So finally, former President Clinton, is not in the spotlight, not the big cheese, the enchilada at every feast, etc. So what...

And maybe, if he's still furious at Senator Obama, it's one of those situations where the partner/spouse never forgives someone who has been against their partner/spouse...even when their partner/spouse has forgiven them.....Anyway, he's not the nominee, and he's not the person who almost won.....

Sen. Clinton is an individual who is herself, independent of her spouse, a talented, smart, gutsy person.

I believe that the rudest and most horrible of Sen. Clinton's supporters (the woman who was smirking and stuffing tissue in her ears as reported by the NY Times) are really Republicans..they voted in the Democratic primary to cause trouble, and have been planning on voting for McCain all along.

I think it's fascinating that Ralph Nader, a white man, should lecture about how African Americans AND women should be more sensitive to issues of racism and sexism.

Here's what he said about Obama being African American:

“What difference it should make is that he would be more sensitive and determined to bring elevated visibility and concrete programs to deal with these issues,” Mr. Nader said. “Wouldn’t a woman president be expected to be more responsive to women’s rights? It’s just more natural.”

He said that Mr. Obama “obviously made a tactical decision that he’s not going to campaign politically as Jesse Jackson did.”

Mr. Nader is totally wrong.

It's white people who have perpetrated and benefited from racism, and THEY should be the ones who are working on solutions to the problems that they have caused.

It is MEN who have perpetrated, and benefitted from sexism, and THEY should be the ones working to unravel sexism.

What Hillary Clinton says:

"Asked about attempts by Republican John McCain to attract her supporters, Clinton said, "Anyone who voted for me has very little in common with the Republican Party."

"If you care about the issues I care about and the future that I outlined in my campaign, then you really have to stay with us in the Democratic Party and vote Senator Obama to be our next president,"

Privilege - here's how it worked.

Obama's campaign didn't need to do a single thing that was overtly sexist towards Hillary Clinton in order to reap the benefits of sexism. All he and his followers had to do was not expose, reject and condemn the overt sexism of the right wing nuts, the so-called progressive left, and the media.

And then -- because of his male privilege -- he got the benefits.

Clinton was stupider or more overt in her racism But her campaign got the benefit of racism -- because of her white privilege.

Those people who say "I didn't vote for Clinton because I didn't like her" should really examine how they were swayed by sexist analysis of her.

Those people who say "I didn't vote for Clinton because I didn't like her policies." Fine.

But don't say that sexism/misogyny doesn't exist, or that it didn't hurt her.

She lost for a combination of reasons -- one of which is that the male left combined with the male right to slam dunk a female. The republicans love it...now they'll combine with the racist whites and go after Obama.

It's called divide and conquer.

Feminists' anger is about the fact that ANY woman (ANY woman that you so-called progressive leftists have named) will be subject to sexist and misogynist attacks. And that so called progressives are silent about it because they don't like the woman involved, or they don't like her politics.

Sexism is wrong. Racism is wrong. Get it?

I will tell you all why *I* am SO MAD...as a woman?

You really want to know?

Because of all the unbelievably sexist (and uninformed) and misogynist comments that have been made on this list...

Fake Doctor -- did you never hear of rape? Women and girls do NOT always have the "choice" of using birth control or avoiding a penis ejaculating into their vagina....

Woman who stated that "women didn't have a chance to play sports"? Do you REALIZE that you are SPOUTING a line that was used for decades to keep women out of decision making roles?

That women "didn't have a chance" to play organized sports before Title IX (another victory of the feminist movement that you are so derisive of).

But you know what? We lost all the time. And we were REQUIRED to be "nice" and "sweet" and smile all the time, that was the REQUIRED role of women -- we were taught to throw the game, to make men feel better, to smile and be sweet.

And, Africa American Male, how DARE you state that white women always had self serving intentions in working for civil rights?

How do you know? What self serving cause might a white woman be pursuing by risking her life for voting rights... And what feminist causes have YOU worked for -- after stating that Black men have always supported feminist causes....

And I'm angry about racism, too...Yes, African Americans officially got the vote before women did....but neither African American WOMEN NOR African America men REALLY got to vote before the civil rights movement ONE HUNDRED YEARS LATER.