Unbelievable! There is a female candidate but Edwards is more feminine? He understands the plight of women better than a woman?
Toni Morrison famously dubbed President Clinton America's "first black president." With that barrier broken, the comments of a prominent feminist are provoking debate about who may lay a similar claim to the title of America's first woman president.(via)The candidate being touted as a torchbearer for women is not Senator Clinton, but one of her former colleagues, John Edwards. At a rally near the University of California, Berkeley campus this week, a veteran of the abortion-rights movement, Kate Michelman, asked and answered the question she gets most frequently about her decision to back the male former senator from North Carolina.
"Why John Edwards, given the historic nature of our extraordinary campaign for the presidency this year with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and all the others?" Ms. Michelman asked as she warmed up the crowd for Mr. Edwards. "I've gotten to know a lot of political leaders over the years that I've been an advocate for women's rights. I know the difference between those who advocate as a political position and those who understand the reality of women's lives."
Compared to Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Edwards is short an ‘X' chromosome, but listening to Ms. Michelman, that is easy to forget. "As a lawyer, as a senator, as a husband, as a father of two daughters, he understands the reality of women's lives. He understands the centrality of women's lives and experience to the health and well-being of society as a whole. … He understands that on an extremely personal level," she said.
Edwards understands women on an "extremely personal level?" Maybe he has a personal connection with his feminine side?
Well, we all know that he certainly preens like a girl:
BTW, this endorsement of Edwards by a pro-abortion feminist may be sour grapes:
Ms. Michelman's decision, after a career in the women's movement, not to back the strongest female presidential candidate in history, has prompted speculation and grumbling in some quarters. Some suspect that Ms. Michelman is still fuming over a 2005 speech in which Mrs. Clinton called abortion "a sad, even tragic choice to many, many women" and said abortion should be reduced or eliminated by better promoting birth control measures. "I think Kate will never forgive Hillary for suggesting abortion should be rare," one New Yorker close to Mrs. Clinton said.Man! That says it all, doesn't it?
