Hillary, running to be the first female president, isn’t Wonder Woman with the not–of-voting-age teenagers and millennials who are the fans of modern day comic illustrated books. Bernie, far and away, is the choice of younger voters and of the Portland, Oregon under-18 employees who work in the senior facility where I live.
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I doubt Hillary will out-compete Bernie in the primaries with the 18-30 voting group where she is far behind. If she is the nominee, as pundits have already said, Democrats hope Bernie enthusiasts, young and older, don’t decide not to vote;
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Of course, Wonder Woman, to the dismay of progressive parents, was and may still be a role model for girls, a Barbie with superpowers. It’s too bad that from the day the comic industry created her with a scantily clad impossible figure, to today, every butt-kicking female super-hero I can think of looks like Buffy or Nikita. You never saw Jessica Fletcher drop-kicking the villain.
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I’m sure everybody noticed how the 1943 Wonder Woman comic book got it so wrong in predicting that we wouldn’t have a female president for 1,000 years. I wonder what the authors would have thought that a mere 73 later we’d have a black president, and Hillary poised to be our first woman president.
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Perhaps because of my insecurities as a child during the heyday of 10 cent comic books, and of super-hero cartoons, my favorite hero was Mighty Mouse. I think that if Bernie was a comic superhero he would be the little flying mouse who packed a powerful punch.
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Mister Trouble never hangs around
When he hears this Mighty sound.
"Here I come to save the day"
That means that Mighty Mouse is on his way.
Yes sir, when there is a wrong to right
Mighty Mouse will join the fight.
On the sea or on the land,
He gets the situation well in hand.