Thornburgh: Women should vote for the issues in November

You used SNL and a professor from an extremely liberal school as sources. Wow I bet you got an A for this one.

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• Posted by kunomu on September 25, 2008 at 3 p.m.
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I would agree that women who vote anti-abortion don't hate themselves, but they do it because they feel it's in the best interest to protect the fetus, but they're misguided in that they have this misconceive notion of agency behind them. In fact, they guided by what they unintentionally grew up with and that's men are superior to women thus they should be controlled in some way. This is one way that men are controlling women by vicariously "teaching" other women.

The fact that Republicans are now crying sexist is hypocritical because the charge of sexism was ignored during Hillary Clinton's run for the White House. I do agree that it is sexist of people to demeen her [Palin] because of her gender/sex.

Again, the issue of abortion isn't about life of a newborn, but about controlling women's bodies. Now if there was an equivilent issue for men concerning their bodies, and putting it to par with this, then I would say let the people vote.

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• Posted by davidnta on September 25, 2008 at 3:02 p.m.
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Sounds like you and your professor have your heads lodged firmly up your vaginas. I'm thrilled to see your professor could turn her public university classroom into a recruitment center for the Barack Obama Fanclub. The above poster is right, women are only voting with their vaginas when they vote republican apparently. This is as absurd as Anne Coulter claiming women shouldn't be voting because they tend to vote Democrat.

What if I cried outrage that Obama chose Joe Biden - a WHITE man - because I thought they were shamelessly trying to scrounge up white votes? I would be conveniently ignoring his liberal positions, just like you're conveniently ignoring Sarah Palin's conservative positions.

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• Posted by Mike on September 25, 2008 at 3:15 p.m.
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seems like the ljworld posters have decided to come check out the kansan....

oh, and if i am pro-abortion rights i am a commie who eats baby fetuses for breakfast.

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• Posted by hawkhawk on September 25, 2008 at 6:40 p.m.
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• Posted by VirginiaHarris on September 26, 2008 at 10:35 a.m.
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Regarding the comments by "hermeschick"

Technically, it was Wasilla's sheriff, not Palin who was directly responsible for the rape kit issue.

As for McCain being against equal pay for equal work, not true. He is against lengthening the time individuals (female or male) can file papers to sue an employer on grounds of discrimination. Moreover, he is much more grounded in evidenced-based reasoning on the issue of equal pay and seems to understand that the "77 cents per dollar" sound byte is just, a sound byte. When you look at the issue more carefully you will discover that once you account for many of the confounding variables, there is NO statistically significant difference in pay between two people of different genders who work the same job, for the same number of hours and received the same training. Actually, many college educated women in larger cities are taking home more than men. I'd look up the study by Andrew Beveridge at Queens College who points out that it's not uncommon for 20-30yo women to make 110-130% of what men in the same age group are making.

Lastly, McCain is right to not support a big-government effort to stop domestic violence since that act does not seek to provide equal support to all victims of domestic violence. VAWA is built on the assumption that all domestic violence is committed by men against women. There are many men, straight and gay, and lesbian women who would strongly disagree with this assumption. Obama and Biden both seem to be looking the other way on this issue. Safe4all.org is a good place for you to start on improving your awareness of who the victims of domestic violence are.

Overall, I encourage you to look past the NOW and AAUW sound-bytes and give these issues more than just a superficial glance.

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• Posted by another_thought on September 27, 2008 at 2:56 p.m.
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The deal isn't that Sarah Palin is a "conservative," if that term even means anything these days, it's that she's a joke as a political candidate. She's thus far given two interviews (Sean Hannity doesn't count as an interview because, seriously, Sean Hannity) and failed to hit anything, even with Katie Couric throwing her softballs.

While a woman voting for McCain/Palin isn't necessarily "voting with her vagina," the ill-conceived plan to put Palin on the ticket was clearly a reach for that kind of voter.

And to compare Sarah Palin with Hillary Clinton is just...wow. I didn't support Hillary Clinton in the primaries because I differ with her on too many issues, but no one can say that she's not a very smart, capable woman. If you try to tell me that Sarah Palin is either smart or capable my immediate reaction would be to ask for whatever drugs you're on, because clearly you're living in a different reality.

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• Posted by Geiiga on September 27, 2008 at 11:20 p.m.
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A Look Into Barack Obama’s Past Looking at Obama’s ties to Rev. Wright, and his connections to a terrorist bomber, William Ayers, both men who would like nothing more than to destroy this country causes many people to second guess Obama’s intentions for change. Lets examine Obama’s connection with an accused political fixer Antoin “Tony” Rezko. Because Barack Obama was a dependable ally of subsidized developers in the Legislature, his friend and fund-raiser Rezko depended on him to get things done such as cosponsoring a bill in 2001 allowing developers to pocket half of the proceeds from selling state tax credits to others. Obama admitted that his decision to involve Rezko was “a bone-headed mistake.” What he failed to mention is that he has a closet full of bone-headed mistakes such as Peter Wallsten pointed out in the Los Angeles Times on January 24, 2008. “Barack Obama angered fellow Democrats in the Illinois Senate when he voted to strip millions of dollars from a child welfare office on Chicago's West Side. But Obama had a ready explanation: He goofed.

Now comes the big question, what exactly does a community organizer do? One thing Barack Obama did as a community organizer was pressure banks to make bad loans. In Barack Obama’s youthful community organizing days he joined a group called ACORN. Using the Community Reinvestment Act which was designed to encourage banks to make loans to high-risk borrowers, ACORN started abusing the law by forcing banks to make hundreds of millions of dollars in 'subprime' loans to minorities with bad or no credit. Using charges of racism and threats to use CRA to block business expansions have enabled ACORN to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in loans and contributions from America’s financial institutions. Other things that ACORN did as community organizers were agitate for higher minimum wages, attempt to thwart school reform, try to unionize welfare recipients who are obliged to work in exchange for benefits and organize voter registration drives. In 2006 for example, their voter registration drive in Washington produced 1,800 new voters of which 1,794 names submitted were fake. The secretary of state called it the “worst case of election fraud in our state’s history.” If you like to know more, watch these two videos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRmB93... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs Cybercorrespondent cybercorrespondent@gmail.com http://cybercorrespondent.blogspot.com

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• Posted by Cybercorrespondent on October 5, 2008 at 4:59 p.m.
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Thursday morning I turned on the news and heard that ACORN is under investigation for voter fraud in a number of states. Since I learned not to trust what the media tells us, I decided to have a look what the bloggers had to say. On a sight called A Look Into Barack Obama’s Past - Obamamania - Zimbio website I found the following comment that made me think. A concerned citizen Oct-6-08 7:48pm [Edit] Those two videos paint a very clear picture. As the terrorists have promised, they will destroy this country from with in. …..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puN9X1mVgRA ……..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjvBEKrGkDI …….

Back to my point. By allowing the voter fraud to go on, makes this great country look like a third world dictatorship. We are supposed to send an example to the rest of the world how honest elections are held and not allow the media to distort the facts. Please people, wake up and tell the media no more. Boycott all the products advertised on publications like the Newsweek, Time magazine and other propaganda machines like the New York Times. Also do the same with CNN and other communist propaganda news sources. Even the Fox News network is starting to sway the viewer decision. After Thursday’s presidential debate, watching Chris Wallace interview a communist from Saint Louis made me sick. Even bad journalists should realize that when you ask a communist or a skin head to give you their views, you can pretty much expect what they are going to say. I certainly had enough of all of the $%#@Comunism.org Cybercorrespondent

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• Posted by Cybercorrespondent on October 9, 2008 at 11:26 a.m.
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