Wow the Hilanazis are really going beserk...
Cant they just do the right thing for America ???
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=26652
The following email leaked to us from a prominent supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton shows us firsthand the anger among the older women who are the mainstays of her campaign, and a necessary ingredient of a victory for rival Sen. Barack Obama in November:
"There are millions of voters who feel as you do, that the Democratic primary campaign uncovered the pervasive and insidious sexism that runs rampant through our country. That Hillary Clinton is the most qualified candidate, and that she is being cheated out of the nomination by the good old boys network, the DNC and the Mainstream Media. You are angry. You are in a rage. I am too.
"Underneath that rage is sadness, sadness that women are second-class citizens in a country where they are the majority. What's especially disquieting to me is that many young women are blind to the sexist nature of the world in which we live. It's our job, each and every one of us, to educate them. Economically, women earn 77 cents on the dollar for the same work compared to men. Women are in significantly fewer managerial positions, are less likely to own a business and more likely to live in poverty. Politically, women comprise 52 percent of the population and an even larger share of the voting public yet only 16 of the current 100 U.S. senators are women....only 16 percent of the current members of the House...There is only one female Supreme Court Justice...and most remarkably America has never had a female president or presidential nominee. Women did not get the right to vote in the United States until 1920...
"Women have no sense of their own power. White women are the largest race/gender voting bloc in the country. White men compose the second largest voting bloc, black women the third largest bloc, and black men are the smallest race/gender bloc. White and black women together women comprise more than 50 percent of the electorate and if we were fully committed to a single candidate, we could determine the outcome of any office in the country. It is our turn. Are we ready?
"I am sad that black women do not support Hillary in greater numbers. Many members of the black community wrote to me and said they were afraid to stand up for Hillary. They explained how black radio is pressuring its listeners to vote for Barack Obama. White men and women alike wrote me and told me that they were called racist for supporting Hillary Clinton. I want to remind each and everyone of you that, in 1969, Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman to serve in the House, said, 'Of my two handicaps, being female put more obstacles in my path than being black.'...As women we need to come together, and take the power that could be ours. Racism and sexism are both terrible barriers, but one is not worse than the other...
"We need to be counted. We need to stand up and let the DNC know we will not get in line...the DNC thinks we will vote for Obama because like abused women we have no where else to go.
"I will not vote for Barack Obama. I will not stay home. I will go to the polls and proudly write on my ballot, HILLARY CLINTON. I want the DNC to count my vote as a protest vote. I want them to know I am tired of being a second-class citizen in my own country. This isn't about Barack Obama or John McCain. This isn't about Iraq or Iran. This is about a war, a war for our voice, our dignity, and our selves...I hope you will join me."
Bear in mind that such feelings are typical of an emotional political contest (see Rush Limbaugh in January saying Sen. John McCain would destroy the GOP). Die-hards often return to their partisan roots once their candidate is out of the race and the choice narrows to their party versus the other party. The choice in November will not be Clinton versus Obama, but Obama versus McCain.
Part of Clinton's problem has been that she cannot separate her gender from her last name. She became the nation's first serious female presidential contender because of her husband. That muddies her identity, like it or not.
Vote Obama
Cant they just do the right thing for America ???
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=26652
The following email leaked to us from a prominent supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton shows us firsthand the anger among the older women who are the mainstays of her campaign, and a necessary ingredient of a victory for rival Sen. Barack Obama in November:
"There are millions of voters who feel as you do, that the Democratic primary campaign uncovered the pervasive and insidious sexism that runs rampant through our country. That Hillary Clinton is the most qualified candidate, and that she is being cheated out of the nomination by the good old boys network, the DNC and the Mainstream Media. You are angry. You are in a rage. I am too.
"Underneath that rage is sadness, sadness that women are second-class citizens in a country where they are the majority. What's especially disquieting to me is that many young women are blind to the sexist nature of the world in which we live. It's our job, each and every one of us, to educate them. Economically, women earn 77 cents on the dollar for the same work compared to men. Women are in significantly fewer managerial positions, are less likely to own a business and more likely to live in poverty. Politically, women comprise 52 percent of the population and an even larger share of the voting public yet only 16 of the current 100 U.S. senators are women....only 16 percent of the current members of the House...There is only one female Supreme Court Justice...and most remarkably America has never had a female president or presidential nominee. Women did not get the right to vote in the United States until 1920...
"Women have no sense of their own power. White women are the largest race/gender voting bloc in the country. White men compose the second largest voting bloc, black women the third largest bloc, and black men are the smallest race/gender bloc. White and black women together women comprise more than 50 percent of the electorate and if we were fully committed to a single candidate, we could determine the outcome of any office in the country. It is our turn. Are we ready?
"I am sad that black women do not support Hillary in greater numbers. Many members of the black community wrote to me and said they were afraid to stand up for Hillary. They explained how black radio is pressuring its listeners to vote for Barack Obama. White men and women alike wrote me and told me that they were called racist for supporting Hillary Clinton. I want to remind each and everyone of you that, in 1969, Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman to serve in the House, said, 'Of my two handicaps, being female put more obstacles in my path than being black.'...As women we need to come together, and take the power that could be ours. Racism and sexism are both terrible barriers, but one is not worse than the other...
"We need to be counted. We need to stand up and let the DNC know we will not get in line...the DNC thinks we will vote for Obama because like abused women we have no where else to go.
"I will not vote for Barack Obama. I will not stay home. I will go to the polls and proudly write on my ballot, HILLARY CLINTON. I want the DNC to count my vote as a protest vote. I want them to know I am tired of being a second-class citizen in my own country. This isn't about Barack Obama or John McCain. This isn't about Iraq or Iran. This is about a war, a war for our voice, our dignity, and our selves...I hope you will join me."
Bear in mind that such feelings are typical of an emotional political contest (see Rush Limbaugh in January saying Sen. John McCain would destroy the GOP). Die-hards often return to their partisan roots once their candidate is out of the race and the choice narrows to their party versus the other party. The choice in November will not be Clinton versus Obama, but Obama versus McCain.
Part of Clinton's problem has been that she cannot separate her gender from her last name. She became the nation's first serious female presidential contender because of her husband. That muddies her identity, like it or not.
Vote Obama
