I was really trying to feel OK about Hillary. I used to like her, after all, and she certainly earned my sympathy during the Monica deal. I couldn't understand why so many people on both sides of the aisle had such a visceral dislike of her. I thought, okay, she's getting pretty Machiavellian, but deep down her heart is in the right place.

Now I get it.

This woman has permanently damaged the Democratic party. If McCain wins, it will be her fault.

The American people have shown they were ready to transcend race and partisan divisiveness and embrace real change in our collective relationship to politics. I detest what the Republicans have done to this country, but I understand that the actions of the party doesn't really represent what most of the people who voted for it really wanted. They were driven by fear. And now Hillary wants the Democrats to embrace fear. And hate.

I found it disheartening that polls show that white women voted overwhelmingly for Hillary. I guess they feel victimized. I guess they feel that the war in Iraq that Clinton voted for and has consistently supported is nothing compared to their trials as white American women. I guess that glass ceiling at work is worse than having a suicide bomber blow up your family. I guess that wolf whistle from the construction worker is worse than having soldiers rape you and having no avenue of justice to turn to. I guess the fact that there are so few symphony orchestras with women conductors and attendance at WNBA games is declining is worse than not having schools or hospitals or electricity for you or your children. I guess seeing older men leer after younger women is more outrageous than coming home from Iraq after serving four tours of duty after only committing to one and finding benefits so reduced you have to apply for welfare and eventually end up homeless. I guess the pressure of having to keep your dress size down to conform to social norms and look like those Cosmopolitan pictures is worse than the stress of seeing your best friend killed in the line of duty.

But I forgot -- women who serve in the military, like women who vote for Obama, simply aren't enlightened and liberated the way you are. You're better than them, so let's face it -- you deserve to live more than they do. Now that that's settled, let's hold on to our righteous anger and vote for Hillary, because we know that rich white women have suffered much more than any black person has.

Right now this doesn't seem like an exaggeration. I'm convinced that Hillary is the most racially divisive politician since George Wallace, but much more insidious and dangerous. Hillary is turning her revenge for Lewinsky into a national trauma -- she's rejecting and negating everything about Obama that resembles her husband: his gift for oratory, his charisma, his message of hope, and his supposed status as "first black president." There are an alarming number of Hillary supporters who are openly declaring that if she doesn't win the nomination, they'll vote for McCain. These people are convinced they're not racists, but they're certainly following a racist agenda. Obama is more qualified than Bush ever was, and McCain promises to continue everything most insidious about Bush's agenda, but that doesn't seem to bother these people. Obama made it okay for a redneck to vote for a liberal black man, and Hillary responded by making it okay for an educated big-city Democrat to openly call a black man uppity and overreaching.

Hillary has single-handedly made what was supposed to be a referendum on Republicans a civil war about identity politics, arguments we should have gotten out of our system 20 years ago. She wants us all to debate the issues of her life when we should be debating the issues of the lives affected by the disastrous, uncompassionate Republican policies of the last 27 years. What she is doing to her party and the country is unconscionable.

Why do people always go on about race and gender, when things are not going their way?

I know how you feel, I never understood the hatred against Hillary until now. What I have seen in the last three or four days is proof that she will eat her own young to get what she wants. To hell with the Dem Party...she is on a mission to win. So what if she denies Dems a chance at the White House. So what if her own supporters and friends (like Bill Richardson) are asking her to step down rather than bring the Party down. At this point, I want the White House more than I care about who wins the nomination. But another month of this type of crap and Obama will be ready to step down for the Party, of course, then the damage is done we're lost the House.

Obama has never "gone on about race and gender", even when he was the underdog. That's the whole point of his campaign. Clinton, on the other hand, has gone on at length about gender, whether winning or losing, and will doubtless continue to do so, and race (like fueling the Hispanic/Black divide) is a key component of her strategy.

Wow, and you are saying that you are not racist? It seems like you are a very deep Obama supporter that is uneducated because you have mentioned nothing of his policies and the so called "change" that he offers this country. All that you have mentioned in your post is about him becoming the "first African American President". What kind of a stance is that? So if a person is the same as you are then you automatically vote for them without considering their stances on issues like healthcare, the war in Iraq, and the economy? "Change" seems to be Obama's slogan, but just because there is a racial change in the White House does not mean that this country would go back to the golden days of Bill CLINTON'S election years. Hilary has so many more years of experience than this freshman senator, and it seems that people vote for Barrack solely based on his race, and not his ethics (Rezno, NAFTA, etc). Rather ironic how this country is going to go completely down the drain worse than it already is because one race decided to put blind faith in a person that is of their own race. The last time that blind faith led a country was Hitler gaining power in Germany? Face the facts, the media is against Hilary, and despite that it seems that those of us who actually do our research on both candidates are finally voting, and the media is finally taking a closer inspection on the charismatic two sided snake that is Obama.

Oh grow up! It's okay for Obama to use the race care! Oh-ya that's right only if it works to his advantage. I don't care if he's purple-EARN MY VOTE-AND believe me he hasn't. He's a smooth talking SNAKE