Can this possibly be true?

Several people are reporting that Howard Dean will leave Hillary Clinton's name off the first ballot for delegates at the Dem National Convention in the name of party unity. Can this possibly be true?

Tomorrow I will register as an independent.

They just want us for our votes

Quotable

"The 2008 campaign has been a very disillusioning experience for a lot of people. . . The raw sexism, in all too many cases coming from alleged progressives was part of it. So, too, was the inability of many alleged progressives to see that the news media created the narrative of Hillary Clinton as race-baiter in much the same way that, 8 years ago, they created the narrative of Al Gore as congenital liar — by assembling a montage of quotes taken out of context and willfully misinterpreted."

~ Paul Krugman, Sexism? Who, us?

Always aim high

“It would break my heart if in falling short of my goal, I in any way discouraged any of you from pursuing yours. Always aim high. When you stumble, keep faith. And when you’re knocked down, get right back up. And never listen to anyone who says you can’t or shouldn’t go on….. The path will be easier next time.”

“As we gather here today in this historic magnificent building, the 50th woman to leave earth is orbiting overhead. If we can blast 50 women into space, we will someday launch a woman into the White House.”

~ Presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton

Quotable

"There simply is no other candidate, from either party, who has had their comments, their fragments, dissected so dishonestly the way Clinton's have been."

~ Eric Boehlert, Media Matters

Quotable

"Her figure, her clothes, her hair, her voice - all of it mocked and savaged in a way unimaginable if she were a man. She has not only endured the jeers and the sneers and the smears, she has triumphed over them. She never answered their hate with rage. She just went on winning.

Just like Jackie.

Women have been running for President since 1872, when Victoria Woodhull ran on the Equal Rights Party platform. And yet no woman -- from the estimable Shirley Chisoholm to the remarkable Pat Schroeder to the impressive Elizabeth Dole -- has ever won even a single primary. Until Hillary. She not only won 20 primaries, she earned 17 million votes in the primaries -- more than any woman before her. And more than any man before her as well."

~ Paul Begala, Hillary and Jackie (HuffPo)

Will the Democratic Party miss us when we leave?

Excerpted from Angry White Female: White Women Take the Gloves Off (Froma Harrop):

What's dangerous for the Democratic Party is that, for many women, the eye of the storm has moved beyond Hillary or anything she does at this point. The offense has turned personal. They are now in their own orbit, having abandoned popular Democratic Websites that reveled in crude anti-Hillary outpourings -- and established new ones on which they trade stories of the Obama people's nastiness. ...

The women talk of being taken for granted by a party leadership that never spoke out on some of the outrageous Hillary bashing -- and despite the close race, joined the early rush to crown Obama.

"Many of us feel slighted," said Lynn Eyrich Harvey, 76, from Los Gatos, Calif. "We feel that years of supporting the party is unimportant, that we are to sit down and shut up -- but be sure to vote Democratic in November."

And the winner is: John McCain