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[sparklypoof]

**helping spread the good news that leli sent me this morning**
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The National Organization for Women (NOW) has endorsed Barack Obama for President.

This is unprecedented - they do not endorse candidates.

They stated in an interview with NPR this morning, however, that Pallin is an "anathema" to everything their organization champions and they could not stand idly by and watch her being touted as a "woman's rights" candidate.

Link to the interview:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94658965

Link to NOW:
http://www.now.org

I'd pass this on to as many women as you feel comfortable passing it on to - we need to vote.
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PPS: why you should vote for mccain

PPPS: ALSO!! count the lies

Comments

[samaritan1975.livejournal.com]

Makes you feel a little better about your concern over folks voting for Palin just based on gender, yesno?

pass it on.

[technicrat.livejournal.com]

I passed this on to a single mom I know. She didn't apreciate it. She asked me why it is that only "liberal" women are supposed to be able to have career and family and be a success? she said that to her Palin looks like everything that women have been claiming they want.
I dunno I am not a woman much less a single mom, But it was interesting take on it. I respect her. She has been raising both her daughter and niece by herslef with no help from the family or the gub'ment. So I guess that earns her the right to have what ever view she wants.

[totallypinkrock.livejournal.com]

Um, how in God's name is anyone saying Sarah Palin needs to get back in the kitchen? (Take the shoes off, hon, thanks!)

Techni, it sounds like the GOP's false psuedo-feminist message has already gotten to your friend - the 'publicans have been saying over and over that if you don't like Palin, you must be a sexist asshole.

I think that's exactly what NOW is trying to say with this bid of support for Sen.s Obama and Biden: "That message is a crock! They picked her to capture the moderate Hillary supporters! This was a political ploy only! ZOMG!" [of course, how many people who like Palin right now also listen to NOW's press releases? I ask you.]

Also: who said that Gov. Palin represents everything women want? A buncha kids, gov't work, a husband, and all of it in Alaska? Certainly it's a good thing that nothing about her womanhood has prevented Palin from becoming a governor, from receiving the honor of a VP nomination... but who's to say to *anyone* that she is some kind of ur-woman, the "everything for everybody" woman?

If I were a lady, that's not the life I'd want. No, sir.