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Women’s group: Obama’s cabinet ‘clearly’ needs to be 50-percent female
Daily Caller ^ | December 6, 2012 | Caroline May

Posted on 12/06/2012 6:31:45 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

As President Barack Obama finalizes his second-term cabinet picks, the nation’s leading feminist group is pushing for more female appointments.

Currently, the president, who garnered 55 percent of the women’s vote on Election Day, has eight females in his 23-member cabinet. According the National Organization for Women, that number isn’t nearly high enough.

NOW president Terry O’Neill, in an interview with The Daily Caller, explained that she would like to see complete gender parity in Obama’s second-term cabinet.

“I think that if half of the cabinet were women and half of the Supreme Court and half of Congress were women, we would see a lot more policies for expanding education and health care and social services that allow communities to thrive,” O’Neill explained. “We’d see a lot less spending on military weapons systems, and we would also see a lot less of the most powerful, moneyed people not paying their fair share.”

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cabinet; obama; women
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1 posted on 12/06/2012 6:31:53 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

In other words, FORWARD! (comrades).


2 posted on 12/06/2012 6:34:44 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The government needs more “lady parts” to do the thinking and planning for us. Good idea.


3 posted on 12/06/2012 6:35:28 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Don't tax me bro! Tax that guy over there!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Is that counting MO and Valerie?


4 posted on 12/06/2012 6:36:57 AM PST by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Can’t wait for the reaction when it’s discovered that it needs to be 97% heterosexual.


5 posted on 12/06/2012 6:37:59 AM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

So the women would spend even more money on entitlements, because that is what makes communities “thrive”?
As a woman I am always offended by the assertion that we are so much better than men.
It isn’t true. Women are just as flawed as men. Like it or not, we are not smarter, or more compassionate, or more moral. In fact, in many areas where society is struggling with immorality and the consequences, woman have led the decline.
Cabinet level jobs should go to the most quaified person, period.


6 posted on 12/06/2012 6:45:56 AM PST by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
And will Obama name a Very Rich White Man over a Poor Black Woman for Sect. of State?

Wonder if tax evader Al Sharpton brought this up in his tax-the-rich meeting with the president.

7 posted on 12/06/2012 6:46:08 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

This is gonna be good for popcorn sales.

Despite their high-sounding B.S. everyone knows the Democrats are the party of the Pale Stale Male, far and away above the GOP. The GOP actually has FAR more women and minorities in positions of power and influence. The Dems throw a few in there for window dressing but all the decisions get made by white guys.


8 posted on 12/06/2012 6:48:04 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Looks like NOW is getting Fluked again. Tough tacos.


9 posted on 12/06/2012 6:51:56 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (0 bummer inherited a worse economy in 2012 than he did in 2008.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Squat Pisser Militia comes out swinging.


10 posted on 12/06/2012 6:51:55 AM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature ($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

As long as they are dedicated Marxists it matters not what their sex.


11 posted on 12/06/2012 6:56:34 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“Aha, a quota diversity group. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.”

Diversity for its own sake is equivalent to dorkosity.


12 posted on 12/06/2012 6:58:21 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Women’s group: Obama’s cabinet ‘clearly’ needs to be 50-percent female

So getting rid of Hitlery and Nazipolitano is actually good for business. Who knew?

13 posted on 12/06/2012 7:00:03 AM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("Don't be afraid to see what you see." -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Hey, it’s only ‘fair’...


14 posted on 12/06/2012 7:00:23 AM PST by Joe Brower (The "American People" are no longer capable of self-governance.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

What this witch is saying is “hey gang, let’s go full bore socialism. Let’s start expropriating (or expropriating a lot more of) the wealth of private citizens. We useless mouthbreathers at NOW need more money from the producers.”


15 posted on 12/06/2012 7:01:59 AM PST by driftless2
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Fifty percent female sounds hoggish.

Don’t the Nancy Boys, Sexual Convertibles and Faggots rate a place in the plantation barnyard with the other democrat freaks?


16 posted on 12/06/2012 7:08:19 AM PST by Iron Munro (Big Moo & Bronco 'Bama = Robbing From The Hood and Boy Blunder)
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To: driftless2

Obama could give the Fluke and her attorney Gloria Allard a job in his cabinet. Would fit right in with his thinking.


17 posted on 12/06/2012 7:09:22 AM PST by YukonGreen
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To: driftless2

Obama could give the Fluke and her attorney Gloria Allard a job in his cabinet. Would fit right in with his thinking.


18 posted on 12/06/2012 7:09:30 AM PST by YukonGreen
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A very large percentage of the types who made up the original NOW were out and out Marxists. Like Betty Friedan. Some tried to hide their hard leftist inclinations from the media (who were more than willing to overlook their Marxist ties), and some made no bones about it. At the core of these nitwits is a profound lack of knowledge of basic economics and how wealth is created. And how freedom is protected.


19 posted on 12/06/2012 7:17:50 AM PST by driftless2
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I’m so tired of this old stale diatribe. Part of me has gotten to the point at which I think it might not be a bad idea for all men to just quit working. Let the feminists take care of everything. I’m sure everyone will be so happy and everything will be grand..


20 posted on 12/06/2012 7:59:24 AM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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