Mental health is a huge issue when it comes to the health. What the hell good is a healthy body if it doesn’t have a healthy mind controlling it?

my shit is sometimes yellow or green in color sumtimes evin blue if i eat enuff pop tarts….

I don’t obsess on what candidates did or did not do about wars. Obama was not a New York Senator, and Hillary would no longer be in office if she voted against the war back then.

Lyndon Johnson, Franlkin Roosevelt, Nixon and others all promised to stay out of wars or to get us out of an existing war. How soon women forget this fact.

A Hillary presidency would have been a huge boost to women everywhere, as far as claiming the power of the highest office, symbolically and in every other way. If 92% of blacks can support Obama, and even the conservative black commentators are hemming and hawing and agonizing, because these black men know that breaking that barrier is key.

Women don’t really get this, and set impossibly high standards for other women to get to the presidency. No woman is ever going to get elected this way, and that’s the point I am making.

Bottom line, I don’t believe men represent me. Obama PAYS his female employees less than McCain does. This should be talked about more! Obama calls women “honey” and brushes them off when he thinks the cameras aren’t running.

If you believe any presidential candidate is a true peace candidate, guess again. History will prove you wrong just with the 20th century examples I gave above.

Obama is going to say anything now to get elected. The point is as I feminist, I don’t trust him, and I feel unmoved by his slick speeches and Kennedy speechwriter phrases. I don’t get his appeal at all really, or how someone that green on foreign policy should have the confidense of Americans at all.

I believe women’s inability to get behind a liberal feminist woman candidate is about their fear of not being good enough themselves. It is the fear of responsibility for finally running the show, and when women get close to power, they sometimes balk… maybe liberal women.

Young women, having perhaps missed the real hatred of men in the big battles over feminist ideas in the late 60s, 70s and early 80s I think are too trusting of men. Too willing to throw away an opportunity, that would open all the jobs presidents appoint, and all the supreme court justices out there.

Hillary’s power would have been to win the election, and really go for it in the first term, not caring at all whether she was reelected or not. The presidency is a drug they all get quickly addicted to, however.

To me it is simple: I support highly intelligent liberal to left women for office, period end of it. I don’t obsess about one or two votes, I look for the big picture and the long term. We will never have a viable woman candidate in office at this level for a generation or more now. Think Ferraro and how long ago that was!

I am sad that so many young women are just believing the men, supporting the men, and going along with a porn woman objectifying society now. Sad really.

Men don’t represent me ever. I am tired with their control over the vast majority of elected offices, tired of their control of corporations, tired of their blabby faces on CNN etc. I’m just tired of male rule in general. Men can’t and won’t ever change. It is up to women to demand the change we deserve, and maybe this won’t happen either in my lifetime, but at least I can put it out there.

McCain or Obama… doesn’t really matter to me now.

Are you aware of the fact that Obama, earlier in 2007 proposed and co sponsored the Counter Proliferation Act of 2007 which said that exact same thing?

What you are doing right now is making excuses for yourself because you cannot admit that you were wrong. Your mistake will cost you and other women dearly, and you don’t even have the decency to acknowledg your mistake. And btw- NARAL Illinois stated that Obama dodnt work with them on those present votes.

though obama’s recent behavior has also let me down, the disappointments have been less significant than another vote for the bush administration to do whatever it wants in the middle east.

i would be interested in the realization of the threat made by another commenter of revealing obama’s voting record against republican attempts to criminalize women’s health care. a quick googling shows that naral rated obama 100% in 2005, 2006, and 2007. what do you know that naral doesn’t? based on his voting record, obama’s position is mine: abortion should be safe, legal, and accessible (though pregnancy prevention is better — not just on moral grounds, but physically). if a person will suffer health risks by continuing a pregnancy, she should be able to get an abortion *at any time*.

obama has consistently voted against the idiotic bills that would throw such people and their doctors in prison. of course, abortion is not just for kicks at eight months. i don’t think any people ever actually do that, so i think this is an issue trumped up by folks like karl rove to divide people on lines that don’t exist. these stupid bills shouldn’t exist, because abortion-for-fun doesn’t exist, but when these stupid republican bills come up for votes, obama does not support them.

Women are going to regret the outcome of this election. I predict a McCain victory. The whole point was to underplay racism and overplay sexism..the usual system, and it worked like a charm. Now they are not so secretly coming out of the racist closet, and that’s why Obama’s lead has so mysteriously disappeared in recent opinion polls.

Obama, too connected to churches in general, too evangelical in his language that it makes me sick… and what do you expect…kow towing to the woman hating reverends yet again. You’d think feminists would run from any candidate who has such close associations with even liberal yelling, clapping leader worshipping churches. But hey, guess this next generation has to learn the hard way.

Self-respecting blamers would horrified if we had a democratic candidate who attended a white yelling and screaming church, atheists would be horrified at all this talk about “faith based” funding with our tax dollars. The truth is, we’ve seen what damange people who use god out in the public sphere do, and why Obama and the black church get this kind of a free ride is just beyond me.

Remember separation of church and state? Well that’s out the window with an Obama presidency. Hillary had the decency to keep her faith private, until she was forced to talk about god by the partriarchal campaigns, but it wasn’t her nature. This quiet dignity and reluctance to pander to religion and god in public life gave her that subtle mixture of intelligence that I so miss.

I know, I should keep whining about this, but I am still heart broken over the loss of her, and the realization that women on feminist blogs were so awful to her.

Why do women trust men in office? Why do they?!

Although in the end, politics is an embarrasing, distracting, and overall hateful enterprise that should be avoided, as it poisons everyone. It’s too late for me: I run away from it 10 months out of 12, but the shit is like herpes.