The first thing she needs to do, when she becomes Majority Leader, is drop-kick his Zionist ass from the Capitol's front steps, with her newly minted steel-toed boots. Now that's a tough-chick take-down I would love to watch on C-Span.

I always hated that "Bring Us Together" crap about Obama. I don't want him to make nice with the Republicans. You don't bargain with proto-Fascists who want permanent war, and a permanent upper class of individuals with inherited wealth. I want him to be progressive, and use a scorched-earth policy to kick their asses.

They are so very special...maybe God will make a special circle for each of them.

And how was Hillary's platform better for women than Obama's is? What, specifically, did she advocate, that further advances women that Obama's campaign or platform does not?

AKA-

I just found your list of things that Obama can do to win your vote (I don't know if it was Salon's site or my browser that was the hold-up)

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1. A new revival and full-throated support for an Equal Rights Amendment.

2. Pay equity for women.

3. A re-examination of Social Security benefits so that they benefit older women who spent many of their working years discriminated against in the workplace and those women who chose more traditional roles like staying home with their children but ended up divorced after years of sacrifice.

4. College tuition payments for welfare mothers rather than being forced into career-stifling workfare without even benefit of even adequate child care assistance.

5. A promised appointment of a certain number of women to judicial and cabinet positions.

6. Lowering the age at which people can get Medicare benefits immediately to 50, with those benefits extended to all caregivers who take care of aging parents and disabled family members.

7. Special tuition waivers for outstanding young women pursuing careers in fields where there is a shortage of women, such as fields of math and science.

8. Real sex education in our schools rather than abstinence education, which would be of great benefit to young women and would reduce unplanned pregnancy in teens.

9. Increasing educational grants and loan waivers for those fields in which the welfare of children is involved. Not only are many workers in these fields women, but better lives for children everywhere in this nation means better lives for girls.

10. The study and encourgement of legal reforms that will result in sexual offenders, especially incest offenders, facing longer prison time, and proper recompense for victims from their offenders and goverment grants for long term theraputic treatment for incest victims.

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You know I generally REALLY like these initiatives also!! I think they are concrete and PROGRESSIVE, therefore I wholeheartedly endorse, except for some minor adjustments to #7 to include young men as well, but that goes hand-in-hand with my desire to slash the defense budget and put that massive amount of money into basic research in chemistry, physics, biology, alternative energy, etc. on the scale of a massive Manhattan Project to wean us from oil.

I just have one question. I didn't find these initiatives in Clinton's platform either, but maybe I missed them? Did you email these to Hillary? You should email these demands to the Obama campaign, seriously, if you haven't already.

Re: NewYorkNY

Yup, I thought the same thing. A Yale Law School graduate? I was thinking, "Dear Lord, another dumb-shit got into Yale besides Bush?" Yes, he/she doesn't write like a lawyer, that is plainly obvious. And the circular, bat-shit logic, coupled with some outright falsehoods made for some really headache-induced reading. Complete garbage.

lemecdutex = NewYorkNY? I'm confused...

Did you email those proposals to the Obama campaign? You should, I think.

I receive email from both the Obama and Clinton campaigns, yes, because I have emailed both campaigns with suggestions. I also wanted to monitor what each campaign was saying or putting out. I suppose you could choose some email account that you don't check often.

I only suggested emailing the campaign to (possibly) make you feel better, at least telling yourself you made an effort. It did for me. I actually emailed the Obama campaign once to tell it to back off Clinton about the whole Bosnia flap (and not piggy-back on the negative press) because I didn't think it would look good. I also did the same with the Clinton campaign to back-off the whole Jeremiah Wright bullshit. I told myself I would give the Dems one last try in 2008. If they lose this election (White House) I think I'm completely done. My God, I think, we're living in a Fascist shit-hole theocracy, so I can't imagine another scumbag Fascist who believes in perpetual war winning. But I don't understand how the Dems can blow it, and hope they become more populist and go after McCain with both barrels loaded (figuratively).

I'm EXTREMELY disturbed at Obama's cheap pandering for the fucking Zionist vote in America. This is really bothering me. Fuck the Zionists, they are total creeps who don't believe in human rights and are total bigots, war-mongers, and ass-sucks (not including many, many Jews here because Jewish does not equal Zionist). I don't believe in a Jewish State any more than I believe in a Muslim theocracy, period. I believe in a secular state EVERYWHERE.

So, I can understand your anger to a certain extent; it seems you want a more progressive agenda out of Obama than he may be able to deliver. He certainly isn't above pandering.

I really don't know what you mean.