'Hillary's women' reject McCain's VP choice

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By Leonard Doyle in Washington
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/hillarys-women-reject-mccains-vp-choice-933050.html

America's largest women's rights organisation delivered a snub to Sarah Palin's history-making candidacy yesterday by endorsing Barack Obama and Joe Biden's bid for power.

The National Organisation for Women (NOW) is 500,000 strong and hugely influential. The feminist organisation almost never supports a presidential candidate, but the Alaska governor's Christian fundamentalist faith and her opposition to abortion rights has forced its hand.

Other women's rights organisations are also campaigning against Governor Palin, pushed along by a spontaneous anti-Palin movement among women.

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"The addition of Sarah Palin gave us a new sense of urgency," Kim Gandy, the head of NOW, told National Public Radio. "She is being portrayed as a supporter of women's rights... as a feminist when in fact her positions on so many of the issues are really anathema to ours.

"A lot of women think it's a great thing for a woman to be running for vice-president," she continued, "but they are completely dismayed when they find out her positions. The idea that she opposes abortion even in cases of rape and incest – those kinds of positions are completely out of step with American women and once they find out about those positions, they get a little less excited."

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1. Thank God for women who have minds of their own.

Besides that I would like to address the ones who are unfairly
accusing Oprah of being unfair.  Quit picking on Oprah and
focus on what the important issues are.  Who else will they
step on to raise them up.  All the whining accusation is so
rediculous.  McCain and his supporters are accusing and
rediculing Obama for trying to be a celebrity, yet they
complain like children when Palin didn't get to come on the
Oprah Winfrey show. McCain-Palin are the ones that are playing
the unfair game by using Palin to hide behind while throwing
accusations of unfairness and sexism. The republicans should
actually be thanking Oprah for sparing Palin from embarassing
herself because when she opens her mouth, she might make
herself look incompetent like she has done in the past.