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[Mythsaje]

We're Here, We're Square, Get Used to It
Why the Democratic Party is losing the housewife vote
By CAITLIN FLANAGAN


Posted Sunday, Apr. 30, 2006
I am a 44-year-old woman who grew up in Berkeley who has never once voted for a Republican, or crossed a picket line, or failed to send in a small check when the Doctors Without Borders envelope showed up. I believe that we should not have invaded Iraq, that we should have signed the Kyoto treaty, that the Starr Report was, in part, the result of a vast right-wing conspiracy. I believe that poverty is our most pressing issue and that we should be pouring money and energy into its eradication. I believe that allowing migrant women and children to die of thirst in American deserts is a moral transgression that will stain us forever.

More: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1189224-1,00.html

[spag68]

1. I get time

and I read the article. I think she is mostly right, but it's
more complicated and had something to do with labor people in the 60s being macho and afraid of integration. Remember George Wallace who got a pretty big third party vote.

[Chimichurri]

2. this PR piece is so she can sell her book

"Democrats are the bullyboys. Such lions of the left as Barbara Ehrenreich, the writers at Salon and much of the Upper West Side of Manhattan" oh, give me a break.

Here she is on The Colbert Report: http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=61880

Her original title was "How Feminism Short Changed a Generation" but her publisher said it wouldn't sell.

Don't let this PR stunt fool you - she's a hack.

[IntravenousDemilo]

3. Oh, yeah, that's the same woman.

I saw her on Colbert and my impression was that she's not quite all there.

[Crunchy Frog]

5. I thought I remembered her from Colbert.

If she's being mistaken for a Republican, it's not because of her "lifestyle choice", it's because of the way she presents herself and represents her opinions. Based on what I saw on Colbert, I would guess that she's pretending to be a Democrat in order to score a bunch of RW talking points.

Since when is Barbara Ehrenreich a spokesperson for the Democratic party? I'm pretty sure she's a Green. What the hell does she care about what Upper West Side Manhattan, or writers at Salon think of her lifestyle choices?

Media Matters should be alerted to this.

[tom_boy]

4. well, there's one opinion