Politics is personal. And when our gut and heart get committed it can feel glorious when our candidate is atop the waves and devastating when not.

For Hillary to climb to where she got to she had to compromise. It is a patriarchal game. And how does one not throw the “baby” — integrity — out with the bath water of insider politics? Is it possible to have moral leadership in a corrupted system? And the populace is manipulated by MSM, indifferent or so remote from the machinery of government, that things have to get pretty insane or finally penetrate the narcissism to rally our collective pain.

First, it’s good to know that you actually read comments people make! I get the impression that often journalists don’t even bother to see, let alone respond to, observations by their readers. Thank you!

I also think that perhaps many women jumped on the Hillary bandwagon out of sheer frustration – “any woman has GOT to be better” – without checking beyond the DNA. I’ve heard too many sad, mumbling defenses of her policies on TV by women who should know better to doubt that this is a real phenomenon.

But, and here I tremble waiting for the “racist” label to be attached to me, I think that a lot of Obama supporters support him for the same reason – his symbolism to a long suffering group of people.

Both groups are bound to be disappointed, whether their candidate gets elected or not, because neither one offers anything of real substance. I, too “hope” for a “change”, but not from either one of these guys (let alone McCain). But for me, hope is not enough, we’re too far down the road for that. I will only give my vote to someone who earns it. I know healthcare is too far gone to waste time on tinkering with either Obama or Clinton (forget Mc Cain). The only one who gets my vote is a proponent of single payer. Same with the issues of Iraq (just plain out, with reparations), trade (out of NAFTA/WTO). I would love a woman, or a member of a “minority” or better yet, a woman member of a minority to be Pres. but not if that person would sacrifice the things we really need in this country. And for all the talk of differences, a 20 foot bridge may be twice as long as a 10 foot one but it is no better for a 90 foot chasm – at the end of either you still fall off.

Face it — without her husband, Hillary would have been OUT of the race long ago — or not have even gotten in it.

Real feminists need a woman as president who got there on her own — truly — not because her husband was POTUS first.

A Hillary win would just have been pretty much the same old thing — women can never get ahead without a MAN.

I think we’re talking feminism now because of the charges of bias late in the game.