Teddy Betrays Women

The National Organization of Women - New York State is ticked off.

The ladies thought that they could trust the honorable Ted Kennedy. They were wrong.

Teddy betrayed them by dumping Hillary to jump on board with the younger, more attractive, more exciting Barack Obama.

PRESS RELEASE

Senator Kennedy Betrays Women by Not Standing
For Hillary Clinton for President
January 28, 2008

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.

This is a stunningly stupid press release.

So because Teddy endorsed Barack Obama that means he doesn't respect women.

How lame!


It means he prefers to support Obama for president and he probably has some scores to settle with the Clintons.


Teddy was under no obligation to endorse Hillary.

Anyway, is Obama so bad? Do these women consider Obama to be against women's rights?

Did NOW-NYS complain when Teddy trashed Condoleezza Rice? Was that a betrayal to women when he did that? Was it an indication that he has no respect for women's rights, voices, equality, and authority?



I didn't hear anything from NOW then.

How hypocritical!

Really lame.