Also, Rebecca Traister has another great piece in Salon, in which she finally fesses up to having voted for Hillary. Traister wrote the piece about sexism in the media during NH (and was the first to take Chris Matthews to task), and has been one of the few writers to call the media on their sexism throughout this campaign.

From her current piece:

Clinton was such a hard-ass that she turned her butchest male critics into the hysterical harpies they accused her of being. What fun, during that final debate, to hear Obama grouse (justifiably) about the ludicrous questions he was facing, while next to him, the broad who had, in an earlier debate, been asked about the fact that nobody liked her cheerily removed the shiv from her thigh and used it as a toothpick. Sure, many people moved quickly from the thrill of having two historic candidates to the hair-pulling headache about how much damage their contest was doing to the party, but get over it! When was the last time we had so much fun in an election year?

I read the English versions of Israeli and Arabic papers.  While we are diddling with the primary, Condi has been a very, very bush person.  Something is brewing.  

Sample of her projects:

Rice to hold talks with Israeli, Palestinian teams

So, this is my theory.  They will patch up a last minute agreement.  Condi will be McCains VP and trump Obama.  

I ask because I've recently run into a "stifle yourself, Edith" attitude from several men I know.  Yes, they've always been chauvinists to some extent but suddenly they don't seem inclined to make any effort at all to hide it.  In fact, they're really aggressive about it.

I know this sounds paranoid but it's what I'm experiencing.  From condescending replies to blog comments I've made to, in one case, being told to my face to "shut up", they refuse to carry on a civil argument.  Instead, they dismiss me out of hand.

Also, the "Change, change, CHANGE, cHaNgE, ChAnGe, change, change, change, change" thing is really wearing thin.  

The only thing that would impress me would be [for them] to get on a bus or train right now and head off for the heartland. i'd go where all of this tragedy with the weather is taking place. i'd have some of these young people out there asking people what they need and want instead of telling them.

Thanks for thinking of us, hellothere.  We are reeling here.  You may have seen the horrific devastation in our lovely Dells, where with tourism our number-one industry in Wisconsin, this means that thousands of workers -- including many of my students -- are suddenly out of jobs this summer to pay for college in fall.  

But beyond homes toppling into newly formed rivers hundreds of feet wide, devastation that you see on tv, those are only a few of the thousands of Wisconsinites and other Midwesterners now homeless  or with homes badly damaged -- but homeowners who tried to get flood insurance but were denied because dams don't break.  Well, the dams didn't break, but new rivers formed to take homes away, to flood thousands of others . . . and even entire downtowns of some of our largest cities.  And our record rainfall of as much as a foot in a matter of hours now is threatening dams, with thousands more being evacuated today and tonight, to await whoknowswhat tomorrow -- when it will rain again.

And not just homes but entire worthy groups are getting hit, like the Hispanic community group in my city had just bought two buildings for a new center -- two multistory buildings that collapsed from the rains even on only the first night.  That will mean more thousands of our most needy will not get basic community services for years, while the group has to recover from its loss.

And everyone, please also think of our farmers, already dealing with a very late spring due to our record winter precipitation (aka snow:-) and now looking at flooded fields that may mean a year's livelihood lost.  And this at the time that our state already was reeling from yet more factory closings by the thousands, many in the towns nearby those farmers who worked two jobs to hang onto the land they love -- some of them "century farms" in their families for a hundred years or more -- and now may have lost both jobs.

Enough.  I can't begin to describe what is happening here and across the Midwest.  We are grateful for few fatalities.  We fortunate ones can cope with flooded basements for two days now -- my son and his dad have shop-vac'd and bailed water for all but a few hours in the last 48 -- because we still have our homes.  To see how bad and sad it is, just in my city, see jsonline.com.  And since this still-barely-blue state has been denied federal disaster status and funds through disaster after disaster as punishment for staying Dem, ask your Congress critters to help push for our plea for federal disaster status, and fast.

What does that say about his position on NAFTA?  He hasn't been banging the NAFTA drum lately.  I guess he only pretended to oppose NAFTA to get votes from those bitter small town hicks who cling to guns, religion, xenophobia, and anti-free trade sentiment.

Today, Sen. McCain is a very bad man for supporting the Bear Stearns bailout.  But once upon a time, Obama was in favor.

Also, Goolsbee was in favor of the subprime lending practices that got us in trouble.  Further, Obama now has a corporate bigshot involved with the subprime debacle . . . helping him to pick his VP.

And how 'bout them Iranian Revolutionary Guards?  He viciously attacked Sen. Clinton as a "saber-rattling" warmonger for voting to call them terrorists.    (TalkLeft thread on the subject here.)  What did he do last week?  He called them terrorists, and he says he's always wanted them to be called terrorists (the McCain press release in that link shows in detail how Sen. Obama was unfair to Sen. Clinton, which is why I included it).

Change you can believe in.