("There is, as you well know, a very negative, intense barrage of attacks on anybody who supports me. I did not see that in '08," she said).

from his interview with Hillary Clinton in parenthesis. He really needn't have done that.

As Amanda Marcotte wrote In a piece at Salon a week ago:

Saying Clinton's moxie inspires you invariably attracts derogatory sneers about how you're a "vagina voter". Supporting Clinton requires dialing down the enthusiasm, couching it in lots of reassurances that Sanders is a great guy (reassurances Sanders supporters feel no need to offer about Clinton), and striking an apologetic stance for wanting to see a female president. Ideally, you have a daughter you can wield as shield for the female president thing, since it may not be okay to want it for yourself, but you are a little more allowed to want it for your daughter.

That's exactly what I see both reading comments from other women - do male Hillary supporters experience the same thing? - and from personal experience: If you want to be taken seriously and listened to and don't want to be ridiculed and sneered at - or worse! - you better tone down and 'couch' your entusiasm for Hillary Clinton.

It saddens me, especially on behalf of young women, but it also infuriates me. And like Amanda Marcotte it's also my experience that no Hillary supporter, whether an 'ordinary' voter or a more high profile person, writes nice things about Hillary Clinton without going out of their way to at the same time - sometimes even foremost! - praise Bernie Sanders to high heavens. As an example the endorsement from the Rolling Stone Magazine editor read almost as an excuse for picking the nextbest candidate!

And like Amanda Marcotte I have yet to see the opposite: A Sanders endorser praising Hillary. She continues:

There's a lot of pressure on Clinton supporters to tone down the enthusiasm, but that shouldn't be confused with an actual lack of enthusiasm for Clinton. They may be quieter, but as Clinton's continued dominance at the polls shows, volume doesn't matter when you're casting a ballot. Or as Dave Weigel was saying on Twitter Tuesday morning:

   Clinton has won around 9 m votes. Trump has won around 7.8 m.

   The stories: How Hillary's blowing it, how Trump changed everything

Not unlike this:

Q: "When's a win not a win?"
A: "When Hillary Clinton is the winner."

It's one of her most candid, interesting interviews in quite a while.  Very real and human.  But also full of cogent commentary on policy and politics.

It would serve her well if this got passed around over the next few months.

I have to admit that I'm becoming quite annoyed at Bernie Sanders' increasingly shrill and strident tone. Tonight, he offered that Mrs. Clinton "wasn't qualified to be president." He and his campaign staff and supporters really need to dial back their personal attacks on the woman's character.

I happened to have just turned the TV on ... and, he responded with a brief reference as to the horrible tragedy that it was ... but then, as seems to be his habit, turned the subject matter immediately by asking the reporter what HRC would say to the victims of the Iraq War, etc.

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Wednesday questioned whether her rival in the Democratic presidential primary, Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), is qualified to be president.

"I think he hadn't done his homework and he'd been talking for more than a year about doing things that he obviously hadn't really studied or understood," Clinton said in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," just one day after losing the Wisconsin primary to Sanders, "and that does raise a lot of questions."