The American Spectator

/p> p> I agree that Hillary has to support Obama to keep her options open for the future. But if Hillary supporters turn en masse to McCain and help Obama lose, it will reflect very badly on Hillary. She MUST bring her supporters around to vote for Obama. If Obama still loses, fine for her. But, she can’t have it both ways. Her supporters supporting McCain and she pretending to support Obama. If this happens, the base of the party will never support her next time. I know Hillary supporters feel they got screwed, but Obama isn’t the one who did it to them and they shouldn’t take it out on him. Hillary lost because she was out-campaigned and other sexist/racist factors that can never be proven but are still there in everyone’s minds and emotions. My personal feeling is that Bill lost if for her. If she were to divorce him and move on, she would have a chance to surpass him in popularity and also in what she may be able to accomplish. Keeping him is a drag on her chances. He is imploding personally and politically and has lost his skills. I think the Democratic party wants him gone. That is also why she can’t be a real VP candidate. Nobody wants him around. br> — Stephen Wheat br> Honoka’a, Hawaii /p>

Regarding “Crone Wars,” as a 60-year-old white woman, I want to say that all this whining and complaining does not empower women. It DIS-empowers them. Hillary Clinton would not be where she is without her husband. She is not a woman like Meir, Gandhi, Thatcher, and Merkel, who got where they were/are only by their OWN accomplishments. (And they NEVER used their gender to get votes.) I know a lot of older women who have told me they want Hillary because (we will also get Bill!). A lot of us women would love a woman president, but just not THIS one. It is because she is a woman (and brings along Bill) that she has been able to get all these votes. It has helped her, not hurt her. So many of these woman take it much too personally — that a Hillary Clinton loss is a loss for them. I say, “Get over it!” Projecting onto Obama and his supporters their own biases do not serve them well.

p>One more thing: I believe having her on Obama’s ticket is a terrible idea. For one, a black man and a white woman on one ticket is way too much for this country to handle at once. Second, she and Bill with their ambitions will do everything they can to minimize Obama’s presidency and make it their own. Finally, she keeps saying only she can win in the national election. She may be able to win most of the Democrats, but not the Independents or the moderate Republicans (many of whom are already supporting Obama). If she is on the ticket as Obama’s VP, not only will the Independents go to McCain, but it will mobilize those conservatives who would rather stay home this year to instead go out and vote against her. br> — Cheryl Ross /p>

I just heard the Harriet Christian clip on the radio. It is much more effective when you can hear her querulous, New York accent spewing away at the Democrats. She made some good points about how Hillary had been treated — even if you despise Ms. Rodham-Clinton you can have a tiny little sympathy for the humiliation she has endured at the hands of “her” people. Women continue to stand by her.

p>My question is this, if liberal women vote for John McCain, won’t he tack even further left than he usually sails? br> — Judy Beumler