That's okay, Senator Obama. Sweetie. You just go ahead and win the GE without Clinton's supporters. We'll just be bitterly, periodically down on Election Day. I'm sure the Unity Pony will carry you over the finish line.

Silence... Always silence. How could they?  I cannot think of any reason other than because they  agreed.

You see, as women, they couldn't be following along with the misogyny, so if they don't like Clinton it has to be for some other reason.  So they tell themselves -- and others -- that they would absolutely vote for a woman, just not this one.

Even though this one is eminently qualified and has better credentials than her opponent.  Even though every future woman for office could be treated the same way (in which case they may also say the same thing).

Of course I don't know for sure, I can't read minds, but it's very suspicious when you hear that over and over again, especially when Clinton is being held to a harsher standard than Obama, to then hear "oh, of course a woman would make a great president, just not her".

I'm finding out some female bloggers are taking me to task for claiming I haven't seen evidence of sexism in the current Democratic primary.
Perhaps my skin's a little thicker than most when it comes to gender-related issues.
I've always been more of a guys' girl . . .
But don't mistake anti-Clinton sentiment for sexism. There is a distinction.

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I could go on but . . . why.
if you think you can take the whole thing, its here:

And here's the catch: he cannot escape this. He proudly referred to Trinity and Reverend Wright during  early campaign stops. Michelle greeted a crown in SC with greetings from her pastor, Jeremiah Wright. Obama told a bunch of people in Idaho that he wasn't a Muslim, like those horrible emails alleged, but that he had been "praising Jesus for twenty years in the same church." And so on.

When it suited him politically to invoke Trinity, he did so--as late as February in Idaho. Then when the Wright tapes surfaced in March, he began backpedaling. Then when Wright imploded last month, he denounced him.

But he's praised Reverend Otis Moss, portraying him as a more modern minister and attempting to situate Wright as a dinosaur from the angry, racial conflicts of the past. Not so. Moss is a chip off the old block. Black liberation theology is black liberation theology: unfortunately whites are demonized in it as much as they are in the Nation of Islam. Moss is no different. And considering the villainy of whites ("garlic nosed" Italians, etc.) in that cosmology, it's no coincidence that Wright and Pfleger are close friends with Louis Farrakhan.

The truth is that Obama has presented himself as the devoted member of a church that is based upon black liberation theology, which is a Christianized cousin of the black muslims.

Do I believe he really believes all the crazy stuff spouted by his minister and his other spiritual mentor, Father Pfeger? No, because I think he just used that church and those associations to further his political career in Chicago.

But that means he's lied about something he thought would be a big plus--his faith. It's really necessary for him to sever his ties with Trinity, but he can't. Not now. It's too late. And that church is going to give the GOP one negative ad after another this fall.

It's incredible. I don't know what Obama and Axelrod and the DNC are thinking. There is no way this man can win the general election with these associations. None.

Obama alternates wildly between courage and a mindblowing degree of caution when it comes to foreign policy.  It's the sort of thing that always gets Democrats into trouble.  I hope he doesn't end up like John Kerry, constantly walking back one foreign policy pronouncement after another.  (Remember the "global test"?)

What was interesting about this letter from Obama, at the time, was that it's obviously a very bold statement and yet it was sent with very little fanfare.  It only became public knowledge when the left-wing press in Israel found out about it and started making noise.  Honestly, it feels like Obama was trying to make a big-time pander to the pro-Israel faction without the folks on the left finding out about it.  One blogger had this to say:

Obama should be careful with this crawling. What does he gain among ordinary voters who must surely be getting sick of Israel by now. If he starts acting like Hilary Clinton, or even Bush, his core support will surely drift away. This happens to Democrats all the time lately. They try to out-right the right and the right still wins. Of course the right wins when the Democrats put it in a win-win situation. But what if the crawling works and the zionist vote or funding or both is decisive and he wins? If he wins on a right wing platform he will have to stand by that platform, indeed he may want to. My own view is that, by so obviously grovelling to the establishment on the question of Palestine, he can only harm his candidacy.