Numbah 16... writes: "...If she gets elected by some freak occurance, I'm building my doomsday hideout!" You should build it now. Considering the fact Bush is doing nothing about Terrorism in the United States--maybe it will come in handy when we are hit again. Then while you are in it praying to God to survive, you can reflect on your vote for Bush. At least Bill Clinton put an executive order to have Bin Laden killed...what did Bush do? He hired Afghanis to go find him. Can we say "DUH?" I guess that is what DUh in DUBBYHA means...makes sense now. : ) Hello People. 1. I'm not going to comment on what the polls say. They are all based on different criteria, numbers of people, and it's too early, as the experts say, to pay them any mind. Anything can happen between now and 2008 Spring. So that's that. Onward! 2. To me, the notion of Dems needing a southerner to win no longer holds water. President Bush has left enough in his wake negatively to make people take a long, hard look at their conservative values (for those in the south that vote party no matter what, for Republicans). It's pretty hard to hold animosity to gays when your house has floated away isn't it? It's pretty tough to worry about gun control when you have no place to store the gun you lost in a hurricane. It's also pretty hard to believe and preach God when your own President, supposedly a faithful man, waited three days to pick up the red phone and say "hello" to southern states and relief help. The south shall rise again, only this time, they most likely will rise to their senses and stop assuming "those liberals" are so wrong all the time. Next... 3. I have no problem with Hillary Clinton except for her position on Iraq. History shows us that voters don't like it when their democratic leader moves across the political spectrum. Today alone I hear there are protesters in NY awaiting Hillary's visit to some place or another. That's not good. She has spent several years now making points against Bush--and I am not saying she was wrong or right in doing it... What I am saying is she made points against the war, and is now somewhat supporting it. She also did this on a Chris Matthews interview from a college town visit in 2000/2002.. I have it archived on DVD. Her interview left me "wondering" where she stood. That is my fault with her. 4. Americans. They could not vote a decorated war hero with 20 years of experience in the Senate and full-on plans for getting us out of Iraq... Do you really believe these same Americans can vote for a woman? I am an American, I live in the midwest. I have no problem with a woman as President. A persons' disposition, be it race, gender, religion, ethnic background, sexual preference doesn't matter to me. What matters to me is the meat and bones of how they think, what their issue beliefs are. I would discriminate on age a bit, because I think the role of President requires "life experience." Hopefully people agree. But the nation voted for Bush over Kerry. Do you really believe they can look past Hillary being a woman? I don't think that America can move past that at this point in time. I may be wrong, as a matter of fact, I hope I am. After all, Rosa Parks was a woman--look what she did. --Mathew.