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People say that Obama is all rhetoric and very little substance and I will agree that there has been lots of rhetoric from Obama and it is the right type of rhetoric. It is the type that reaches across party lines and offers hope to all americans regardless of race, gender, or sexual orientation. It is the type of rhetoric that says that the values of our founding fathers are real and that ALL MEN and WOMEN are entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuite of happiness. Not only those rich enough to afford it or those greedy and sneaky enough to steal it.

I thought bill put all his leftover juice on monica.

By Marie Cocco
Thursday, May 15, 2008; Page A15
As the Democratic nomination contest slouches toward a close, it's time to take stock of what I will not miss.

I will not miss seeing advertisements for T-shirts that bear the slogan "Bros before Hos." The shirts depict Barack Obama (the Bro) and Hillary Clinton (the Ho) and are widely sold on the Internet.

I will not miss walking past airport concessions selling the Hillary Nutcracker, a device in which a pantsuit-clad Clinton doll opens her legs to reveal stainless-steel thighs that, well, bust nuts. I won't miss television and newspaper stories that make light of the novelty item.

I won't miss episodes like the one in which liberal radio personality Randi Rhodes called Clinton a "big [expletive] whore" and said the same about former vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro. Rhodes was appearing at an event sponsored by a San Francisco radio station, before an audience of appreciative Obama supporters -- one of whom had promoted the evening on the presumptive Democratic nominee's official campaign Web site.

I won't miss Citizens United Not Timid (no acronym, please), an anti-Clinton group founded by Republican guru Roger Stone.

Political discourse will at last be free of jokes like this one, told last week by magician Penn Jillette on MSNBC: "Obama did great in February, and that's because that was Black History Month. And now Hillary's doing much better 'cause it's White **** Month, right?" Co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski rebuked Jillette.

I won't miss political commentators (including National Public Radio political editor Ken Rudin and Andrew Sullivan, the columnist and blogger) who compare Clinton to the Glenn Close character in the movie "Fatal Attraction." In the iconic 1987 film, Close played an independent New York woman who has an affair with a married man played by Michael Douglas. When the liaison ends, the jilted woman becomes a deranged, knife-wielding stalker who terrorizes the man's blissful suburban family. Message: Psychopathic home-wrecker, begone.

The airwaves will at last be free of comments that liken Clinton to a "she-devil" (Chris Matthews on MSNBC, who helpfully supplied an on-screen mock-up of Clinton sprouting horns). Or those who offer that she's "looking like everyone's first wife standing outside a probate court" (Mike Barnicle, also on MSNBC).

But perhaps it is not wives who are so very problematic. Maybe it's mothers. Because, after all, Clinton is more like "a scolding mother, talking down to a child" (Jack Cafferty on CNN).

When all other images fail, there is one other I will not miss. That is, the down-to-the-basics, simplest one: "White women are a problem, that's -- you know, we all live with that" (William Kristol of Fox News).

I won't miss reading another treatise by a man or woman, of the left or right, who says that sexism has had not even a teeny-weeny bit of influence on the course of the Democratic campaign. To hint that sexism might possibly have had a minimal role is to play that risible "gender card."

Most of all, I will not miss the silence.

I will not miss the deafening, depressing silence of Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean or other leading Democrats, who to my knowledge (with the exception of Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland) haven't publicly uttered a word of outrage at the unrelenting, sex-based hate that has been hurled at a former first lady and two-term senator from New York. Among those holding their tongues are hundreds of Democrats for whom Clinton has campaigned and raised millions of dollars. Don Imus endured more public ire from the political class when he insulted the Rutgers University women's basketball team.

Would the silence prevail if Obama's likeness were put on a tap-dancing doll that was sold at airports? Would the media figures who dole out precious face time to these politicians be such pals if they'd compared Obama with a character in a blaxploitation film? And how would crude references to Obama's sex organs play?

There are many reasons Clinton is losing the nomination contest, some having to do with her strategic mistakes, others with the groundswell for "change." But for all Clinton's political blemishes, the darker stain that has been exposed is the hatred of women that is accepted as a part of our culture.

Marie Cocco is syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group. Her e-mail address is mariecocco@washpost.com.

She is very powerful, and has a lot of support....

So I guess I have to wonder why it is that you and others of us distrust him so much -- ESPECIALLY if they feel they can trust HER.

Haha Simma

He doesn't have to bring Wright into the White House.. Its not a myth where there is smoke there is fire.

Obama views are the same as his wifes and his Pastors.

The millions of votes Hillary received in this primary race are based on name recognition. Those votes don't represent genuine support for her leadership style.

You imply that Hillary supporters are .... Uninformed... Maybe Ignorant.... Uneducated ... No Genuine Support.......

And there, Obama actually has one year MORE experience than does Hillary.

Personally, I do not give much weight to First Ladyship

I CAN say that any man whose skin is pigmented brown -- as is Obama's -- is going to be deemed "Black" in the eyes of those describing him today.

That said, being Black -- in and of itself -- bears absolutely no relevance to the issue of "trustworthiness" or "fitness" for office or to lead, so I fail to see where you're going with that.

The point is we ALL know of people close to us who do and/or say somethings with which we disagree/disapprove; still, we keep them in our lives because on balance, though not perfect, in our own estimation they are still pretty good folks.

While that's certainly your prerogative, her own actions and statements -- just in the last four of five months of her life -- seriously call into question why you do so.

Your wrong about Hills juice, She has no power. She wouldn't be even in the fight if the republicans weren't proping her up. She is widely detested by the majority of the dem party and pretty much every conservative.

It definitely took a lot of courage and guts on his part to have even entered the race and it seems his decision has paid off.

Then it's the sons of ****es who disenfranchised those voters that are the ones who should be charged with depriving these citizens of their constitutional right to vote, including the committee members of the DNC if they refuse to restore those states their delegates.

it is pretty incredible what someone like Obama was able to achieve in such a short period of time with none of the advantages Hillary started out with. It definitely took a lot of courage and guts on his part to have even entered the race and it seems his decision has paid off.

Somebody please tell me if Obama is or is not a Washington insider.

If she were detested by the majority of the democratic party she wouldn't be receiving 50% of the popular vote when you include Florida and Michigan.
That she is detested by most conservatives would be viewed as a badge of honor by most democrats

Obama and McCain (for different reasons) are both better choices than Hillary would have been. It is great for the process that she is soon to be out of contention.

Millions of the VOTERS in Michigan and Florida have been deprived of their right to vote.
Oh, the VOTERS must have committed a felony then? No.
Well, then, those VOTERS must have committed treason against this country, right?
No. The VOTERS didn't do anything.

Then it's the sons of ****es who disenfranchised those voters that are the ones who should be charged with depriving these citizens of their constitutional right to vote, including the committee members of the DNC if they refuse to restore those states their delegates.