more about the need for a qualified leader NOW, who should be a Democrat.

That the entire fracking planet gets to display its misogyny in front of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Ceiling Cat and all the gods is apparently icing on the cake for some party operatives.

It will get us a third Bush term.

Twelve years is not too long to wait. Five months is. I don't believe Barack Hussein Obama, who has called Republicans the party of ideas, who has turned his back on universal health care, who has walked away from the restoration of our constitution, who has refused to consider pursuing charges against the current administration, and whose strategy for getting my vote is to assume that he can have it so nobody calls me a racist when he doesn't get it flat sucks, is a Democrat.

Her most certainly is not a Democrat in the same way as John Edwards, Jack or Bobby Kennedy, or Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

In this time when we really, truly need someone of that caliber, need Democratic leadership whose roots run deep in the working class and who understand the need for good jobs, good schools, working infrastructure, health care and constitutional protections as well as economic strategies,
if we let ourselves be hoodwinked into accepting some nebulous notion of "unity," we will be the poorer for it long before 12 years down the road.

It's not like after hillary there will never be any more women interested in high office.

There are lots of women presidents and prime ministers -- in countries like Chile, Argentina, and Germany.  These are countries that have more respect for women than the USA.  Many of our policies have more in common with the Arab world than Europe.

An important step is to correct the gross underrepresentation of women in Congress.  USA is way behind the rest of the world on this.

It's very sad that someone like Hillary feels she has to run by proving she's tougher than a man.

It's also very sad that Michelle Bachelet, the President of Chile, would have been a non-starter in the USA because she's separated from her husband and is agnostic.

USA has a long way to go.