Imagine the outcry if anyone dared make

a racial crack about Barack Obama

They'd be pounded into the sand

Yet, blatant sexist and anti-woman remarks

are routinely spewed out, often unchallenged,

and even cackled at. It's OK to bash a woman

Hillary Clinton comments on Obama's pitiful debate performance

After being favored by moderators in most Democratic debates up to this point, Barack Obama spent his week whining about how unfairly he was treated during ABC's presidential debate in Pennsylvania.

Awww poor thing!

"I know he spent all day yesterday complaining about the hard questions he was asked," Hillary Clinton said. "Being asked tough questions in a debate is nothing like the pressures you face inside the White House."

Barack Obama clearly can't handle himself well under pressure, but he sure knows how to play the 'poor pitiful me' role.

Presidents are meant to be strong, not babies.

Hillary has widened her lead in Pennsylvania in what will likely become one of her biggest wins yet.

Obama is down by 26%. A win by Hillary in this swing state could reassure Super Delegates that she is the right choice to beat John McCain in November.

Hillary Clinton: the right choice for Pennsylvania and America

As Pennsylvania voters head to the polls on Tuesday, I come to them with a simple request. Please think about your vote carefully.

I am not going to spend time bashing Barack Obama, but I would like to remind you of what Hillary Clinton can do for you.

This is the most important election of my life, and as a 30-something gay man I am concerned about the direction in which this country is going.

George Bush managed to put the next President in a very compromising position, so we must choose carefully who will take over from here.

As a New Yorker, I could spend days and days telling you what Senator Clinton has done for me.

From helping increase funding for the NYC Gay Men's Heath Clinic to pushing for better health care for Lower Manhattan residents after September 11th; Hillary has always made me proud.

Moving forward, as President Mrs. Clinton plans to help provide health coverage for every American, repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and fix the problems with NAFTA.

Hope is a great thing to have. I hope I make a million dollars next year. I hope I move into a larger more elegant apartment. I hope Americans will make a wise decision when they cast they're vote.

I voted for Hillary Clinton, and I hope you will too!

Hillary Bashing [Because She's a Woman]

Hillary Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, is incredibly naïve, incredibly sheltered, incredibly in denial, or maybe a bit of all three.

In late March, she told a Young Democrats audience in North Carolina that she was shocked at the nasty things some male (and even female) folks on the campaign trail are saying about her mother.

Things like, "Iron my shirts," and "the nutcracker in your ... " The vulgarities are heaped on top of the hard-headed belief of many men and women that a woman just doesn't have the right stuff to be the nation's commander-in-chief.

Chelsea would have gotten a healthy lesson in Sexism 101 if she had glanced at polls, and that includes a CBS News poll taken just a week before her talk, that have consistently shown that far more Americans have a bigger problem voting for a woman for president than voting for an African American.

The worst part of this is that if anyone dared make a racial crack about Barack Obama they'd be pounded into the sand.

Yet, blatant sexist and anti-woman remarks are routinely spewed out, often unchallenged, and even cackled at.

In the CBS News poll, though more said they have heard more racist cracks in the past few months than sexist cracks, they were less likely to be offended by the sexist ones than the racist ones.

The big worry for the Clinton camp is not the sexist innuendos, wisecracks and even the double standard with which gender and race are treated on the campaign trail, but how many voters it might scare away from Clinton in a head to head showdown with John McCain. There's good reason for the scare.

The gender gap was first identified and labeled in the 1980 presidential contest between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter.

That year, Reagan got more than a 20 percent bulge in the margin of male votes over Carter. Women voters by contrast split almost evenly down the middle in backing both Reagan and Carter.

Men didn't waver from their support of Reagan during his years in office. Many of the men that backed Reagan made no secret about why they liked him.

His reputed toughness, firmness and refusal to compromise on issues of war and peace fit neatly into the often time stereotypical male qualities of professed courage, determination and toughness.

The gender split is always apparent when there's a crisis such as a brush fire war, a physical conflict, or the threat of a terrorist attack.

Even before he took office, pollsters noted that far more women than men openly worried that Reagan would drag us into a war. That was not a major concern for men.

The divergence between men and women on the issue of war and peace showed up again in even more stark contrast two decades later on the Iraq war.

Polls showed gaps of nearly twenty percent between men and women when asked how long they thought American troops should stay in Iraq.

Far more women than men said that the troops should be withdrawn as quickly as possible.

The huge spread in male and female views on public policy issues was just as pronounced in the terrorism war. More men than women by nearly 20 percent took a harder stance against nations that they perceive back terrorist groups.

In countless surveys, polls, and anecdotal conversations, women say they are less likely to stay up on political issues than men, and are more likely to vote for a candidate based on personal likes or dislikes than men.

When asked what they liked about Clinton, many women reflexively said they liked her toughness. That's generally considered a rough-and-tumble male quality.

The issues of war, national security, strong defense, and terrorism don't totally explain the constant 15 to 20 percent gender gap between men and women on candidates and issues in elections noted as far back as 1980.

Another possible explanation for that is how men and women perceive the messages that male candidates convey, and whether they use code words and terms to convey them.

GOP presidential candidates and presidents in past decades have at various times skewered social programs and nakedly played the race card in presidential campaigns beginning with Goldwater in 1964.

Since then, other Republicans at times artfully stoked male rage with racially charged slogans like "law and order," "crime in the streets," "welfare cheats," and "absentee fathers."

Bush's John Wayne frontier brashness, and get tough, bring 'em on rhetoric in talking about Iraq and the war against terrorism was calculatingly geared to appeal to supposed male toughness.

The endemic sexism buried deep in the skulls of many American voters alone won't sink Clinton. It's just simply another 'X' factor for Clinton that Obama and McCain don't have to worry about.