What Hillary Should Say Now

Barack Hussien Obama treated Hillary like a red headed step child. He showed himself to be a sexist pig throughout the primaries. I may not agree with much of the McCain platform but I will be happily voting for him in November. All of us Hillary supporters need to see that McCain is elected so Hillary can then become president in 2012. Plus maybe then Obama will fade into the ranks of has-beens like Kerry.

Hillary Clinton has more class and integrity than any of these so-called supporters who would jump ship and vote for McCain and that sad excuse for a "role model" he chose as his running mate. Do they honestly think that Hillary would want them to try to elect the ticket that would give us another four years to run the economy into the ground, keep us mired in a war that's killing our young people and innocent Iraquis, alienating all our allies, diminishing our status around the world and take away a woman's right to govern her own body? I don't think so. Does anyone really think that Hillary would want them to desert the only party that has a chance of finally bringing universal health care to this country? I'd be willing to bet that most of these "Hillary supporters" are in fact more neo-cons masquerading as former Dems in the hopes they'll lure women who would have supported Clinton to their side. Sorry, but few of us are so stupid as you all seem to think we are. Hillary is a lifelong Democrat and passionate about the issues that have traditionally mattered to her party. Anyone who supported her as strongly as these women claim to have would not cast a vote that would be another defeat for her. That's disloyal and illogical, and the Republicans show how little they really think of women with that assumption. Perhaps that's no surprise considering the top of their ticket suggested his wife should enter a topless contest. How classy of him! The appeal the Republicans are trying to make to Clinton's women supporters by putting Palin on the ticket and saying how unfair we're been to Hillary is laughable. As if they wouldn't be attacking Hillary just as virulently as they are Obama if she had won the nomination. Great letter, Patti. We're with you and so is Hillary. I believe she'll show her patriotism by fighting right up to 11/3 to help put a Democratic president in the White House!

Thank you Patti Davis. We need to hear from more women like you. The choice of Palin was very clearly aimed at the women vote. No -Patti and women like her are not waiting to be told that they should not vote for McCain because of Palin as some people have beeninferring from her article. Rather, she is asking Hillary to talk to those women who seem to think that the Palin choice has suddenlychanged the whole campaign and somehow will change what a McCain administration will do. To these women Patti wants to say and wantsHillary to speak to convince them that a McCain Palin administration will achieve even less for women than what a McCain Pawlenty or aMcCain Romney administration would have. Women need to understand that the republican party is very powerful in being able to push itsagenda even with a so-called maverick like McCain. Even McCain has reversed his position on several issues to convince theconservative voters to back him. With Palin being so strongly anti choice he thought he would be hitting two targets with one stone -the conservative as well as the women voters. Jonathan Alter was right in his article - Palin is nothing but a Fox anchor in the garbof a character from 'Northern Exposure'. She represents the most conservative of the women voters. She is nothing but a prop and afront for the republican party to achieve their objectives. With the supreme court already leaning right this will be a perfect coupfor the party to complete the court line up. You can bet that the advances for women in the last 50 years will more than be wiped out. Forgetstem cell research, forget science education - rather look for the Intelligent Design in your children's school curriculum, globalwarming shmlobal warming - you heard the refrain - drill baby, drill. Look for Fox news to get its own wing in the White House. Youthink the republican party cares about the middle class? Think again. How much more convincing do you need to understand that the Iraqwar was totally contrived. Yes - I heard that McCain hates wars, then why did he not question the Bush administration during the runup to the war? Yes- the surge worked - full credit to him; but is it really credit to pull your car out of a ditch when you were theone who drove it into the ditch first? At what cost? With a McCain administration the saber rattling with Iran and Russia will notstop. And Palin is barely knowledgeable with the geography, let alone understand the foriegn policy aspects of internationalrelations. Republicans like Sarah Palin because she is anti choice - that is it. After that every thing else just is reinforcement ofpersonality and bluster of conservative talk. Their moral certitude makes these people believe in anything as long as their core fanatical principles are followed. If Sarah Palin was everything that she was, but was Pro Choice you would have seen these very same conservaitves trash her. And this is the choice that women want? Another 8 years of retrograde path?

OK, now I've read some of the other coments. Wow. I am so sad. I am as much of a womens rights, Hillary supporter as any of you but you have got to be kidding!!!! You sound like a bunch of stereotypical, emotional, unthinking women. You are going to switch your vote from a woman who is pro-choice, for family leave, for health care, for education, not going to give tax breaks to the rich, etc. etc. etc. over to a woman who doesn't believe in choice for women even in the case of rape, wants to keep sex-ed out of schools, wants ban books from libraries, wants to teach creationism in schools, said the war was "God's Will", etc. etc. etc. just because you prefer her gender and you like that she is a pistol of a personality? REALLY???????? Is this what we have fought for?

Some of you here say the Sarah Palin doesnt share your feelings on womens issues such as abortion. Well my many women don't agree with your position on Abortion. I thought that the ultimate womens issue is equality. Isnt that what the fight has been about before and after sufferage. Equality in the ballot box, equality at home, equality in the work place. Electiing Sarah Palin to the the second highest office in the land will do more for equality than 50 years of the womens movement. Not until women have equality in politics, (the place by the way that laws are made) women will never have the power to pass all the other laws that are important to women.

ROFL... got2bu? Shoot... any of you zapping these profound and serious opinions here? Some of us were taught: "Consider the source" and so I considered Patti Davis (Reagan), and wow... googling her is an.. er... eye-popper. Literally.

I suggest you go to "images" in google, and enter our fair columnist???s name... Patti Davis... and then just the one word: Playboy.

The Playboy photo of her is on their front cover and... er... clearly illustrates Patti's liberal views about sex, color, free love, modesty, and ... weel, you???ll get the picture! Or, maybe you'd rather not get it?

Patti with her mediocre, simplistic writing skills, would, I think, be an embarrassment to Hillary Clinton and also Obama... not because Patti is still supporting H.C., but because she is actually rather an embarrassing person just to have as an acquaintance. What one would tend to forgive because of ... well we cannot say ???youth??? (she was 41 years old when she posed for Playboy) becomes something of a drag in a 55-year-old Golden Gurl.

It's enough to turn a person into a... (let me whisper the word...) conservative!

The Palin-McCain ticket is bankrupt in ideas. McCain has voted with Bush over 95% of the time, but he acts like he is going to "go to Washington" to make changes. He has been part of a Republican government that has led for much of the past 8 years. We are now $10 trillion in debt (much of it to Russia, China and Saudi Arabia), fighting two wars, have weakened ability to respond to any other global crisis, have a lowered standing within the world

Palin is short on facts, weak on real experience (seriously - dig into the "accomplishments" in Alaska before giving her much credit for anything), incredibly smug, undiplomatic and prone to lies and exaggeration. I do not see anything presidential about her.

Obama is a born leader with real ideas and a true desire to make changes. He has reached across parties lines on many occasions. His ideas for health care reform, true tax cuts for 85% of Americans and his ability to raise America's status on a global stage will really move America forward.

Hillary will soon be coming forward to campaign even more for the Obama/Biden ticket. As a thinking person, she knows the inspiring ticket of Obama-Biden is the best choice for America. I urge, wish, pray that all Americans, voters and non, Dems, Repubs, Indies -- realize that the reason this election is so close is because of the elephant in the room, and I'm not referring to the GOP mascot. Let's really take a look at ourselves and come to some truths. We are a better country. Let's not be hypocrites.

please help us hillary... don't let this happen! step in step up-- this is the time
this woman is classless and snide! don't you dare let her compare herself to you! speak up--please!!!!!!!!!

Please, Senator Clinton, make the case as only you can! Gov. Palin would not only legislate women's rights away, she would set back women in office for a long time to come. It is pathetic to listen to the Republicans steal the Democrats' slogans, to hear Karl Rove say Palin is qualified when he thought Gov. Kane wasn't, to watch as all the work of many, many women over many, many years could be washed away. For everyone's sake, but especially for the daughterso f American, please speak forcefully against Ms. Palin. Thank you.

Great article! We absolutely need her to go after Palin since so many will see Obama and Biden as being sexist. If she truly cares about the Democratic party she will and if not the Obama team must recruit as many women in key states to go after this pathetic excuse for a canidate. The only thing letting her ride this gravy train is her sex and her far right wing views.

Thank you, Patti Davis! I have been waiting for Hillary to say something just like this. I was totally blown away at the assumption from McCain that just because he picked a woman vp he would pull from the women who were attracted to Hillary - -how insulting!!! Women supported HIllary because she is smart, has foreign policy experience, knows the issues women are concerned about and is professional and, most importantly, presidential. The assumprion that women would back Palin just because she is a woman is so insulting. Thank you for writing this.

You have absolutely read my mind. Where is Hillary?!? I have been so disappointed by her silence. The men have to tiptoe around this barracuda but Hillary could let her have it woman to woman.

DONT YOU DARE put this on Hillary! It is not her obligation to save the faltering candidacy of Obama and Biden.

If you want a female to fight for Obama, ASK PELOSI to do it. She has been bought by Obama, she should be fine as Obama's hack.

But of course, Pelosi, despite her pretense is a nobody.

Don't confuse Sarah Palin as VP with getting equality for women. There were other occasions when this was possible with even more capable women in the republican party - Elizabeth Dole for one. How come they did not make it? No-Palin will do nothing for your equality rights. Unless the fundamental thinking of the republican party changes it will not happen. Maybe she will be the one, but sometimes if things appear too good to be true, there is a good reason to suspect them.