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Author: MWaterhouse

…and McCain’s choice was obvious, but became a smack-you-up-side-the-head kind of obvious when ‘Saracudda’ referenced the ‘glass ceiling’ line during her acceptance speech. As a woman, I actually feel insulted by this. That class ceiling would have been cracked if Hillary had been nominated for either position. To have a woman nominated for President or to have been given a nod for the Vice Presidency would have been a real crack, had it been the right woman. Had it been a woman who got there based on her accomplishments, intelligence, skill and merits. Being selected by a man to win votes simply because you are a woman doesn’t count, and it doesn’t break any kind of ceiling. Choosing a woman because you think her gender will get votes is insulting, and frankly I am insulted, as should the rest of the women in this country be.

I’m so pleased to learn that my personal accomplishments don’t count. So pleased to learn that the position I earned (that has always traditionally been held by men) doesn’t count. I’m even more pleased to learn that the Republican Party thinks so little of women, they believe we would all experience some sort of mass hormonal surge that would have us all panting after Sarah Palin and forget how so many of us have been disenfranchised by the the Republicans.

Barack Obama speaks a different language when it comes to women. He was raised by a single mother who put herself through school. His grandmother was a ‘Rosie the Riveter‘ during WWII and she helped sustain the family financially, though she didn’t have so much as a high school diploma. His wife Michelle was raised in the tough neighborhoods on Chicago’s South Side and by all accounts, she is a phenomenal wife and mother. Obama himself admits that, without these three women in his life, he would never have achieved what he has today. As a woman, this humble admission on Obama’s part is exactly what I need to know about this man.

Obama respects women and understands them. McCain clearly intends to use women as a means to an end, that being the Oval Office. My suspicion is that one he gets there, we won’t be so much on the front line of his concerns when it comes to Roe v Wade (MY body, MY right!) or equal pay for equal work. The women of America need to take a much more discriminating look at their choices in a few short weeks and make a decision that makes sense for women and for America. There is only one choice and that is to vote for Barack Obama for President of the United States.

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