Say Anything Blog

They just feel so used and…..dirty:

ALBANY, NY—January 28—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.”

The emphasis on the second paragraph is mine. I love that part. Don’t they sound like the jilted girlfriend?

I’m sorry, but I just can’t take an organization like NOW seriously until I see press releases like this one expressing their outrage about women being stoned to death, beaten, genital mutilation of women, and women generally being treated as property and beasts of burden by the Religion of Peace.

Until then they have NO credibility in my book.

Thanks to the Jawa Report for this one.

UPDATE:

And for some more NOW fun we can go to this press release by New York State NOW President Marcia Pappas. She calls the endorsement of Hillary by the likes of Ted Kennedy a “psychological gang bang.”

I’m not making that up. Here’s the final paragraph of the release:

Think about the legacy we’ll leave behind when we support Hillary Clinton for President of the United States. Let’s put a stop to the psychological “gang banging” of women and girls. Let’s stand up and be counted by way of the hard-won votes we can now cast! 

Read the whole thing. You just can’t make up stuff like this.