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Senator Ted Kennedy Betrays Women by Not Standing for Hillary Clinton for President;
Ultimate Betrayal Felt by Women Everywhere
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JANUARY 28, 2008
CONTACT: National Organization for Women - New York State
Marcia Pappas, 518-452-3944 - 518-469-2661
info@nownys.org
ALBANY, NY -- January 28 -- Women have just experienced the ultimate betrayal. Senator Kennedy's endorsement of Hillary Clinton's opponent in the Democratic presidential primary campaign has really hit women hard. Women have forgiven Kennedy, stuck up for him, stood by him, hushed the fact that he was late in his support of Title IX, the ERA, the Family Leave and Medical Act to name a few. Women have buried their anger that his support for the compromises in No Child Left Behind and the Medicare bogus drug benefit brought us the passage of these flawed bills. We have thanked him for his ardent support of many civil rights bills, BUT women are always waiting in the wings.
And now the greatest betrayal! We are repaid with his abandonment! He's picked the new guy over us. He's joined the list of progressive white men who can't or won't handle the prospect of a woman president who is Hillary Clinton (they will of course say they support a woman president, just not "this" one). "They" are Howard Dean and Jim Dean (Yup! That's Howard's brother) who run DFA (that's the group and list from the Dean campaign that we women helped start and grow). They are Alternet, Progressive Democrats of America, democrats.com, Kucinich lovers and all the other groups that take women's money, say they'll do feminist and women's rights issues one of these days, and conveniently forget to mention women and children when they talk about poverty or human needs or America's future or whatever.
This latest move by Kennedy, is so telling about the status of and respect for women's rights, women's voices, women's equality, women's authority and our ability – indeed, our obligation - to promote and earn and deserve and elect, unabashedly, a President that is the first woman after centuries of men who "know what's best for us."
http://www.nownys.org/pr_2008/pr_012808.html
上記は全米女性機構 (NOW) ニューヨーク州支部のプレスリリースで、ケネディ上院議員が大統領候補としてクリントン議員ではなくオバマ議員を支持すると公表したことに対して「全ての女性に対する究極の裏切り」と非難する内容。いくらなんでも酷すぎるので偽物じゃないかと思ったのだけれど、どうやら本物らしい。そもそも内容以前に文体からしてどこかのブログの独り言レベルで、プレスリリースの体を成していない。さっそく全国本部が「支持する大統領候補が違っても、わたしたちはケネディ議員を信頼しています」みたいに沈静化に入ったけど、今後このプレスリリースが「フェミニズムはトンデモ理論である証拠」として延々と利用されるであろうことを思うと暗い気持ちになる。
同じ人物が書いた過去のプレスリリースを見ても、クリントンが公開討論会でオバマやエドワーズから批判されたことを「心理的な集団強姦」と呼んで非難したり、常軌を逸した表現や主張が多いうえ、全ての女性を代表しているつもりでいるから手が付けられない。そういうぶっとんだ人というのはいてもいいと思うけど、そんなのにニューヨーク州支部代表を任せちゃいけないよなぁ。もしわたしが NOW の会員だったら、恥ずかしくて会員証を破り捨ててたところだ（ていうか、それ以前にいろいろ破る機会はあっただろうけど）。
