Perhaps, you should re-read what I said. Surely, you must have misunderstood my good wishes for your friend …

Well put, Iris. This quotation goes into my “quotes” notebook. thanks …

I trust that you may someday have an experience that opens your heart and mind so that you will cease with this incessant labeling of people who differ from you idealogically. “Marxist!” Come on, there’s nothing pretty about your tendencies to inflamitory hyperbole. Bella, indeed!

Ignorance knows no geography. So what if she was in NYC? Bigots live everywhere. Narrow-mindedness exists in cities and in rural pastoral settings. Hopefully, this woman will have an experience one day that will open her and raise her consciousness. I trust there is hope of that for all bigots …

You’re asking the wrong question. It’s not about “fair game” it’s about taking words out of context and then using them in a twisted fashion to make illogical assumptions about the person speaking. My husband and I watched Michelle’s speech in its entirety and found it to be filled with her love of this country and its blessings upon her … If people would stop with the sound-byte mentality, all candidates could talk to us about the issues. The question should be, when are the American people going to stop judging based upon brief statements taken out of context?

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. I can still remember coming to the end and then rereading the final chapter. I was in the tenth grade and had never experienced anything like it …

Thanks! I, too, am voting for the guy! A long time feminist, I will happily vote for the right woman WHEN SHE COMES ALONG

whose tenants did he follow? Open your mind, girl. Hillary didn’t seem to know her husband of how many years (?) was capable of abusing the power of his office. Does this mean she believed in his right to do what he did with an intern and then lie about it to the nation? Does this make her an adulterer due to proximity?

Unfortunately for him, Obama, has a high opinion of the American people and their ability to see through distractions. Unfortunately for him, there are those who are blind to his opponent’s lack of character and penchant for extreme negativity. Fortunately for him, there are those of us who have done our real homework and who have strong intuitive abilitiites to assess character and integrity. Fortunately, there are those of us who dare to be naive about hope and the opportunity for us to become a more perfect union by leaving politics the old way behind us …

Okay, will those of you who keep saying Obama sat in the pew for 20 years consider the following: Hillary slept beside a man for years and did not know OR lied about knowing that he would abuse the power of his office by having a young intern service his sexual needs. How could she not know? And if she knew, why did she support and believe him when he denied it publicly and until he was caught by evidence? I am not bashing her here, I’m simply saying, we often don’t really know people just because we’re associated with or married to them for years. SO, drop that argument against him, please and start educating yourselves about issues and leadership. The world is watching and Obama would make an impressive ambassador of the shifting paradigm regardless of his pastor’s beliefs or sabotage.

Because it’s not true! It’s the other way around, silly. Republicans know they can beat Hillary, so they’re scrambling to get her the nomination. You will be astounded by how many people will disengage if she is the nominee. Astounded. And as for naive … I say, dare to be naive!

Please, sister women, stop with the choosing a woman JUST because she’s a woman. Stop saying it’s someone or other’s “turn” — the country needs the person “of the moment” with the qualifications to call upon our “better angels” and lead is to be all we can be as a nation. I am a 60-year-old white feminist from Maine and I will celebrate the woman who is the best presidential candidate WHEN SHE COMES ALONG. I find Barack Obama is more in line with Divine Feminine principles, which do not include being a “fighter,” especially a dirty one …

I’m re-reading Alice Walker’s Now Is The Time To Open Your Heart — Love that book. Also, Sue Monk Kidd’s Dance of the Dissidant Daughter

Please read up on this intelligent, self-reflective, grounded and inspiring candidate. Abraham Lincoln had the weakest resume of any president. He was bright and determined and authentic enough to surround himself with a cabinet and others who could advise and contribute for the best interests of all. One of Obama’s favorite books is Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book about this very subject. Look it up and have a read. And as to your “worse off than we are now” comment , wake up and look around and stop buying into the Hillary hype. I am a feminist and will proudly vote for a woman WHEN THE RIGHT ONE COMES ALONG. Inform yourself, do your own research and reading and make an intelligent choice for all our sakes. Please.