"The Ultimate Betrayal"
In response to Ted Kennedy's endorsement of Barack Obama, the New York chapter of NOW (the National Organization for Women) has issued a statement that is, to use the nicest word possible, unhinged:
NOW (New York) - January 28th, 2008 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).
As someone who follows politics on a regular basis, there are few things as frustrating to me as single-issue voters. You know the kind; they have exactly one issue that's important to them, and it trumps everything else.
Well, this is worse. As horrid as it may be to vote against a woman simply because she's a woman, it's not really any better to vote for a woman just because she's a woman.
An organization for the protection and expansion of women's rights is, at its base, a splendid thing. But like all such political organizations, it inevitably ends up forgetting its goals, and seeking power for its own sake. It is not content to inhabit friendly political ideologies; it must supplant them.
» January 28th, 2008
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