Essential Estrogen

At a campaign stop in Dubuque tonight for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, it was an audience member who had the most memorable line:

Clinton: When you travel abroad people ask you: 'What's happened to America?"

Male Voice from the audience: "BUSH!"

Although Sen. Clinton attempted to recover with a witty comeback ("This school has some smart students"), it was obvious the best and most direct line of the night came from the audience and not from Clinton herself.

On the whole, the stop at the University of Dubuque was over-shadowed by earlier activities in Alabama commemorating the the 42nd anniversary of "Bloody Sunday." Still, roughly 1,100 people came out to hear the Senator on the stump.

While most of the usual suspects were in attendance, there was one instance which continues to perplex.

A woman -- quite obviously a Clinton supporter -- made the comment that "women have been cleaning up after men since the beginning of time." (Why do people take the microphone during question and answer time for the sole purpose of making a comment? Couldn't that be done in a letter to the editor or directly with the candidate? Fodder for another post, no doubt.)

I'm not sure if Clinton was trying to work religion into her speech, if she was making another attempt at humor, or if this is something she thought was just appropriate given the context, but she began to weave this tale of a minister who once introduced her saying, "it was Eve who got humankind into this mess and it will take another woman to get us out."

What the hell kinda comment is that?!? Left with nothing else, I guess I must accept the fact that when Bill Clinton got into his little flings, Hillary stayed around because she honestly believes that women are the root of all evil? Gimme a break.