And a couple of stills for good measure...
Posted on 03/08/2007 2:04:14 PM PST by MovementConservative
BERKELEY, Calif. — Toni Morrison famously dubbed President Clinton America's "first black president." With that barrier broken, the comments of a prominent feminist are provoking debate about who may lay a similar claim to the title of America's first woman president.
The candidate being touted as a torchbearer for women is not Senator Clinton, but one of her former colleagues, John Edwards. At a rally near the University of California, Berkeley campus this week, a veteran of the abortion-rights movement, Kate Michelman, asked and answered the question she gets most frequently about her decision to back the male former senator from North Carolina.
"Why John Edwards, given the historic nature of our extraordinary campaign for the presidency this year with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and all the others?" Ms. Michelman asked as she warmed up the crowd for Mr. Edwards. "I've gotten to know a lot of political leaders over the years that I've been an advocate for women's rights. I know the difference between those who advocate as a political position and those who understand the reality of women's lives.
"Compared to Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Edwards is short an ‘X' chromosome, but listening to Ms. Michelman, that is easy to forget. "As a lawyer, as a senator, as a husband, as a father of two daughters, he understands the reality of women's lives. He understands the centrality of women's lives and experience to the health and well-being of society as a whole. … He understands that on an extremely personal level," she said.
Her comments drew some quizzical looks, though if she had extended her argument to suggest that Mr. Edwards understood the plight of African Americans as well or better than Mr. Obama, some audible dissension would surely have arisen.
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Although I'm pro-life, perhaps the world would be a better place had Kate Michelman's mom made a different choice.
Well, if he loses...he can always join the Mrs. America beauty pageant...
AND if you elect a Republican you get the Klu Klux Klan, the Nazi Party, the Spanish Inquisition, and the Confederate States of America!
/s
He's 'womanly' for sure in an ersatz way, but hardly 'presidential'.
More likly someone who will apologize for all of that and more, constantly, even though it's not true.
It is a choice always between the Traitor Party and the Stupid Party.
LOL!!! THANKS!!! What a girlie man.
"Well, if he loses...he can always join the Mrs. America beauty pageant..."
Or he could be sent to the My Little Pony Glue Factory for rendering.
It's possible.
I feel pretty oh so pretty
Funny how everybody went balistic over Ann's remark, but it's okay to call G. W. an idiot, stupid, etc. (per Maher and others). Isn't that really hate speech. Especially when it's from the likes of Rosie O'Donnell and Joy Bohar, both low on the civility and intellectual charts.
Hillary would be the first Soviet President.
I would be so much more insulted by this article than anything Ann has said. These idiots are serious!
Come on, now. Ann Coulter wrote this, didn't she? Somebody fess up.
I heard it as well, it was very funny.I love it when Rush looses it laughing.
I usually try and catch what Rush has to say on his website early in the morning.
I'll look for it Friday.
Thanks, and have a great night.
Masculinity challenged.
I just posted it above...#73.
Well, whatever we do, abortion must not be rare! /sarcasm.
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