I think Obama has the potential to trandform politics, BUT ONLY if he begins to fight for Democratic values.

HE has been quite a disappointment.

We often had a one=parent home since both parents did work that involved being away for weeks at a time.

Mom's the one who, in family meetings where we had to resolve a family crisis, would say about the most seemingly unresolveable problem, "C'mon, use your brains, use your skill. We can do this. We're women."

I'm disgusted that the Dem braintrust not only permit sexism but promote it. They not only blame women -- esp. on the issues of medical privacy and moral choice -- for cynical persecution from the right, but actively court anti=abortion and anti-contraception no-choice deadbeats who'll use our funds, our contribution, our efforts and our skill to disenfranchise us ... yet have THEIR choice to strip women of inalienable constitutional protection revered as spiritual rather than what it is: misogynistic, medieval, cruel and as likely to be causing as many deaths among women, children and young people as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

When solicited by the Dem for the bux and activism I've provided in the past, I suggested they get it from the nearest no-choice deadbeats, foetuses or unsentient females being kept alive for 10+ years by machine, since I'm a non-person in the party's eyes.

The intra-party sexism being levelled at HRC is enough to keep me looking more towards her rather than Obama, whose team has said they won't vote for HRC (and doesn't THAT speak volumes about the depth of commitment to this alleged "change".)

I'm pissed enough at this point to keep open the option of writing in a prez/vp as protest, as having Dem majorities in congress hasn't accomplished much.

I agree that there has been a lot of unfair treatment of Hillary Clinton in this campaign, by forces in the media, as well as in the party.  I also believe that there are people who support Obama that have and continue to say terrible things about Senator Clinton, and that this is wrong.

However, many of these things have been reciprocated back towards the Obama campaign by some of the ardent Clinton supporters. Hell, reading through the comments here and on Tayor Marsh's site, you'd think that Barack Obama was a child-molesting vampire who loves nothing more than drinking the blood of newborn female children.

If the Clinton campaign can't compete against the relatively benign environment of a Democratic primary, whose fault is that? It's her fault. Nobody made her choose to run her campaign in the way that she has. No one made her hold positions that other people feel are not desirable as a Democratic presidential candidate.

She's had to run as her own woman, good and bad. If she loses in the end, is it because Barack Obama has voodoo powers of mind-control and has enthralled the majority of Democrats? Of course not, it's because he was able to be more persuasive that he was the person that we want to have in the White House. If his positions aren't yours, you should have had a stronger candidate.

What makes it so much more frustrating for me is that I cannot understand how this happened.

We're producing two historical figures. Yet, for some reason, the Party has deemed it acceptable that one of those historical candidates may be treated so inhumanely.

Remember what she said last night.  After all she has been through, Clinton has not given up.  I think we owe it to her to keep marching alongside her.  The crap we are seeing on the so-called left blogosphere is idiotic and painful and I am with the folks who are heartbroken about this, and feel abandoned by the party, but even though the party has abandoned us, this is not the time for us to abandon Hillary Clinton.

Lookit, folks, let's shake off this melancholy and phone bank and rally and donate and do whatever we can to make sure that we give our girl a fighting chance.  She is less than 2% behind in the delegate count.  She can still get the popular vote.  She can still make her case as the best choice for the party, even though the upper echelon has chosen their man.

Onwards!!!

Or, it's a kind of superstitious mentality equal to modern scapegoating. This was supposed to "cleanse" --- unite?? -- a sinful society by pinning all past sins on a goat and sending the poor creature away to die quiety somewhere.

Ridiculous criticism #1 -- She's "ambitious" merely for having turned up in the primary at all, which is BAD, because of the ambition of competing for a job for which she believes herself qualified. All of the other candidates are "fighters", or good or bad candidates based on their personalities, records, etc. etc.

Ridiculous criticism #2 == was cap'd here by BTD (with a h/t to Taylor Marsh). It was a quote by the WaPo's Eugene Robinson, who is black:

Is sexism in the coverage of the Clinton campaign excusable? No, and we deserve to be called on it. But it wasn't the media that decided she should take for granted all those states that Barack Obama has been winning.

and I wondered:

Let's see, if -- perhaps when, since no campaign is perfect -- Team Obama makes a misstep, will Robinson declare it open season for the media to refer to Obama, relentlessly and in letter and spirit, in egregiously racist terms?

The Hell???

It's continually astounding to me to hear this kind of naked bigotry from people who have had MY support over the years.