Posted on 08/25/2008 3:46:37 PM PDT by STARWISE
The chief of Illinois’ National Organization for Women chapter today called on Barack Obama’s “political godfather” to resign immediately from the Illinois state Senate for calling an African-American Hillary Clinton delegate an “Uncle Tom.”
“That was a pretty horrible comment,” said Illinois NOW president Bonnie Grabenhofer, also a Clinton delegate, who issued the demand for Senate President Emil Jones’ resignation.
Feminists who make up the Illinois Clinton delegate contingent at the Democratic National Convention were outraged to learn of today’s exclusive Chicago Sun-Times report about Clinton delegate Delmarie Cobb’s accusation that Jones directed the racially loaded slur at her.
The flap comes at a particularly sensitive time for the Obama campaign, which is slumping in national polls and has struggled to bring Clinton delegates across the country into the fold.
“I’ve never heard anything as awful or as sexist or as racist as to call her that for supporting Hillary,” said Clinton delegate Gay Bruhn, another NOW member in Illinois who called for a public apology from Jones.
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Some pretty interesting pictures today. lol
I know. I was being ironic. I only caught one minute of Emil Jones, and was kind of surprised that someone so blatantly part of the Obama criminal enterprise was given center stage. But, thinking about it, that too is the Illinois/National Democratic Party way. Think of 8 years of Clinton, when it was done as a matter of course, intentionally.
What a horrible speech he gave .. awful speaker.
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