If Obama wants to choose a woman as vp, I hope he chooses Sebelius. She'll bring executive branch experience and she'll be popular. The usual counter-argument is that Sebelius doesn't have foreign policy experience, but what foreign policy experience does Hillary have (other than drinking tea with the wives of heads of state)?

Hillary on the ticket will convince conservatives to vote in this election, when they might have chosen to sit this one out. Sebelius on the ticket will force McCain to fight --and spend-- in states he might otherwise be able to take for granted.

Adelito, please explain your statement further.

I'd like to know how long this prohibition on other women advancing ahead of Hillary is going to last. Hillary has already stolen Nita Lowey's Senate seat, is she really going to be allowed to block another woman from being VP?

Now that I think about it, that's finally a good argument for Obama putting Hillary in his cabinet. Lowey would be able to take her place in the Senate. I hated to see Lowey be deprived of the seat she had worked towards and deserved. How many other woman have to be pushed off the road by Hillary as she steams ahead towards what she thinks she deserves?

Dustball, what happens if you call a black man a bitch?

Brightstar65, I would have thought you at least would be happy about this story. Lots of free publicity for your website.

I find this entire thing amusing. Howard Epstein's response is especially amusing since his party has a history of similar "loony" renaming (i.e. Freedom Fries). There is even more irony in that when a Republican does such a thing, it is without any vote. From wikipedia:

"House cafeterias were ordered to rename French fries 'Freedom fries"' This action was carried out without a congressional vote, under the authority of Ney's position as Chairman of the Committee on House Administration, which oversees restaurant operations for the chamber."

Ab Fab did this already, in their very funny 2002 New York Christmas episode.

Why on Earth wouldn't you get the child support increased to the correct level? That money is for the child! Collect it and spend it on her or put it in a savings account for her. Your daughter deserves the same level of financial support from her father that she would have had if the two of you had been married.

Daniel Buccino [says] "Until more men are willing to say 'You know, honey, you shouldn't have to change your name or sacrifice your career, and I'll stay home with our kids and aging parents,' progress will remain glacial,"

He's right. Because women will rarely do it themselves. It takes a very strong woman to ignore her mother, mother-in-law, and all her female friends and say, "I won't change my name and it will be the children's last name. I won't sacrifice my career to any greater extent than you do. You stay home with the kids or we'll hire someone or send them to daycare. Let's sit down with my and then your parents, and the respective siblings, to discuss how we can all share responsibility for their golden years, because it's not going to get dumped on me."

Most women spend their twenties and thirties treating themselves like garbage, terrified of being called selfish, smiling and rationalizing all the while. They are then surprised and bitter when nobody notices their "sacrifices" (which they themselves had described as choices) and they realize how unnecessary most of it was. It's bizarre and yet predictable.

h0tr0d, the neutral terms are police officers and fire fighters. Mailmen are now mail carriers.

No, it's not the most important issue in the world, but it doesn't take much effort to fix either, so why not include all the workers?

She was a wonderful actress. I'm glad she found success, especially on such a wonderful show. I used to watch Golden Girls with my grandparents :-)

It's always amusing when a woman describes some relic of oppression as her own choice. American (and probably French) women do that all the time and then add, "and isn't feminism about choice?" It's very amusing.

I'd look at her mother, mother-in-law, sisters, and aunts first. They're far more likely to have influenced her "choice". Again, think about American women and who really influences the "choices" the majority just happen to make. The husband is usually a deer-in-the-headlights compared with the overwhelming tsunami of pressure a woman gets from her (and his) women relatives.

Btrader: there will be so much suffering that the value of distinguishing between downtrodden men and women or parsing society's opinion of them by gender will be nonexistent

You mean that women who are discriminated will be told that there are more important things to worry about and that they should shut up until things improve enough for their petty concerns to be looked into? Not new. That's been said to feminists since before slavery ended.

Reading these posts it amazes me how well Hillary has picked up Republican tactics. The Republicans have spent the last two terms relentlessly making use of the idea that, "if you repeat a lie often enough people believe it's the truth." Hillary and her supporters have repeated the lie about her "vast experience" so often that many people now parrot it back as the truth. Hillary has a seven years in the Senate, that's not all that impressive, especially considering what she did with her time there. It's certainly not the overwhelming amount of experience she's bamboozled everyone into believing she has.

Sebelius has eight years in the Kansas legislature, her success as Kansas insurance commissioner, and her two terms as governor (executive experience that could help Obama). If Hillary and her supporters destroy Sebelius's chances at being vp just because Sebelius happens to be a woman, then Hillary is truly pathetic.

Can we just have Mothers Who Think back? I miss the intelligent though-provoking writing that section featured.