sudha | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 30 2008 | women, clinton, hillary clinton, mccain, Presidential Election of 2008
well said gail collins!
Quoted: The idea that women are going to race off to vote for any candidate with the same internal plumbing is both offensive and historically wrong.
- sudha | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 11 2008 | hillary clinton, politics, clinton, women, Presidential Election of 2008
This is an incredibly powerful piece. Whether you're an Obama supporter, Hillary supporter or Mccain supporter, you should read it.
Quoted:
Goodbye to...
February 2, 2008Goodbye To All That” was my (in)famous 1970 essay breaking free from a politics of accommodation especially affecting women (for an online version, see http://blog.fair-use.org/category/chicago/).
During my decades in civil-rights, anti-war, and contemporary women’s movements, I’ve avoided writing another specific “Goodbye . . .” But not since the suffrage struggle have two communities—joint conscience-keepers of this country—been so set in competition, as the contest between Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC) and Barack Obama (BO) unfurls. So.
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