The ongoing Political Musings of a former (now Stray) Yellar Dawg Dem.
***Warning***
This is a Feminist Blog, in the tradition of Susan B. Anthony.
"Just Tell Them...
I have worked 40 years to make the Women's Suffrage platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon."
Anna Belle Pfau sets the record straight. And then goes on to explain why it is important for parity that we, as women, embrace and work with BOTH political parties.
"Obama won women by 13 points in 2008. In 2010, Republicans won 12 percent of the women who voted for Obama in 2008. This is the best the GOP has done with women since 1982."
(No surprise there... for those of us who have been watching closely.)
Quoting one of Anna Belle's tweets about the irrelevancy of N.O.W.:
"Has Terry O'Neill lost her mind? Women voted in the exact same numbers they did in 2008. They just broke evenly this time."
Interesting..... you'd never know it by listening to the MSM talking heads (including NPR and PBS) would you?
Oh... and... just in case you are still under the mistaken impression that the GOP turned out *all* the bigots this year... read this women's story of being an Asian Immigrant and a GOP poll worker. Author, Sasha Gong, was harassed and repeatedly told how little she knew by poll workers from, guess where? The Democratic party. Her account of the bigotry she experienced Tuesday will enrage you!
She ends her article saying that her story "pretty much summarized the story of many in the TEA party."
It's been the story for us PUMAs as well, Dr. Gong. I guess we are in good company?!
All around the country, folks are protesting bank bailouts. THIS VIDEO gives a glimpse of the groundswells in places like St. Louis, Los Angeles and Chicago.
The one in my area is nicely covered by "Doses of Reality." Cincinnati's Tea Party drew an estimated 4000 to 6000 protesters. Not surprising, really, as we are quite the fiscally conservative area. For once I can say I am proud to live here in the Queen City. (We ain't losing jobs, either. In fact, firms throughout our tristate cannot find enough skilled workers.)
Big shout out to Philip at "Doses of Reality" for covering a story that many in the Obamedia would have liked to gloss over. Photos like yours are what holds their feet to the fire!
In "real life" Dawg is a mom, a nurse, a pet rescuer and a tireless advocate for animal rights.
Dawg is happily married for thirty years and has raised three awesome children. She holds an advanced degree in Family Science, wherein her research was focused on women's support circles during parturition. Her dedication to Women's Rights is directly affected by her belief that motherhood should not be a sentence to isolation and disenfranchisement.
Dawg is on hiatus from political bloggery d/t the intense demands of her engagement in the No Kill movement at this time. However, she remains influenced by PUMA politics and reads the blogs of her fellow PUMAs (at right) regularly.