1. Of the 2 remaining candidates in the primary, she was, by far, the most qualified and the most prepared and informed. She had studied the issues, prepared Solutions for America, and had, some allege, focused so much on the practical that she neglected to exploit the fact of her sex as a historical precedent. She has a record of public service, a history. Amazingly, she was the more authentic.

2. If our basic right to vote, to have the vote counted, to allow a candidate to remain in the race while millions had voted for her and millions more were desiring to vote for her cannot be respected and/or guaranteed, then, all other issues re rights that the Dem Party advocates is meaningless. Besides, re reproductive rights, we are "old, crabby, unlovable, shrews, remember? So, not only are we all passed reproduction, but, no one wants us anyway. I don't know how the millions of men who supported her feel about reproductive rights....

Do not be so sure that we will vote for Obama; some will, some will not. Do not be so sure we "have no where else to go". We may not have a place to go this time around and may choose to sit this one out, as I am not inspired by either candidate left nor am I any longer desirous of associating myself with and supporting the Democratic Party. They kept extolling the millions of new voters brought into the party. Some were Republicans skiewing the election results; some were legitimate new voters. They have simply replaced the segment that has been disenfranchised and that has helped the Dem Party to look good for so many years.

The ugly sexism will never be forgotten and the silence and taciturn endorsement of it and even contribution to it by the candidate and his party is not forgivable. While our candidate was addressing the issues of people who had become "invisible", the Party and the MSM was trying to make her invisible. This entire primary campaign was not a democratic process. It was fraught with manipulation, distortion, unfounded charges of racism, negative campaigning, and demeanment of our candidate, and, thusly, of ourselves. It is not about losing an election. Campaigns make mistakes and can lose on their own. They do not need all the effort that was put forth in this one. There is enough being learned about the nominee now to convince me not to vote for him; the possibility of his choosing another female VP; his play-like, pretend, tin can presidential nominee seal he sported on Fri or Thurs; his flip flopping; his lackluster follow up with substantive issues now that the soaring rhetoric has served it's purpose. It is a sad and embarrassing state of affairs in this country that in order to achieve a historical first to break one huge barrier, they had to trash, demean another historical first and stain themselves with such overt corruption. There will not even be a symbolic roll call at convention to record her outstanding showing for history. I will not even watch it. It is long past the anger stage; my opinions and my decisions are based on facts: lack of experience, record, credentials; and a rape of the democratic process. I support neither.

The white women who supported Hillary Clinton that you call "racists" are the women who in 1960s marched and protested FOR civil rights. We are the women who raised our children to not notice racial differences. We are the generation who burned bras and fought for women to have equal access to med school, law school, to sports, and to anything else they desired. We are the generation who advocated for reproductive rights and battled everytime it became vulnerable. Throughout all of this, we were slandered and demeaned, but, we persevered. Senator Clinton is part of that generation. She has a life history, since college, of working for all of those issues, as well as for childrens' issues. Accomplishments that our adult children take for granted now and only exploit them to negatively attack Senator Clinton and her supporters. That argument just does not fly and you demean it's value by carelessly using it to a perceived advantage. It flat does not apply to Sen Clinton nor to her supporters.

I do not like the really dirty politics YOUR candidate and his party used. Mostly, I do not like at all, the words, the attitudes of his supporters throughout this campaign and even now. I have never seen such hatred, vitriole, hostility, rudeness, crudeness from people supporting a campaign of Hope fueled by Hate.