I am as disappointed in Obama's FISA decision as anyone, but don't delude yourself into thinking that Hillary wouldn't make the EXACT same decision if she were the nominee. I have no idea how she will vote now, but her votes for the war authorization and Kyl-Leiberman clearly point to candidate Clinton voting exactly as Obama has said he will.

Obama is wrong on FISA. I am disappointed in him. I have written his campaign expressing my disgust in no uncertain terms. I urge others to do the same and let him know that your vote and your dollars are contingent on him being the candidate we expect him to be.

The FISA "compromise" is a political bind for him and one that he should never have had to face. I am equally disgusted with Pelosi. Republicans LIE. If Obama fights the bill like he should, there will be ads running about how he led the drive in the Senate to strip away the law enforcement tools that have kept us safe for 7 years. Can Americans be trusted to get the facts and not just accept such a lie at face value? I still think that he should fight the bill because the issue is just too important, but I can certainly see how the choice is a difficult one for him.

Some Hillaty backers are just using FISA as another excuse to not back Obama. That is wrong. Obama is wrong on this one, no doubt. However, two wrong do not a right make.

Let's Break down the list of twelve.

1. and 2. These make perfect sense and point to these holdouts eventually coming around.

3. This is petty, ignorant and yet more proof that it was the Clinton backers who were members of the cult of personality, not the "Obamabots". Governor Sebelius is a much better VP candidate for Obama than Hillary Clinton. The dismissal of her here is just mean-spirited idiocy. There is no reason given, other than her not being Hillary. I happen to find her a very exciting prospect. If the Hillary nuts are so caught up in their fantasy that they are going to bash other potential glass ceiling breakers, they are just pathetic.

4. Most of the even-handed looks at sexism have shown CONCLUSIVELY that it helped Hillary, not hurt her. Racism was JUST as glossed over during the primary.

5. So these women are not going to support Obama because of Olbermann? Brilliant! You have figured out the world's best kept secret: by day he is a mild-mannered politician, but at night, Obama dons a mask and becomes a sexist newsman.

6. Yes, that awful Howard Dean didn't interfere in the primary and let it run its course. ALL the major Dems were fence-sitting, but Dean is evil because his DNC gave Florida and Michigan the EXACT SAME PUNISHMENT that the Republicans women are threatening to support did. What an awful man!

7. Perhaps if Clinton had not run a racist campaign ("jesse Jackson won SC", this marginalizes Obama as the black candidate, "hard working people, white people", Geraldine Ferarro, etc...) then her rep would be unstained.

As for Solis Doyle, the notion that Obama should keep talented people off of his team because Hillary fired them is naive at best. It does send a message. Even if Clinton is the VP choice, Obama is running the show. There is no co-Presidency. Accept it.

8. Then they should have a lot in common with Obama supporters who are outraged that he used his clout in the black community to make racist attacks. Or do they think that Obama somehow controls Bill's dick?

9. Clinton ran a monumentally bad campaign. She expected to be handed the nomination and had no backup plan. Is there a man we can blame?

10. Hillary had no choice. She spent two days on the phone getting her ego torn to shreds by people who had given her every opportunity to bow out gracefully. If she tried to take it to Denver, when there was no ideological imperative to do so, her entire career would be over.

11. Welcome to the world of white men? This is self-pitying bullshit. There were a large number of white, senior women who were voting for Hillary in hopes of seeing a Madam President before they die. The exit polls show Hillary doing excedingly well in states with a large number of this demographic, while simultaneously being viewed as untrustworthly (far more so than Obama) by a sizable majority of them. This group was treated no differently than the "security moms" who backed Bush, despite all logic in 2004. One issue voters deserve to be bashed, whatever the one issue (and in this case it wasn't even an issue, but a chromosome).

12. Welcome to the world of black people? For far too long the Democratic Party has taken black support for granted. That isn't even what is happening here with women. Democrats gave a woman a legitimate shot at the top spot in the party. She fell short. They BENT OVER BACKWARDS to avoid embarassing her when she lost touch with reality and thought she could win. If this race had been a personality contest between two men, the man in Hillary's spot would have been run from the party for not dropping out sooner.

You can revel in your self pity all you want, but whining doesn't exactly make a strong feminist statement.