Hit the nail on the head
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.’”
Hit the nail on the head
Sorry for the mix-up.
So far, that miracle is called "Obama"!
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.
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.
HF
Kennedy needs to kiss and make up by taking the NOW nags out for a nice joy ride.
You should have been a poet.
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.
Yes indeed! NOW is an "anti-heteronormative" advocacy group.
Hadn’t thought of that.
;)
LOL!
Bringing back this great article when NOW went crazy on The Lifeguard.
excellent
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