Once in awhile Miss Caldonia will publish the truly outlandish comments and positions taken by individuals and groups during the presidential campaign. Miss Caldonia's first prize goes to the New York Chapter of the National Organization of Women. Their attacks against Senator Edward Kennedy for endorsing Barack Obama are absolutely ridiculous. Check out their press release below.
PRESS RELEASES
Senator Kennedy Betrays Women by Not Standing
For Hillary Clinton for President
January 28, 2008
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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, and the Family and Medical Leave 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.
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.
we need a President not a co presidency of the Clintons,again
ReplyDeleteHillary should not be villified because Obama decided to run. Blacks and others know good and well that if he wasn't they would give her their full support, as I stated that to one of my friends. She stated, "That may be true but he is running." What is equally true is Barack running should not diminsh the real issue of who is better for the country socially. The record reflects Hillary is. The record reflects Hillary is. The record reflects Hillary is. No my computer did not get stuck. Some could care less, all they know is a black man is about to make history, as if many, many black men have not already made history. Someone stated " You don't have to be president to make a difference." That is true you don't. Hillary is better for the country for many reasons, to name a few, shw is not weak, she has diplomacy experience, she has always been concerned about civil rights, she has never tried to be anything but what she is, and she won't back down. I can appreciate her for that. We should make history and vote for someone that has and will make a difference, not someone promising something that is going to always happen, CHANGE...
ReplyDeleteI am a Black man who has and is making a difference in my family and others
"Women have just experienced the ultimate betrayal"? I am a feminist for Obama. Hillary, in my eyes, is the betrayer of women. Like Alice Walker, I protested going into Iraq. I was among Code Pink members that pestered Hillary to do something to end this war. Iraqi ladies came to the USA to join with Code Pink in speaking to Hillary specifically~women to woman. Her reply was she gave the matter careful study and she would like to agree, but could not.
ReplyDeleteI lost my respect for Hillary right there. "An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere". I no longer have my "Stop Violence Against Women" click and donate icon on my woman's blog. Those ladies in Iraq are our sisters. They are as powerless as I am over my what our leaders do.
The reason I would want a female president is for the qualities of empathy, compassion and diplomacy. Obama has them; she does not.
Did I betray myself, my daughters, my granddaughters, the Iraqi refugee women, the Iraqi mothers that saw their children die, that lost their human rights when I cast my vote for Obama?
I think not. I do not vote based on gender or ethnicity; I checked voting records and studied many candidates. If Hillary were to cry, bribe and lie her way to the Democrat bid, I will vote for Cynthia McKinney in November. She has a heart.