TURN ABOUT IS FAIR PLAY
     I read about, and listen to, most of the political talk nowadays.  I hear purple-faced Republican presidential candidates do nothing but rant/rave about their poll numbers; talk incessantly about who is lying; blame President Obama for everything bad in the world; and claim they, the Anointed Candidate, can do the impossible, even command the Second Coming.
     I hear Democratic presidential candidates lay out their issues of concern.  They name the issue, they explain the background of the issue, they share on which side they stand and how they can work with that issue, and then ask for my vote.  Ah-h-h, some reason is inserted into a crazy presidential campaign year.
     But wait!  A question repeatedly drums in my brain:  how is it that we know everything possible thing there is to know about Hillary just short of how often she uses the bathroom (although, come to think of it, one Republican candidate has already crossed that line), but we know very, very little about Bernie?  And yet Bernie wants to start a "revolution".  Bernie is starting a "movement".  Bernie has the "momentum".  Really?  Really?
     Just what has been happening to Bernie to qualify his starting a "revolution"?  I read his background on Wikipedia and realize he has substantial experience in political movements about which he feels strongly.  He is Jewish but, according to his brother, is "quite substantially not religious".  Early on, before his presidential campaign, Bernie is asked about his personal life.  His response is that he refuses to discuss it, that his personal life is his and not to be addressed.
     If Bernie were anyone else and not someone who is running for President, I would agree.  However, given the fact that Hillary's personal life as well as her public life (including making her personal emails public) has been investigated ad nauseam, I wonder why Bernie gets a pass.  Why isn't his personal story of interest to the nation, to people who will be making a decision about his integrity, his honesty, his dependability?  Doesn't any of that have an influence on how he lives his life today and how he makes his decisions?  Why aren't we privy to it?  Is there something that is embarrassing to him that he doesn't want us to know?  If so, what is it?  Shouldn't his personal life also be an "open book" just as Hillary's has been? 
     Why does the media not do their investigative work when it comes to Bernie Sanders?  My response to the question is to point out the one big difference between Bernie and Hillary.  They are both white, they are both older but the one big difference is that Hillary is a woman.  And because she is also running for the Presidency, attempting to crack the glass ceiling, she opens herself to any and all abuse that the media and Republicans wish to heap on her head.  That has been plenty.  She has withstood it and has overcome.  But Bernie?  Not so sure he can measure up.