**Update in response to an article I just read here in the blogshere at 3:30pm: Yes, Hillary voted for the war in Iraq; as did others, when given the wrong information!! Yes, she forgave her husband, the father of her only child whom she so obviously loves; which took more guts for her to do, than for her to leave. It was nobody's business but her own! Not every woman handles her situation the same, and it's a low blow to kick a person for making the decision to stay, or to go, when a spouse has been unfaithful in marriage. It is simply nobody's damn business regarding the marital choices the Clintons made. Yes, she stood with her husband while he was in office!! As for the big oil companies, you have absolutely no idea who all has bitten from that apple! Prove to me that Hillary knew all things about the oil companies, and all about her brother's dealings. Better yet, prove to me that YOU know first-hand. And, prove to me that YOU know the content of her heart, and that she intended for her comment about hard-working white american people to be a racial slur, and I will be the first to tell you that you were right. You compared the woman to well-known racists because of the statement she made in her speech a few days ago. Is that all ya' got? Because that is just bull! You stated that other racists already know Obama is a black man before Hillary made mention of the hard-working white citizens of our country. My question to you is, are you aware that Mr. Obama is also a white man? WTF? Can we not regard hard-working white americans just as we speak of hard-working black americans, without being called racists? She was simply referring to the people who were listening to her. Let me remind you that one of the greatest black poets of our country has endorsed the woman in her candidacy.

The things you said is what I believe to be the kind of nit-picking that creates the racial divide in the first damned place. I would be interested to know how many black americans you have known or called friend...ya' gotta' live it to tell about it dude!

Disclaimer: I'm not in a great mood regarding the presidential campaign. Most of my ranting is geared toward the media for making themselves so transparent and obvious; to anyone with a brain who is watching and listening. 

Sam has built a fenced in area off our little back porch. We've put in a doggie door, so that my old puppy dogs will have the freedom to come in and out of the house as they please through the day, while Sam and I are at our respective places of employment. My beloved husband finished the project yesterday when he built the steps for Jesse and Bentley to walk down from the porch into their huge poop pen play area. This is a great relief for me; as I can no longer ask my 71 year old mother to accomodate me with the daily care of our animals whenever I have to be out of town or have really long work days. So far, our two poodles, and Mr. Pickle, (the cat our daughter abandoned and left with me) are quite perplexed by the whole new experience. The doggie door baffles them; especially baffled, are the dogs! It's funny as hell to bribe them to the door with a treat, only to have them stop and stare at the new outlet. I've been pushing their little asses on through for several days now....I leave for Vermont on Sunday--heh. We'll see.

Ah, politics! Well, I have no intention of spending my days glued to the news on politics any more! People either love Hillary Clinton, or they hate her. I am beginning to believe there is no in between. The race for the nomination between our two democratic candidates is so totally decided by all in the media. Never mind that the two ran an extremely tight race all along; as has been revealed by the never-ending poles.

There are people who have decided they do not want Hillary in the white house; and some of the reasoning I hear is, "I do not want Bill in the white house again." Why are people not willing to allow Hillary to have her own voice? Why do they not hear that most everything Mr. Obama speaks in regard to what is best for this country, is repetitive of what Hillary Clinton has spoken time and time again?

There are actually people who would call me a racist if I don't vote for Mr. Obama; the same as there are people who would say that the only reason I want to vote for Hillary Clinton, is that I am a middle-aged woman who wants to see another middle-aged woman in office. Neither statement could be further from the truth.

Every single cough or sneeze Hillary makes is dissected, while Obama keeps coming out of the dirt smelling like a rose. People tend to overlook him on every count. But, because Hillary has been in the white house with her husband, and her appeal happens to sit with middle-aged feminists, and blue collar workers of this country, some see her as out-dated; yesterday's news; not worthy of her womanhood, even! Discrimination at its finest!!

I shared the following thoughts with another blogger friend a few days ago: IF Mr. Obama is all he says he is when he speaks to us, then yes, he could possibly be another John F. Kennedy. That word IF, is the factor; is this not so? We NEED and are starving for a good president who will come in and deliver what he/she promised to deliver. We are starving for a commander and chief who will clean up the mess made by this administration, and others before...We love and want to hear fresh news, new blood, new hope. Well, pardon my pessimism; but there is too little that can be done in 4 or 8 years, by either candidate, that will change the course of our nation toward the positive any time soon. But, we NEED something, some change; so we look for a savior in the new and most arrogant man on campus! Pfft. Just this morning on MSNBC, Obama's campaign manager responded, "Well of course we will work with her", when asked "Would Mr. Obama be able to work with Hillary upon winning the nomination?"

My feeling is that Obama won't win this race in the general; and I cannot imagine tolerating McCain for the next 4 years. So, my choice is and has always been for Hillary. She is a woman with a mind of her own. Bill does not own her. She is a woman who KNOWS how to decipher what goes on in DC. She is a woman who believes that "It takes a village" to raise a child; and as well, to calm a country that is in dire need of calming! She is a woman of great faith; who exhibits a survivor's strength through the very worst of times in her personal life. She is one of the first people to come up with a universal health care policy for all free americans. I'd like to see her have an opportunity to carry through with the ideas she has worked for all these years.

Consider this article, and if you think about what you read, it shows Mr. Obama's concern for politics overrides his concern for the common people in this country. So don't tell me about the Clinton's political agendas over the years, and how Hillary has no compassion or concern for anything besides winning the game in politics. Don't tell me, unless you are willing to attach every other person who is or ever was involved in the political arena, to such a statement. I say this because there is not one, not one single person involved in politics, who has not compromised his/her ethics, and focused on their own agenda at some point; just as Mr. Obama will do in years to come.