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Gloria Steinem Calls Romney 'Anti-Equality, Extremist'
The feminist icon was in St. Petersburg, Florida, to campaign against Amendment 6. She also criticized presidential candidate Mitt Romney as an 'extremist.'
Saturday, a crowd began swelling outside the gates of Jannus Live in downtown St. Petersburg. While that is certainly a familiar scene, this crowd wasn’t waiting to hear a big-name rock band hitting town.
They were waiting on an icon of another sort. Across the generational spectrum, women and men were talking of seeing an icon who has been championing the call for equality for the past 40 years: Gloria Steinem.
Steinem was in Florida, a key battleground state, to rally against Amendment 6, seen by opponents as tightening abortion restrictions. But the feminist legend also used her time before an adoring crowd to blast GOP presidential candidate Gov. Mitt Romney as "anti-equality."
Mitt Romney is “the most undemocratic, anti-equality, authoritarian, extremist candidate I have ever seen, and there is the most distance between what he says and what he does,” Steinmen said.
Steinem was introduced as a self-described “Hope-aholic.” Her name is synonymous with the feminist movement. She is known best as an activist and author. Steinem appeared before the crowd with eloquence and timeless messages, stating that she stands for equality and democracy.
“Do what Democracy demands,” said Steinem. “And, that is to make change from the bottom up. It is a lie that it comes from the top down. No. That’s what they want us to think—to disempower us. No, it comes from us. Like a tree, it comes from the bottom up.”
Here is an excerpt from Steinem’s speech:
[Romney] has the nerve to say he is for job creation. His entire career has been job elimination. He is not even willing to say he is for equal pay. And it happens that equal pay for women of all races is the greatest economic stimulus this country could ever have.
Equal pay, and I mean for equal work, would put $200 billion more into the economy every year. That means about $137 for every white woman per pay check—something like $300 for every woman of color who are doubly discriminated against. And you know that those women are not going to put that money into a Cayman Islands bank account—they are going to spend that money, and that is going to create jobs.
And he has the nerve, the nerve, and I have never seen anything like it, even in the Eisenhower era, anybody who refused to say they were for equal pay. Even if they didn’t do anything about it, they at least said they were for equal pay, and [Romney] refuses to support the Ruby Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which is crucial to gaining equal pay.
[Romney] has pledged, on the Republic Party platform, to go around the Supreme Court, and achieve the human life Amendment to the Constitution, which would declare the fertilized egg to be a person.
I would like to say that neither the corporation nor the fertilized egg is a person. Pregnant women do not have two votes.
By declaring the fertilized egg to be a person, he would effectively nationalize women’s bodies throughout our child-bearing years. We would be legally restrained for all nine months of our pregnancy if there were reasonable cause to believe we might damage the fertilized egg. And indeed this is already going on with women who are drug addicted. Who really have no options, and yet there is more concern about their pregnancy than there is about them and getting free from drugs on their own.
It would give the government the right to legally search our wombs. To see if we were pregnant or not and if you think that’s impossible, think about the trans-vaginal probe that is legalized rape.
Steinem wasn’t the only voice to grace the stage. Local politicians and community leaders stepped up to speak their mind as well.
Florida House Rep. Rick Kriseman, District 53, said, “It is critical that people get out and exercise their right to vote. The state government has done everything they can to suppress votes. We need to vote.” Kreiseman echoed the mission of I Am Choice to “no” on all amendments and “yes” to the justices and “yes” to the education referendum.
“You know, when I want to hear what a woman’s perspective is about something, I talk to real women, and I ask them what they think,” said St. Petersburg Councilmember Steve Kornell. “I don’t have to use a binder to know what matters to women. I just ask them.”
Kornell went on to describe how the last thing women need is Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan or the Florida legislature interfering with medical decisions that belong between a woman and her doctor.
Another prominent voice for the day belonged to Jessica Ehrlich who has been shaking up the scene here in Florida in her bid for United States Congress, 13th District of Florida, opposing C.W. Bill Young. She made a point to reference Young’s voting record.
“After 42 years, Bill Young has simply lost touch with who we are in Pinellas County and with what we need,” said Ehrlich. “Over half of Pinellas County is made up of women – over half of our workforce is made up of women.”
Ehrlich mentioned Young’s voting record stating that he voted against equal pay for women; voted to cut funding to Planned Parenthood to give women access to early detections to cancer and mammograms; co-sponsor a bill that tries to redefine legitimate rape with Todd Akin and Paul Ryan; voted twice for a budget that would essentially turn Medicare into a voucher program, do away with important programs like slashing funding for Pell Grants, for education, for college scholarships, and cause 200,000 children to go off of Head Start.
“This is not what we need. It is not who we are. And, it is not how we are going to move into the future,” said Ehrlich. She said that this election will determine what Pinellas County and the State of Florida will look like and be like for years to come.
“Are we going to go backwards to a time when the Vinoy was a boarded up building, and a relic of a faded past and there were empty lot all around here because of an economy that was so devastated, or are we going to work to make sure that we have a brighter future going forward?” asked Ehrlich.
'I Am Choice'
With Election Day less than 30 days away, I Am Choice organized Steinmen's visit, headlined as “GOTV Unplugged: Rally Our Way Forward.”
“This is a celebration of our ability to use our voice and our vote in the upcoming November election to make decisive change and move our community forward,” said Ayele Hunt, executive director of I Am Choice.
I Am Choice, located in St. Petersburg, was formed earlier this year with the goal of launching a grassroots campaign to defeat Amendment 6 on the state ballot. The amendment is seen as tightening restrictions on abortions.
Organizers of I Am Choice is clear that they want voters to say “no” to all 11 proposed amendments, and “yes” to returning the all three Florida Supreme Court Justices to the bench and "yes" on the referendum for education.
The event boasted an impressive line-up, including progressive politicians and community leaders and lined up The Betty Fox Band, voted Best Blues Band in Creative Loafing’s “Best of the Bay,” but most importantly, the headliner, Gloria Steinem, brought the house down.
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Kay C. Tecklenburg
11:32 am on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Gloria Steinman has put out the best outline of whom Romney is, & how the gop has changed these past decades than anyone else has done. Go GO GO Gloria !!! I agree w/you 100% the gop is trying to even take away our freedom to choose our religisous fath & insist we follow theirs. FASISM to me
Jolene
12:04 pm on Wednesday, October 24, 2012
I would never listen to a thing that Gloria Steinman has to say. I remeber when she thought that the LA fire dept should lower thier physical standards just to let woman join and that it was better anyway for someone to be dragged down the stairs instead of carried because they would be breathing the smoke. Really?!?! It embarasses me that she is the same sex as I am.
Daphne Taylor Street
1:54 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Thanks Kay and Reta! A appreciate your feedback.
Susan Geren
2:06 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
"Ruby" Ledbetter? Really? It's the Lilly Ledbetter Act and Obama might have signed it, he just chooses NOT to observe it. He pays his median female staff members $11,000. less than the median males. Romney, on the other hand, doesn't simply makes speeches; he lives it... His Lieutenant Governor sums it up....
Romney, Healy says, took promoting women’s opportunities seriously, including pledging during the campaign (as did his Democratic opponent Shannon O’Brien) that half of his top appointees would be women.
“When Governor Romney was elected, he undertook to do that,” Healy recalls. “During the transition, he reached out to his business contacts, he reached out to the folks who had worked on the campaign through the transition to ask for their recommendations, and he also reached out to the Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus that had been out there reaching out to women’s organizations on a bipartisan basis, collecting a number of names of women who were ready willing and able to come in and serve in government. So he had a number of sources that he drew on, and the now-famous binders that came up in the debate last night were ones that were provided through the Massachusetts Women’s political caucus as part of the MassGap project.”
Lynda
5:38 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
How remarkable that his Lt. Gov would say something to support Gov. Romney! What a surprise.! While I think the "binders full of women" is a fun comment to play with the real problem is that Gov. Romney after a Massachusetts senate campaign and a campaign for governor did not personally know of any "qualified" women to be part of his cabinet. The fact that Bain was both male and white has something to do with this lack of women professionals in his network, of course. What is wrong with a politician who can run two campaigns and not have "qualified women" involved? Why were-- according to Gov. Romney in the debate-- only men brought to him by the campaign staff charged with filling the cabinet? Did none of these men know any "qualified" women? Gov. Romney benefited from the work of MassGap who brought him names of qualified women, but those names would have been brought to the attention of whoever won the governorship. That none were known to him personally shows his lack of leadership and poor executive skills.
Daphne Taylor Street
5:45 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Susan, yes, that's interesting about the error with the "Lilly Ledbetter Act." error. I looked back at the transcript I typed out from the speech, and it was correct there. I actually hyperlinked that act for reference in the article, and it appears that through the hyperlinking process, another word was added in "Ruby" and equally as odd, that hyperlink isn't there anymore. Thanks for pointing out the error--I appreciate your comment.
Mary
3:42 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
You know, I'm always amazed at how quickly people use threats to justify there cause! This is not 1960. You are free to choose what you would like to do, I just don't think I need to work my fanny off to pay for it.
Daphne Taylor Street
5:37 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Mary, thanks for your comment.
labman57
4:24 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Meanwhile, Team Romney has been making a feeble attempt to portray Mitt as compassionate and concerned about income equality and opportunity, medical privacy rights, and health care needs of women.
After all, he has binders full of women ...
Daphne Taylor Street
5:38 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Thanks for your comment.
MJC Mason
4:38 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
If only I valued Gloria's opinion . . . clearly, she has not done her homework regarding Romney. Very disappointing.
Daphne Taylor Street
5:38 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
MJC, thanks for your comment.
Harborite
4:53 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Mitt Romney will set women's rights back 50 years if he is elected. Not only does Romney intend to close down Planned Parenthood, he has also stated that he intends to nominate judges to the Supreme Court that will overturn Roe v. Wade. With several older Supreme Court justices ready to retire soon, Romney only needs two nominations to the Supreme Court to get his wish to criminalize women's abortion and reproductive rights. Romney and the GOP platform have pandered to the extreme right wing religious fundamentalists of his party. Romney and Ryan somehow believe that women should have no reproductive rights that disagree with their personal and religious beliefs. I'm glad to see that Gloria Steinem is travelling the country to tell women of their scary future of having only illegal and dangerous abortion choices if Romney is elected president.
Daphne Taylor Street
5:39 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Joe, thanks for your comment.
Milton Adamson
10:02 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Funding of Planned Parenthood is not the role of the Federal Government!
Michael F Brennan
4:55 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
How many were swelling outside the gates? My neighbor was disappointed. She said it was about fifty women, and no men worth meeting up with.
"Saturday, a crowd began swelling outside the gates of Jannus Live in downtown St. Petersburg"
Daphne Taylor Street
5:44 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Before the gates opened, there were about 80 people gathering in a line on the sidewalk outside of Jannus Live, and it turned into a crowd of about 100 people at the launch of the event. By the time Steinem took the stage, there appeared to be about 150-200 people in attendance. I was surprised at the amount of men, though there clearly were more women. If I had to guess, it seemed as though the women to men ratio was about 3 to 1. Thanks for your comment, Michael.
Owen Linder, MD FACP
7:17 am on Monday, October 22, 2012
You attribute to your friend an elusive comment, "no men worth meeting up with. What did she mean? My wife thinks I'm worth meeting up with. My chart manager was there & she said hello. My computer technician's wife was there . She said hello. Thus was I not worth meeting up with?
When I told people that night I had heard one of the most talented speakers I have
ever heard that afternoon, Gloria Steinem, they were chagrined to have missed her.
Indeed this rare period in this overheated tossup state we are being treated to more truly fascinated visits than we ever have. Rahm Emanual was here on the 20th. Barack Obama comes on Thursday.
Just this one short period time Florida is an epicenter of activity.
All the best ,
Michael F Brennan
11:14 am on Monday, October 22, 2012
Thank-you Daphne Taylor Street. I was wondering because we were in opposition cross-town at FoundersCorner.us We had numbers approaching 300 post 1:30pm. It is true they were among those who rallied and went on with their day while others came in to Rally Stand Up For Religious Freedom. Most were women also but about 100 men. The pro-lifers in this Nation are often underestimated.
Michael F Brennan
Rally Captain, St Petersburg
Voter Stand Up or Religious Freedom
Daphne Taylor Street
5:36 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Susan, yes, that's interesting about the error with the "Lilly Ledbetter Act." error. I looked back at the transcript I typed out from the speech, and it was correct there. I actually hyperlinked that act for reference in the article, and it appears that through the hyperlinking process, another word was added in "Ruby" and equally as odd, that hyperlink isn't there anymore. Thanks for pointing out the error.
Freedom
5:46 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
LADIES BE RESPONSIBLE...KEEP YOUR LEGS CROSSED...USE LATEX...PREVENT SEXUAL DISEASE...I WILL NOT PAY FOR YOUR PROMISCUITY...MEDICAL FACT BIRTH CONTROL PILLS KILLS...DON'T END THE LIFE OF THE INNOCENT BABY IN YOUR TUMMY....CHOOSE PRO-LIFE :)
Janice M.
9:33 am on Monday, October 22, 2012
Anti-Liberal. Please enlighten us to the medical fact about birth control pills. Given the number of women taking them worldwide, I would assume that they would be dropping dead in alarming rates. I am not saying you are wrong, I would just like the factual information, aka reputable research, before believing it. Simply tell us who did the unbiased research and the peer-reviewed journal it appeared in.
Freedom
3:37 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
Janice I would be very happy to provide the medical facts, which I will do shortly :)
Freedom
3:43 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
Here's proof how bad pills are:
Bayer's Deadly Birth-Control Pills: Alleged Toll Climbs to 190, Shareholders Revolt
About 190 women have died while taking Yaz and Yasmin, Bayer's (BAYRY) two leading contraceptive pill brands, according to the Swiss media, and the company faces a shareholder motion condemning its marketing of the brands at its April 29 annual meeting.
The vote is unlikely to pass, but it will draw attention to Bayer's increasing problems on its contraceptive franchise. Through February 2011, Bayer faces 6,850 lawsuits in the U.S. accusing the pills of creating potentially lethal blood clots and gall bladder damage, according to page 242 of its annual report. The number of suits is growing fast. Last October, there were "only" 4,200 suits. In September, the total was just 2,000. The number of fatalities alleged in those suits is unknown, but a little-noticed German-language report on Swiss Television last year claimed that a search of the FDA's adverse event database found "in round figures" 140 deaths associated with Yasmin, and 50 with Yaz, the newer brand. Those numbers will be used against Bayer at its shareholder meeting.
Freedom
3:43 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
The following adverse effects have been experienced by women on the Pill:
Headaches, migraines, mental depression (even to the point of suicide
and/or suicidal tendencies), a decrease or loss of sexual drive, abdominal
cramps, bloating, weight gain or loss, and water retention; nausea and
vomiting(in about 10% of users); symptoms of PMS, vaginitis and vaginal
infections, changes in vision (temporary or permanent blindness, and an
intolerance to contact lenses); gall bladder disease and either temporary
or permanent infertility, when discontinuing the Pill, in users with
previous menstrual irregularities or who began the drug before full
maturity. Several of the symptoms, such as migraine headaches,
contraindicate the use of the Pill because of life endangering
complications.
Breast cancer has been repeatedly associated with using the Pill.
Breast cancer has been increasing at an alarming rate in recent years,
especially among young women. "Breast cancer will kill more than 44,000
American women this year alone," a 1991 report noted, predicting 175,000
more new cases, "especially among young women.
Freedom
3:45 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
Here's the number one cause of damage due to the pill, the one that killed my best friend;
HEART AND BLOOD ABNORMALITIES
Blood Clots can form, restricting or blocking the flow of blood to
critical organs and other body systems, possibly causing permanent damage.
For example, a blood clot in the heart would cause a heart attack; in the
brain it would cause a stroke or brain hemorrhage; a clot which moved from
elsewhere in the body and lodged in the lung would cause a pulmonary
embolism; in the kidneys a clot would cause a renal artery thrombosis and
kidney damage; in the retinal arteries it would cause temporary or
permanent blindness. High Blood Pressure and alterations in the blood clotting mechanisms may
be seen in women on the Pill. This may contribute to a 3-11 times
increased risk of developing blood clots in Pill users compared to
non-users. The risk is especially great for women who smoke and/or are
over 35 years old.
Freedom
4:16 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
Here's more sites with extended information:
http://bodyecology.com/articles/dangers_birth_control_pill.php#.UIWkgMWHJzo
http://www.drugwatch.com/yaz/stroke.php
Linda
6:41 pm on Wednesday, October 24, 2012
LOONY LOONY LOONY, ETC.
Freedom
5:51 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Gloria Steinem you disappoint all the pro life women by choosing to support this president who is only interested in ruining our great nation & taking away our freedom, SHAME ON YOU!!!
Harborite
9:45 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Only Mitt Romney and the Republican Party want to take away women's freedoms. Pres. Obama respects women and wants them to have all of their constitutional rights. It is absolutely none of your business and none of the government's business what a woman does with her own body. You need to worry about yourself and leave everybody else alone. This is a free country. If you don't believe in abortion, then don't have one. You have a right to your opinion, but you have no right to force your religious beliefs on anybody else.
Freedom
12:36 am on Monday, October 22, 2012
Hello Joe, nice to see you are out & about expressing yourself :)
You know what I like about Mr. Romney when he looks at his wife Ann, he has love in his eyes, same love he has for our beloved nation & as from where I am standing our current President doesn't have respect for women, if he truly did, he would turn away birth control pills which are proven facts by medical associations all over the world cause of major complications & death, what I would ask the President knowing these facts, would he let his adorable daughters if he would permit them to be on these dangerous pills, I bet his fatherly instinct would not permit this to happen :)
As for him supporting freedom, take a look at this new evidence of how he signed a bill banning freedom of speech, here's the link http://thatsmycongress.com/index.php/2011/12/31/obama-approves-law-to-throw-americans-in-prison-without-criminal-charge-or-trial/
To answer your outrageous notion about me forcing my beliefs on anybody else, you got it backwards I have no powers where I can magically make people do what I want them to do & personally I would not want to be able to do that so all I can do is pray for the fools of society & to ask God if he can give them the wisdom to see the err of their ways :)
Janice M.
4:16 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
Anti-Liberal btw the way, love the negative message in your online name, very republican. Nice job trying to convince the ignorant of your birth control theory. I asked for proof, facts, not you reciting some put together info. Do you really think people are that stupid. Of course we know the side effects of birth control pills. I would like you to name me a pill that doesn't have side effects. That's big pharmaceutical companies for you. But of course, you wouldn't support a government who would step in and make them stop now would you? When someone asks for facts, it means you provide the citation and information of the documented study you claim to have. And another BTW, breast cancer has been down for three years now, and the AMA has said repeatedly there is no connection with the pill and breast cancer. And 140 deaths? Out of how many millions? Not exactly scientific proof. You should jump on the peanut band wagon as well. People die from them too. Keep spouting your idiocy, there are plenty of people out there dumb enough to believe you.
Freedom
7:14 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
Janice take it easy with Koolaid :) it is clouding your judgement, you need some smart juice :)
I love my screen name, you noticed my name so that means my message is working, I am not a liberal & never will be :)
As for your objection to what I wrote about birth control pills, why don't you do your own google search & list your objections factually :)
Freedom
6:13 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
It is going to be pure pleasure to vote yes on Amendment 6 which is the group, Citizens for Protecting Taxpayers and Parental Rights, in full support of Amendment 6, I totally love this which made this blessed Sunday absolutely wonderful :)
Daphne Taylor Street
6:45 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Hi Anti-Liberal, and thank you for your impassioned responses. I appreciate you expressing your positions here.
Freedom
11:38 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Hi Daphne, thank you for letting me express myself:)
Lee Nicosia
6:43 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Gloria you are a nemesis to woman. Faux feminism is your style. Join the feminists who stand for life of unborn children and saving other females from post abortive syndrome. Tsk, tsk......sooooo disappointing. Oh, the binder thing comes up again. I will tell Mitt not to be organized to just throw the files on the floor. Seriously, ladies what gives?
Daphne Taylor Street
6:46 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Thanks for your comment, Lee. I appreciate reading your views.
TransPlant
7:16 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Gloria & Sandra Fluke should get a room
Freedom
12:50 am on Monday, October 22, 2012
Hello Clearwater Gal :)
I am sure ex playboy bunny Steinem is giving private lessons to wannabe playboy bunny Fluke on how to become one & Allred is on standby to bring a frivolous lawsuit to anybody who crosses their liberal agenda :)
Janice M.
9:34 am on Monday, October 22, 2012
Ah yes, the old "they must be lesbians" reply to intelligent women who stick together.
TransPlant
5:26 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
@ Anti-Liberal and Janice M, word is they are sleeping together
James H
8:28 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Remind me why anyone cares about her skewed views on life?
Freedom
12:58 am on Monday, October 22, 2012
Because it is amusing to see liberals all wound up over Mr. Romney being ahead on polls, actually they are plotting right now due to latest rumor about Allred's October surprise with her smear campaign concerning Mr. Romney, all of us conservatives are ready to put them in their respective place ;)
Lee Nicosia
8:49 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Oh and btw, I was conceived by rape. My father drugged my mom. He wanted an abortion, she refused.
Freedom
11:32 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
God Bless Your Mom For Giving You Life, you are a blessing & a shining star :)
Linda
6:54 pm on Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Don't you know, if the man wants to do it, it's not rape, that's the Republican line.
Milton Adamson
9:13 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Steinem is very misinformed if she says Romney never created American Jobs. Has she ever shopped at staples? Last time I checked, he helped to establish Staples which now employs over 51,000 employees!
That kind of error is either intentional deceit, or such bad representation of the facts to be discrediting to make every thing which comes out of Gloria Steinem's mouth to have to be assumed to be in error!
Romney in creating just one company of many jobs has created more jobs than Obama has ever created before becoming President.
Freedom
1:10 am on Monday, October 22, 2012
All great facts Milton :) it is amusing to watch the liberals lie to cover up their deceitful ways, their plan didn't work, I have confidence Mr. Romney's plan will definitely work, it is Divine Intervention, Miracle of Belief :)
Janice M.
9:35 am on Monday, October 22, 2012
God bless the man who establishes minimum wage, below poverty level wages so he can make millions.
Freedom
3:07 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
Janice minimum wage law was passed in 1938 which would be by President Roosevelt, it is called Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, current minimum wage is set at $7.25 an hour as of 2009 which would be Obama's term & you're right this is below poverty level, this amount needs to be raised considerably much more than this amount, it needs to go up at least $4 more per hour even that would not be sufficient!
There are large scale companies that I called who feel minimum wage is not sufficient to run a household, here's the companies I called; Staples pays the sales staff starts out at $12 per hour which advances accordingly & pays health care; Walmart pays $19 to $24 per hour for warehouse positions healthcare not included but offers healthcare at a reduced rate, Darden Restaurants (Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Smoky Bones) starts out at $15 per hour for Hostess position which includes comprehensive health plan as for servers pay varies some work for straight salary not including tips & some receive reduced salary with tips included; McDonald's pays $8 per hour for cashiers & $10 per hour for trainers, $12 per hour for cooks, $14 per hour for managers & offers limited health benefits. This is few places I called but I will create an extended blog on this topic soon :)
jay love
9:24 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
An Extremist? look who's calling the kettle black? Gloria Steinem is possibly the biggest extremist in the last 40 plus years? this Nazi fembot is likely the cause of unknown numbers of American families and American women's minds have been poisoned by this wicked witch of the West!!
jay love
9:30 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
unfortunately Ms. Steinem is just but one of many extremists who are hell bent on tearing apart the very fabric of American families and contrary to popular opinion has not done anything for American women, or families but help to keep them poisoned by the liberal lies which keep people down!
achmed
9:34 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
I am more than happy to cancel out someone's no vote on 6 as many others are as well. This woman cares nothing for you, nothing for the unborn. She only cares to spread lies by twisting and spinning anything that gets in the way of her agenda. She doesn't speak for all women.
Freedom
11:26 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Alright lets see what we got here :)
Steinem: A playboy bunny.
Allred: Protector of the playboy bunnies.
Fluke: A wannabe playboy bunny but can't due to no contraceptive.
What do they have in common, Planned Parenthood which is a misleading organization who wants to be on the government payroll to break apart families & taking lives of innocent babies!
Vote Yes On Amendment 6 :)
Linda
6:46 pm on Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Vote yes for Obama.
Steve
6:02 am on Monday, October 22, 2012
When Gloria Steinem says that Romney is “the most undemocratic, anti-equality, authoritarian, extremist candidate I have ever seen", she is telling it just like it is. Romney is a danger to women's future ability to control their reproductive choices. He is a danger to women ever receiving equal pay for equal work. Romney intends to cut programs that support women and their families in order to increase military spending by 2 trillion dollars. Mitt Romney's policies are simply bad for women.
Robert "Bobby" Saltzman
6:34 am on Monday, October 22, 2012
I looked at every amendment. They are all either written by lobbyists or are disguised as something that will show compassion while bankrupting local coffers. No matter whom you support for President Vote no on all these amendments as they are not the voice of the people. They slithered out of the Legislature and have no benefits for the common man or woman.
Daphne Taylor Street
6:38 am on Monday, October 22, 2012
Much thanks to all for your diverse comments. As impassioned as you and your responses and positions are, I truly thank you for remaining civil to one another while agreeing and disagreeing on topics. Great responses!
Swiersusan@gmail.cOm
6:54 am on Monday, October 22, 2012
May I humbly suggest that women are more concerned about whether their husband has a job and she can put food on the table, fill up the gas tank and make the monthly payments. Under President Obama mothers do not see their children who are graduating from college getting jobs (50% cannot find work). May I suggest women do not want to be dependent on government, rather they want to be independent and thrive. May I suggest that this President has done more to harm women, their families and children fiscally than any previous President.
Pamela
10:33 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
You are so out of touch.Most families have two incomes.These are college grads.You strike me as codependent.You are still dependent on your spouse who has the burden Of you. You seem to forget Bush had devastated our country and we were on the verge of disaster.Check your facts it started in 2000.Obama inherited this mess.It is going to takes. Years just like the 80's bank defaults and the Reagun. it took us almost 20 years to rebound.
Spencer Davis
8:08 am on Monday, October 22, 2012
Steinem is the extremist. Her goal is not equality it is the divide an conquor policy of the Democratic Party an dlibersls in general learned from their shellacing in 1972. Why do we have "women's" issure, "black" issues, "senior" issues, a and the rest? To DIVIDE us and make us less of a union - there are AMERICAN issues and UN-AMERICAN issues. Breast cancer may afflict mainly women but most of them are mothers, wives, and friends with/to men. The disease affects more than the afflicted, the cost/pain/loss of a child/spouse/mom hurts men too.
I could go on forever but what needs to be understood is that the Libs want you to think you are part of a special interest group so they can pander to the group and get your vote.
Vote for an AMERICAN for President this time. At least he can use his middle name!
Harborite
9:19 am on Monday, October 22, 2012
Pres. Obama is an American who was born and raised in Hawaii. Your racism and bigotry is appalling. Mitt Romney's father was born in Mexico. Does that make Mitt unamerican? Are Mitt's family members foreigners who don't belong in our country? When I hear you insinuate that Pres. Obama is unamerican, I realize that you have no good reason, except for bigotry and racism, not to vote for Pres. Obama.
Freedom
3:27 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
Joe you need to stop throwing this allegation that Mr. George Romney is a mexican, his parents were US Citizens stationed in Mexico as missionaries, therefore that makes him a US Citizen but President Obama doesn't have clear records that he was born in Hawaii, there is a lot of controversy surrounding this, I suppose we will never know for sure, I hope for all our sakes he was born in US, but who knows?? as for the race card, you really need to stop that, it is getting old, we have nothing against anybodies color or origin, we are all created equal, it is time we all agree this is not the basis for our choices, our political views differs & that's all!
Jasminetea
3:39 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
Joe C. Obama was also raised in Indonesia by his mom and Lolo Soeturo. He was also adopted by Soturo which is why he was known as Barry Soeturo. He was later sent to Hawaii to live with his grandparents in 1971.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-HqHSkYG-Y
Janice M.
4:05 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
Exactly my sentiments. Just like the pandering of WASP males in the republican party to their own.
Daphne Taylor Street
4:50 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
Hi Spencer and Joe -- Thanks so much for your vibrant comments here. Joe, please just watch how you might phrase your comments to avoid personally insulting someone because of his/her view here. Thanks again for your contribution!
Michael D.
5:39 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
Joe C, Anti-Liberal and Jaminetea,
He has the same documentation that anyone else has, and he currently is president. Which means he passed multiple background checks that have a lot more sources than the majority of media and private citizens. He was born of American citizen(s) and spent most of his formative years under the age of 14 on U.S. soil which is all the requirements by law. So the whole birther agrument is not needed. It is just as bad as the Romeny birther agrument. Both are unnesscary. As far as the birth certificate of someone who was born in a terriotry of America. My father was born in Alaska before it was a state while my grandparents were stationed there for the Air Force. His documentation is just as shotty, does that make my dad born in another country? Because that is what I hear with this agrument. People born in terriorties of American while their parents were protecting this country are not American because we think Obama isn't. Same rules would apply to them that are being applied to Obama and Romney in these agruments. Obama and Romney both fit the legal definitions of what is required.
Freedom
6:12 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
Thank you Michael D :) I always appreciate your intelligent conversation even though we sometimes don't see eye to eye, we are a nation of mixed breeding but have the freedom to choose whatever is best for us, I applaud you for not resorting to name calling & bashing, I really appreciate that :)
SRQ
8:20 am on Monday, October 22, 2012
Just remember, Romney said, "If women are going to be in the workforce ..."
He used the word "If". It's not 1952 anymore.
S. Ripley
3:13 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
For what it’s worth:
In a previous career I was in a senior leadership role at HR for a Fortune 500 company. As a public company, we were very concerned with pay discrepancies across demographics (not just gender). We did an extensive audit and found overwhelmingly that pay discrepancies were entirely dependent on what the candidate negotiated for. It was a pleasant discovery and surprising to many in our organization, including me.
The old adage was validated: Those that ask for more get more.
Jasminetea
3:25 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
Wow! She's still alive. Who would have thought.
Me: Female, single mother, small business owner.
Cast my vote today by mail....Romney/Ryan all the way!
Freedom
3:33 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
Hi Jasmintea :) was wondering where you were, good to have you back, you have a lot of ground to cover on this post, I am looking forward to reading your wonderful posts :)
Jasminetea
3:48 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
Thank you! Anti-Liberal!
Janice M.
3:41 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
Anti-Liberal, what a load of crap. Made those phone calls, sure ya did! None of those companies have a national "pay scale" so that is a lie. It depends on where they are located. Florida has one of the worst pay scales for those companies, and others, that you listed. As for trying to point out that it was Obama who instituted the latest minimum wage, try again. That was set before his term and was scheduled to be implemented no matter who was in office. You still completely miss the point - business owners have no interest in raising wages, their greed sets the wage. They use every opportunity to lower wages. Check out the NY Times article from last year that lists companies who actually did very well during the recession, yet still lowered wage on new hires because they could use the recession as an excuse knowing people were desparate for jobs. Let's face it, the ideology behind the republican conservative party is capitalism, individualism, laissez faire government. You cannot be a supporter of the republican party without agreeing that in business one must assumes the bottom line is the most important thing. If that means lowering wages, cutting health benefits, etc. so be it.
Freedom
4:43 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
Janice M thanks for the humor, look in the mirror & you'll see the real idiot, I never said national pay scale, those are individual companies that I called on what they pay their workers, some large scale companies do take care of their employees but unfortunately not all now if you don't trust me you can call them & ask, actually they are very happy to share information, they also are happy to help out with written report which I will be providing very soon!
Janice your choice of words confirms the fact you have limited means for intelligent conversation!
Daphne Taylor Street
4:47 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
Hi Janice and Anti-Liberal. Again, I do appreciate the passion and the differences of opinion, but please do keep the personal insults and insinuations of lying, etc. outside of this thread. We have had great input so far whilst remaining mostly civil. I'm hoping we can keep it that way. It's my small dream. Thanks so much!
Freedom
6:19 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
Hi Daphne thank you for your input here when Janice called me an idiot, I should have just ignored it cause two wrongs don't make a right, I won't let that happen again :)
Daphne Taylor Street
6:36 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
Hi Anti-Liberal -- No worries. I'm actually quite impressed with the overall tone of this thread. I could have easily gotten bitter much more quickly and much more harshly. Thanks so much for your contributions here. I appreciate the lively debate! I value your thoughts.
Daphne Taylor Street
6:45 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
"It" ... It could have easily gotten bitter much more quickly and much more harshly.
:o)
Janice M.
4:52 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
Aww, did anti-Liberal have his feelings hurt by a woman smarter than he is? I can tell it is frustrating you to have a woman not believe your load of crap and request facts. Which choice of words confirms my limited intelligence - laissez faire, capitalism? Perhaps it is because you don't undertand them. I am sure that written report will be provided as soon as you get the studies and documents you promised on birth control. So sorry this is so frustrating to you.
Freedom
5:38 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
Sweetheart, I hate to disappoint you but I am a WOMAN had you done your homework you would have known that, as for intelligent conversation I call it the way I see it now we can all express ourselves without the name calling & bashing but you can't seem to stay away from crude words which proves the fact you are frustrated, don't be too hard on yourself learn to accept others views & move on, life is too short to be stressed out about things you cannot control :)
David Conkle
5:11 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
Anti-liberal should perhaps follow the age old adage of, "better to have people think you're a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." Feminism is simply the radical idea that women are people. When women are considered equal and have the right to choose how and what they want to be treated for by their own doctor, then and only then will women really be free. Beyond that, it is no one elses business and people such as "Anti-liberal" could then do us all a favor by minding their own bees wax!
Freedom
5:55 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
David stop embarrassing yourself, you are a control addict & this shortcoming of yours doesn't affect me or my views at all, just because you calling me a fool doesn't make me one, I believe in myself so does many people who know me:) as for you David the only reason you want abortion to be legal is if you get a woman pregnant you can tell her to go get an abortion. Take a lesson from a mother who chose life :)
Lee Nicosia
8:49 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Oh and btw, I was conceived by rape. My father drugged my mom. He wanted an abortion, she refused.
-Ed Harris-
5:14 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
I actually disagree with Gloria about Romney. Paul Ryan, Grover Norquist and Karl Rove are much worse. Mitt is being put there to sign bills and nothing more. I disagree with my President on many issues but find him still a worthy leader who can compromise and is anything but a liberal. Moderate Candidates are hard to find these days but our president happens to be one and so am I. I have already sent in my ballot and I voted for our president. I also voted no to every single state amendment. BTW I am a registered Republican.
Daphne Taylor Street
5:35 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
Thanks for your comment, Ed. I value your point of view, and thanks especially for your civil tone :o)
TransPlant
7:01 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
Obama is 'the amateaur" for nothing
David Conkle
7:50 am on Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Anti-liberal "me doth think thou protest a bit much." Your aurgument that I want to be able to tell a woman what to do in case of an unplanned pregnacy is laughable; when in fact it is you who really want to tell others how they should act and what they should really do. I'm truly sorry your mother experienced what I can only imagine as one of the most traumatic events that could ever happen in a woman's life. What your mother did in response was a couragous act, however that was her choice and what your mother chose doesn't automatically make it the right choice for every other woman in America. As a side note, I normally refuse to engage in a battle of the wits with the intellectually unarmed, I made an exception in your case though and now regret it. To once again quote the immortal bard, "he who would aurgue with a fool, be the greater fool."
Freedom
8:47 pm on Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Guess who is wrong, oh yeah YOU! It was not my mother who went through the traumatic event, it was a young lady who posted here, her name is Lee Nicosia, I see that you don't read thoroughly & not good in spelling either as for you calling me intellectually unarmed guess again, I am very happy in knowledge that you are wrong, it's amazing how liberals always resort to name calling when they are unable to win an argument, you should take a lesson from Ed Harris, we may have different views but we both have respect :)
dreamjoehill
6:48 pm on Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Gloria Steinem worked for the CIA under Cord Meyer (who Howard Hunt claimed was in charge of JFK assassination and who's ex-wife Mary Pinchot Meyer was JFK's lover) and met with CD Jackson (OSS psyops chief who later purchased and supressed zapruder film while head of Life Magazine). Ms. Magazine´s first publisher was Elizabeth Forsling Harris, a CIA-connected PR executive who planned John Kennedy´s Dallas motorcade route.
Steimem used the media connections that she made while with the CIA to vault to the head of the feminist movement and to gain funding for Ms Magazine.
Gloria Steinem was the great de-radicalizer of feminism. Her mission was to sap it of revolutionary potential and she did a great job. She is currently fomenting support for an invasion of Syria tp "protect Syrain women."
Linda
7:13 pm on Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Your as goofy as Anti-liberal, well all most.
Freedom
8:55 pm on Wednesday, October 24, 2012
You know Linda, you need to read a book on internet etiquette, your foul language is the indicator of a very small person who is incapable of a meaningful conversation, which makes you look very foolish, now I am sure you are an intelligent person so why don't you act like one :)
Linda
11:04 am on Thursday, October 25, 2012
Blah blah blah, that makes as much sense as what your saying.
-Ed Harris-
11:22 am on Thursday, October 25, 2012
You know what? Regardless of the outcome of this or any election, the world will not come to an end! Someone will win and someone will lose, in two years there will be a mid-term election and if people are not happy they will have another shot at changing things again. I would be willing to bet most if not all who have posted here have or will vote. I think, while we all have our own individual passions about which issue is the most important, none of it matters at all if more people don't get registered and vote. It really should not be about Obama/Romney going head to head, it should be like breathing. You gotta breath, you gotta vote.
No matter how you feel on any given issue, if people don't get out an vote it's pointless. I hope turn out is good and really would love to see over 250 million actually cast a vote. Sorry to ramble on, just food for thought.
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