Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 59
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An older woman's viewpoint
[Read the article: Hey, Obama boys: Back off already!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I am older than the women you address in your article. When the National team petitioning for the Equal Rights Amendment radification came to Ocala, FL I was amazed that they came to our town. As a working mother of six children, I considered myself a neutral feminist. But since no one offered to be the petition organizer, I volunteered. My friends were outraged that I wanted unisex toilets. Small town woman said they did not want the amendment--their husbands let them do anything they wanted to do. I was amazed that they did not even want to know what the amendment said. Due mostly to becoming a single mother of six, working at any job I could get in a small town I have never been very active in any movement. I still live in FL small towns. I have a small consulting business and even now I cannot discuss my prowoman stance for fear of losing clients. But what I have found even after all these years is the hatred some women have for other women. I agree with everything your article said. I have worked all my life as a lone woman in business run by men, and some of them seem to be more favorable to women that my "sisters". I do not know if you have noticed, but I have, the number of proObama female media women who are so unfair to Hillary Clinton. I do not need to have them tell me how they feel about her, I can discern that for myself--Campbell Brown, Natalie Morales. I was never so caught up in an election as I am in this one, partly because of the media and partly because of internet postings by Obama supporters. It is one thing to be against a candidate but to be so vicious and hateful as both men and women posters is unnecessary. I do not like Obama because I see him to be arrogant and racist but I would not stoop to calling him names. Old fashioned, I call myself a lady, and as reluctant as I am to call Hillary Clinton a lady because of the label aspect, she has conducted herself as such and is still called names. I would have called the Obama's Arrogant, she used elitist. I would have attacked where she was diplomatic but she is running for president, I am not. Just a few days ago, I wondered how I could contact women who are likeminded as I in order to still some of my frustration at this contest. I have tried to join womens groups in my area even the local NOW organization, but it consists of older (not that I am not older in age but not in mind) persons whose time has passed and are comfortable with their own group. Then I fell upon your article. It was refreshing. Thank you and thank you for letting me speak.
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Postings prove premise of the article
[Read the article: Hey, Obama boys: Back off already!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Having read many of the letters pertaining to this article, I find they are just like any other blog and prove in no uncertain terms the premise of the article. Anyone who says otherwise is not being truthful. I do not know why people do not speak the truth. Who do you think you are fooling? Certainly not the people who read these blogs. Are you trying to fool yourselves? The media and the posters are sexist. Those who continue to say that we who support Hillary Clinton are only doing so because she is female are the real sexists. I did not support her in the beginning although it would have been nice to have a female president. But after watching her in the debates, I was amazed at her intelligence and knowledge of the issues. I know she has her faults just as all of us but when you compare her with Barak Obama there is no contest. He has been lionized by the press and Hillary has been demonized by them. I began to come over to her side more and more because not only did I really begin to admire her but I was not going to be force fed Obama. Now the more I learn about him and his wife, there is no way that I could vote if he became the nominee. Either I could stay home and not vote or write Hillary's name on the ballot. But I am one of the FL voters and want my vote to count. So since I did not count in the primary, through no fault of my own, I feel the best I can do for myself and my country is vote for McCain. He is not an unknown to me and I feel knowledge is power. If both houses have a majority of Democrats then the damage that McCain can do can be controlled but if Obama were the president and the democrats voted along party lines we may find ourselves under the thumb of an arrogant unknown.