Obama has chosen to adopt and nurture the love child of the Rovian right-wing machine:  Hillary Clinton as polarizing uber-bitch.

The most disturbing part of Obama's willingness to embrace this crown jewel of the Rovian media machine, is his seeming indifference to the misogynistic roots of these stereotypical characterizations.

Substantively, it is impossible to disentangle the right-wing's demonization of Clinton from the gender bias of those demonizations.

Are we then to conclude that Obama concurs with the right's characterization of strong, smart, independent women as polarizing?  Or, is he just willing to play this card because it might serve him well in becoming President.

Bloggers here at Daily Kos along with other progressives write with conviction regarding their concerns with how a Clinton Presidency may affect policies that are important to them.  This week, there were two events that illustrate the reality that politicians don't always behave in ways that progressive conventional wisdom suggests they might.

Last Monday, a bill that would have made it easier to import cheaper legal prescription medicine into the US lost in the Senate by a vote of 49-40.  The only presidential candidate from the Senate who voted was Hillary Rodham Clinton, the New York Democrat, who favored easing the importation of less-costly drugs.

Last Friday, the Washington Post disclosed that the hedge fund that employed John Edwards markedly expanded its sub-prime lending business while he worked there, becoming a major player in the high-risk mortgage sector Edwards himself has pilloried in his presidential campaign.