Nice try, troll.

well, I prefer unicorns - can I have pink ones?

"You're not a Democrat. Abortion! War! McCain is a crazy old coot! Sore loser! Sour grapes! Is this snark? Really."

I'm just sad that you can look past what you already know.  Hopefully you will, at least for our troop's sake, come to our senses.

Don't feed the trolls. It only encourages them.

We all get the future we deserve.

If you value fighting to redress these slights more than you value those things Senator Clinton has fought for, well, that's your call.

I don't believe she declared her candidacy solely to further women in this country.

Again, it's your vote and your voice, and you're free to use it however you like.  But please remember that if all that mattered was Hillary, then you'd be happy to vote for her if she happened to be a devout Republican.

I doubt it's just the personality.

I really hope you didn't include the "boyz" misspelling in your letter to Senator Clinton. It makes you look kind of unhinged.

I think you have misplaced your frustration with the media onto Barack Obama. Say what you will but the man is not sexist.

I'm not sure what the point is here.  You clearly are seeking to provoke a response from your audience, but you somehow suggest that that response is illegitimate.  It seems like a fairly vain effort (in both senses).

Great post!  My sentiments exactly!

Blind devotion to a person because they have a (D) behind their name pretty much flies in the face of the principles of democracy.

The media continues to greatly exaggerate claims of Clinton's demise...as they have since Iowa.

Personally, I'm still in "wait and see" mode.  I think everyone would be doing themselves a service by adopting that approach.

Hey it's Portia9's right to vote or not vote as she sees fit.

My sense is her candidate is not going to agree with her choice.

that both Obama and Hillary have, and you don't.

When you want to be classy, come talk.

Do what every you want sweetie.  We will do our best without you.  

She has been treated just as every politician going back decades or even centuries has been treated. Meaning she has been ridiculed, belittled, and worse.

Do you believe that she should be treated with kid gloves because she is a woman? Do you believe she should be given a free pass from criticism? I thought the entire point of feminism and women's rights was to be treated equally, not to be treated preferentially or treated unequally? Is this not the case?

Here is what I believe. There are many Clinton supporters who are finding sexism and misogyny where they want to find it, just as there are many Obama supporters who find racism where they want to find it.

Truthfully, it sounds like nothing more than whining because your candidate didn't win.

I emphasize that you should vote your conscious. You have months to cool down and think this over. If you still believe that Obama does not deserve your vote, then by all means do not vote for him. But consider the consequences. Votes of conscious did us a lot of good in 2000. This year, a lack of votes could mean someone who really is a misogynist being in the White House (a man who calls his wife a c*nt) or someone who is significantly more in line with your political views and who happened used the term sweetie (universally recognized as a term of endearment).

Vote for who you want, just be able to understand the consequences.

to vote for Obama.

Personally, as a woman, I find it silly--I see it as sacrificing the general good on the altar of  second-wave feminism.  But I'm not going to fight you on it...it would only frustrate us both.

I will, however, point out that your poll is lacking in puppies.  I want a puppy president, dammit!

Let

it

go.

It ain't worth it. Let the diarist have her moment. You'll get 6 months to change her mind, or not.

How do you justify going off on the "sweetie" remark and adding boyz to the mix?  It destroys any credibility you were trying to achieve.

What was your opinion of Bill Clinton's behavior? I am not condemning him. But he has done "more sexist" stff (by your standards) if you consider Obama's lil comment as proof that he is some unacceptable sexist.

ire away. Wait, I know: So you want your candidate to destroy her career? You're not a Democrat. Abortion! War! McCain is a crazy old coot! Sore loser! Sour grapes! Is this snark? Really.

Here's a clue, folks. Anytime someone reduces the issues in this election a punchline ("Abortion! War!"), they obviously don't give a damn about the party or winning the election. The issues don't matter to them; only electing a particular candidate does.

portia, I'm not going to beg and plead for someone like this to pretty please vote for a Democrat. If you're reduced to mocking the issues we all care about, then don't hit the door hit you on the way out. Go laugh about abortion and war with John McCain...he'll appreciate your jaded derision.

First of all I am insulted by your use of the word "boyz". For someone who was supposedly sensitive about words, you show a very nasty hypocrisy on the manner of diminutives.

And as for the word "sweetie" Obama apologized for it that same day. I wish I'd heard the Clinton campaign apologize at all (even with a month's delay) for all the "Kool-aid" and "latte sipper" and "egghead" comments I've heard from them in their anti-intellectual and anti-youth bigotry, let alone their effort to use racial divisiveness with their "hard-working people, white people" argument, with their Farrakhans and Wrights.

Indeed I wish I'd heard you condemn those comments, same as I condemned the "sweetie" comment.

So honestly, I don't very much like or appreciate your extreme hypocrisy on this issue.

I'll be honest and say that I'm not that enthused about an Obama candidacy unless Hillary is on the ticket.  I could also accept Edwards as VP, or Clark and possibly, Biden.

But to me the job of VP goes to the person who can deliver a state, deliver votes, and be able to take over should anything happen to the President.

On those counts, Hillary is by far the most qualified.  To see the most qualified person (who happens to be a woman) not get that job would be a disappointment.

In the old days, the VP was the general election candidate who got the second most votes.  It seems like a good model for the Democratic Party for this year, seeing as how the second place finisher actually received more votes than the nominee.

Tips & Rec'd and I AGREE!!!

I think tomorrow night she should announce her candidacy as an Independent!!!

anyone know where and when the rally is?

So instead of a blog that supports your candidate, you have a blog about Obama.

Sort of an indication of your lack of intellectual rigor when you spend more time focused on Obama instead of your own candidate (or the presumptive Republican candidate).  Don't you think?

Please grow up.   If anybody was dissed by this fellow democrat is was Obama.    Hillary said she and McCain brought a lifetime of experience, Obama brought a speech.   She and McCain had passed her imaginary commander in chief threshold but Obama had not.   All the while Obama said she was qualified and would make a good president.    Pay attention to what hes saying, lay off the noquarter, Hillaryis44 and Taylor Marsh and you just might learn something.  

Some of you feminists need to pick a talking point and stick with it.   Is she a fighter, who plays hardball and  who brought up Trumans line if you cant stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen?    Or is she a victim.    Its like Clintonian math, it changes daily.  

I appreciate your concern.

grows up with more sense than her mom.

I don't think it's fair to say that Obama has dissed Clinton - not even remotely.  Has he said he thinks he'd be better?  Of course.  That's what candidates do - it's completely fair.  

As for what he's said about her, here he is Iowa:  

The road here has been long, and that is partly because we've traveled it with one of the most formidable candidates to ever run for this office. In her thirty-five years of public service, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has never given up on her fight for the American people, and tonight I congratulate her on her victory in Kentucky. We have had our disagreements during this campaign, but we all admire her courage, her commitment and her perseverance. No matter how this primary ends, Senator Clinton has shattered myths and broken barriers and changed the America in which my daughters and yours will come of age.

What, exactly, is wrong with this?  I hope I have enemies who say such things about me.

I just read through all of the comments, and yeah, you got ripped to shreds because your diary was dumb.  I understand your feelings are hurt that your candidate lost, but I find it hard to believe a sane adult would post such nonsense.  In the simplest terms, you are willing to "chop your nose off to spite your face."

"By taking revenge, a man (woman) is but even with his enemy; but in passing over it, he (she) is superior."
-Unknown

If you've already made the decision not to vote for the presumptive Democratic nominee, or anyone who endorsed him, why are you still posting on a progressive Democratic blogsite?

I won't rip you to shreds but are you suggesting that its now OK for all of us to start playing the gender card?  Since I am a male, I should never vote for a female and vice versa?  After gender bias, maybe a little race bias, religious bias, height, weight, maybe even bias towards disabled people?  Not very American I know and highly unconstitutional but it sounds to me like there are a lot of people that are are all of a sudden perfectly OK engaging in the politics of discrimination.      

I don't think she lost over her gender, I think she had a lousy campaign staff with no long-term strategy and a husband who did her absolutely no favors.  It was Bill's mouth that turned me from Hillary to Obama.  If you want to blame some boys, I'd point at all the boys that she has chose to surround herself with.  Mark Penn, Wolfson, Bill himself.  Not to mention she forgot the all important rule.  If the men in your life aren't exactly bright, they damn well better look good in Speedos.