I was thinking about how many women about my age (57 last time I looked), are furious at the democratic party for rejecting Hillary, and how some of them vow never to vote for Obama. You can make fun of this anger, and you can try to reason it away. But that anger is real, and for people who support Obama, I would like to suggest there is similar case close to home.

Reverend Wright got his 15 minutes (though it seemed like years) of fame, for a few angry phrases. On the flip, I'd like to discuss Rev Wright's anger and compare it to the anger we see in some Clinton supporters.

I find it a little strange to have a 50 something "girlfriend" but since I'm  56 (or maybe 57, I have trouble remembering) I guess that is ok.

I already voted for Obama, and have donated money to him, and she knows where I stand. But she is undecided - and living in Virginia.  She is trying to compare issues, and I've commented that for me the deciding factors were Obama's vision of a non-bickering politics, and the assumption he would be more likely to win in November. So issues aren't the issue.

Can you help me out - by posting reasons she should either support Clinton or support Obama.  I don't think she'll be interested in reasons she should be against either one of them -- that "haters" will just turn her off.

She went to a couple of Dean meetings with me in 2004, and did some door-handle hangings for Webb in 2006.  

Thanks.

Obama!

What if we presented his positions, his visions, how he inspired us, and how we are inspiring others.  What if we actually started acting like we believed we could get beyond the politics of divisiveness and hatred.

Of course, that would mean we would have to "become the change we want to see in the world."

You might say - "We can do that later. First we have to win the primaries." But then we will have to win the general, and then we will have to fight off the VRWC which will rise again.

And what if you fought back - but only fought back.  What if we responded to acts - like BO did in the debate with his Walmart remark.  What if we refrained from attacking other candidates unless in some specific diary they attack ours?

Remember how he says change is hard, and we have to look our ourselves.  Well, "if not now - when?"

Well, maybe not the issue, but a potentially important part of the story.  From the Judiac point of view (as I understand it) Jewishness passes from mother to child. This goes way back to biblical times. So I am Jewish because my mother is Jewish, whose mother was Jewish, whose mother was Jewish.....