That Primary vote was "important" only to Lowey. Chances are the poor gal will never get to vote for Hillary in any Presidential election.

The faithfulness Ms. Lowey is commendable. However, H. Clinton has a "troupe" to help her in battle to the White House...Yet, management is in question, financial accountability is somewhat weak; With a strong Husband to back H. Clinton, despite his behavior and the "Clinton-machine"...She has yet to create the energy, enthusiasm and trust that her opponents already has shown.

J. Edwards is being courted by both B.O. and H.C.; it is fair game...where or who will he choose to support and endorse? That is the question. How will that decision affect the campaign of both candidates? Well, the end result is John Edwards may benefit in any case, if he is a V.P. choice from the Nominee who WINs the election in November.

Question: Why should a candidate who has won the popular vote of many states becomes a "looser" as a result of the "Super delegates" -- Something is wrong with that picture!!!! My gut feeling is....that is a way to change the course of the people's votes to suit the person that this Government would like to see in office versus the Real Winner.... Recall "BUSH" running, who lost but have been a two-term president? Let us not go there again....Politics is not a definite Science.....People can fix it to their advantage. Honesty is lacking. America is a FREE NATION, .... BUT UNTIL WE ELIMINATE RACISM, POVERTY AND ACCEPT GOD AS THE HEAD OF THIS COUNTRY, .... the other World Nations may rise up and surpass us....Let us Vote Responsibly.

Goddess Bless Ms. Lowey,

Contrary to popular opinion, the troops are rallying in support of Hillary R. Clinton and for me, you had better believe that this is at least in part about gender.

Read on.....

Commentary

Why I support Hillary Clinton for President
Ann S. Freed, Lt. Col. US Army (Ret.)

I support Hillary Clinton for the next president of the United States, not because she is a woman, but because she is THE woman. She is the right woman, in the right place, at the right time. She is the woman who will change the course of politics in the United States from the cloak-room politics of old-style Washington, to the politics of open discourse for dynamic change. She will do this because she is the kind of woman who reaches beyond ideology for practical solutions to the enormous problems facing our country today.

She is the woman who will unite a divided, humbled and soul-sick America, because she is the kind of woman who listens first and acts out of understanding, not grand preconceived notions of what is true. She has listened to Veterans and their health care woes. She has visited the troops in every conflict from Bosnia, to Afghanistan to Iraq and has truly listened to military commanders in the field and their soldiers. She recognizes that it is they who know better how to prosecute and end wars than their civilian leaders in Washington. She has listened to active duty and veteran military women who are sick to death of the disgracefully high level of sexual assaults, threats, degradation and intimidation against our women in uniform that exist in our nation's armed forces.

She has listened to school teachers across America in their struggle with the failed program, "No Child Left Behind." She has listened to the women of America trying to balance career, parenting and pocket book with the roles of spouse and caregiver. She has listened to our elders, our kupuna, to their fears for the future of health, safety and the quality of life for themselves, their children and their grandchildren. She has listened to the women and men of America who have struggled with their marriages in a society and a world where sex and violence are used to sell everything from popular music to fast cars. She has been an agent of social change for all of these peoples and she is the right woman to continue to change all that.

She has listened to women and men of color who struggle even harder with all these issues and this she understands, because she can say with Sojourner Truth, that nobody ever helped her into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gave her any best place! In fact she has been the subject of the most vile attacks well-publicized in the sensation-hungry news media, ranging from Chris Mathew's diatribes to those Iron-My-Shirt hecklers in the New Hampshire Caucuses. She knows what it is like to have to prove herself over and over again simply because of an accident of birth. She is the woman who can and will bring respect and honor to our multi-cultural society.

She is the woman who will elevate women out of the gutter of cultural and economic violence to her rightful place as a human being and thereby do much to elevate the human race. In 1990, in his first installment of Peter Jennings Reporting, Jennings and his wife and fellow reporter Kati Marton, did a special on gun violence in America. That documentary concluded that we are a nation of peaceful women and violent men. I submit that by breaking this last glass ceiling against women, there is hope for the future in this President-to-be. She may be the key that unlocks the door to peace in the households, the businesses, the schools, the churches, the legislatures and the city councils across America and ultimately across the world. Who knows what is possible if we give her the chance.

As a long-time advocate for women's issues I have watched the career of Sen. Clinton with hope and amazement. I heard and saw the support for women, their children and the men who love them throughout the time she was first lady, throughout her time as a two-term Senator, until today when she is a presidential candidate. I watched her survive the media obsession with the cut of her clothes, the style of her hair and later on, the vilification of her as a wife who chose to stay with an unfaithful husband. I watched news media and right and left wing zealots use the cut of her suits, the tone of her voice and the sound of her laugh, to bury her work on substantive issues like health care, education, and violence in America. I kept hoping that she would survive and was always amazed by the grace with which she did.

Hillary Clinton has more than proven herself as an agent of change. She has more than proven herself as a skillful legislator. She has more than proven herself as a champion of women, of children, of veterans, American soldiers, Latinos, Native Hawaiians, Native Americans, Black Americans, teachers, firefighters and police officers, and mothers and fathers, many of them single, struggling to find a way to support their families.

She has proven her commitment to change for children, from her first job out of law school at the Children's Defense Fund, then in her time as First Lady of Arkansas and of the United States, and most recently in the United States Senate championing access to health care for all children. She has proven herself in her life-long commitment to quality affordable health care for all our families.

She has proven that she has a sensible approach to ending the war on Iraq, one that is based on experience and a rational understanding of the military and its purpose and on the place of diplomacy in foreign policy. She has proven that she has a rational approach to universal health coverage for all Americans with her current proposal that offers choices for families while improving quality and reducing costs.

So, Yes, I support Hillary Clinton for the next great President of the United States. I support her because she is the right woman, in the right place, at the right time. She is both compassionate and tough, experienced and dynamic, seasoned but not hardened, able to negotiate in Congress with honor and integrity. Like the women in "The Dream of a Common Language" by Judy Grahn, she is like good bread and will rise. May she fulfill all our American Dreams and restore us to our respected place as a great democracy among the nations of the world.

And oh - yes, I support Obama - for Vice President.

Ann Freed lives in Mililani, Hawai`i and serves as a volunteer on a number of boards and civic organizations, though her opinions are her own.