GUEST COMMENT: Braun's exit gives hope to women's rights, equality

Detroit Free Press ^ | Jan. 19, 2004 | CARRIE LUKAS

[ReleaseTheHounds]

The world will have to wait at least another four years for a female president.

Carol Moseley Braun -- the first presidential candidate endorsed by the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 20 years -- pulled out of the race for the democratic nomination and threw her support to Howard Dean. Braun was always a long shot, and even the New York Times called NOW's race to embrace her fringe candidacy "silly."

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Some great thoughts in this "guest" op-ed/commentary... Should make the NOW-gals angry!

[stylin19a]

NOW's support of Braun didn't have anything to do with Patricia Ireland being her campaign manager did it ?

[futureceo31]

Women rights and equality got a greater push with Condi Rice being appointed NSA. Everyone know Mosley Ran didnt have a snowball's chance in hell.. Really dumb to trout out this article and what about Dole when she was in the 2000 primaries. No one brought up an article talking about all this BS.

[Triple Word Score]

Rice '08.

[Salman]

The world will have to wait at least another four years for a female president.

I will vote for Condi in 2008. I'll say it in Italian: Condoleeza Rice, La nostra condutrice!

[2banana]

Well, after the Clinton years, we all discovered how much NOW really cared for women...

[Libertina]

Interesting screen name... Fox hunter?

[BenLurkin]

"Braun ran on a platform of expanding government across the board. She advocated a complete government takeover of health care and a massive expansion of federal involvement in K-12 education. She wants Washington to increase the minimum wage to a "living wage" and supports regulations to micromanage how businesses compensate employees.

No surprise, then, that Braun also opposes reforms that would give individuals control of their lives -- everything from school vouchers to personal accounts in Social Security.
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[ReleaseTheHounds]

I adopted this screen name during the Clinton years -- partly adopted from "The Simpsons" (Boss Burns' command to "Release The Hounds!" to get any interlopers on his property)... I loved the visual of ravaging hounds pursuing Bubba and all his criminal supporters!

[Libertina]

LOL Very apt!

[NeoCaveman]

The modern feminist movement offers a different vision: Women free from dependence on traditional relationships -- such as marriage and family -- but reliant on government as provider and benefactor.

This is modern feminism.

[manic4organic]

Mmmmmm....Condi

[shiva]

You got that right! How well I remember the double standard.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Really dumb to trout out this article and what about Dole when she was in the 2000 primaries. No one brought up an article talking about all this BS.

OK, Future CEO... I guess I'll have to explain the key points to you. Elizabeth Dole was an ardent supporter of privitization of Social Security -- everyone was expecting her to lose her Senate bid because of it, but instead she swamped Clinton's old chief of staff. That support for private accounts is a perfect example of doing something that empowers females in the workforce, compared with the conventional Social Security plan which Demos and NOW promote as the "be all, end all" of safety nets. That's one of the points of this very good article. The poverty pimps of the Demo party and NOW just rely on knee-jerk feminist devotion to the liberal ideology (shifting dependency on family and spouse to dependency on Uncle Sam). And that's not BS...

[ReleaseTheHounds]

This is modern feminism.

And that is what the author is railing against -- it's not what modern females need or should want.