Sen. Obama Promotes Pro-Choice Credentials

A brief note:

I talked to a lot of Clinton supporters.
They support her views on almost everything.
They say they are not voting for Obama in the
primaries because of Clinton's platform and it
has nothing to do with color.

Now the same people are saying they will switch
to McCain. Now they argue that it has nothing
to do with color but with experience.

I guess we and Naral have lost those people.
Good riddance I say.

Those are empty threats. I've threatened to vote for the Green Party...but I never do. Give them a few months. They'll see McSame for the awful Bush worm he his and Obama for the leader he will be.

Yesterday would have been a great day for your organization to endorse Obama, wouldn't it have been? And only just a few weeks after you did endorse him.

For the life of me, I will never understand why you couldn't have just waited. Hillary has been fighting for women's rights since the 1970s-if anyone deserved your support, it was her. She took a lot of punches during her campaign, more than any of the other candidates, and right from the start. But your punch was definitely one of the hardest, and I just can't see any sense behind it. And I just feel very sad.

He was going to win the nomination. After Obama won North Carolina by double digits and almost won Indiana, that's where Hillary should have stopped her campaign. But she just kept driving for a lost cause. It was foolish. NARAL endorsed Obama as a way of telling Hillary that it was time to let Democrats focus on McCain, our real opponent.

So endorsements are only suppose to be about supporting the winning candidate?? I thought they were suppose to be about supporting who is best for the job.

Hillary's choice about when to drop out was her decision. Not yours, mine, or NARAL's. Hers. And I'm glad she kept going. Maybe the people in South Dakota last week knew it was a lost cause when they voted for her, but they still got the chance to say who they really wanted for president. And seeing as we supposedly live in a democracy, I'm glad they had that chance.

The argument that NARAL has to make it clear, as soon as possible, that McCain is our opponent is just silly-anyone who makes a point of listening to NARAL or following the abortion debate already knows where the parties stand on the issue. It's not a big mystery.

Again, there is absolutely NO reason why NARAL couldn't have waited to endorse Obama until after Hillary was done. I don't care if she was the losing candidate-it doesn't matter to me. It doesn't matter to millions. For NARAL to wait, just to show some small amount of respect for a woman who has always spoken so generously in their favor, would have been the right thing to do.

At a press conference the other day several leading Democrats rallied behind Senator Obama. They suggested that many women who supported Senator Clinton may be upset now but will 'come around' and support Senator Obama in the Fall because of important issues such as Supreme Court nominations, Row v. Wade, etc. Many women and other supporters who voted for Senator Clinton, as I did are outraged. Not that Obama has been chosen as the Dem candidate but we are upset about the treatment she received from the media, Obama's supporters, NARAL, etc. Fellow Democrats stood by and said nothing including the leaders of The Party. I can only conclude that as long as the nastiness and betrayal was helping to achieve the results 'The Party' wanted it was ok to look the other way. Now after the primaries are over everyone is coming out declaring that Senator Clinton was the target of sexism and we should not tolerate that. (Shouldn't NARAL have said something about the blatant sexism?)

Women are now getting organized. Many who I am in contact with will not 'come around' and vote for the Democratic ticket (some say, even if Hillary is running as VP). Women are angry not because she lost, but, because of the treatment that she received when no one came to her aid but her supporters.

As far as those who say they will vote Republican in the Fall, you can believe that many will. And they'll do it not because the Republicans represent their ideals better than the Democrats, but, because they/we need to send a loud message. Remember...at the start of the AIDS epidemic when the government wasn't paying attention (because AIDS wasn't affecting anyone they knew or cared about...it wasn't important to them because they thought AIDS only targeted 'disposable people'.....you know...gay men and intraveneous drug users) Well, back then ACT-UP did some pretty outrageous things to get peoples attention. So I guess now we need to do something outrageous to get your attention. All during the primaries Senator Clinton's supporters complained about the atrocious treatment she was getting from all sides and no one came to her defense... not Howard Dean (who should have), not any of those leaders at the press conference(who should have), not her opponent or any of the others who had run alongside her during the primaries (and they should have). Where was NARAL? (on the Obama bandwagon way too early).

There's no doubt that a vote for Senator McCain will be a sacrifice. Everyone who has decided not to vote the Democratic ticket this time around is well aware of the price we'll all have to pay.


"Silence is the voice of complicity". We'll not sit silently by anymore.

Clinton supporters go to: blog.pumapac.org

Here's the list from bobswern of MyDD again:

- four more years of alienation and disrespect from almost every other country on the planet,
- four more years in Iraq,
- four more years of out-of-control healthcare costs, with more than 40 million Americans uninsured,
- four more years with the U.S. being somewhere around the 30th best country on the planet when it comes to infant mortality,
- four more years of challenges to Roe v. Wade,
- four more years of Republican control over our Supreme Court appointees,
- four more years of a Judicial Branch that's more interested in political thuggery than real justice,
- four more years of virtually nonexistent gun control,
- four more years of irreversible depletion of our ozone layer,
- four more years of lip service--and nothing else--for substantive federal support of alternative energy initiatives,
- four more years of obscene oil industry profits,
- four more years of a financial services sector devoid of regulatory enforcement,
- four more years of welfare for the rich,
- four more years of the rich getting richer while everybody else struggles to pay the mortgage, to pay the rent and to put food on their table (if they are even able to do that now)

If you are willing to vote for more of this, you are not outraged. You don't know what outraged is.

You said "there is no doubt that a vote for Senator McCain will be a sacrifice."

Will you be the one making that sacrifice? I don't mean the kind where you have to square your conscience with voting for a politician who has absolutely no respect for women's rights to the point where he can call his own wife a disgusting name in front of a bunch of reporters, either.

I mean, will you be willing to send your children/husband/wife to war because McCain says it doesn't matter if we pull the troops out of Iraq? Are you willing to watch your child die fighting a war that you likely don't agree with (Senator Clinton didn't so I'm guessing you have the same opinion as her on this very important issue), or willing to let your children grow up without their father/mother so you can prove a point?

And what about that mighty mountain of debt that will be run up keeping this war going? I'm betting you don't have any children who might be sent to Iraq. And I hope you don't have any grandkids because, even if they end up not having to fight, they will be paying for that debt until they learn to hate us intensly for running it up.

I'm also betting you don't have a daughter who will get to sit and watch while we elect ANOTHER politician who thinks that women aren't good enough to determine what happens to our bodies.

Shame on you and everyone else who can justify voting for that man. I'll be expecting all of you to line up to volunteer for Iraq to replace the children of those of us who don't think the "sacrifice" is worth it. And I don't know how you plan to explain how this "sacrifice" is justified to all those Iraqi parents who have been watching their children die in this war. Or explain your vote to a mother whose daughter died of a botched abortion because McCain appointed pro-life activist judges who overturned Roe (they are on for life, remember, and, chances are those judges will find themselves with a cooperative congress sometime in the future). Shame, shame on you.