This week, HRC's been busy trying to force Barack's hand to offer her the VP. She has also started bargaining for more power - she's got 18 million supporters, she says, so she definitely expects to get something for all the money and time she's spent campaigning. And if Barack wins, she definitely plans to take credit for "delivering" the White House to the Democratic Party. That Pflegler comment about her sense of entitlement was right on; we just didn't want to hear it said out loud. The woman is a political viper.

I find it distasteful, to put it mildly, that Hillary believes that anyone's support of her campaign belongs to her. Even more so, that writers of otherwise good repute would stoop to peddling this manipulative bullshit and participate in corralling us "women" into the right corner. This is not a plantation, my dear. And Hillary is not any more deserving of being mistress or chaingang leader just because she and a bunch of other white women say so. The rift that is made visible by this campaign season is not between the so-called white working class and others; its between those white women who feel they have the right and authority to tell the rest of us how we should act and be as women, and to belittle us when we choose to think for ourselves and in more complex ways. That one's been around and its clearly not going away anytime soon, Democrat or no democrat in the white house. There's progress for ya!

I think it's telling that the author invoked the "Women from Venus" crap. This is the kind of thinking that white women of a certain age have long used to bully and force others to watch them cry and weep and moan about sexism, while they strategically shut out all the pain that women of color have been enduring, often with the complicity of their so-called sisters. That's exactly the card that Clinton has been playing to get a particular brand of women to support her. But not just any women; she prefers the white ones who have already appropriated the term "women" as if they do speak for all women, while silencing and making all other women invisible. A time-honored American tradition that Clinton carry on.

What Clinton has egged on her supporters, particularly the white female ones, to want, is for their primary votes to count above and beyond everyone else's. "Respect", she calls it. Somehow these particular white women are owed something. Why? Because HRC is white, therefore her loss has to be explained, to be compensated politically, to be given special due. This is a great example of what it means to live in a racist society where even sexism can be a useful tool to maintain white hegemony.

If BO had lost, we would not be calling for some kind of reparations for all the black people who voted for him. We would be finding all kinds of ways to tell him that he is just another uppity black man who thought too much. Good running BO, now go back to your pen/Senate, and take your wife with you. But, somehow HRC is entitled to some political trophy she didn't earn because SHE says so. Amazing.

HRC is owed nothing. The people who chose to cast their lots on her campaign are owed nothing. They competed, they lost, get over it. But, that's not going to happen if the media continues courting and stoking white resentment and anger. Because that's all it is, sugar-coated in the language of "respect." That's a familiar rhetorical strategy used by white working-class folks to mobilize support for their causes while upholding racial exclusion. We have been here before.

Already, the silence that is looming around the media's sexist treatment of Michelle Obama is telling; the so-called Clinton supporters don't want just any woman near that White House. They want on of their own kind, and black is most definitely out.

Until a woman of color takes the opportunity to step up and show America that "woman" does not come in only one color or one political stripe, nor is it necessary to devolve into this kind of divide and conquer language, we will continue to deal with the retrograde politics disguising itself as HRC feminism.

is priceless! Yes, nasty retrograde politics always lurking just around the corner and just over the hedge that is our congress...

I watched the speech, and I cracked up through most of it. I loved watching her perform: The hometown girl-cum-beauty queen-cum-superfertile PTA mom-cum-politician; The "commonsense" that is really a thick veneer of anti-intellectualism; the strident patriotism in a bacon-wrapped package of anti-Arab and anti-black racism and xenophobia; the feisty, angry white working-class "Who does he think he is? I'm the real American" attacks were all she could really manage in the face of Obama's and the DNC's polish and poise. When all else fails, call your opponents names, [try to] make fun of them, and try to diminish their achievements. She might as well have said that Barack Obama hadn't really accomplished anything on his own because he tookd advantage of Affirmative Action; and oh, by the way, if he's Christian why didn't he change his name to something that wasn't so..so..Muslim?

This, my dear peoples, is the essence of the GOP. This is why I loved to watch the speech. This is how they fight, and I am glad they stopped pretending and got back to their roots so we can all see who they really are.

Now, I just want Joe Biden to chew her up and spit her out; he can fight on her terms, and he can win. She will cry sexism when she feels like it, don't worry. That woman is really just a white working-class version of Hillary.

NOW we can let the games begin...!