Hillary and Barack, and tomorrow’s primary, are the topics of conversation at every dinner, phone call and meeting. This is unique, I can not recall a time when so many people were so engaged in a primary here in New York. 

Let’s start with names and perception: Hillary is not a just a current, blond, female tv character named “Hillary”, a character for us to either “love” or “hate” and be amused.

She is New York’s Senator,  Hillary Rodham Clinton, and she has earned  true support and popularity in both this state and in this city. She is expected to win easily here because she deserves to win- she has earned it.

“Barack Obama” is not a competing sit-com character or someone to favor on a “reality tv show” or vote for in a popularity contest, neither is he some new age messiah come to fulfil our wishes.

He is a candidate for  US President.  He is an attractive, nice man with great rhetoric and not enough political history to have actually tested his mettle. He is too unclear for me, considering the capable leadership we desparately need to make repairs after this administration leaves office.

Rebecca Wallace-Segall and Deborah Siegel have co-authored a great piece about tomorrow’s election in The Huffington Post, please read it. I have also added their blogs to my blogroll.

Please read Goodbye To All That (#2)  by Robin Morgan a great essay about Hillary Clinton and the media’s sexism. I have added the Women’s Media Center to the blogroll too.

Also, the city cheered and celebrated the Giant’s Superbowl win last night. People walked around town nodding, smiling and congratulating each other, savoring the win.

Tomorrow, we will have the primary election, plus the usually crazy traffic and quite a bit extra, and the pleasant chaos of a tickertape parade.

By the way, there is no longer any ticker-tape on Wall Street. They toss many tons of shredded paper from our “paperless” society, etc. The feeling of celebration and the honor from the city is exactly the same.