Why Barack Obama Got My Vote by Naomi Wolf

[ClayZ]

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/29/7373/


Why Barack Obama Got My Vote
by Naomi Wolf
I just flew back from Australia, where I was speaking about the erosions of our civil liberties. Believe me, the rest of the world is agog at our inaction as what makes us Americans is being set aflame; and they are more scared of what an unsheathed US could do to the rest of the world than we are.

They also get more news out in the rest of the world about these depredations than we do here in our media bubble.


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Gender has nothing to do with it. Race has nothing to do with it.

Integrity has something to do with it.

That is why Barack Obama has my vote. Of all the leading candidates, he is the only one on these issues who has consistently acted like a true American.

And if I hear — as I am likely to — from legions of US feminists outraged at me for choosing this man over that woman, I will gladly sit down and explain why I am certain that these issues are so urgent that they overshadow absolutely everything else.

Anyway, the man is a feminist; he has a woman-friendly policy vision. And while it would be a thrill to see the first woman elected President, in the last analysis, a real feminist need not define people or support on the basis of gender. Certainly not when our house — with the precious Constitution held without representation within it — is burning down.



More at link:
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/29/7373/

[jgraz]

1. Uh oh...somebody's not getting invited to the NOW Christmas party

[ClayZ]

2. She may be here!

Aug. 25-28, 2008
http://www.demconvention.com/


K

[From The Left]

3. There you go! Naomi Wolf is a misogynist