She has not only viewed (no doubt) the television program “West Wing.” For eight years, she personally saw how the West Wing works — how the White House really works. First Ladies don’t just approve menus and cut ribbons and plant flowers. They know first-hand the crises and challenges that face a President. Those are important years of national and international political experience. In addition, she has worked hard for eight years in the Senate; again, this is national-level and international experience. Her sixteen years total of national-level experience far outweigh Obama’s four years.

Fortunately, my swing-voting Democrat relatives and a few Republican friends have thought through (and are looking beyond) the “zinger” epithets, based in sexism and probably concocted by Karl Rove, that have been tossed at Sen. Clinton. My friends and relatives in both parties recognize that Hillary Clinton is the most presidential and best qualified candidate in either party. Ignoring her gender, just looking at her qualifications — her intelligence, grasp of the issues in detail, ability to articulate a policy in a way that makes sense to the American people, her moderation on the issues (she is not a far-left liberal), her strength and stamina — she is simply the best candidate for President.

Mine is a frontier family. Some of us still live in rural areas, and others (like me) live in cities. We are blue-collar gun owners who do not join gangs and we have never shot anyone. The law-abiding gun-owning people in “red-voting” rural America — including Montana and South Dakota — will vote for this kind of Democrat, but not for Obama. Note the rural areas where Democrats have been voting Republican for years (western and SW Penn., Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, rural Oregon, etc.) — which have voted for Hillary Clinton! We’re not all a bunch of undereducated gun-nut rednecks. We’re hard working Americans — blue collar Americans — who cherish faith and family. And yes, many of us own guns (but are not gang members). We have served in the military (and some of my relatives are still in the services, one recently returned from Iraq).

America cannot afford to lose four more years to a Democrat who will waste time learning how Washington really works; and we cannot afford to lose four more years to Bush-o-nomics under McCain. The only real choice for meaningful change — and to get us out of the mess we are in — is Hillary Clinton.

The superdelegates need to crunch the numbers and, based on their own political expertise, support the best candidate: Hillary Clinton for President.

Because she can win in November.