It appears to me that the majority of women are middle age and older. My question has to do with body and aging acceptance. How are women accepting the fact that their bodies are changing and we may be facing ill health? Most of the women I know are concerned about these issues. Weight and lack of youthful energy is a bid topic. I’d like to hear how other women are dealing with these issues. Thank you for this site. It has opened a different way of thinking on many issues.

so very eloquent, Liz Smith. But, sadly, the race is over and has been for some time….she is not doing herself any favors….there is a difference in fighting for survival,fighting for change, and fighting for ego….from a Hillary fan….

I think the Hillary-Billary Show has reached its season finale. No reruns please.

Not only is there NO way she can win the delegate count, she has been shown to have lied again: her campaign did not take in 10 million dollars the day after Pennsylvania, nor did it take anywhere near that amount in the next five dies. Try less than 6 million. So , she’s lost the delegate race and the money race and the eloquence race and the ability to manage race, but she’s still in the running for the lack of grace race.

Well said Liz!!!

Clinton has taken Kentucky and Obama is right there in Oregon. The Democratic race for nomination is still very much alive – and most likely to be decided by superdelegates – as CNN points out clearly http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/20/primary.wrap/index.html If you’re tired of waiting around for those super delegates to make a decision already, go to LobbyDelegates.com and push them to support Clinton or Obama If you haven’t done so yet, please write a message to each of your state’s superdelegates at http://www.lobbydelegates.com Obama Supporters: Sending a note to current Obama supporters lets them know it’s appreciated, sending a note to current Clinton supporters can hopefully sway them to change their vote to Obama, and sending a note to the uncommitted folks will hopefully sway them to vote for Obama. It’s that easy… Clinton Supporters too …. ! It takes a moment, but what’s a few minutes now worth to get Clinton in office?! Those are really worth ! Sending a note to current Clinton supporters lets them know it’s appreciated, sending a note to current Obama supporters can hopefully sway them to change their vote to Clinton, and sending a note to the uncommitted folks will hopefully sway them to vote for Clinton. It’s that easy…

Madam President. Get used to these words! Hillary is our hero! She is smart, tough and gets things done. She has demonstrated again and again that she can stand up to the anatomically elongated. Write to NBC and MSNBC sponsors and tell them you are boycotting their products until they stop supporting the sexist Matthews, Olbermann, Russert.

I think it is a perfectly good thing for Hillary to remain in the race for her vast number of supporters, however, I don’t think her rhetoric is benefiting women. As a woman who has believed that our country would benefit from increased feminine values being integrated into power, I have been disappointed by Hillary’s decision to run away from those values. Instead of showing the strength of the feminine values of compassion, listening, compromise, and analytical strength she has acted like a war hawk, a gun toting, beer drinking, good ol’ girl who ignores the advise of economists and national security specialists like Biden, Hagel, Dodd,etc… I think that the reason that Barack has gained the support of feminists and women in general is his willingness to embrace those feminine values and refusal to cower when adversaries call his policies of compassion towards other nations weak. As much as I recognize that there has been sexist language used by the media at times and certainly from ignorant jerks out there on the trail, I am not sure that Hillary complaining about it advances feminism. It is good for others to bring it up and even for the media to analyze it, but for a woman who has used rhetoric for the last few months to emasculate Barack Obama, it doesn’t quite jive. When her own supporters tout her “testicular fortitude” (which I found quite sexist), how can she complain about oponents less overt sexist overtones? I don’t recall ever hearing Margaret Thatcher complain about sexism and repeatedly I have heard Barack Obama defend Hillary, Bill, her surrogates, McCain and even Huckabee against criticism of race baiting. He has done everything he can to negate the power of racial divides and to lift the discussion to a higher level. I think Hillary should follow suit. We can help to decrease sexism and racism if we appeal to people’s better angels, rather than cave in to the cynicism. We should be celebrating the fact that both Hillary and Barack have already altered the perceptions of our country just by being as successful as they have been thus far. A year ago only 55% of our country thought that an African American or a woman could win the Presidency and now more than 75% believe that it can be done. They both deserve incredible praise for transforming the country. What an incredible paradigm shift we have seen!

While Hillary is the first viable woman candidate for President, she is not the first. We forget that many other women have run for the Presidency in the past, including 8 others who earned convention support in their respective parties. And, remember when Gracie Allen ran 1940? Those with convention support: 1960 Whitney H. Slocomb from the Greenback Party, 1964 Margaret Chase Smith from the Republican Party, 1972 Shirley Chisholm from the Democratic Party, 1972 Patsy Takamoto Mink from the Democratic Party, 1972 Bella Savitzky Abzug from the Democratic Party, 1976 Ellen McCormack from the Democratic Party, 2000 Elizabeth Dole from the Republican Party, and in 2004 Carol Moseley Braun from the Democratic Party. I celebrate Hillary’s success, but I don’t believe that she is our last chance. She has managed to break that ceiling for many more to follow. I am confident that there will be plenty more contenders.

Lots of women have run but none of them have won the presidency or the vice presidency. Hillary Clinton has the best chance to actually win one of those spots. If she is not able to win the presidential nomination outright or broker a deal at the convention, she should accept the vice presidential nomination. That ticket would probably clinch the Democrats the White House. She would be the first female Vice President in U.S. history. I think that would be another good step in a long line of steps in the right direction for the Democratic party now and for the future.

There are a huge number of comments here and I admittedly have not read them all. If someone has addressed this, please excuse me. Sen. Clinton is one of my senators and she has, from the beginning, done her homework in terms of New York State, esp. Upstate. A lot of people think she has done a terrific job at representing the state; I’m one of them. Having said that, I have to admit that as a person, I don’t like her. I would not choose her, for example, to be my closest friend. But I don’t ask for friendship from my representatives and I don’t ask for friendship from someone who I feel is going to need to make some extremely unpopular and difficult decisions. The United States is in a very dangerous place right now; the current Administration has basically gutted the Constitution, the Justice Department, and the ability of the government to really function at any level above the incompetant. Whoever is elected president in November will be faced with a mess of epic proportions. Who is best to bring the country together? Who is best to clean out all the weasles and parasites in government? Who is best of start the healing process not only across the nation, but with our allies and also with people who are NOT our allies. Hillary Clinton has been forged in the furnace of lies and attacks by the GOP against her, against her husband, against her daughter. She is very tough. She is not nice. She does not offer hope. She offers energy and the ability to get things done, not only on her own side of the aisle, but with the others as well. Whoever will be elected will need to be able to say to the American People, “We are in one hell of a mess here; it will take at least as much time to clean it up and put the nation to rights as it did for the last Administration to put us here. We will all need to work together, to trust that we all have good will toward the nation, the Constitution and one another. We must all be in this for the long haul.” Anyone who has watched Sen. Clinton on her campaign knows that she has the steel and the endurance to do this. This, of course, is one of the sore points with people who wish for her to bow out - they want her to give up. For those of us who value the Constitution and personal liberties, who know how important and dangerous right now is for the American People, having someone there who is tough, enduring and has concrete plans is a very reassuring thing.