Joan, Joan, Joan!!

You are breathtakingly bias! Your bias can be revealed by honestly answering one important question.

To whom is your destiny as a white woman most closely tied....white men or women of color?

The answer to that question is obvious to most sane and objective people. Your destiny as a white woman is now and has historically been inextricably tied to that of white men. Your father, grandfather, uncles, brothers, sons, male cousins etc. (likely all white) have all greatly contributed to your status in this life. I doubt that any of your blood relatives (or in-laws) are black women! There have been 43 white men to occupy the White House as POTUS. Each time they have been accompanied by a "white woman" as first lady. While you whine about sexism, you are literally sleeping with the enemy!!In fact, it is by virtue of her "experience" as first lady (married to a misogynist) that HRC (and her supporters) lays claim to being more qualified than Obama. Imagine that! How many black women have had the privilege of openly sleeping with the POTUS? (Sally Hemmings and Juanita Broderick notwithstanding)

In short, you have a serious blind spot to the privileges that accrue to you by virtue of your whiteness and choose to relate to the world only through the prism of gender bias. Well, we all have both race and gender. The question is how do those elements combine to affect your life. Being generically male is an advantage in this world, but being a BLACK male is a distinct disadvantage!!

You, HRC, Geraldine Ferraro, Gloria Steinam et al need to get a grip AND some counseling. You all should be lining up behind Obama against McCain. Obama has not personally insulting HRC on the basis of gender. He's been a perfect gentleman in all respects. In the face of blatant racial attacks on the part of HRC and her campaign he has always responded with restraint. Yet, there is a backlash against him....for what!? It could only be because there is a sense of entitlement on the part of HRC that has been transferred to her supporters.

This is sad and disappointing!

Joan,

You're not a racist or an old dried up Hillary hag. You're just blind to the privilege race has afforded you and consumed with the disadvantages you've been dealt by gender. Same as Ferraro, HRC, and Steinam.

I support Obama because I think he is brilliant and he can win! If fact, I thought the same of HRC until she went low class during the campaign. Obama will win a close election even without the racist vote...but I can assure you that in his second term when all these 14-17 years are able to vote he'll win in a landslide.

Why, Joan?

It seems that your statement reveals much about YOUR attitude about race! Is it so absurd to think that a white man may be perceptive enough to identify a sense of entitlement in another white person? Please explain that statement...if you dare!

Was is equally "creepy" to see Bob Johnson (a black man and HRC supporter) mock Obama as a "Sidney Poitier, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" black man? Or was that somehow not so "creepy?" Please explain....Joan.

If Obama chooses Chuck Hagel he would win in a landslide. Hagel, a Republican, Vietnam vet and staunch critic of the Iraq war, would demonstrate Obama's post-partisan creds. It would also shore up support among those "hard working Americans" who doubt his patriotism and foreign policy experience.

Most of all, it would add fire to Obama's argument against the Bush/McCain war strategy. I think it would be a bold and decisive move if Obama did it.

Think stragegically folks!!

Hagel would be a great hatchet man to send at McCain when he starts spouting off about his war hero status!! Why? Because Hagel too is a war hero and a FIERCE critic of the Iraq war strategy including the "surge" that McCain claims as his idea.

Also, Hagel is from Nebraska, quintessential mid-America. Who could speak better to the "hard working Americans" in places like Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania? He would also help in southern Virginia, NC, and Georgia.

Picking a Republican would also demonstrate that he's post-partisan...a "uniter not a divider"....that he really does see red states and blue states but the United States of America. I think "Reagan Democrats" and Independents would eat it up.

The fact that he's pro-life on abortion would help with the Catholic vote while not turning off women because he's not at the top of the ticket and it would be Hagel who has to compromise on abortion not Obama

I think it would be a brilliant move.