……because it rises above all the noise and every sicko who makes that noise.
Bejing, September 5,1995. (Full speech)
Now, let’s Fast forward to January 13, 2008:
“Of particular concern to me is the plight of women and girls who comprise the majority of the world’s unhealthy, unschooled, unfed, and unpaid. If half the world’s population remains vulnerable to economic, political, legal and social marginalization–our hope of advancing democracy and prosperity is in serious jeopardy. The United States must be an unequivocal and unwavering voice in support of women’s rights in every country, on every continent.
The Taliban sympathizers and members want to maintain an attitude that keeps women unhealthy, unfed, uneducated.
This is not culture.
This is not custom.
This is criminal.
We cannot have a free, prosperous, peaceful progressive world if women are treated in this way. The state department will have a very active women’s office — a very active office on human trafficking, a modern form of slavery — which is primarily a slavery of women and girls.”.
Any questions?
Do we think Barack Obama would see to this problem? A man who not only clearly has shown no interest in women’s rights and equality, but who sneered at and enabled the bashing of those rights himself, setting gender relations back a minimum of 50 years. The man who refused to join the call for a boycott of the Olympic Games because he wanted to negotiate Chicago 2016, Darfur be damned?
Or perhaps we should depend on the New NOW Light, which has narrowed its idea of Feminism and Women’s Rights to abortion and Political Correctness that turns a blind eye to extreme religious beliefs which endanger women’s lives and rights daily–and do not bother to notice that it is sickeningly creeping into our own country?
Or perhaps we can depend on MS Magazine, whose current watered down conception of What a Feminist Looks Like includes a sexist guy dressed like Superman–a ’superman’ who enabled the bashing of a superior woman in order to become President.
Or shall we depend on Hillary instead?
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The Taliban sympathizers and members want to maintain an attitude that keeps women unhealthy, unfed, uneducated.






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"This is not culture. This is not custom. This is criminal."
She is remarkable! I was so proud watching her yesterday and it only reinforced my support of her. She will go down in the history books for sure.
It’s kind of exciting to think about a SOS with a global feminist agenda. Especially for those of us who believe that the oppression of women is the catalyst that leads to all the other great evils in the world.
On the campaign trail, ironically Hillary also promised to make gay human rights an active part of America’s foreign policy. She didn’t know she was going to SOS, but she’s really is in a position to fulfill that promise now.
In spite of all the ugliness from the past year, it’s really exciting to have heard Sarah Palin, Cindy McCain, and Hillary Clinton speak about women’s rights being human rights, but not just that, about how women’s rights are not just a subtext to our foreign policy, they are the central issue of our foreign policy. We had three completely different women, all in different roles, but all on the same page.
It’s hard to explain how important this is, but the value and significance of womens rights in foreign policy can be seen in the transformation happening in Rwanda. Making women a central factor in foreign policy can create rapid and dramatic results. It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you incorporate the skills of the other half of the human race in your policy decisions.
As Cindy McCain said, “With some education, training, basic rights and empowerment, women will transform a society — and the world.”
It’s true.
One can only hope she will be allowed to further her noble objectives and not be hindered by her President.
They might go over her head to the Chief Pig.
the pigs on MSM won’t leave her alone. Fox started in on her reverting to her bossy self & possibly causing problems w/The One. Hannity needs to grow up.
one creep on Fox complained about Sarah Palin whining over MSM treatment. none of this shit should be overlooked ever again. MSM gets the ball rolling for the enabler himself, BHO.
Good to see HRC support global women’s rights. Sad that there are tacit undercurrents and overt actions to subvert it. Esp when it is in the US. And esp when it is a “president.” Simply pathetic reflection he should be so proud of himself (ans he is), and all those who support(ed) that, knowingly and inadvertently.
UW and all please read Johns latest post over at http://www.liberalrapture.com it is more that worth your time.
ps don’t scroll down beyond the line you’re reading it will spoil the surprise.
OMG. ROFL.
Crier, when all those MS reading Obama girls start getting passed over and treated like dog crap at work, they will get it. And then the numbers will grow. At that point, the subverters will be subverted.
Timing. It’s the most wonderful of qualities.
What did Hannity do wrong?
Great assessment of those who have failed us and ONE who has NOT!
LONG LIVE HILLARY!!
*toast*
Star, last night he whined about Hillary stealing BO’s spotlight. something like she always has to be out front. snarky bitch references. then he started on Bill’s finances. Hannity thinks he’s hot now because he’s got his own show w/o Skelator. Monday night show was good. Hillary is a misogynist magnet. I’m tired of it.
nobody gets a free pass anymore.
I saw him question those donations Bill gets–are those OK with us? I can’t imagine him worrying about anyone getting in BO’s spotlight–maybe I went to the bathroom…he questions BO at every turn.
Deadenders….LOL! Thanks for LiberalRapture link….that was quite the eye-opener!! And timely……
Yup, Fox/Hannity going right back to the Hillary-bashing. Truly, what is it about this woman that so irritates these men? And why should I even care anymore? The old saying is true…the enemy of my enemy is not always my friend.
The questions about Bill’s donations are just crap. At least Bill gets audited.
They are whining about hillary because they hate that she might look better, smarter, more informed and more capable than Obama. That’s because she does, she is and she always will be. Obama doesn’t know shit except how to hypnotize people.
A smart and capable woman always triggers the flight or fight response to those who are weak. To bad they just don’t do the “flight”, but instead choose to moan and groan and call attention their weak selves.
Irlandese…she’s better at everything than them and jealousy is ugly.
deadenders,
They got OJ, they got Kaylee Anthony, and they’ll get barfo, too.
Irlandese, 4:01 PM
“Truly, what is it about this woman that so irritates these men?”
Deadenders is right about them being jealous of her, to which I will add, they are afraid of her.
UW,
Please keep that new picture on the left sidebar lest we forget.
Very true, DE….It is like Hillary emasculated them all by her little self without making an effort. She can walk into a room and suddenly all eyes shift from them.
Tweety, Hannity, Olby just never recover.
VERY ugly….and fitting. Choke on it, guys.
DE, that link is precious…oh what a story of da man!!
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http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y20/PerthPurplePenguin/vids/?action=view¤t=cvUMHvLZ.flv
Off topic, but when you see this video from Photobucket, you won’t mind.
“Why the printer won’t work.”
Here ya go Hal.
http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/ok-smile-time/
Sorry I missed it, but when my wife sent it to me today, it had me on the floor laughing….I should have known Uppity and kitteh fans would have it already.
The vid also reminds me of one of my own cats, so curious about that “klakety thang by da putur.”
I was thinking, wow, I can just imagine how you and the kitteh-lovers captioning these sequences.
That includes me, but yours truly needs to brush
up on “kitteh-speak.” We lowly men are none too
swift at it.
I thought about this all day…..I think the reason Hillary irritates these men is because she refuses to buy into the notion that she’s supposed to seek their approval. In this day and age, Madison Avenue’s done a bang-up job of brainwashing females into being “Approval Junkies”–that male approval of women is a necessity that is based on sex. Hillary never bought that for one single minute. She’s never been anything her whole life but the uber-intelligent wonk she is. So they’re irritated two-fold….she should subjugate herself by using sex to seek their approval (but won’t), and she’s way smarter than they are and couldn’t care less about their approval (thus making them feel rejected). Immature men (AND women) seem to have a problem with this. For the life of me, I just could not understand how one single human could have found fault with her knowledge of every question and situation put forth to her. Truly, I cannot remember ever watching a confirmation hearing more edifying than this one. But then the carping started….and it is always based on something Hillary’s not “doing right”…..namely, be a woman seeking male approval. Thank goddess. She can just focus on the issues at hand, and be the uber-wonk that she is. What a great example of a true feminist.
Thanks for putting this up, UW. Reminds us of what we lost, and for which we greive. Such a waste not to have her as the one on top.