"Feminist icon" Ms. Gloria Steinem went stumping for Hillary Clinton trying to pump life into her ailing campaign.

In so doing she accused America of being hopelessly anti-woman and denigrated the military service of John McCain and even John Kerry.

She even made fun of McCain being a prisoner of war, saying that if name were Joan McCain and had been captured people would ask what he had done wrong to be in the hands of the enemy.

"... from George Washington to Jack Kennedy and PT-109," Steinem told a newspaper, we have behaved as if killing people is a qualification for ruling people.”

Not really, although we have rarely held it against them. But does Ms. Steinem really mean to suggest that the president of the United States rules over the people? Isn't that what kings and tyrants do? I thought Hillary Clinton was running to serve the people, not rule over them.

The Clinton camp has already disavowed some of what Steinem said, especially the shots at McCain.

It seems Hillary Clinton needs Gloria Steinem like a fish needs a bicycle.