Feminist Leaders Oppose Hillary, Endorse Obama

[debatepro]

Nice pickup(s)...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-wiener/feminist-leaders-oppose-h_b_84715.html

More than 100 New York feminist leaders released a joint statement Sunday afternoon criticizing Hillary Clinton and supporting Obama for president - evidence that Clinton's support among women activists has declined significantly in the days before the super-Tuesday primary.

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Those endorsing Obama include longtime peace activist Cora Weiss; Katha Pollitt, columnist for The Nation; Pulitzer-prize winning New York Times writer Margo Jefferson; award-winning women's rights historians Alice Kessler Harris and Linda Gordon; Barbara Weinstein, president of the American Historical Association, and Ellen P. Chapnick, Dean for Social Justice Initiatives at Columbia Law School.

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This group joins other prominent feminist leaders who have turned against Hillary and endorsed Obama, including Kate Michelman, president for 20 years of NARAL Pro-Choice America, the country's leading reproductive rights group, and Ellen Bravo, former director of 9to5, the National Association of Working Women.

[loveangelc]

1. I've said it again, I'm soooooo happy when women can look beyond 'omg hillary's a woman!' thing

and use their mind to choose the better canddiate. obama will be a great president for women imo.

[NightWatcher]

2. I clued in on "New York........"

[candice]

3. Old news...Clinton is a moderate, more in tune with average American