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But Obama's pro-choice leanings are clear to anybody who looks.
For everything that Hillary Clinton is accused of, she at least had the guts to stand firm on a woman's right to choose last Sunday at the Compassion Forum.
Where, oh where, was Barack Obama? This so-called feminist dived, ducked, waxed, meandered and basically avoided saying that it's a woman's right to choose what to do with her body re: abortion.
Now THIS is either pandering or it is a reflection of how serious he is about the fundamental feminist issue of choice.
I imagine the subject WILL come up in the future, put forth by a McCain surrogate, and I expect that Obama will eventually give a really great speech summing up the positions of both sides and finding a common ground that makes most (but not all) people understand his position.
This is not "feminist". Most feminists believe that the fundamental feminist issue is a woman's right to choose. I am livid that he could not even say he believed it was a woman's right to choose and ultimately up to her in Sunday's Compassion Forum. THAT is not feminist. Even John Kerry had the guts to say it out loud in 2004.
I don't see Clinton doing that nearly as convincingly when the time comes.
Clinton has spent her entire adult life living as a feminist. And she has been one of the U.S. Senate's strongest proponents of legislation that provides and maintains a woman's right to choose: in the military, in foreign aid, in VA health care, in Medicaid legislation, for example.
This is where the rubber meets the road on feminism.
