Just in case that Newsweek article wasn't dumb enough for you. It astonishes me that someone in that position who obviously supports HRC wouldn't realize how damaging this is to her cause. This strategy rarely works for the Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton's of the world and almost always galvanizes the opposition.

Quoted: Why not ask aloud the question no one will admit asking? All things being equal, which "first" should go first: an African-American, or a woman? There are two reasons to pick the woman. First, it's her turn...This leads to the second reason to pick the woman. History suggests that women's status is the litmus test for a society's commitment to freedom.

Older white women: disrespected, invisible, truly the black people of our times. Newsweek has lost their minds.

Quoted: It's a revolt that has been overdue for a while and has now found its focus in Clinton's candidacy. In 1952, Ralph Ellison's revelatory novel, "Invisible Man," nailed the experience of being black in America. In the relentless youth culture of the early 21st century, if you are 50 and female, the novel that's being written on your forehead every day is "Invisible Woman." All over the country there are vigorous, independent, self-liberated boomer women—women who possess all the management skills that come from raising families while holding down demanding jobs, women who have experience, enterprise and, among the empty nesters, a little financial independence, yet still find themselves steadfastly dissed and ignored. Advertisers don't want them. TV networks dump their older anchorwomen off the air. Hollywood studios refuse to write parts for them. Employers make it clear they'd prefer a "fresh (cheaper) face."

Interesting read. I think there is some truth to it. However part of the credit for this resurgent interest in politics among "independents" and casual observers is owed to the circumstances of this election. You have a lame duck that has become increasingly incompetent and is a poster child for the spite-inducing Aristocratic facets of our country and our government. Its only natural for people to look to someone that seems to be the complete opposite of what we currently have.

I will admit that I have been waking up at 9am on Sundays for the past month or so to listen to the talking heads summarize the week in presidential politics.

Quoted: But there is something else going on here. Obama is the first candidate of his generation truly to be an agent of change who inspires, motivates and ignites the passion in a large segment of Americans who had ignored politics because it was unseemly and didn't move people to action. My e-mail inbox and my talk show lines filled up with people who say that listening to Obama empowers them to get involved, that he is able to connect with them on an emotional and spiritual level that is reminiscent of John and Robert Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

To be honest I don't fault him for saying it. Its painfully true. Not literally of course, but the public reaction would have been far less decisive.

Quoted: A newspaper reporter who said Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick would have been "better off raping a woman" than being charged with dogfighting has apologized and will no longer appear on the local sports panel TV show where he made the remark.