Fox news is making much of, of all things, the columns that will be the backdrop for Obama's acceptance speech. To seek impartial expertise on the subject, they turned to special contributor Karl Rove. Of course.
Yet another article about unhappy Hillary supporters who are having trouble bringing themselves to support Barack Obama, even when the only alternative is John McCain.
I've had trouble believing that anybody who REALLY supported Hillary Clinton could bring themselves to vote for the extremely Republican McCain instead. (There was that one day I was listening to NPR and they'd organized a round table of Clinton voters, and it was obvious that at least one of them was a regular Rush Limbaugh listener who barely had memorized his lines. "Uh... Obama may be Muslim... um..." ) The PUMA movement isn't as big as they'd like you to think that it is.
But then again, it's not fair of me. After all, I'm real - a woman who supported Obama during the primary and was actually disappointed when Hillary decided to enter the race. I always thought the issue was not that the country wasn't ready to elect a woman, but that she wasn't the right woman. More than that, though, Obama seems to me to be the right man.
And even if he's not the greatest choice (though to me he seems like a better one than many others we've been faced with lately!) it's so obvious to me that John McCain is a terrible choice - and he is in such direct opposition to many of the things Clinton and her supporters profess to care about - that why anybody would consider voting for him even for a second is beyond me.
Please, people - for the sake of the country, and for the women you're hoping to boost - get over yourselves! I realize that sounds arrogant, but please realize this is coming from a woman with a daughter who does not want to see another 4 or 8 years of the crap we've been living with since Bush took office. This is not just a setback for one woman, this a setback for women, men, and children all over this country.
"The best scientific evidence published indicates that among adult women who have an unplanned pregnancy, the relative risk of mental health problems is no greater if they have a single elective first-trimester abortion or deliver that pregnancy," said Brenda Major, PhD, chair of the task force.
Tell me about it. As I or many other mothers could tell you, the first few weeks/months of motherhood can be a mindf**k. Worth every minute of it, and no regrets, but if you'd given me a mental evaluation at that time, I'm sure I would have flunked!
The anti-abortion folks need to come up with another argument. Or better yet, just admit that improving access to birth control would do far more to prevent abortions in the first place!
