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New York NOW Chapter SLAMS Ted Kennedy for endorsing Hillary's opponent
Times Union ^ | 01/28/2008

Posted on 01/28/2008 10:55:17 AM PST by 1Old Pro

The National Organization for Women’s New York chapter issued a scathing reaction to Sen. Ted Kennedy’s endorsement of Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton. Actually, the word “scathing” feels inadequate here.

Read for yourself:

“Women have just experienced the ultimate betrayal. Senator Kennedy’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton’s opponent in the Democratic presidential primary campaign has really hit women hard. Women have forgiven Kennedy, stuck up for him, stood by him, hushed the fact that he was late in his support of Title IX, the ERA, the Family Leave and Medical Act to name a few. Women have buried their anger that his support for the compromises in No Child Left Behind and the Medicare bogus drug benefit brought us the passage of these flawed bills. We have thanked him for his ardent support of many civil rights bills, BUT women are always waiting in the wings.

“And now the greatest betrayal! We are repaid with his abandonment! He’s picked the new guy over us. He’s joined the list of progressive white men who can’t or won’t handle the prospect of a woman president who is Hillary Clinton (they will of course say they support a woman president, just not “this” one). ‘They’ are Howard Dean and Jim Dean (Yup! That’s Howard’s brother) who run DFA (that’s the group and list from the Dean campaign that we women helped start and grow). They are Alternet, Progressive Democrats of America, democrats.com, Kucinich lovers and all the other groups that take women’s money, say they’ll do feminist and women’s rights issues one of these days, and conveniently forget to mention women and children when they talk about poverty or human needs or America’s future or whatever.

“This latest move by Kennedy, is so telling about the status of and respect for women’s rights, women’s voices, women’s equality, women’s authority and our ability – indeed, our obligation - to promote and earn and deserve and elect, unabashedly, a President that is the first woman after centuries of men who ‘know what’s best for us.’”


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: donnybrook; feminazis; hahahaha; hillary; impeachedpresident; impeachment; kennedy; lesbians4hillary; nags; nowgang; obama; schadenfreude; serialrapist; tedkennedy; theswimmer
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To: detective
The angry, evil women of NOW are something to watch. Clinton’s raping and sexually harassing women is fine. Ted Kennedy’s abusing his wife and killing his girlfriend is fine. But endorsing Obama is unforgivable.

Hit the nail on the head


181 posted on 01/28/2008 2:12:42 PM PST by MooseMan (Sarcasm included at no additional charge)
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To: xp38
I didn't mean the article. After Obama's speech, I heard on Fox that Caroline Kennedy was writing an op-ed in the New York Times in their Sunday edition endorsing Obama.

Sorry for the mix-up.

182 posted on 01/28/2008 2:29:47 PM PST by pray4liberty (Watch and pray.)
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To: pray4liberty
Please God. We need you. Please do something significant and miraculous here.

So far, that miracle is called "Obama"!

183 posted on 01/28/2008 2:49:26 PM PST by reformjoy ( Elect Hillary -- Destroy a Nation!!)
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To: 1Old Pro
Never forget that the ultimate goal for the dims is victory in the November elections.

I think that the party elites have seen enough of Hill and Bill on the primary campaign trail in what has been a controlled, benign, environment, to realize that both are one video frame away from a fatal campaign error that will make the Dean scream and Dukakis in a tank look like astute political maneuvering.

There is no way the dims elites now want Hillary! at the top of (or perhaps anywhere near) their ticket.

The appeals to party unity and the good of the nation will start any day now.

184 posted on 01/28/2008 2:54:30 PM PST by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (The facts of life are conservative -- Margaret Thatcher)
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To: tcrlaf
Karl Rove YOU magnificent Bastard!!
185 posted on 01/28/2008 3:02:33 PM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: pray4liberty

I know. I just find it interesting they unleash on Ted but not Caroline. They both endorsed. Maybe they think it would be too over the top to attack Caroline even though this release is already the case IMHO.


186 posted on 01/28/2008 3:07:43 PM PST by xp38
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To: Froufrou
Perhaps NOW professes that mashers should stick together...?

LOL...Good point...Whatever, it is a very salutary experience to watch the scum that has risen to the top of the Rat party go at it.
187 posted on 01/28/2008 4:01:11 PM PST by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.-- Mencken)
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To: xp38
Did you read what she wrote? Too good to miss.

A President Like My Father

188 posted on 01/28/2008 4:01:28 PM PST by pray4liberty (Watch and pray.)
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To: xp38
Caroline's opinions and campaigns haven't been paid for the way Teddy's have. She doesn't owe them anything, but he does. They've looked the other way to let his bacon be pulled out of the fire many a time.

HF

189 posted on 01/28/2008 4:01:34 PM PST by holden
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To: 1Old Pro

Kennedy needs to kiss and make up by taking the NOW nags out for a nice joy ride.


190 posted on 01/28/2008 4:24:45 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: 1Old Pro
A little late, but here's the popcorn to watch the dimocrats fight.



191 posted on 01/28/2008 4:34:32 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: DGHoodini

You should have been a poet.


192 posted on 01/28/2008 4:36:28 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: 1Old Pro
I will candidly admit that this is a good example of the adage, The enemy of my enemy is my friend. More to the point: Barack Obama is personable enough, but hugely liberal. Teddy Kennedy is also incredibly liberal--a big minus, in my book--but without even the sunny personality to help attenuate the difficulty I have with him on policy issues (and with the burden of Chappaquidick to boot). So an endorsement of one ultra-liberal by another ultra-liberal should hardly be cause for celebration.

Or so it would seem.

And yet I was enormously happy to see the Kennedy clan--well, three of them, amyway--endorsing Barack Obama.

Why?

The only explanation I can come up with is that it seemed like a hot poker in the collective eye of Billary; and that was enough to bring me some momentary joy.

193 posted on 01/28/2008 9:43:31 PM PST by AmericanExceptionalist (Democrats believe in discussing the full spectrum of ideas, all the way from far left to center-left)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
Why does NOW care about women? They’re a homosexual group that supported Clinton and his repeated sexual attacks on women.

Yes indeed! NOW is an "anti-heteronormative" advocacy group.


194 posted on 01/28/2008 11:37:39 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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To: mom.mom

Hadn’t thought of that.

;)


195 posted on 01/29/2008 9:40:53 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: FormerACLUmember

LOL!


196 posted on 01/29/2008 9:47:04 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: 1Old Pro

Bringing back this great article when NOW went crazy on The Lifeguard.


197 posted on 05/21/2016 2:12:32 PM PDT by doug from upland
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To: doug from upland

excellent


198 posted on 05/23/2016 9:41:58 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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