Agreed on almost all points. I wish the cushion were bigger right now. But that's part of the short-term price of the longer Dem primary season. McCain has had an almost free ride for 3 months while the Dems have battled each other.

So now I have no reason to resist going to the convention. Either he will lose to McCain per electoral-college.com, homindviews.com or he will win and his handlers are clearly the same as the last boss.

At least at the convention there is some chance we can win, and not only get an incredible powerfull real Democrat which will prove we DON'T have to cave on Democratic principles to win. It will either be Clinton,or Obama or Gore to break the tie.

A 2 out of 3 chance is better than losing with Obama anyway.

If the most powerful female politician in America can be treated this way, I know that the situation for "ordinary" women is much worse than I thought.

This isn't really the female in me, it's the fairness meter that says these two men are cut from the same cloth (someone on early morning news this morning showed a geneology chart that says Obama is related to both Cheney and Bush) and they are bad, bad, bad for the country.

I usually agree with you, and while I fervently hope you are correct, I don't think there's yet enough evidence to assert this.  We now can see that women have not made much substantial difference in these primaries (excepting the ones that voted for Hillary on the basis of the sexism thrown at her).  We've written letters and emails to the DNC asking that it recognize and criticize the media; we've written and emailed and called the media ourselves in complaint, we've done the same with the SDs....and what have we gotten?  Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee.

If women really want to change the sexist attitude that dominated this election, and apparently this country, we must call their bluff on unity and stand our ground.  We cannot approve the current Democratic leaders' contention that, no matter what is done to Clinton and, by extension, to all women, we will dutifully "return to the fold" (as Pelosi so quaintly phrased it).  This entire primary season has smacked of "the fix is in" and women be damned.

I'm not returning to the fold and I'm NOT voting for an inexperienced, ethically-challenged, timid dilettante to be our chief executive and commander-in-chief at this particularily dangerous time in world history.

The way I see it, the people who do not approve of Obama are, in large part, the ones going with the facts and issues. And the Obama supporters are, in large part, completely immune to any factual statements you might make to support your arguments. This makes them the irrational ones, not us.

Honestly, I don't know of one concrete reason to vote for Obama.

Party affiliation - that is an intangible that does not reflect reality. As far as I'm concerned, Barack Obama is no FDR Democrat.

The Supreme Court? If young women don't care enough to protect themselves by voting for Hillary, why should I bother? Let them suffer the consequences. They are the ones throwing us, who marched for their GD rights, under the bus.

I'm a feminist in my 50s and I can see Obama makes mistakes that come from trying to appear inclusive, cool, you name it.  But I think that's a reflection of our culture more than his innate personality.  He should make sure the hip hop he uses is from a group that has absolutely no anti-women material (good luck with that one...), he should be careful of the anti-gay people he brings into the fold (plenty of religious anti-gay marriage people have NOT gone ballistic on gays), he should clean up his habits (sweetie), he should make sure his reasonable arguments are better stated (clinging to guns and religion).  

But these are all things that go to being less sexist and more mindful, which we all have to work on, me included and I love women.  Doesn't mean the cultural pervasiveness of sexism isn't ingrained in me as well.