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“A leash around women’s necks…”

Started by washingtonindependent · 9 months ago

Late in the morning on the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, I sat down with Lynn Forester de Rothschild.
In addition to sitting on the Democratic Party’s Platform Committee, de Rothschild was an ardent supporter of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s ... Continue reading »

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  • Redrum

    9 months ago

    As a self-agrandizing law school graduate, one would think she was more erudite than her position would indicate. Wonder if she ever had to do any research during her school days? Or did she just forget in this case? Supporting John McCain over the Democratic candidate shows us her true colors. She is obviously willing to sell out her party, ostensibly a party whose platform she agreed with. Now, because her horse only placed, she's pissed and willing to vote against the winner, and in favor of the long-shot loser. But it does make sense in one vein: Clinton represented more of the same establishment Washington politics as usual. McCain certainly fits that mold. Obama is terribly frightening to her for obvious reasons. He does not represent that same that same dead horse.
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  • gilmanc

    9 months ago

    Does this mean the gender war is officially on? Can I now vote for men solely because they are men and be open about it, because it is clear that powerful, intelligent women are going to vote based on identity politics?
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