One thing we need to factor into any of the math which goes beyond the state trends listed here is that the R's have put up a phenomenally weak candidate.

He's worse than Bob Dole.

By November, most of the country will see him as senile, out of touch, and tied to the losing horse of GWB and his horrible economy and hugely unpopular war. John McCain will be the Rebublican's Dukakis.

This election is going to be more like 1976 - when the entire country looked upon the Republicans as lepers who needed to be expunged.

But look at how much changed between 1976 and 1980 - the foreign policy was a mess (hostage crisis) and the economy was a disaster with rising gas prices... does that remind anyone of... NOW?! And the party in power was severely punished for it.

1980 changed the electoral map. Reagan hammered the D's on making America look weak on the world stage and on having a badly performing economy. Obama is going to pull the same kind of change. Anywhere that's usually close will be blue. Places that were solidly red will be in play. Places that are reliably blue will be our backbone. And Obama will win in a landslide, with between 55 and 60% of the popular vote.

The article had so many examples that it can't just be swept under the rug.

However (and this isn't meant to sweep it under the rug, I swear!) I think a lot of people fall back upon tired old insults for people because they don't have much imagination. And our society has different insults for men and women. Women are rarely called "assholes" or "bastards" for instance. They are also rarely called "dogs" or "pigs."

So when people wanted to insult Senator Clinton, they very unfortunately used women-specific insults to do so. Maybe that doesn't expose "I hate women!" so much as "I have no imagination when it comes to skewering a politician."

Then again, most of the examples cited are just flat out misogyny.

"I can be an Obama supporter AND against the sex-based language and yes *misogyny* directed at Hillary AND at the same time disgusted by her campaign tactics. I know it looks like a death-defying feat of intellectual flexibility, but really, you should try it sometime, it's not all that hard."

A-freaking-men. I was rather hoping for a primary process in which the more enlightened Democrats showed that we were willing to choose between a woman and a black and how tolerant and wonderful we were...

But I guess I'll have to settle for the low hurdle of being "somewhat better than Republicans."

And I am voting for Obama because I love his *substantive* message about changing the process of governing. Restoring dignity to the office. Doing things the right way. This matters to me because my politics were in large part shaped by my parents disgust with Richard Nixon. Obama is the anti-Nixon. He's dignified & composed. He's honest and respectful of opposing views.

Additionally, I've been really turned off by Senator Clinton's Rovian campaign. That's for Republicans who have no honor. The process see, is substance. It's character.

But I have no blinders on when it comes to people using sexist slurs to describe Senator Clinton and what that says about the speakers of the slurs and the widespread acceptance of them. And it's revolting. We should take this opportunity to learn from it and better ourselves.

We need to see past our differences to see that we're people deserving of dignity. This critical truth is at the heart of the Obama campaign, and it's why he'll be such a brilliant feminist President.

And Special PS to my fellow Obama supporters: you've apparently missed the memo that it's time to unify the party and come together behind our nominee. This means please stop being pricks (gender neutral 'pricks' of course) to the Clinton supporters! We NEED them.

"Re: Sagcat - I appreciate your attempt to use a gender neutral term, but how in the world could "prick" be gender neutral? Only men can be pricks."

Because I waved my magic wand and made it so, specifically by stating that I was addressing all of my fellow Obama supporters and trying to make some light on the gender-neutral put-down debate.

Sorry. I thought I was funny. Then again, I frequently do.

Forging unity has to work both ways, and we have to give allowances for their huge disappointment that their candidate lost. They are going through denial and lashing out, yes, but lashing back doesn't end the sniping.

Rise above, man, rise above.

Make peace, or we're looking at President McCrazyAss.

let's hope the secret service arrests the nutjob and roughs him up a little while he's being questioned. I'm pretty sure that's what they'd do to me if I joked about shooting McCrazyPants or Junior.

There's lots of working poor who could use personal assistants - even drunk ones - or planners for every aspect of their life...

The problem here is that there's people with this kind of money to just throw away while other people actually need it. If they had any decency, they'd give this excess cash to charities. Hell, drive your horse drawn carriage around Central Park and literally throw the money to people who need it.

The French had the right idea by chopping off all the aristocratic heads to see if blue blood would actually spill out.

And don't try giving me crap by calling me a pinko this or that. I AM a pinko this AND that, so I beat you to it.