This just in...

... Turns out Hillary Clinton is a woman!

So instead of discussing policies or how to get our country back on the right track, instead we'll all be spending the next year in a big ole gender discussion! American style! With all the Boomer angst and male/female dissonance that entails: hey did somebody say she's a lady presidential candy-date? Well gawrsh if that don't beat all! What kinda makeup you suppose the lady candidate uses? What'd she wear last night? This is news?

Keep it up, folks, is all I can say.

If you can't discuss issues and think that chattering on about the Clinton sex is all important, well we've been down that road already. Not that you'd remember, though.

Meanwhile, Israel continues building settlements on contested lands, and hey did you folks hear that the majority of Homeland Security grants have been awarded to Jewish-American agencies? Imagine that.

In this second year of the program's allocations, DHS awarded a total of $24 million to nonprofit organizations to bolster their security infrastructures against terrorist attack. Of the 308 recipients, 251 are Jewish organizations, awarded a total of $19.6 million. Each of the southeast Florida Jewish Federations: Broward, Miami and Palm Beach, as well as South Palm Beach, received $100,000

I don't think the American people are as stupid as those who can't get over the notion that a woman is running for president. Nevermind Margaret Thatcher, Mary Robinson for God's sake. So much for America being a sexually progressive leader -- we're still stuck on wondering about all those lady-products our presidential candidate might use? Brands, anyone?

Nevermind those policy discussions. Immigration, housing, water, costs of building empires abroad and policing everybody else's actions. We got more important things to talk over here -- we got ourselves a LADY presidential candidate -- didja hear? It's all the talk...

Next thing ya know, they'll be having girls play hockey. Sweating in their makeup and all... Can you imagine??
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*Yeah, it's jest.

Amazing the claws coming out now on so many Boomer women jealous of Hillary's career and marriage. Oh come on now, maybe if some of you had just made better choices -- you know, spent more time on your careers and less time watching t.v.

I bet Hillary didn't watch all that much boob tube in her down time. And she had the good sense to stick it out in her marriage too. Loyalty matters in trying times.

We usually get what we choose. Not always what we bargain for, but then there's always Mitt Romney for that. And I really think some would rather have a Mitt representing them than to have a woman best them as Commander in Chief. Something about some women not being able to work well with others, whether it be secretarial staff or colleagues of merit. Something about that Queen Bee mentality some of those Boomer girls were raised with, before performance and merit counted.

Thank god for Title IX. You play the game a little now, you walk away knowing fairly where you stand. Males and females. No special treatment, no excuses. Now let's all grow up Boomer-folk, and:

Bring on the policy discussions...
It will only strenghten Sen. Obama, who hasn't much experience at all since this is still his first term outside the Illinois Senate. How could he be ready now? Best to let him lead in smaller arenas first...

Rudy Guiliani? All puff. America is not New Yawk. We're not so afraid out here, as your people there are conditioned to be. Bring on the debates. This guy will hang himself since he's all about ambition and big talk, and getting the job done is somebody else's problem. Seriously, I'd vote Richard M. Daley -- Chicago's mayor, the City that Works -- before I'd vote for that empty shell. We don't need an America's Daddy, we need brains not bluster.

I blame the Boomers. They didn't have to achieve or get the job done. They advanced, a good lot of them, merely by being one better than the next guy. Kind of like generational grading on a curve, and a generous curve it was in happy times. Excuse some of us for pointing out, America: you've got competition now. Time to grow up. Boys and girls.