Once minor dissent:

>>> Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL) becomes the first Hispanic woman elected to the U. S. House of Representatives

Not a lot to brag about there, except her gender. I remember, however, being told about 1973 or so that women will be more completely integrated into public life when mediocre women are as easily elected as mediocre men.

Ileana reinforces that concept.

Polite women never make history.

Oh…and just look at how Few of the Men who come here to BloG..have even commented on this
Great Article by KIRB..or Other Matters of importance to America ..or to Women..or Social justice..

Its all about the Dominate MALE..You know..

The Ones who Laugh at Jokes like..

HOW many rednecks does it take to change a lightbulb..??

A. None..Thats Womens Work..

Ha Ha Ha..Burb..”Hey woman..get me another beer”

The Babys Crying..Oh..How bout a Sandwich too..??

have you seen the TV Flipper….??

Voting..?? Gosh darn..Not Much choice..Only two Guys in the Race.. Hmmmmmm…

GUNS OR BUTTER..??

Wonderful Job..Thanks for a very Informative and Timely article..I am very Happy about the progress of the WOMENS LIBERATION MOVEMENT and Womens Rights Movement in America..

Who really are the Peaceful problem Solvers..Who
are the Ones taking care of the Children..Keeping the Famly together..Finding hundreds of ways to Serve in a responsible Way..Who are the Voices of reason..Who is taking care of the Children and grandchildren not wanted by the Crack addicts
of todays generation..??

Its the Mothers..the Women..The Grandmothers who do it for LOVE..Not Money..Who understand what Sacrifice is..Like losing a son or Daughter in Bushes War..or giving up Your Chance to enjoy some quality of Life..because..like a typical woman..You alway see someone..or Something else that requires attention..or a Womans understanding..or a womans Touch..

This made me think of my Mother..now gone..and all the great Women who Influenced my Life..or traught me the words to “Amazing grace”..and who wwere there for me in so many POSITIVE ways..I could spend the rest of the day describing them..

I see all thats best about WOMEN in Hillary Clinton.I am Proud to be Her delegate..and I Know she is Fully Qualified to be President of the United States..This World Needs a Womans Touch..
and Good Sense..

I agree with Susans Words and everyone else here..

KIRB.Thanks and God Bless ..

Let’s vote for Hillary Clinton for President and tell the world we stand united.

I commend the author for bringing this to our attention.

One, Obama has allowed the new black panthers back on his web site, disgraceful given what they represent, and two, Kerry is saying UHC is a non starter.

I see a repeat pattern on different blogs, a patterned PR attack.

The move is meant to be highly offensive to Clinton supporters, (the audacity of… the cliched troll!)

It’s a deliberate psy ops move to “discourage and demoralize the enemy” through fear, uncertainty, and doubt, seeding fear, uncertainty and doubt, in hopes of dampening the fire, so to speak.

Ignore it. If you see an Obama stooge suddenly do a 180 in regard to a policy matter dear to Clinton supporters hearts, it is deliberate.

This move is also against the Republicans, many, as Obama’s terrorist associations ARE horrific.

But watch how the Republican camps, and blogs react, the better ones anyway.

It’s an old Bush Cheney move, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Cheney announce the suspension of the 4th amendment, to distract away from the latest Iraq fiasco.

Oh, wait, he did.

Remember all those times we were horrified by a Bush Cheney announcement, like FISA, say?

This is one of those moves, but lesser, on Obama’s part.

It’s meant to distract, too.

(Obama has prominent ties to the nation of Islam, which has prominent ties to Qaddafi, who blew up on airplane full of people, in Lockerbie.

Qaddafi is a gassy old kook, but it is NOT acceptable to be associated with men who launder and take money from him, ie Auchi, and Farrakhan, and then, in turn, take money from them).

(The best defense is offense, ie “screw you!”).

Obama has terrorist connections, verified.

It’s also my perception Obama’s camp, like Bush’s, is lost, trotting out old chestnuts to hide the chaos within their own camp.

“YOU’VE COME A LONG WAY BABY!”

You’d have thought that Hillary’s New Hampshire victory would have made major headlines for days simply because it was a first for women. But no.

I wish I could thank all of those women, before me, who were so courageous and bore terrible humiliations and hardships for taking a stand for women’s rights.

And, although Kirb’s timeline wasn’t the place to elaborate, there is Hillary’s remarkable history of working for women’s rights — not just in the U.S., but throughout Africa, throughout SE Asia, throughout the Middle East, and more. Her bio at Wikipedia gets into a lot of what she did for women AROUND the world.

NEXT UP: THIS IS A MUST-READ, via A.P., International Herald Tribune:

“Long stalwarts for Clinton, women push back on calls for her to exit presidential race”

It begins:

NEW ALBANY, Indiana: Debra Starks has heard the calls for Hillary Rodham Clinton to quit the presidential race, and she is not happy about it.

The 53-year old Wal-Mart clerk, so bedecked with Clinton campaign buttons most days that friends call her “Button Lady,” thinks sexism is playing a role in efforts to push the New York senator from the race. Starks wants Clinton to push back.

“The way I look at it, she’s a strong woman and she needs to stay in there. She needs to fight,” Starks said at a Clinton campaign rally. “If you want to be president, you have to fight for what you want. If she stays in there and does what she’s supposed to do, I think she’ll be on her way.”

Amid mounting calls from top Democrats for Clinton to step aside and clear the path for rival Barack Obama, strategists are warning of damage to the party’s chances in November if women — who make up the majority of Democratic voters nationwide, but especially the older, white working-class women who have long formed the former first lady’s base — sense a mostly male party establishment is unfairly muscling Clinton out of the race. …

Read all of “Long stalwarts for Clinton, women push back on calls for her to exit presidential race” — there are many more stories, and points made, in the story.

We rely on people like you, Kirb, to help tell the true and admirable history of women in this country. This history stands in stark contrast to the continuing existence of sexism and misogyny, which has become so apparent during Hillary’s run for office.

Thank you again. I hope your post is cross listed all over the internet.