Shame
The head of New York’s chapter of NOW becomes unhinged at Ted Kennedy for supporting Obama:
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 embarrassing, juvenile stuff. Sullivan notes that she’s gone off the deep end before. Why does an organization keep such a person around? Surely they can see that she’s doing more damage than she’s worth!
I’m also starting to hear the same sort of thing, albeit positively, about Obama. Now I like Obama a hell of a lot, but as some commentator recently pointed out, I don’t think that he’s going to be able to provide major overhauls on race relations if and when he’s in office. The bottom line is that looking a race, sex, or religion is intellectual laziness. After all, who remembers Kennedy as the great Catholic president?
I meant to post ‘merely looking at race, sex, religion.’ as in, ‘to the exclusion of anything else.’ Of course it’s not lazy just to look at it period.