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Entries in Barack Obama (22)

Monday
Sep222008

Lilly Ledbetter, a Real War Hero, Could Help Obama Win

Little did I know a few weeks ago, when Carole Joffe and I wrote "It's About Time Working Women Get Straight Answers from John McCain", showing the connective tissue uniting economic and reproductive justice--you know, like the phrase "barefoot an pregnant"-- and challenging McCain to clarify his positions on basic questions such as:

Do you believe in equal pay for equal work?

...that I would soon have the opportunity to meet the woman whose name has become synonymous with equal pay, Lilly Ledbetter. She's a true hero of the ongoing battle for paycheck equality regardless of gender.  I was invited to a press briefing sponsored by AAUW (the American Association of University Women, in case there is anyone in America who doesn't know the acronym of this large and powerful organization which has championed women's educational and professional advancement since 1881). 

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Wednesday
Sep102008

McCain's Rovian Lipstick Diversion

I rarely agree with journalist Andrew Sullivan, but this time he nailed it. Here's an excerpt from his blogpost on John McCain's Rovian diversionary tactical ruse to get the media's scrutiny off of the McCain/Palin ticket and the important issues facing the country. Sullivan is unequivocal in his condemnation of McCain.

    So it's come to this. The full context of Barack Obama's quote is as follows:

“John McCain says he’s about change, too — except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics. That’s just calling the same thing something different.”

With a laugh, he added: “You can put lipstick on a pig; it’s still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change; it’s still going to stink after eight years.”

   We are being asked to believe that he called Sarah Palin a pig. If the people making that accusation have half a brain they know it's not        true.   This is not a question of interpretation.

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Thursday
Sep042008

Palin Speech: Sneers Like Cheney--but if You Go Moose Hunting with Her, Hope She's a Better Shot

John McCain's vice presidential running mate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, delivered an engaging speech last night at the Republican National Convention. Her roaring crowd voraciously devoured every morsel of the copious red meat she served  them with a fierceness that illustrates how she earned the nickname "Sarah Barracuda" in high school sports competition.

Jill Miller Zimon at Writes Like She Talks put together a wide compendium of opinion about McCain's veep pick and concluded it will turn out to be a miscalculation on his part. Seems to me that Palin's speech last night suggests otherwise on its surface.

It Takes Which Woman?

Early on I urged that both McCain and Obama should choose female running mates. Obama, leading in the polls, chose the safe route and chose Joe Biden. McCain, who had both more to gain and more to lose, took the risk of choosing the clearly underqualified but attractive and ambitious Palin.  

She's one tough cookie and good for her. It makes my feminist heart sing to know that even the right-wing Republicans know

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Wednesday
Aug272008

NO WAY, NO HOW, NO MCCAIN: HILLARY, THE DESIGNATED ADULT

Her orange pantsuit might be a Glamour magazine “don’t”, but like every word Hillary spoke last night during her moment at the Democratic National Convention, it was so right, so Hillary.

Her once-ridiculed pantsuit is part of the Hillary brand now, like Barry Goldwater’s thick-rimmed black glasses, Winston Churchill’s smelly cigars, Joe Biden’s train tickets.


Standing sharp against the cobalt blue DNC backdrop in the organgest pantsuit I ever saw, Clinton paid tribute to her “sisterhood of the traveling pantsuit”.  It was a moment of feminist humor and a nod to the fact that she was today truly,

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Sunday
Aug242008

GOING TO DENVER? WATCH OUT FOR DINGBAT CAMPAIGN CONSULTANTS

No, I'm not in Denver. Been there, done that, got lots of t-shirts, hats, buttons, and memories of spending the days in transit from event to event and watching hordes of people cruising from event to event to see who they might see there and of course to be seen themselves. I plan on keeping tabs on the convention happenings and blog throughout though. And I imagine I'll have a better seat from my home office. Here's one good convention website resource with schedules, speakers, events, and up to date electoral information all in one place.

Do you Twitter? I've never Twittered before, but I signed up so I can follow Huffington Post bloggers and perhaps post Twitters there, if I can figure out how to say anything in 140 characters or less.

My worst convention memory was in 2004 when I spoke at the Democratic National Convention. Actually, it was mostly a good experience, since it was the first time a Planned Parenthood leader (I was president of the national organization at the time) had been invited to speak at a party convention and I was proud of having built the organization's political clout. I'd written a great speech going in--smart, humorous, and skewering George W. Bush. Well, some dingbat in John Kerry's campaign had decided no one could say anything bad about Bush. They censored everyone's speeches. Then they made us read the approved speech from a teleprompter. Speakers were not allowed to bring paper to the podium, lest we should divert from our script.

Well, you know I couldn't resist getting one good jibe in at Bush, so while I was at the podium for my three minutes of fame, I  inserted a sentence that wasn't in the script.  Holy moly.  The teleprompter screen started fluctuating wildly back and forward as the operator presumably tried to find where I was. Or maybe they were trying to flummox me as punishment for going off the reservation. It was pretty amusing really, watching myself afterward moving back onto what I remembered of the prepared script, trying to make it look as seamless as possible while the prompter caught back up with me.

It was  amusing, that is, until after the convention when the same dingbats were apparently still advising Kerry not to respond to the Swift Boat attacks. And that's why he's not running for his second term right now. Will Obama learn from that? So far, I am worried.


Cross posted at Women and Politics and Blogher