Who would have thunk that feminism was about promoting the female gender due to a hostile discriminatory environment.

It’s not like Affirmative action had anything to do with promoting black people in a discriminatory environment.

It’s not like civil rights had anything to do with race.

It’s not like the black theology preached in Obamas church had anything to do with promoting black people.

Why in the world would anyone think that a womens organization would ever want to promote a woman. All womens organizations of course understand that only a man could promote womens causes.

And if you believe all of the above, then you’d also believe the NY city is having a raffle for the Brooklyn bridge. Tickets are $100 a piece. Want to buy a few?

The only reason I can think of casuing Naral to so obviously shill for Obama (especially in the timing of the announcement) is because Obama bribed Naral with access to his extensive mailing list of donors. It is a powerful list: it is all liberals (presumptively all pro-choice), it is very large, and it is people who have parted with their cash for political causes.

Old politics: Cash bribes.

Change we can believe in: Mailing list bribes

Organizations like Moveon and Naral are clearly not supported by McCain supporters, but are supported by BOTH Clinton and Obama supporters.

Well anyways used to be supported by BOTH Clinton and Obama supporters.

I can't imagine the self-destructive mechanisms at work. They are issue and policy organizations, why would they want to disenfranchise half of their supporters who agree with and want to support their initiatives?

More stupid, they could not be.

I never forgave Edwards for his poor showings in the VP debates with Cheney. Cheney effectively made it appear that Edwards was a twerp, a little boy out of his league. The bottom line is that Edwards helped Bush get elected in those debates.

As time goes on it is easier and easier to see why Cheney was so easily able to win those debates.

I don’t understand the argument that just because Naral can choose to do whatever they want, this precludes them from making stupid decisions.

Make it simple. They made a stupid decision.

If the nomination is sewn up as NARAL says, then why endorse? There is ZERO advantage to Obama and ZERO advantage to NARAL. And actually there is plenty of disadvantage to NARAL.

NARAL is about and for women. I don’t know how many Obama supporters have noticed and NARAL may have forgotten, but men do not get pregnant. To ignore that, just to bandwagon with the perceived “winner”, is incredibly cheap.

...never call a woman sweetie in a professional setting. Especially someone you do not know. Especicially in front of other professionals. Never. Never. Never. It was arrogant, demeaning, and condescending.

Obama realized his mistake and appropriately apologized. That Obama supporters can't realize his error is troubling.

Thats the way to go. Doesn't need ironing.

Right after the "historic" speech on race. I predicted the speech would have about the same shelf life as a Britney Spears pop song. And so it goes, especially after the 2nd Obama speech on Wright, which deflated much of what he said in the 1st.

Anyways in his first speech, he threw everyone under the bus (except for Wright) including grandma, and even all black churches by suggesting black churches by default were like Wrights. All it takes is one thinking brain cell to conclude that assertion assinine.

So Camille should be careful, because if Obama gets wind of a Salon columnist supporting him - then bang and thank you very much, off under the bus she goes.

...why Obamacans are freakin' so much. It's not like white working class people count as people or anything.

A new day is coming when well-educated young white people will march down the street arm in arm with their black brethern and...oh wait, well-educated young white people never hang out with black people. Never mind.

I thought the GOP said we were a color blind society.

I guess there's still one or two people out there didn't get the memo.

...would have seen that Obama was clearly calling the Middle East conflict, and not Israel, a sore."

I guess Obama and Goldberg are saying Israel is not the sore but just has the sore and the US by association has also picked up a sore.

Ok, so what kind of sore is this - self-inflicted due to un-protected sex or poor hygiene? Victum of circumstance sore from an allergy? Infectious disease? What?

Besides pandering for jewish votes, Obama has nothing to add to the discussion. Unless dithering about sores and platitudes like "peace is good" is what passes for leadership these days.

...has become the great polarizer.

Obama is basically following the same trajectory as the other great unifier, GWB. Except he has found new things to polarize around and do it much faster.

Black vs white

Black vs non-blacks

Youth vs Age

more educated vs less-educated

the alot Religious vs the little religious

Men vs women

urban vs rural

enlightened ones vs the uninitiated

blue collar vs white collar

Did I miss any other group he is unifying? Sounds like if he gets elected, Obamas first priority will be to install a caste system to keep all these speperate groups in their proper place.