A girlfriend I've had for 50+ and a liberal feminist is still livid she didn't leave Bill. We talk about it, and both agree we won't support or vote for her but for different reasons.

I'm incensed over her vote but even moreso because she refuses to admit her mistake and the whining tone her campaign has taken because they are 'sick and tired of being asked about it at every campaign stop.' Give me a fucking break, buck up and answer the damned questions.

So let me ponder this a moment, she stands behind her vote to go to war because she wants to appear strong on national defense and she acts like a weenie and pouts because she doesn't want to talk about the circumstances of the impeachment.

I'm equally pissed off at her for her statements recently about unitary executive power as if it's her goddamned privilege to step into that power when she should be saying no president has the right to such wide sweeping power.

AND, her constant pandering to the rightwing of BOTH parties about abortion. Standing next to the reverend stating it's tragic and horrible and should be rare when it's already so fucking rare it's only accessible in 13% of the counties in this country with no funding except by groups whose sole work it is to raise funds to pay for as many as they can for women and young girls who wouldn't be able to get one any other way.

I'm disgusted by the whole leadership of the Democratic Party. I drew my line in the sand last January when they didn't feel the fucking need to prepare for the Alito confirmation hearings but at least I have Boxer on the side of women.

It's not easy being a woman in this day and age in this country. It would have been really nice if a woman was running and stood side by side with women, who made our rights and issues the cornerstone of their campaign, who showed everyone else that the elephant in the room is the care crisis that has been going on for forty years.

Imagine, a woman standing proud to be a woman, one that inspired and empowered women, who spoke to us and let us know that our time had come, that women who had been shushed and cast aside for decades matter, and who would be a beacon to our daughters and granddaughters that anything is indeed possible.

Instead we have a woman who believes showing strength comes with a refusal to say she made a mistake, a woman who believes the terrorists are over there when the real terrorists for women are all too often sitting across from us at the dinner table or lying next to us in bed, that terrorists rape us in our dorm rooms and wait for us in parks and subway stations.

Why is it so difficult to get it, that the people we fear most are those that walk the same streets as we do. Why is it so hard to say they will stop this war against us here now?

Why couldn't a woman running for president say those things? WHY?