| Submit your comments on this article |
| Home Front: Politix |
| Teddy Calls Obama 'New Generation of Leadership' |
| 2008-01-29 |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Looks like he's lost the chickie babes of NOW-New York State Chapter... Senator Ted Kennedy Betrays Women by Not Standing for Hillary Clinton for President Ultimate Betrayal Felt by Women Everywhere ALBANY, NY (01/28/2008; 1101)(readMedia)-- 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.” Well, Teddy, at least they had the common courtesy not to mention a certain drowned dead girl... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-01-29 16:19 |
| #5 I hope Obama realizes that, outside of the New York Times editorial pages, Massachusetts, and a few other places which he probably already has locked up, this endorsement probably isn't gonna mean much. In fact, it'll probably hurt him, since most people not from Massachusetts that I meet think that Ted belongs in an insane asylum. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-01-29 12:07 |
| #4 Did the Whale offer the kid a ride home?... |
| Posted by: mojo 2008-01-29 11:49 |
| #3 Yup, lots of change going on there. So we have hillarity bucking for change when her election would continue a bush/clinton 20 year era. Or, there is b.o. who also advocates change by accepting the endorsement of perhaps the most widely known family dynastic figures who, as the morning news reminds us, is the brother of President Kennedy (no crap morning show). |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-01-29 10:55 |
| #2 If Fat Ted is fer him, I'm agin him. Nuff sed. |
| Posted by: Woozle Elmeter 2907 2008-01-29 09:56 |
| #1 Teddy who? And Fred ... can we see some text instead of just links? Sorry... |
| Posted by: Bobby 2008-01-29 06:21 |