Thanks CG for posting on this issue.  I think watching the media throw out sexist comments with such glee brings the issue home much more powerfully, than reading e.g of sexism in the media.  Will sign the petition.

and a deep breath and try to get some perspective back on this race.

I don't think it benefits either candidate's campaign to make a big deal of this event

The media is going to make a big deal of this on their own, but if anything good has come of this long campaign, it is that folks have learnt to take whatever the media says with a grain of salt.

but what I do know is that both Senator Obama and Senator Clinton are decent human beings who are working hard to become President because they believe passionately in their visions and want a chance to implement it.

a time out from the 24 hour newscycle?

I am planning a 1 day time out, but think am going to have some withdrawal symptoms

but I think we all need a little break.  Looks like Senator Clinton needs a little break as well.
But come on everyone, lets not get ourselves so worked up that we can't sleep tonight.  

As a physician, I can say that our emotions directly affect our health, and negative emotions affect our health negatively.

I guess I sound like a mommy here, which I am also.

So deep breath everyone

comment.  Senator Clinton does not bear the sole responsibility for saving the Democratic party.

IF the main concern is finishing this race, the Superdelegates can at any time come out for Senator Obama, give him the requisite no. to finish the race.  

Senator Obama and his campaign can gain the no. of delegates he needs by a wide margin by winning states and finish the race.

is over too many times to count, is in a way, the same narrative as it is ok to say terrible things, about Senator Clinton because she is a Clinton.

The article makes the point, of many male politicians, having taken tthe fight to the convention, despite having lesser chance that they would win.  

The same rule should apply to Senator Clinton.  IF she sees even any chance to be able to win the top of the ticket, it is her right to take it to the convention, and we need to respect that.

by President Bill Clinton, which during the heat of the campaign did not set the right tone.  I think Senator Clinton has personally apologized for any comments that might have been hurtful.

I believe that there has been consistent discussion about racism and condemning of racism through out the campaign, as there should be.

But we are just starting to talk about sexism in a serious way now.  The first step has to be to acknowledge that sexism was a at play

for letting the media get away with it, for letting the politicians, including Senator Obama's campaign feed into it, and by not having us women stand up to it earlier and demand that it stop.

The media by reviling Senator Clinton, because she is a Clinton, made it ok for everyone else to make and say derogatory and repulsive things about her, just feeding in to the existing narrative.  

Well let me say that media treatment of Senator Clinton, because she is a Clinton is an argument that I have heard many many times.

Can you think of another male Politician who has been as reviled by the media because of percieved bad things he or she might have done.

Was there a single outcry in the media, about Senator John Maccain, not standing up to the woman in her audience who described Senator Clinton with the B* word.

That's good, but i am hoping we can do a little soul searching and talk about what we can do to change this as well.