Are you people KIDDING me? I don't even know where to start with this one. This is probably the worst researched, least plausible, most readily untrue article I've ever read.

1. It relies purely on suppositions. There's no evidence for this. The lead of the story is a "buddy cop" action movie. Hopefully I don't need to explain the difference between a movie and real life. You cannot simply draw a parallel between the two. Furthermore constantly picking black and white partnerships is to say the least disturbing. Imagine if he had compared Obama and Clinton, or Clinton and McCain to the Honeymooners. The shouts of sexism would be so loud as to disable this entire forum.

2. Hillary Clinton and John McCain are good friends. This is common knowledge, both have commented on it numerous times. Hillary Clinton has said it herself. McCain has commented on it repeatedly. Bill Clinton predicted that an election between McCain and Clinton would be the most "civil" this country has ever seen.

3. McCain hates Obama. This is common knowledge. The two have been fighting from almost the minute Obama stepped into the Senate over ethics reform. McCain blew a lid and called Obama "disengenuos" while Obama called McCain "cranky." And trust me this was not a normal fight. McCain was still visibly seething on television interviews afterwords.

(http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/14/america/senate.php)

4. "From George Washington to George W. Bush, the Oval Office has been a guy kind of place. " Yes it's also been a WHITE kind of place. All white as a matter of fact. Now since one candidate is running a post-racial campaign, we've been trying to move past this. The only notable digression had to do with one candidate's spouse constantly race-baiting the other candidate in South Carolina. Fortunately, for us all, the black candidate chose to ignore this and move on. (To Hillary'scredit she largely did too. I don't blame her. However that does NOT change the fact that her spouse participated in some of the most disgusting race-baiting I've ever seen.)

If we're going to go this route, let's really be honest. If Hillary ignored gender as much as Obama ignored race it would be less of a factor. How do you think it feels to constantly be asked if you're "black enough" as he was by all of the major news magazines in the early phases of this campaign last year? Nevertheless he moved beyond it.

5. White men SUPPORTED Hillary Clinton up until recently. Did African-Americans draw the conclusion that this was because they were white? NO! They lived with it. However, suddenly when white men start supporting Obama the pundits suddenly decide it's because he's a MAN! It couldn't possibly be because he has a new exciting message, has managed to rally many new voters behind him, runs on a message of change, and, despite early predictions, has managed to make a race of this campaign? This is beyond insulting. It is the most vile, disgusting kind of politics I've ever seen in my life. Mind you I do not blame this on Hillary.

But I do blame it on Mr. McClelland for writing a piece of filth masquerading as an article. If he had ANY kind of guts at all he would respond to some of the points brought up here. But he won't. He'll simply scream gender politics and hide behind the chorus of supporters he knows he will have. There is only one word for such a person: COWARD!

Seriously I want an answer to this. Early on in the forum Hillary supporters were responding constantly. Now that glaring obvious objections have been brought up to the article we're greeted by silence.

Is this going to be an election where candidates run on the best idea or are we just going to play gender politics? Because if so I'm insulted.

I repeat my question why was it that when white men voted for Hillary it wasn't because they were white, but when they voted for Obama it was because they were men?

""Woman is the nigger of the world."

No NIGGER is the NIGGER of the world. Are you serious? You better be black saying this.

Read the f--king statement you just posted. Even IF "women is the nigger of the world" you know what else is "the nigger of the world"? NIGGER!

I'm sorry to be passionate about this, but women are constantly discussing being women, so you know what I'm going to discuss being black. Have you ever been called nigger? Have you ever had to live in the rural Midwest surrounded by actual racists, and had to defend yourself? Then don't talk about things you don't know.

Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama are both black. They know what it's like. But for the good of the country they decided to run a post-racial campaign. But if you're going to insist on using the word nigger and belitting its meaning and impact, on African-Americans, than it is you who are guilty of a sin at least equally as great as sexism.

And don't tell me I brought this up. I'm not the one who started posting "nigger" in my message. And don't anyone at Salon dare start editing this post unless you have the nerve and guts to edit the one where someone first wrote, "Woman is the nigger of the world." Puh-lease! Anyone insulting and stupid enough to write a statement that stupid couldn't possibly understand the meaning of the word "nigger."

And as for that black female commentator you're talking about, she's a professor from Vanderbilt, I've seen her before, she hates Barack Obama and was largely responsible for continuing the endless debate on the stupid plagarism semi-charge.