It is now about 1:30 in the morning and I came back to the site to read through the threads in this commentary. I can hear the voices of people shouting, celebrating and choking back tears. The sounds of resentment are loud as are the sounds of disappointment. Elation flows from one comment and from another is “wait and see”. How can all this audible? But it is. I came back to the website tonight because I certainly did not want to “listen” to this tomorrow. Exhaustion. Can’t you hear it? Anne B. wrote about all the negativity. It has a very nasty sound. Do you hear it? We are soon to be engaged in the General Election and I hope sincerely that the sounds are less strident. Wowowow is a website established for the use by women over the age of 40; however, visitors are always welcomed. So perhaps the last word tonight should be about Senator Clinton. No concession but still the campaign is done. She was a mighty campaigner and served her followers proud. She does not know the definition of the word “quit” and as the first serious female candidate for the Presidency of the United States, she will be remembered. She never looked uninterested, nor tired, nor defeated.

I love, love, love this website. I’m a stay-at-home mom, former Republican, huge Obama supporter, not a soccer-mom but a baseball/dance recital-mom, happily 41 year old WOMAN! I have been so proud that we have a choice between a woman and an african-american—we’ve come a long way, baby! I have never trusted Hillary though. I also think Bill has been a huge liability to her. In my opinion, they seemed from the start to think they were entitled to this nomination. Thank you to everybody on this site for your input and opinions—I enjoy them all! I love Whoppi Goldberg and can’t wait to see her on here again. I love the profiles of all the women contributing here. Looking forward to many more spitited discussions!

I hope Hillary’s goal on Saturday is to urge her supporters to contribute and vote for Obama, rather than to make sure she has more people at her rally(!) than Obama had at his in St. Paul. She has so much left to give if she doesn’t let her baser nature take over.

I support Obama and have for a year now, but I just watched Clinton give a remarkable concession speech and sent her my thanks on her website. But, no VP for her-the Clintons would try to overshadow Obama-he would not let them, but why waste his energy when he has a country to lead? FoxNews?? Are you kidding?? Are they not stinkers?

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/06/yes-she-did… Senator Clinton did all she needed to do: thanked everyone and unequivocally endorsed and supported Barack Obama. One theme stuck out to me: she essentially said that even though she was careful to avoid ever saying that she was running because she was a woman and that people should vote for her because she is a woman, that’s what she believes in private. That’s the theme she spoke of most compellingly. She is Ellen Malcolm’s spiritual sister. In the end, Clinton remains wedded to the identity politics of her generation and her time. It’s a powerful message after so many long decades and centuries in which women have been denied full equality in law and society. It’s a necessary message and a moral message. But it becomes circular and self-defeating when it becomes its own rationale. I think history will show that she didn’t quite have the talent to do it on her own steam, but that she made it much easier for another woman to become president one day. Her two biggest problems: She first married a man who was her political superior and was then defeated by one. She is a very talented politician but it was her fate to find her career hemmed in by two even more talented ones: Bill and Barack. She made up for it all with enormous hard work, diligence and ruthlessness. At any other moment, she would have won. But this is history and politics at the highest level. You cannot defeat such a moment if you are a Salieri. And she had to deal with two Mozarts. Buh-bye.

Senator Clinton will still be a wonderful, caring, hard-working woman in the morning, Renata, and you will still be ranting and bitching this hate-speak toward her, contributing nothing, using those wonderful god-given talents of yours toward spinning your wheels, and contributing nothing. You might want to rethink your plan and do something useful.