Posted on 01/28/2008 12:13:49 PM PST by doug from upland
NY NOW: “Betrayal!”
Politico: Ben Smith ^ | January 28, 2008 | Ben Smith
Posted on 01/28/2008 1:12:56 PM PST by Sherman Logan
Whoa. The New York State chapter of the National Organization for Women attacked Ted Kennedy for his endorsement today with some real heat.. The Times Union reported it first (writing, “’Scathing’ feels inadequate here.”), and I confirmed its authenticity with the president of the organization, Marcia Pappas.
I started to pick out the most eyebrow-raising passages but, that proved kind of hard, so here’s the whole thing:
“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.’”
As with many of these advocacy groups, different chapters wield varying influence in different states, and NOW isn’t the sort of political player in New York that, say, NARAL, is.
Still.
Oh please. Girls do this stuff too, and frequently. (They didn't used to because they actually were brought up to be warm and nurturing. Now, they're just as bad as any guy ever hoped to be, which was what NOW wanted all along.)
I confess Doug, I couldn’t reea it all, as a matter of fact I only read a few paragraphs.
I so hate leftists organizations like this one.
the time-old trick of patriarchal ridicule.
Women, you know what I mean!
YEAH, no sh*t Marcia.
I see your psychological gang bang, and raise you a virtual lynching. Isn’t hyperbole fun?
Sending link to my Hillary friends at the office
This will go over like a lead balloon around here
Great post!
ditto.
That's as far as I got in reading this one.
Please send the HILLARY! UNCENSORED trailer to them. Thanks.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7007109937779036019&pr=goog-sl
Not that they really care about that stuff ...
Never bothered them in the past when it came to the Clintons.
You can witness it every weekday when the hens on the Shrew/View gang up for a pecking party on the lone conservative/dissenter to their liberal elite tea party.
The references to hens and pecking party come from Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by the way...
They stand for subverting western society and ushering in socialism. Human rights, hypocrisy, et al mean nothing to them.
The goal is to topple the system, tear it down, and then gloat.
We’ve all witnessed scenarios where, on the playground little girls are being taunted by little boys while both girls and boys stand idle, afraid to speak up or even cheering. Or, in the workplace males tease young and older female co-workers; make obscene gestures, inappropriate comments, laughing and expecting (often correctly) that everyone will join in.
Good grief!!! Is this for real? Bill Clinton would be leader of the pack on the behavior they are yelling about yet he gets a pass?1?!? And his enabler gets the vote?!?!? The NOW gang has lost whatever marbles they had.
A famous Democrat once said “If you can not stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.”
Perhaps that is why Hilliary doesn’t bake cookies, she can not stand the heat of the kitchen.
Good one. lol
Where was NOW when Teddy was making Ted sandwiches with all those women he used? Was Mary Jo even worthy of mention by NOW?
Where was NOW when Bill used, raped, discarded, slandered, threatened, all those women in his past?
I could go on and on but NOW is very selective in who or whom they defend. They have no credibility left and I guess we all should vote for Hillary because she’s packing female sexual organs? Sorry NOW but no one cares what you hags think anymore.
Excellent! Well done.
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