Barack Obama and Equal Pay for Women

American Thinker ^ | 07/06/2008 | EagleUSA

[EagleUSA]

What do you call a man who sermonizes about the evils of paying women less than men but allows that very practice in his own office? While a certain unflattering noun would leap to the mind of most, we can now apply a proper one: Barack Obama.

Although the Illinois senator has vowed to make pay equity between the sexes a priority in his administration, it has been revealed that he doesn't practice what he preaches. Writes CNSNEWS.com:

On average, women working in Obama's Senate office were paid at least $6,000 below the average man working for the Illinois senator . . . . Of the five people in Obama's Senate office who were paid $100,000 or more on an annual basis, only one - Obama's administrative manager - was a woman.

Now, some might call Obama a hypocrite. Isn't he guilty of the very invidious discrimination he claims plagues America? It's certainly easy to take this tack, and many on my side will have a field day doing so. Yet, such an analysis only qualifies us for a job such as, well, working in a leftist senator's office. Let's look a little deeper.

[EagleUSA]

What would you call him besides, Osama Obama? You would call him a lying, liberal, hypocrite, who is so devoid of substance and principle that he cannot take a stand on anything without changing it depending on the day of the week, and who he is trying to fool or lie to....

[hellbender]

What do they expect from Obama regarding “women’s rights”? Look at the guy’s roots. Muzzies don’t exactly treat women as equals. In the New Left, the slogan was that “the proper position of the women in the movement is prone” (i.e. as sex objects). Obama’s pal Ayers subjected one of his girlfriends to group rape. In the hip-hop culture of his South Chicago district, “women be hoes,” bro.