I believe that while many Moms would probably rather be at home tending to their kid's needs, most probably must work out of sheer necessity. Being a stay-at-home Mom or having a career used to be a choice they could make easily; that's not as true today.

It is the rare Mom who CAN simply stay home with the kids without having to work to contribute financially to the household. I admire women who balance work and family as I admire men who step up and share the household and child-raising duties with them.

But, demeaning a woman as a "bad Mommy" for working outside the home due to necessity is mean-spirited, wrong-headed and erroneous. Just my opinion.

Walter:

Good God, man, have you no self respect? Are you a journalist or simply a shill, a flack or a sycophant? Listen to yourself, Walter...you're verging on drooling about Obama! I'm verging on nausea because of it!

"Obama bowls like a woman; he must have a feminine side!" "Obama is so geeky, he practically reeks of polished nerdiness!" "Barack...even his name sounds musical!" "He actually is in touch with his inner candidate!" AAAAAARRRRGGHHHHHHH!

I can't stand it, Walter. Either do a serious piece on his policies, vices or foibles or spare us your jejeune, insipid and vapid homage to Caesar Obamustus.

Pleadingly,

AnaHadWolves

As a Clinton supporter, I've heard the vilest, the most egregious and the most incredible vitriol spew fourth about her from the lips of the Barack Obamtons; they must have come straight from the anal orifice of Karl Rove!

Now you know why I will not support Barack Obama...should he somehow weasel his way into the nomination...and, will do whatever I can to ensure he loses. That way, we will have a clean slate from which to select our next Democratic candidate in 2012. A President John McCain will be fully-senile by then, anyway.

Oh...that "33%+/- of Clinton supporters who will not support Obama should he win"? That figure is going to be much higher by election time, and, the Obama Nation will have only themselves to blame. Let's see Obama win with only blacks, guilt-ridden whites, a paltry few Latinos and those 20-something slackers who probably won't even show up to vote; it can't be done.

Playing fast and loose with the primaries, delegates, superdelegates and outcomes, whining about "stolen election results" and petulant hypocrisy in general by the Obamatons is precisely why I oppose his candidacy. They pretend to eschew "politics as usual" and then proceed to operate exactly so. The Obamatons do nothing but whine and bitch if they don't get their way...procedure and established rules be damned.

For those reasons, plus my unease at Obama's inexperience, I am going to do whatever it takes that is legal, ethical and moral to ensure his defeat. Then, in 2012, we can try again with a new candidate.

By 2012, I hope the D.N.C. will have learned its lesson and will drop caucuses, proportionally-distributed delegates AND superdelegates in favor of winner-take-all primaries only. Perhaps then we will have a sensible and intelligent method of choosing a candidate...and, those self-inflicted wounds in our feet will have healed.

Consulting with my closest friends, some 40-strong, over the last two weeks, I find a remarkable consistency: should Barack Obama be the Democratic candidate, only one of my group will consider voting for him. The other 39 will either not vote at all or will vote for McCain.

The consensus seems to be that (a) Barack Obama is ill-prepared to be President, (b) his nastiness in securing the nomination has soured Clinton supporters terminally and, (c) the Democratic nomination process is flawed and needs to be changed.

I know the Obama supporters are enthusiastic, but, I must ask: if they continue to treat Hillary Clinton and her supporters as interlopers or worse, how can they realistically expect any of us to support them in the general election? Let's see the Obama supporters win in November without the enthusiastic support of the Clinton people.

You wrote: "@Anahad wolves: ...you obviously have some educational background and you read. Come on now. You imply by your post that it's Obama's FAULT that he has worked the system so well. If you know about or read about politics, you should know how hard that is for an outsider and, compared to Clinton, Obama IS an outsider. -- AlecsMom"

Yeah, a modicum of education, thanks: Harvard, B.A., Emerson, M.A., Kennedy School of Government, M.P.A., graduating in the 97th percentile, or better, in all three. Reading? In five languages: English, French, Russian, German and Mandarin Chinese. Thanks, again.

Now, to your other question: I didn't simply "imply" that the Obamatons were "working the system", I believe that they are actively "playing and gaming the system" while duplicitously decrying same. That spells hypocrisy in any language and is the genesis of my dislike and distrust of them.

If you only knew how hard Obama is working the "inside" with his former classmates (that includes me), you'll find that Obama is about as "inside" as it gets; he only plays an "outsider" on TV.

Thanks for writing...