''Something's happening in the world. When that call gets answered, shouldn't the president be the one, the only one, who had judgment and courage to oppose the Iraq war from the start?'' the ad asks.

Feeling the need to show there has been a “real phone moment,” he displayed “bitch ass-ness.” And Hillary, with her ad showed “bitch ass-ness.”

I think what America feels about a woman becoming president takes a very secondary place to Obama's campaign - to a kind of campaign that it would be hard for anyone to run against...For one thing, you have the press, which has been uniquely hard on her. It's been a very sexist media. Some just don't like her. The others have gotten caught up in the Obama campaign.

"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position...And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept."

Former Senator Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a backer of Barack Obama, has chimed in on the quibble between Hillary and Barack saying:

"Hillary Clinton was a great first lady. I worked with her. I know what a good first lady she was. But it would be hard for me to draw some degree of connection between being a first lady and having experience to be the commander in chief.”

Bitch ass-ness. That’s all this is. It is cocky and involves putting people on a pedestal. As a result, the decision of who should be president is not being based on substantive reasoning which involves Barack's or Hillary's stances on the issues.

Now, forgive me if I am wrong, but weren’t we promised a campaign that would not be this filled with “bitch ass-ness”?

When Barack Obama announced his run, he said, “"Today, our leaders in Washington seem incapable of working together in a practical, common sense way," the senator declared. "Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions."

I remember his speech from the 2004 Democratic convention where he spoke of America not being red states and blue states. I remember talk in the campaign about how people are fed up with Washington and want cooperation so compromises and changes can be made for the people of America.

With the way Barack Obama is running his campaign now and letting his endorsers go after Hillary by not condemning their remarks, his run is dividing the Democratic Party and making it difficult for the Party to talk about issues and getting things done.

And don't tell me he can't ask his endorsers to cool it. John McCain's campaign just responded to Peter King's remarks on Obama saying he will not support that kind of rhetoric towards his Democratic opponents in his campaign.  

Unfortunately, Hillary, in her announcement to run for president, did not say anything about running a campaign free of “bitch ass-ness” though. So, I cannot hold her to a high standard. Barack on the other hand should be ignoring her remarks, which are designed to make him play her and her husband’s game.

I do not care who wins the presidency. Neither candidate proposes the change America needs. Neither wish to end the “war on terror” or impeach Bush/Cheney. Neither is talking about stopping torture. And neither is talking about repealing the PATRIOT Act and other expansions. The list could continue for at least two more pages.

So, why do I care?

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