Janet Silver says it in concise, clear English. Do we need soft "vacuous" feel good words or do we want real meaning? I do not get Karen Shoak's connection of "vacuous" to racist. The word can apply to anyone who keeps repeating the same sound bite everyone wants to hear in every situation. In any case everyone is insisting this race is not about gender nor race, so how can one say "emptiness" is racist? I also can't understand how backwards American women still are to give up this chance for a woman in power to represent at least 50% of the population. Women of all colors know that men of all colors have in general not treated women fairly.