While I agree with Bostonboomer that it would be a shame to see another "highly qualified woman .. play a secondary role to a younger, far less qualified (to put it mildly) man," I also feel strongly that this nation desperately needs a national leader who is a woman and a feminist.
That woman is Hillary Rodham Clinton. We need her to remain on the national stage. She has inspired women and girls everywhere and caused an unprecedented number of women to become involved and pay attention to politics. She is our best hope of breaking the stranglehold that men have on U.S. politics. She is our best hope of finally putting a dent in the cultural misogyny. As a national leader, she is our best hope of raising the dismal status of girls and women.
It would be a terrible mistake to let her disappear into the senate or Supreme Court. Sixty percent of Democratic women want Hillary on the ticket as Vice President.
When it comes to women, Barack Obama has proved himself to be exceedingly far from the most sensitive male on the planet, let's hope he doesn't blow this one too. The presumptive nominee will further divide the Democratic Party if he fails to entreat Hillary Rodham Clinton to join him on the ticket. Without Hillary on the ticket, there is no hope for party unity.
Big Tent Democrat:
I'd like to interrupt this Unity Day message with a small reminder to the Barack Obama campaign and the Democratic Party - unless he picks Hillary Clinton as his running mate - the day he announces his Vice Presidential candidate will be a day of disunity. . .
[I]f he is set on NOT picking Hillary Clinton as his VP, I hope he has a plan for re-unifying the Party the day after he insists on NOT unifying, indeed, in dividing the Party by not choosing Hillary Clinton as his VP.
"If you really want a winning ticket, this is it. I've looked at every other possible candidate. No one brings to a ticket what Hillary brings -- Eighteen million people committed to where she's going."
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