There has been a lot of talk among Hillary Clinton's supporters about what she "deserves:" the offering of the VP slot, a promised cabinet position, SCOTUS justice... It's evident that such talk stems from attitudes of privilege, and as the vast majority of Clinton's supporters are white, middle-aged, women then we can safely presume this is the manifestation of white privilege, magnified through a lens of feminism. The senators supporters also seem to think they deserve something: "respect" is what they most often demand.

If the Senator's base, these educated white middle-class women, do decide to vote for McCain, or choose to stay home on election day, perhaps they will get what they deserve: a Supreme Court entrenched on the far, radical right; declining health services for children and women; more war; less peace.

Of course, such things rarely affect these privileged, white, middle-class white women. After all, the rising pregnancy and poverty rates do not touch their lives: it is only the poor, underprivileged, minority-race women who will feel the pain of continued right-wing hegemony. The sons of women like Joan Walsh won't be sent off to war; the daughters of women like Joan Walsh will be flown to Canadian clinics for their abortions.

No, it's the dirt-poor and street-hungry who will be affected most by these women, who would apparently readily sell-out the future of their own children just to spite...

Who exactly? Who are these women lashing out at? Certainly not the uber-feminist, utterly gracious Barack Obama, who rarely said anything negative about Senator Clinton, and certainly never questioned her qualifications for office, or her religious beliefs, or her patriotism.

So who are these women hoping to hurt with their threats of holding back votes or casting them for the opposition? Clearly they know that a McCain win means more war in Iraq and possibly Iran, more right-wing judges, more corporate-government corruption, and worst of all, more economic hardship for Americans.

Yes, they do know that. And no, they don't care. They are hurt that their chosen candidate did not win; as they felt she deserved the win, they feel it has been stolen from her. They want to lash out at the world, demand the world feel their pain. They would enjoy four years of McCain torturing the world; they would sit back in their leather chairs, sipping chai tea, saying, "I told you so," and demand that the Democratic Party simply hand Hillary the nomination in 2012. (Many of them admit that is their plan! Already they seek to undermine the possible Presidency of Barack Obama by planning their attack on him in 2012!)

In her regular revelations, Joan Walsh has displayed to us the darkest impulses of the Clinton supporter - a woman willing to trash her own reputation and that of a national magazine in an unparalleled display of bias, and who now seems willing to do damage to thousands of Americans - and millions in the future - simply because she didn't get her way. Spoiled, petulant, and privileged, Joan Walsh and apparently millions of white women like her would rather see more homeless, hungry, or dead Americans than suffer the indignity of losing a fair, well-fought race. They provide us with a shining example of delusion-by-privilege.

To quote Kodos: "Go ahead. Throw your vote away."

If you cared more about others, more about the country itself, more than your own hurt feelings and sense of purloined privilege, then you'd see the error and folly of your thinking.

Many people who supporter Senator Clinton in the primary will vote for Senator Obama in the general election. This is because they care about America, about the citizenry and the future of the nation, more than their own sense of loss. They are not so selfish as to doom an entire generation and condemned thousands to their deaths simply because they didn't get what they wanted.

You? Not so much.

The only people (other than GOP/corporate fatcats) who will benefit from the mass defection of Clinton Democrats in November will be all those who voted for Nader in 2000. They will no longer have to bear the burden of selling out the future in favor of their present perceived hurts. Instead, that dubious honor will fall to those Clinton supporters who failed to look beyond their own narrow, selfish demands to see a better world for themselves and their fellow citizens.

As many of you claim victimization already, I can certainly understand why you're already comfortable with the idea of continued right-wing hegemony in and corporate dominance of government.

Every woman you know wishes Haskins would get hired by that boys-club, the Daily Show?

Every woman I know wants Haskins to get her own show.

Hmph. And you call yourself a feminist.

A living, breathing specimen of the self-defeating Democrat. Also known as "the determined loser." Party officials ought to lock jebldmm in a jar for further study. Make sure to punch airholes. Those Democrats inclined toward victory in November should study this example while it still remains visible. There may be hundreds or thousands like it. Soon they will disappear into the woodwork and begin gnawing away at the infrastructure.