But despite the way I felt last night, despite the pride I felt as a woman, the admiration I felt for this woman, reality has already set in. Already your friends/colleagues at MSNBC and other networkds are questioning Hillary's sincerity. To listen to Mika and her "did Hillary praise Obama enough," to the refusal of Rachel Maddow to ever compliment another strong woman; to listen to Soledad O"Brien go on and on about with other women "but was it really showing support for Obama or was this really about Hillary's own political future." Maybe it's me. Maybe because I haven't ever spent time with "media women" I just don't get that they are all about their own power and ego. I mean I get that Arianna cannot stand any Clinton success because then how can she justify her years of a right wing worshipping Clinton hatred.

But these younger women? What the h*ll is their problem?

Maybe someday Joan you can do a piece on these 30 something young women who simply cannot stand the thought of older women like Hillary having power? Maybe you can someday ask these young women to get over themselves or the notion that they made it on their own because they are so special. Women like us Joan know the truth. Without women like Hillary, like you, they would not have gotten there.

I will do as Hillary asked and will vote democratic this fall. I will also do all I can to rid the party of the Deans, the Brazilles, the Daschles and the Pelosis (yes there are older women who simply are too insecure to get what they have done to us all) and others who have betrayed the women of the party.

Read my letters. This is not about age (a boomer issue, though some of the ageism hurled about on Obama sites is pretty sad); it's not about gender (thought the sexism and misogyny tolerated by the DNC is pretty disgusting). This is about fair.....this is about the DNC and Obama's job to reach out to people like me instead of insulting us with threats (they have no where else to go), with name calling (a member of congress calls women "bitter knitters?), and honestly (the system was gamed to give the advantage to Obama and the other men).

If you don't like my reasons, fine. You don't get to frame the narrative for me.

And to the 70 year old woman who thinks I should just "get over it." No thank you. Maybe that is what you think women should do. I don't. And read my posts again. I am not, will never support a republican. That does not mean that democrats don't have to work to win my vote. It's called democracy. I'd like to see it working.

YOU are missing the point.

This is NOT about Hillary.

Whether or not Hillary chooses to run again or not, has nothing to do with my vote.

This is about the democratic party. You seem to think that women play the personality game. We DO NOT. We care about the issues.

And one of the issues is how a woman candidate was treated by her own party, by the media and by the blogosphere.

Women are about issues. How women are treated in the workplace (whether in politics, the board room, or in a factory) affects us. And what this primary showed us is this: WE Have NOT come a long way baby. We have our daughters not getting it, thinking feminism is for old women. We have young men calling us menopausal menches. We have the democratic party throwing women under the bus.

If the dems don't want people like me, fine. They are going to blame Hillary and women no matter how Obama loses. Or if by some luck, they will take all the credit if he wins.

In the end the Obama democratic party is about reaching out to the republicans while throwing long time democratic women under the bus.

I WILL NEVER vote for a republican. But I can write in, go for GREEN or leave it blank. But any jerk that thinks he can tell me how to vote with threats.........screw them.