I made a big mistake last night.I turned on MSNBC, which I have tuned out for many months since the Hillary Bashingon that channel was evident. I listened carefully as the pundits explained why the Women's Vote will surely be cast for Obama because we will understand McCain's reactionary vision of the Supreme Court. We do not need to be courted,or considered, we are invisible. women over 40 will naturally be concerned about the reproductive rights we fought so valiantly for being in jeopardy..don't worry the talking heads said, Obama will get "their" vote, they'll heal, they'll fall in line..So,now,besides women over 40, lunch bucket dems don't matter to the democratic party,michigan and florida voters don't count, older white women are assumed to be in the bag, and seniors have one foot on the banana peel anyway..Now they have dismissed the female portion of the baby boomers,about half the population and expect that the democrattic party will unite behind someone ie. Obama that half of democratic Americans never wanted. They dismissively wave us away, carelessly toss their mothers, and dads aside who have valiantly fought to give them the freedoms they believe Obama will defend and protect. The freedoms that we fought for in sit-ins, and at marches, both for civil rights,and reproductive rights. These talking heads, these Obamabots, these elitest dems seek to make us invisible.And I say, with fierceness, the kind Hillary has shown, we will not be dismissed with their tortured linguistics, with their democratic impudence, their bratty
inelegance. Many Obama voters would not be speaking their minds, or glibly assuming our votes if we hadn't give birth to them, and fought for many of the rights they enjoy.I say now, hear us roar. I may be over 50,I may be a woman,I may be a shift worker, I may be a college professor, attorney, accountant,trucker. I have fought my whole life for freedom, all kinds, and I will NOT stop now and I know hundreds of women like me. we ARE fighters, and we don't give our vote to someone we don't believe in...and we are a huge group of people. Dr. Dean,Superdelegates you are assuming we are in the bag...bad assumption. We might all just take our pillboxes, turn on HGTV and stay home on election day. We will sip our green tea and stay off the kool aid. We will roar by not lining up, by not being taken forgranted, by not being in the bag...we will not go quietly into the voting booths to vote for a person that does not embody the attributes we expect in a Leader of the free world. We will not cast our votes for someone who doesn't have the voice or the stature to stand up for ALL of us.
Pay Attention folks...