You can be truly feminist and mad at Hillary

My husband says a colleague at his office is angry with Barack Obama for "not waiting his turn" and blocking the chances of what might have been the first woman president.

I've considered myself a feminist since my teenage years, which, to date me, came at the height of the feminist movement. I fought my way, tooth and un-manicured nail, into what was still a very male-dominated world of foreign correspondents, and stayed there for 15 years, battling many insults and wage-discrimination along the way. Today, I confess, I'm the kind of feminist who is home when her kids return from school and makes their breakfasts and picks up their towels from the floor (but I'm going to do something about that soon, trust me) and frequently cooks for her husband. Life is full of ambiguities.

I'd love to see a woman in the White House one day, but the more important thing is to have someone that men and women alike can trust. Our equal-opportunity problems of war, environmental disasters and recession are too serious to risk the alternative. Hillary is not trustworthy. Her comments about getting more votes from white working-class men is just the latest example. Her stooping to racism, pandering (with that gas-tax holiday idea) and innuendos throughout this campaign make her unworthy of women's allegiance. We can do better -- much better -- than that.