And yet they have the right to run for public office, and have anti-discrimination laws in place to help fight against blatant workplace discrimination. Especially in the public office aspect, you have to realize that electing a woman simply because she is a woman is antithesis to the equality movement. Woman can be, and have been, extremely poor choices for a political candidate. They can also be fantastic ones. The point is that women have the right to run and be elected based not on their gender but on their abilities and qualities as an individual.

You're really getting rather ridiculous.  Republican troll-like ridiculous.

It is not my authority, but the cold and sharp authority of Mathematics which has doomed Hillary's chances.

And can't you please just make a distinction between campaigning and campaigning negatively?

Half of those quotes are made up or highly exaggerated, or taken out of context, or were said about Bill Clinton.

With this diary, you have lost all of my respect.  I actually thought we were on the same side - that this race was finally a chance to break a barrier for...  somebody.  But following Gloria Steinem's lead, you continue to pit the interests of black people against those of white women, instead of seeing a common cause.  So when Hillary Clinton uses racially charged language that is going to help no one, you're not allowed to call her out or you're only afraid of women.  Hillary Clinton is allowed to reach deep into Nixon's playbook, repeatedly, and it will either be explained or laughed away.  

Shame on you.  

My point was in response to a previous comment that claimed that Clinton had never bashed Obama. Obviously that's not true. There's been campaigning back and forth on both sides. No less an authority than Bill Clinton has opined that the remarks made against either side have been minor at most.

No one's saying those are terrible words. A couple of those statements -- the C-in-C threshold one in particular -- are pretty regrettable, but they're not terrible. Nor is anything said by the Obama campaign against Clinton.

We all know things will be worse in the GE. Obama's proven himself far more than capable of responding.

And I'm not sure where you're going about your "because of all things a fund raiser". I can think of one person, who was a Clinton fund raiser, who said some truly despicable things about Obama, but I can also think of some other events that have been connected with fund raising. So, it's a little too hard to tell where you're going with that.

My point was: there's been bashing on both sides. As far as the campaigns and surrogates go, for the most part it's been pretty minor stuff, both ways (and yes there are examples on both sides of things that aren't so minor). Neither side is pure and neither side is overly evil. Claiming that Clinton has never bashed Obama is as silly as saying that Obama has never bashed Clinton.

WAIT! Let's take Glenn Close.

When I made the same joke I used Rasputin. The point of the joke is to make fun of Hillary for not dropping out when, at multiple points in time, the conventional wisdom has been that she can't win.

I used Rasputin but Glenn Close is funnier because she looks more like Hillary.

The crucial key to separating real sexism from unfairly attributed bogus sexism is the underlying message. The message is that Hillary keeps coming and coming even though she should be vanquished. This is equally true of Rasputin and the Fatal Attraction woman, as well as thousands of other horror movie characters - whether they be male, female, animal or space alien.

I you want to make fun of Hillary (making fun of political candidates is "fair game", right?) you're going to choose a blonde female for your joke.

Conversely, is the infamous (but hilarious, no pun intended) "flocking to that dandy Obama like he's the second coming of Jimi Hendrix" line. Is that a racist joke?

NO - IT'S NOT RACIST. They could have said "second coming of Jesus Christ" or whatever, but it's funnier to use Hendrix because they're both black. Now "dandy" might be a legitmate gay slur, but at least we don't have to worry about that ... this election cycle! Wait til we get our first gay candidate if you want to see some fur fly. Sexism and racism are battles that are essentially already won. We just have to wait for a couple more generations to die off. "Homosexualism" has a ways to go.

But long after racism and sexism have been completely removed from our culture, black people will still have black skin and women will still look like women. These differences, if no negative stigma is attached to them, are perfectly acceptable. We don't need to outlaw the recognition that there are differences between the sexes and races - we just need to outlaw making value judgments based on those differences.

You're still doing it.

Traditionally, conservative voters have never had a problem with a woman in power, as long as that woman belonged to a dynasty of rulers.

-- see Elizabeth I of England
-- see Catherine the Great

If you really want progress you ought choose a woman that made her own way to power -- a woman like Thatcher or Merkel or Tymoshenko.

like some sanctimony with your righteousness? No, got enough?