Hahahahahahahahaha! "Noble????". I hate "the horrors of patriarchy" as much as the next woman but what I saw Hillary running for had nothing to do with that. She ceratinly wan't speaking for me when she voted for the Iraq war and she wasn't voting for all the women and girls who died as a result from it. THAT was a "horror of patriarchy". I guess we all project what we want to see.

A woman president will lessen male dominance. Fact.

Men dominate women politically, economically and socially. The act if decreasing the power gap between men and women decreases patriarchy. Hillary is not 100% Iraq vote. She is much more than that. Hillary has a long history of decreasing patriarchy. As First Lady of the United States she was one of the first international figures to speak out about the horrible gender apartheid the Taliban inflicted on women when they took over Afghanistan, HRC and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright helped create Vital Voices, a U.S.-sponsored initiative to promote the participation of international women in their nation's political process. She was instrumental in getting women appointed to Bill Clinton's cabinet which was at one time about half women. That had never happened before. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg acknowledged a debt to Hillary Clinton for urging Bill to appoint women. The list goes on and on and on. You insult Hillary Clinton by assuming that her women's rights work is 100% Iraq war resolution. Hundreds of representatives in Congress approves the war resolution, men and women and there is nothing sexist about the decision to fight Saddam Hussein. Yet you try to slant the truth to make it look like a sexist act.

An example of the horrors of sexism is rape. Peggy Reeves Sanday documented that in countries where women have equal power as men there is virtually no rape. Thus, when a woman closes the political gender gap by being president she has taken a step towards ending rape.

when you run for president of the USA you run for president of the country. that means both women and men (and girls and boys).

Why do you assume that a women presidential candidate can't decrease sexism and help men at the same time? It's possible for a woman president to decrease sexism, fix the economy and win wars.

The best way to fight against sexism is to enlist both men and women, not make it a men vs. women thing.

I also think the best way to fight sexism is to enlist both women and men towards decreasing the power gap between women and men. And I never said otherwise.

I think we all agree the desired result is that nobody cares what sex a president is -- only if s/he is competent and is doing America good -- both for American women and American men.

It's bad for America to have only men presidents. I disagree that no one cares what sex a president is. I have had conversations with many people who want a woman president as quickly as possible. The Daily Beast conducted a study about sexism and found that "85% of women feel strongly that a female president would definitely bring some good qualities that are lacking in most male candidates." http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-11-18/the-barrier-that-didnrsquot-fall/

Nancy Kallitechnis: "It's possible for a woman president to decrease sexism, fix the economy and win wars."

firefly: Not so long as she's a "woman president" rather than just a "president."

What are you talking about? How is it possible for a president who is a woman to not be a woman president?

I think there is a difference between a woman president and a president who happens to be a woman. It is a matter of what takes precedence: her gender, or her office.

I'm confused. What do you mean by a woman's gender taking precedence over her office? I don't think that's possible.

the following pattern irks me: HW as Reagan's VP, HW as president, Bill Clinton as president, W as president, HRC as SoS. Too many people from the same family in positions of power in my ... opinion.

I understand your point of view. You are unhappy with six consecutive terms of people in two families in high office. But that does not even begin to compare to 44 consecutive men presidents. Half of our country has been blocked from getting high power for centuries. Hillary Clinton was attacked with extreme sexism to prevent her from allowing women to have a voice at the top. The DNC and the media treated her unfairly and it is a virtual certainty she would have been president this year if the sexists hadn't made the decision to treat a woman candidate as inferior to a man candidate. The sexist who attacked Hillary Clinton helped ensure that the horrors of patriarchy continue.