Well you don't speak for this woman, Hillary.

So please knock it off.

I don't have 3 balls; I don't like boilermakers; I don't like war!

You are not my kind of woman.

By all means let's hear from women. They are the majority of our party and the electorate. It's just Mrs. Clinton who we want to shut up already.

Economides - I don't really think we women have a lot of trouble getting heard by the Democratic Party. The Republicans don't like us, but the Democrats always have.

We aren't really all that downtrodden, Hill. At least us white women aren't.

Note how she is not even mentioning Obama any more. I saw Wolfson on MSNBC this morning. Same diff. They know which way the wind is blowng. They see the shit sandwich they will be ruminating on for the next six months. The delicious Irony is that if they had not been so negative it would not be nearly as big.

Here's the problem, Senator Clinton. It is hard for a woman to "to stand up and say we are the best at anything". It is hard for a woman to run for President. These things are true.

But thanks to the shameless gas tax pandering that you've engaged in, this just sounds like another panderfest.

And considering the historic nature of your candidacy, that's pretty damning.

Ok..sounds like a play for the Vice Presidency.

HELL NO!

After the crap she pulled.... I could never support her on the Obama ticket!

The thought of Senator Clinton going from Tuzla Tess to Little Goodie Twoshoes for the duration boggles the mind,,,,,,,,,,,, and churns the stomach. - and no more teary episodes, please.

To be perfectly honest, NC, I have never had any trouble with standing up for myself as a woman.

I have a bit of a problem thinking American white women have it so tough.

It's still a man's world, but not so much as it was and I don't feel all that looked down upon because of my gender. I never have.

Ahhh. The old Gender Card. This is really becoming an opera bouffe.

To be honest - I've been sexually harassed since I was 13. And some of it was beyond obnoxious, but I know how to fight that now if it happens, which is unlikely inasmuch as I'm not the right age anymore.

I really think that the more Hillary plays The Victim, the more of her former supporters and admirers are going to turn away.

So the "it's hard for a woman to say she's the best at something" might not apply to today's 20 somethings, but I think it's not completely off the mark for women older than 45?

I basically agree with this - I think the young women I know have both feet more firmly on the ground than I did and are much more confident.

As for women in their 40s - well, I guess as always that depends on the woman but there is an age gap, I agree.

That's true though for almost every one of our cultural divides - gender, race, sexual orientation. Those things don't figure in very largely to the thinking of my friends in their 20s. And this is one of the best signs out there, IMO.

Playing the sex card. Did Obama ever say, or could he ever get away with saying, "African Americans Are Going To Be Heard."

I'm all for a Woman on the ticket this fall.

Go Governor Sebelius!!

Well, actually Clinton basically said that White People are Going to Be Heard:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/Clintons_white_Americans.html

What is so wrong about Clinton's remarks is that the rules of the democratic party have for very many years required absolute parity amongst women and men within the party structure, at both the state and national level, and convention delegations.

The problem is, I don't think she supports me as a woman. I have an advanced degree but chose to stay home with my kids for 10 years before going back to work. To her, that's "baking cookies and having teas," right?

I try not to be snarky on here, but this comment of hers hit close to home. And now she's representing all women? Not me. She's not what I aspire to, and I don't think I am the kind of woman she'd have anything to do with in the real world.

I agree more with Obama's values than hers. I think a lot of women who look past the basic fact that Hillary is a female find that they have more in common with Barack Obama.

Well the past weeks all we've been hearing about are Hillary having balls. Do these women we're going to be hearing from have 3 balls? Does that make them weak?

Hillary should tread carefully over the next few weeks, or she does nothing but damage Obama for the general. She might dial back the direct attacks on Obama, but her new focus already seems to be on the demographics of the race, and Obama's "electability". Focusing on these divisions (white, black, rich, poor) is just another way of saying Obama is "elitist", or is just plain scary to the mythic white working class voter. This type of shit may be more damaging than direct attacks, becuase it just plays up the divisions in the Democratic party, that MUST be healed before November. This is why you see Feinstein and others asking her just wehre the hell she thinks she goes from here.

I am so sick of identity politics, I could scream. Of course women will be heard, Hillary, they are a majority of the Dem. electorate. Does this mean they should voter for you because you're a woman? Or because Barack doesn't understand women's issues? Either way, you sound like a jerk.

"Do you know difficult it is for women to stand up and say we are the best at anything?"

most the women I know do not find this difficult.

But I understand wht she means.

This 40-something woman wants to be heard--I voted for Obama!

Hillary, thank you for breaking the glass ceiling--you have paved the way and I expect from now on, we will always have at least one female candidate for President. That is a huge accomplishment! But now, it is time to end this gracefully. Thank you.

Hillary is gonna channel General Lee.

You watch.

Do you know difficult it is for women to stand up and say we are the best at anything?

Well, THIS woman is damned good at standing up and saying, "You do not speak for me, Hillary Clinton!"

How dare she try to push this divide. How dare she pretend to be running as a feminist, speaking up for women.

She has not been running a feminist campaign. She has been running a divisive, hawkish, pandering campaign that follows all the old Republican frames. The longer the campaign goes on, the more she relies on hawkishness and Republican talking points.

Feminism is, in large part, about changing the frames, about respecting people as individuals, about valuing diversity. Clinton fails on this point.

My feminism is also very much about peace and about moving away from militaristic solutions. I am not a pacifist, but I believe violence must truly be a last resort. Clinton fails completely on this front. She is a hawk.

I have worked or gone to school every year of my life since I was five, except for maternity leave. I am a pod for Obama who has heard my voice.

Can someone please get a stake!

If you look at the exit polls for both Indiana and North Carolina, the gender gap had almost disappeared. Clinton still does slightly better among women than men, but the gap was down to about 4-6%.