Also see: NARAL Signals Hitlery Clinton: "Get Out!"
"Mass. legislators call on abortion-rights group to rethink backing Obama"
A prominent national abortion rights group's endorsement of Barack Obama last week is continuing to cause waves.
After NARAL Pro-Choice America's political committee announced its decision, several state affiliates, including the one in Massachusetts, made clear that they were not involved in the choice and were remaining neutral themselves.
Now, nearly 50 NARAL supporters in the Bay State, headlined by House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi, Senate President Therese Murray, and Mayor Thomas M. Menino of Boston, and other legislators, wrote to NARAL leader Nancy Keenan asking her to retract the endorsement.
They write that Hillary Clinton has "a much stronger record on the issues your organization espouses," and that they are "stunned you would endorse someone who, while in the Illinois Senate, showed his unwillingness to take a stand on reproductive rights by voting 'present' seven times on Republican anti-choice legislation."
That just makes me respect Obama even more.
At least he shows a respect for life.
The letter ends: "We believe NARAL's endorsement was not only the wrong one, but entirely premature.
Sort of like abortions, huh? You know, prematurely ending the life.
We encourage you to retract your endorsement and - at the very least - wait until the Democratic nominee is clear. It is imperative we have a pro-choice President in the White House again. To do that, we need party unity. Your endorsement choice and timing do not further that cause."
And how does your champion Hitlery's obstinate attitude and the attacks on Obama further the cause?
Yesterday, NARAL released a reply from Keenan in which she explains the reasoning and timing of the endorsement, saying it must reach the millions of new voters attracted by Obama and Clinton now. "To do so effectively, we must be for someone, not just against John McCain," Keenan writes.
"Senator Obama needs an organization like ours to help close the identification gap with key voting constituencies before the fall campaign begins in earnest and people's opinions are already formed about the two candidates," Keenan writes. "We can help ensure a pro-choice victory in November, but only if we act now (Boston Globe May 21, 2008)."
I heard Hitlery's people wouldn't vote for Obama anyway, so why bother appealing to those shitters?
