I have heard this argument used before - blacks certainly did get the vote well before women did but that hardly matters. Women didn't face violence when they went to the polls. Blacks did, for a very, very long time. It's an empty argument that doesn't mean anything.

Aw, George.... it's got nothing to do w/ "electing a woman." It has to do with Hillary Clinton and what her record indicates. Of all people, McGovern should recognize the need to nominate a candidate who isn't just a lite version of the Republicans on the most pressing issue of the election.... the Iraq war.

Many would love to elect a woman. Considerably fewer want to elect Hillary Clinton.

I'm not opposed to electing a female president....I'm just opposed to Hillary Clinton.

For years, I've believed this country would elect a black president before it elected a woman president.

My opinion has nothing to do with the current individuals currently running. It's basic history. Black's were emancipated in this country long before women were.

From McGovern's polite statements I gather that he admires Obama -- and regrets that he cannot endorse him to the public, because he didn't know enough about him when Clinton came knocking at the door. I intuit he regrets in some way backing Clinton. Am I the only one who feels this way?

Obama isn't a "black man." Using a mixed, or half white man in this analogy is inaccurate because he's simply not straight up African American. Call this observation shocking or racist, but it is what it is.

How would a white man know?

I don't understand this argument at all. If it's easier to elect a black man than a white woman, why are the rural, blue collar voters of Pennsylvania considered to be part of Hillary's base rather than Obama's?

Not this woman.There are good women and there are bad women,she's a bad one.This arguement is just another distraction to divert the ADD ridden media away from her lies being exposed.

What does this do to the smart intelligent women who could run on their own credentials and not have to embellish their experience? I find it quite condescending to throw out the woman excuse for Hillary Clinton just because she is losing.

Obama transcended race until Clinton bought it into the campaign. That is why he won Iowa and came so close in New Hampshire and Nevada. The Clintons couldn't win until they brought his race into question(and some could say they still can't win), so it's race baiting and then setting women off against women.

I am a 48 year old white Obama supporter who happens to be a woman and who happens to be represented by this sorry excuse for a presidential candidate and I am mad as hell at her campaign and even madder that I will NEVER see a woman president because of her crappy campaign.

Not true I would love to vote for a woman for president.

But Senator Clinton's record???

- She opposes the international treaty to ban land mines

- She voted against the Feinstein-Leahy amendment last September restricting U.S. exports of cluster bombs to countries that use them against civilian-populated areas

- She opposes restrictions on U.S. arms transfers and police training to governments that engage in gross and systematic human rights abuses, such as Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Israel, Pakistan, Cameroon and Chad, to name only a few.

-She insists upon continuing unconditional funding for the Iraq war and has called for dramatic increases in Bush’s already bloated military budget.

- She has challenged the credibility of Amnesty International and other human rights groups that criticize policies of the United States and its allies.

- She is opposing the enforcement of U.N. Security Council resolutions challenging Pakistan, Israel and India’s nuclear weapons programs but supporting the delivery of nuclear-capable missiles and jet fighters to these countries.

- She insists that the United States should maintain the right to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear countries.

- She voted twice FOR the Patriot Act (March 2, 2006)

- She was for the Drivers Licenses and then she was not

- She said that NAFTA was good for NY State now she is not

- She was for the IRAQ war and now she is not

Queen Clinton has NO Clothes ON !!!

Harder to elect a corrupt woman than a good man. Pelosi is the highest ranking Dem

The numbers belie his statements. Women outweigh African American (men or women) in ALL govt positions - governors, senators, house representatives, etc. (MSNBC had the number up)

McGovern, go ahead and forget that there have been more female governors and Senator than blacks. Candidate are luckier when it comes to the office of the president.

Everyone who's saying this now (I'm looking at you, Geraldine) was saying the exact opposite before Hillary Clinton drove her campaign into a ditch.

Is it possible that there are other reasons that people don't want to vote for her?