NY Feminist Leaders Oppose Hillary, Endorse Obama

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NY Feminist Leaders Oppose Hillary, Endorse Obama

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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Clinton's support for the war in Iraq was the leading reason she lost the support of the group, which calls itself "New York Feminists for Peace and Barack Obama!" "We urgently need a presidential candidate whose first priority is to address domestic needs," the group added.

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. Susan Sarandon and Francis Fox Piven signed on Monday.

...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.

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

[LittleClarkie]

1. Why do they hate women?

What a horrible act of self-betrayal. Grrl power b-b.

:sarcasm:

[lvx35]

2. That's not too new actually.

From the ones I've talked to, the bloodshed and human rights abuses in Iraq made it a top issue for them long ago.

[redqueen]

3. .

[papau]

4. So that means the rest of the 160 million women in the US prefer Hillary?