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100 days of Reproductive Justice under Obama

Karen — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:49:58 +0000

Here’s a slide show on reproductive accomplishments (and failures) during Obama’s first 100 days:

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Obama must enjoy pissing off wackadoodle Christians

Karen — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:28:47 +0000

He’s lifted the ban on embryonic stem cell research, is working on revoking the conscientious objector clause for medical personnel and he’s also established a new post in the state department for international women’s issues (source):

US President Barack Obama announced Friday the creation of a new foreign policy position designed to tackle global women’s issues.

Obama named Melanne Verveer, an aide in former president Bill Clinton’s administration, as ambassador-at-large for international women’s issues. She will serve at the State Department under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The appointment, which has to be approved by the Senate, “is unprecedented and reflects the elevated importance of global women?s issues to the president and his entire administration,” the White House said in a statement.

He will also be signing an executive order that will establish a White House Council on Women and Girls (source):

“The mission of the Council will be to provide a coordinated federal response to the challenges confronted by women and girls to ensure that all Cabinet and Cabinet-level agencies consider how their policies and programs impact women and families,” reads a memo describing the move and obtained by The Fix.

We’ve needed both for quite some time and I’m absolutely delighted to see this happening. Maybe the world will be a bit different by the time my daughter is my age. I sure hope so.

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First Huckabee, now Obama?

Karen — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:32:02 +0000

Mike Huckabee has been flamed from all sides for his overt and explicit use of religion to get votes. Now Barack Obama is doing the same by putting out the following brochure in South Carolina:

Many have went on defense declaring this okay because Obama is not a raving lunatic like Huckabee. I’m calling bullshit. The fact of the matter is that Obama has been the victim of a religious smear campaign that became public about a year ago this month.

As of now, there’s an anonymous email circulating about his alleged connection to not just Islam, but extremist Muslim factions. Several of Clinton’s employees forwarded this email and in mid-December former Senator Bob Kerrey, who works for Clinton, made it a point to point out Obama’s middle name (Hussein) and that he has relatives who are Muslims.

In fact, not so long a go I read a remark by (IIRC) a Clinton staffer how Obama Mania was so strong that they couldn’t bring up certain pertenient things about Senator Obama. Those thing’s were his middle name and where he attended school as a young child (a madrasah). In other words, they couldn’t publicly use fear and/or hatred of the Muslims to get people to reflexively vote for Clinton.

And this is how Obama responds to it? A brochure that is little more “See, I’m not a Muslim. I’m a Christian. See me at the pulpit? See Me praying (to Jesus mind you)?”

This is despicable. In fact, I’ll go one step further and say this is worse than Huckabee. It’s one thing to be a bigot and act like a bigot. It’s another to not be a bigot and pander to bigots. Obama is doing the latter and it is wrong.

It doesn’t matter that he’s not a conservative Christian who thinks he has a right to pass laws based on his religious beliefs. It does, however, matter that he’s pandering to those who are.