsters."

Poll: Trump, Clinton hold wide leads in New York primaries Politico New York

You are forgiven for thinking that Bernie Sanders might take New York in their April 19 primary. The Sanders campaign promises that big states like New York will go against Hillary Clinton. Therefore, they must stay in the race to win it eventually.

A new poll of 800 New Yorkers by the Siena Research Institute puts Clinton with a commanding lead over Sanders 55% to 34%.

In Testy Debate, Clinton Echoes Sanders' Anger, But Not Too Much Bloomberg Politics

The second baillout bill debate delivers up the truth of how DC works, like it or not. Sanders voted against part 2 of the Obama-sponsored bailout bill, which saved the auto industry. It was not a pure bill, which Sanders says he would have supported. Except that this is not how Washington works. Legislators make choices and sometimes, good Dems vote for "impure" bills. Sanders can yell that he refused to support more help for Wall Street -- even though President Obama and both Michigan senators implored him to support the second bill, because the result would be catatrostophic for Detroit.

HE DID NOT!

Hillary has similarly complex decisions about votes. The difference is that Clinton never presents herself as a purist, because very little would be done otherwise. As president, Bernie Sanders would not introduce legislation. It would be delivered to him via Congress.

Clinton has made it this far in the nominating contests by showing that she's just angry enough for Democratic primary voters, but not too angry, and it's proven to be a winning strategy. It's also clear she believes she has the upper hand with Democratic voters on some key issues—that she can, in essence, out-Sanders Sanders—and she used that to good effect Sunday night.

Clinton aggressively went after Sanders for opposing the $700 billion bank bailout in the 2008 financial crisis, saying it had paved the way for the $82 billion auto industry bailout key to Michigan workers. "If everyone had voted the way he did," she said of Sanders, "I believe the auto industry would have collapsed, taking four million jobs with it."

How to Take a Licking & Keep on Ticking

How Hillary Clinton finally addressed Bill's infidelity Christian Science Monitor

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke to a mostly black congregation at the Holy Ghost Cathedral. Introduced by Bishop Corletta J. Vaughn, Hillary stood before the congregation in a run-down neighborhood, hearing Bishop Corletta J. Vaughn introduce her as the former first lady who taught women how to "take a licking and keep on ticking."

“I’m talking [about Clinton] as a wife and a mother,” Ms. Vaughn said. “She taught so many of us as women how to stand in the face of adversity."

Clinton explained that her strong faith grounded her in the story of the Prodigal Son, a sinner who was welcomed home by his father.

It was this parable that reminded her to “practice the discipline of gratitude every day,” she said. “There is much to be grateful for even when it doesn’t feel or look like it.”