Thank goodness Clio wrote this articulate response to Bernie Sanders supporter and spokes woman Susan Sarandon. Clio is demanding a public apology and I agree. Susan Sarandon is a UN ambassador and supposedly stands for female empowerment around the world. Instead, she reduces anyone who supports Hillary Clinton to a brainless vagina. Her sexism stings just as deeply as the worst insults from the Bernie Bros. As my close friends know, this meme was nothing less than a dagger in my heart.

SUSAN SARANDON: WOMEN ARE NOT VAGINAS

You are not on my bad side for supporting Bernie. You can support whoever you please. I and all the women of my generation and before our generation fought for our right to make our own choices. Our choices about our lives, our bodies and our politics. You are on my bad side for reducing yourself and other women to vaginas.

Women are not “vaginas”, “cunts”, or any word medical, Latin, French, street talk, baby talk, word that sums us up by the type of our genitals. Misogyny is reducing yourself and other women to a set of organs.

It’s not edgy, it’s not cool, it’s not progressive. It is reactionary. It is vulgar.

As a woman I have life experience. I have an intellect. I have knowledge. I have emotions. I have achievements and failures that do not start and end with my genitals. My value and the value of other women is not that they are vessels for procreation.

I am a complete human being that is not to be reduced to my genitals by you, the progressives, the religious fanatics of all hues, the tea baggers, the boomers, generation x’ers or all the millennials combined.

You are giving permission to degrade me, you, Hillary Clinton and countless women to simple minded morons that think only via our genitals. You think it’s cool and righteous? Well it’s not.

Read the rest of Clio's essay on Medium.

Facts Please. Or Do We Throw Them Out The Window With Bernie?

Why Don't Boomer Women Like Hillary Clinton? New York Times

This headline appears in Sunday's New York Times. It is not true, of course, given all the polling on Hillary and boomer women. It should have read WHY DON'T (SOME) BOOMER WOMEN LIKE HILLARY CLINTON?

After Andrea Mitchell's decision a few days ago to omit Hillary's lead in Iowa and her increased lead in SC, to focus on Bernie's lesser but still very strong lead in NH, it's obvious that media women are just as complicit in covering Hillary with a slant as men are.

We'll just see what happens in Iowa tomorrow.

Bernie Sanders might have an electability problem Politico

Patrick Murray, who runs the Monmouth University Polling Institute in New Jersey, said the independent voters who are backing Sanders in the primary are more liberal in orientation and would be likely to vote for the Democrat in November anyway.

“It’s a big leap of faith to take primary poll data and jump to the general,” added Lee Miringoff, the director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, which has conducted recent polls for NBC News and The Wall Street Journal. “You do ask the questions, and it tells you something: Hillary has a problem with independents, and Bernie doesn’t. Fast forward to September, October and November. The campaigns will change, and that dynamic will be different.”

Clinton camp plans to roll out Washington Post's anti-Sanders editorial Politico

The Clinton campaign will not comment on the scathing Washington Post editorial 'Mr. Sanders Is Not a Brave Truth-Teller'. Instead it will reprint the damning words that accuse Sanders of running a 'fiction-filled campaign' and distribute it to voters in New Hampshire ahead of the Feb. 9 primary.

Volunteers will pass out reprints of the editorial, presumably in a direct person-to-person handoff as volunteers knock on doors across the state. Enter The Washington Post.

“He is a politician selling his own brand of fiction to a slice of the country that eagerly wants to buy it,” the paper's editorial board wrote. The piece goes on to slam Sanders’ “political revolution” for implying “a national consensus favoring his agenda when there is none and ignores the many legitimate checks and balances in the political system that he cannot wish away.” And it accuses Sanders, whose anti-establishment, outsider appeal has been key to his success, of being “a lot like many other politicians, comparing his claim that more government spending would result in more growth to Republican arguments “that tax cuts will juice the economy and pay for themselves.”

Hillary Clinton Headlines Jan 29, 2016

Some in Iowa Surprised by Hillary Clinton's Ease With Faith New York Times

Equal pay litigant Lilly Ledbetter endorses Clinton Washington Post

Bernie Sanders's political revolution, explained VOX

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Cory Booker makes a forceful debut with Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail in Iowa Washington Post

The 46-year-old lawmaker -- a rising star in his party, and a possible vice presidential pick for Hillary Clinton -- made his campaign trail debut with the former secretary of state in Iowa on Sunday.

As he spoke, it became clear that his remarks were less an introduction and more a homily, with more than a little biography thrown in. He was at times quiet and reflective, and at other times bellowing at the top of his lungs, leaving the crowd cheering, applauding and shouting in agreement.

"I don’t know about you, but I think we just heard a great sermon," Clinton said when some 15 minutes had passed and she was handed the microphone.

The four policy reasons why I support Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Primary Medium

We have to start with the simple fact that Clinton’s policy agenda is both progressive and aggressive. Some may want her to be even more progressive — a point I will get to in a moment — but don’t for one second allow yourself to believe that there isn’t a giant chasm between what Clinton wants to do and what even the most “moderate” Republican candidate for president wants to do. Clinton wants to raise the federal minimum wage to its highest level in fifty years. Most Republicans want to keep the minimum wage stuck at $7.25, or even scrap it entirely. Clinton wants to close tax loopholes that benefit the very rich and ask the wealthy to pay more into Social Security, whereas it is an article of faith among the GOP that taxes on the rich must always always always go down. Clinton wants to get rid of the Hyde Amendment, while the GOP wants to get rid of Planned Parenthood. If you hear someone say that there’s not enough difference between Clinton and the Republicans, turn and run as fast as you can lest you get some of their stupid on you.

But being way way better than the Republicans is A) not a high bar, and B) not enough to earn my support, especially since every Democratic candidate more than meets this basic standard. Instead, I think Clinton’s policy agenda is superior to Sanders’s for four main reasons:

Clinton’s agenda pushes the boundaries of the possible, making measurable change more likely.
Clinton’s proposals do a far better job of confronting trade-offs and setting priorities.
Clinton’s policies are rooted in evidence and data, even when the more popular position might have been otherwise.
Clinton’s ideas are based on building and improving, ensuring that risks to the most vulnerable and disadvantaged are minimized.