let it be said that the issue here has nothing whatsoever to do with one-time hippy chicks or with women with hormonal problems or women wishing they still had hormonal problems or women in particular at all. Let's get it straight right now. There are a lot of men in the group that remains royally pissed off at the way Hillary Clinton was railroaded. So forget about trying to understand the feelings of women. The feelings of Clinton's supporters are simple to grasp: They and their candidate were robbed. No fuzzy feelings there, just anger.

Howard Dean and the rest of the machinators at the DNC did not want Clinton to win the nomination and took steps to defeat her:

1. They denied Florida and Michigan the perfectly legal and sensible right to hold their primaries early, because those states would be decidedly pro-Clinton and the DNC did not want Clinton to get a large, early lead in delegates.

2. They supported and funded a neopphyte Senator who happened to be black, knowing full well he would draw away the strong support the Clintons have always enjoyed among black voters.

3. They finally gave Florida's delegates half a vote each at the convention, claiming this was fair. They gerrymandered the Michigan delegate count in Obama's favor and claimed this was fair because he removed his name from the ballot there.

What I want to see:

1. Obama must break with Dean and Brazile. He does not need them now and he badly needs to unite the party. Time to dump Dean and Brazile overboard. Clinton's supporters will recognize this gesture as a unifying move, because they do not so much blame Obama as his underhanded friends at the DNC.

2. Obama's people should talk to Clinton's people. Obama then should graciousy offer the VP slot to Clinton, and Clinton should just as graciously decline, saying she can accomplish more as a Senator, but promising to work for victory in November. This bit of symbolic play acting would do a lot to unify the party.

3. Later on, after the convention, Obama's people can leak interest in Clinton as a Cabinet member at, say, Health and Human Services.

'kay?