What John McCain Stands For Where Women are Concerned

Posted on June 24, 2008. Filed under: politics | Tags: , |

Aside from the fact that McCain doesn’t feel that women are held back in the workplace by any that “taking a few classes to update our skill set” couldn’t fix, he is a troglodyte on family planning. Barefoot kitchen wenches warming up buns in the oven might be overstating his take on the best place [...]

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Cracking the “Bitch” Glass Ceiling

Posted on April 28, 2008. Filed under: politics | Tags: , , , , |

Very interesting commentary from Judith Timson of the Globe and Mail on Thursday, writing about the Pennsylvania primaries and Sen. Clinton’s victory there. The op-ed piece went on at length about Clinton’s “macho” campaign and Sen. Obama’s rather weak response to the full metal jacket approach of Team Clinton. 
My favorite quote in the article was [...]

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Obama’s an Elitist? Who Knew?

Posted on April 24, 2008. Filed under: politics | Tags: , , |

So Obama  stirred up a bit of a problem for himself  in the recent past with his painting of the working class as “bitter” though in truth he is about half right. People do not cling to religion or guns or bigotry out of frustration over their ejection from the American Dream race. They were [...]

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Obama will not be the First Woman President

Posted on March 5, 2008. Filed under: Feminism, politics | Tags: , , , , |

I was reading an article in Newsweek that put forth the idea that Barack Obama will be the first female president of the United States much as Bill Clinton was the first black president. The idea that Clinton was “black” in a spiritual sense of the word was first put forth by the author Toni Morrison. I [...]

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