I think Im gonna place a call into the office of NY NOW to express my disgust in their Teddy Comment

[MadBadger]

Anybody else want to join me?

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

1. What are you talking about?

[MadBadger]

4. Heres the comment

http://www.nownys.org/pr_2008/pr_012808.html


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Senator Kennedy Betrays Women by Not Standing
For Hillary Clinton for President
January 28, 2008
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Women have just experienced the ultimate betrayal. Senator Kennedy’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton’s opponent in the Democratic presidential primary campaign has really hit women hard. Women have forgiven Kennedy, stuck up for him, stood by him, hushed the fact that he was late in his support of Title IX, the ERA, and the Family and Medical Leave Act to name a few. Women have buried their anger that his support for the compromises in No Child Left Behind and the Medicare bogus drug benefit brought us the passage of these flawed bills. We have thanked him for his ardent support of many civil rights bills, BUT women are always waiting in the wings.

And now the greatest betrayal! We are repaid with his abandonment! He’s picked the new guy over us. He’s joined the list of progressive white men who can’t or won’t handle the prospect of a woman president who is Hillary Clinton (they will of course say they support a woman president, just not “this” one). “They” are Howard Dean and Jim Dean (Yup! That’s Howard’s brother) who run DFA (that’s the group and list from the Dean campaign that we women helped start and grow). "They" are Alternet, Progressive Democrats of America, democrats.com, Kucinich lovers and all the other groups that take women's money, say they’ll do feminist and women’s rights issues one of these days, and conveniently forget to mention women and children when they talk about poverty or human needs or America’s future.

This latest move by Kennedy, is so telling about the status of and respect for women’s rights, women’s voices, women’s equality, women’s authority and our ability – indeed, our obligation- to promote and earn and deserve and elect, unabashedly, a President that is the first woman after centuries of men who “know what’s best for us.

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

7. Thanks !

[Medusa]

8. This chick is obviously a loose canon

whose cheese has slid from her cracker

[MoonRiver]

13. No, I'm going to call them and congratulate them for exposing the truth.

Who's with me?

[UndergroundEcoHound]

21. The truth?

conjecture much?

[dogman]

2. Go ahead.

I just unsubscribed from Teddy's E-mail list because of my disgust with his endorsement announcement.

[thoughtcrime1984]

6. That'll show em

You wanted him to endorse who?

[dogman]

10. No one in the primary.

At least not waste my time and bandwidth without considering where I stand.

[harun]

3. What is NY?

[MadBadger]

5. New York?

[ErnestoG]

9. The hilarious part of this is....

that if Ted had endorsed Hillary, the Hillarzombies would be experiencing a group orgasm and lauding this endorsement of such an elder liberal statesman.

What shameless hypocrites.

[Pathwalker]

12. Hillarzombies. You have insulted Hillary or her supporters

in every post today. I don't know who you're supporting, others than Rush Limbaugh's talking points.
Take your "shame" and shove it.

[MadBadger]

14. Have you commented on the NOW response yet?

[Pathwalker]

17. I much prefer the National Now's response. It was more...

rational. And sane. There, are you happy, now, or am I still just another Hitllery bot?

[rinsd]

15. And Obama supporters would be attacking Ted Kennedy

[Windy]

11. already did. As a 49 year old woman, feminist and pro-choice advocate, I'm appalled!

That editorial was all emotion and anger. Doesn't speak well for NOW NY

[LisaM]

16. No, I certainly will not

I don't find it the least surprising that the strong women's groups want a woman president. I have some friends under, I'd say, about 32, and feminism is not an issue with them - they don't GET it.

[MadBadger]

18. So why does Ted Kennedy then HAVE to support for Clinton?

[LisaM]

19. I didn't say he did

but NOW has been a friend to Ted Kennedy over the years, and if they want to be disappointed in an endorsement, that's their perogative.

I personally think that a lot of these endorsements are coming too early. I don't see the point. If the candidate ends up losing, it will cause hard feelings.

[GoldieAZ49]

20. I will call, or email

this is the response for her demand that I support Hillary

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4251051&mesg_id=4255347