Right now Hillary Clinton's feminist supporters are very angry at Barack Obama for "beating" the first truly viable female candidate, HRC.
But do you really think that somehow John McCain is "'less male" or that he wouldn't have tried his damndest to "beat" Hillary if he were the one running against her?
While winding his way slowly to the democratic nomination Obama has at least been a gentleman about it. People keep asking, "where's the knockout punch", why can't he "seal the deal against Hillary Clinton?"
But, where she has been free to berate his experience, he ran straight into the feminist fence. Much of HRC's experience is "first ladying".
He could have said, "I don't think an advantageous marriage to a great leader really qualifies one as experience."
He could have turned the statistics around and said, "If only the least eductaed support her, well you have to wonder about her policies, don't you.
He could have said, "If she really is going to reflect the ideals and attitudes of her core constituents once she's elected, do we really want an American President making world altering decisions about some of the most important and frightening problems America has ever faced based on the ideas of the least educated amongst us?"
He could have called her on the carpet as the worst sort of old school politician for raising the race and "elitist" ideas just to get votes. And then pointed out that apparently she doesn't mind dividing and caricaturing the American public just for her own personal power.
BUT HE DIDN'T.
He could be actively belittling her NOW in her futile chase for the nomination and flat out saying, she's going to try to disenfranchise EVERY person who voted for me in some filthy, typical, backroom deal.
HE ISN'T
John McCain has a long and illustrious career of pandering and flip flopping in both politics and his personal life.
Not only did he just VOTE AGAINST the equal pay for equal work bill that would have benefitted women immensely....
In 1979, John McCain came face to face with his future.
He was in Hawaii, attending a military reception. While there, he met a young, blond, former cheerleader named Cindy Hensley.
It was an incredible stroke of luck for McCain.
How fortunate could one man be? Here was McCain, who had his eye on Congress, meeting a young, attractive beer heiress from Arizona, which was adding a congressional district in 1982.
McCain recalls that both he and Cindy fudged their ages at first. McCain made himself a little younger and Cindy made herself a little older. They found out their real ages when the local paper published them. McCain was 43, Cindy 25.
''So our marriage,'' McCain cracks, ''is really based on a tissue of lies.''
While they were dating, McCain called Cindy from Beijing, where he was traveling with a contingent from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee while she was in the hospital recuperating from minor knee surgery. She thanked him for the lovely flowers in her room, sent from ''John.''
What McCain didn't tell Cindy was that he hadn't sent the flowers. They were from another John, who lived in Tucson.
''I never thanked him,'' Cindy notes with a grin.
After a whirlwind courtship, John asked Cindy to marry him. But there were some details to clear out of the way.
McCain needed a divorce from his wife of 14 years, Carol, who had been badly injured in a car accident while McCain languished in Hanoi.
The marriage had been strained by his years of absence, along with McCain's admitted affairs after returning from Vietnam.
In February 1980, less than a year after he met Cindy, McCain petitioned a Florida court to dissolve his marriage to Carol, calling the union ''irretrievably broken.'' Bud Day, a lawyer and fellow POW, handled the case.
