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• • 07 Sep 08
  • 5:40 pm

  I read Gloria Steinem's recent article and I agree with her completely. Feminism was never about helping one woman get a job, it was about helping all women. If you were so anxious to elect Hillary Clinton it should have been because you believed in her cause and her platform- to now change political parties and vote for McCain is asinine. Saying you switched because Obama lacked experience is ridiculous, there are a lot of people who have a lot of experience but its more than how many years you have on the job, it's what you've done with your time …

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• • 07 Sep 08
  • 5:55 pm

  If these Feminists for Life do not agree with mothers sacrificings family life for the sake of their careers why aren't they up in arms over a VP candidate with 5 children 4 under the age of 18, one with Down's Syndrome and one who is a now pregnant? What happened to putting family first? Conservative women have been screaming about he breakdown of the American family and blaming liberal women for it, yet now it's okay for this one woman to sacrifice her family in the pursuit of power. Nice hypocrisy.

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