"Clinton's journey awakens a new women's movement" by Lisa Wangsness, Globe Staff | August 27, 2008
DENVER - Clinton's presidential bid galvanized women as no other campaign in recent history has. While many younger women supported Barack Obama, among Clinton's most passionate supporters were older women who saw the former first lady as their best chance of having a woman in the White House in their lifetimes - and who saw the demise of her campaign as evidence of lingering sexism in America. In Denver this week, many of these women have been talking about the emergence of a new movement that would unite women across the generational divide to combat discrimination, unequal pay, and other concerns.
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"This is beyond Hillary now," said Maerose Tengsico, a 55-year-old insurance claims adjustor and the head of the California chapter of 18 Million Voices Rise Hillary Rise, which organized a march through Denver yesterday. "This is about women in general. . . . I think there's going to be another movement coming, a different kind of movement of women for women. We've been silent for some time."
??! I was hoping you would shaddup now!!!
Several dozen of Clinton's strongest female supporters met three weeks ago in New York to organize The New Agenda, a nonpartisan group focused on women's issues and electing women candidates. Amy Siskind, a major Democratic donor and activist from New York who helped start it, said in a phone interview yesterday that she has received e-mails and calls of support from around the country.
"I think the grave mistreatment of Hillary during the primary has been an awakening for a lot of women who. . . didn't consider themselves to be feminists in the past," she said. "Millions of folks feel like the Democratic Party abandoned its loyal base of women in this election."
I'm so sick of the complaining and bitching!
There is so much nasty Clinton shit that was never brought out!
A FINAL REMINDER TO THE DENVER DELEGATES
But it is not at all clear a new movement would benefit the organizations that have long been at the forefront, such as EMILY's List and NARAL. Now, they are calling for unity, saying that some of the most important women's issues, especially abortion rights, are at stake in November and that Clinton supporters have a duty to stand up for them.
Many Clinton loyalists, though, are angry with the leaders of the party and women's groups, saying they did too little to confront rampant sexism and allowed an unfair primary process. They are divided over whether to support Obama or Republican John McCain - a troubling turn for the Democratic Party and for the feminist establishment, whose credibility depends on keeping Clinton supporters in the fold.
Siskind said the new group believes in abortion rights but does not make it a platform issue. Democrats, she said, have abused the issue as "a way to control women's votes." "We believe that once women in this country have power in government and the workplace and money, things like abortion will not even be on the table for discussion," she said.
So what does that mean? Unlimited access?
Why is THAT the DEFINING ISSUE for women?
In Denver yesterday, as women celebrated the historic day, divisions within the movement were apparent. At a 2,000-person gala sponsored by EMILY's List featuring some of the party's most powerful women - Michelle Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Clinton herself - there was no mention of the disaffected Clinton supporters' biggest immediate gripe - obtaining a full roll-call vote tonight for Clinton.
Ellen Malcolm the president of EMILY's List, sounded confident. "Make no mistake about it," she said. "Women are united."
But earlier, as the several hundred Clinton supporters marched through downtown Denver to celebrate the historic day and Clinton's 18 million votes during the primaries, the mood was more indignant, or even angry, than celebratory.
MHey, Clintonista bitches: FLIP
Many of those who marched beat drums and wore T-shirts emblazoned with "Hillary 2016." Reports that Clinton would not be granted a full roll-call vote on the convention floor infuriated the marchers, who said they would not rest until Clinton was given a fair say.
Discontent with the feminist establishment was also widespread. Diane Schrack, 52, of Highlands, Colo., marched with a sign that read, "Why didn't the DNC speak out against sexism?" She said she contributed money to groups such as NARAL and Planned Parenthood, but said she would "think twice about that in the future."
"The women's movement needs to stand up and say, 'Sexism is wrong, we made a mistake because we allowed it to happen, and we will not do that again to women or any other group,' " she said.
Gloria Allred, the celebrity women's rights lawyer from Los Angeles and a Clinton delegate, told the crowd at the end of the march, "We will honor the voters who elected us." She then rattled off the names of women's rights leaders emblazoned on a scarf she wore around her neck: Harriet Tubman, Golda Meir, Abigail Adams, Susan B. Anthony.
What a pair, huh? Both want to devour testicles!
Quoting Eleanor Roosevelt, she said, "Women are like tea bags; they never know how strong they are until they're in hot water."
But later, Allred fiercely insisted that women who supported Clinton must vote for Obama in November because, at the very least, of abortion rights.
Yup, the great women's equality folks equate equality with ABORTION -- period!
What MISOGYNISTS!!!!!!!!!!
Obama supports abortion rights, while McCain favors overturning Roe v. Wade, the US Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide, and working to eventually end abortions. "We have to educate these women who are disappointed Hillary didn't win," Allred said. "We have to help them to understand what's at stake. We can't have McCain appointing two Supreme Court vacancies."
Not all the women in the crowd were buying this argument. Many were older women who remember an America where abortion rights were not guaranteed - but are also at an age when those rights may not be as relevant to their lives. "I'm not pregnant," said Jeannie Stratton, 51, from Washington who said she plans to vote for McCain to protest how the Democratic Party treated Clinton.
Go right the fuck ahead!!!
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Besides, you are going to have your way anyway, unsufferables!!!!
DENVER - Clinton's address sounded like an acceptance speech.
Several Clinton delegates in the Indiana and Florida delegations said they probably would not vote for Obama, but would not consider casting a ballot for a Republican.
Luchy Secaira, a Clinton delegate from Naples, Fla., campaigned for Clinton in nine states during the nominating fight against Obama and was angry about the way Clinton was treated. After Clinton's remarks, she said: "Wow! She's one tough cookie . . . You heard her. What I will do is take all the anger that I feel and turn it now and do all I can to help Obama as a way to honor her, even though the party doesn't deserve her."
Then LEAVE IT!!!!!! GET OUT!
Another Clinton stalwart from Florida, a battleground state, was not persuaded. Marykay Jiloty of Ormond Beach, said there is little chance she will support Obama but will hear him out tomorrow, but noted that her husband, a Republican who would have voted for Clinton will now vote for McCain. "So the Democrats lost a vote there," Jiloty said.
The convention signaled both a triumph and an emotional transition for the Clintons. With no Democrat winning the White House since Bill Clinton left in 2001, the former president had been the party's unofficial leader. Clinton had been an early favorite to win the primaries, with high name recognition, eight years in the Senate, tens of millions of dollars, and a solid political resume. But Obama's acceptance of the nomination tomorrow will make the 47-year-old Illinois senator the new leader of the Democrats.
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And did I EVER NAIL IT, readers: The Boston Globe Gives the People What They Want
Yup, your DEFINITION of a WOMAN is here stand on ABORTION -- or so says the divisive, Zionist-controlled, agenda-pushing BG!!!!
