Importance

[Nikki Stone1]

To all of you folks giving Newsweek a pass for the Sarah Palin cover: 100 replies....1169 views

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=7035982&mesg_id=7035982

EASY ACTIVISM: SIGN THE PETITION, SEND A COAT HANGER (to Stupak Amendment Supporters): 22 replies....171 views (even with 16 recs)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=7035623&mesg_id=7035623


The second thread is infinitely more important than the first, but so many posters--women included--prefer the former to the latter. Trashing Palin is far more important than REAL women's rights issues. Real feminism is about real action. Spending your energy trashing conservative women--even the sad and nutty Palin-- doesn't help the cause at all.

How about all you people spending energy attacking me and the silly Palin spend a little bit of energy signing the petition in the second thread above.

Especially the female posters.

[Nikki Stone1]

1. Already unrec'd

Perhaps that was one of those women who prefers arguing over Newsweek covers to real activism.

[Toucano]

2. Done and done! n/t

[Nikki Stone1]

3. You signed the petition?

?

[Toucano]

5. Yes.

But I didn't kick it and I didn't post to my facebook wall yet.

[Nikki Stone1]

6. GREAT!

:fistbump:

Posting it to Facebook is a great idea.

[Nikki Stone1]

4. Unrec! LOL!! God forbid you should do something other than bitch.

:eyes:

[StarfarerBill]

7. Another unrec, unrecced.

[NYC_SKP]

29. rec. it stuck. now at 3. n/t

[me b zola]

8. My rec invalidated an unrec

:)

[StarfarerBill]

9. Well, at least you're back to zero, Nikki.

:shrug:

[Nikki Stone1]

10. Thanks.

But they're still having a cow over idiocy. :(

[StarfarerBill]

11. Palin is a lightning rod...

...and she draws our bolts away from far more important targets.

+2, now! :)

[Nikki Stone1]

13. Great metaphor.

:)

[StarfarerBill]

14. Thanks again.

:)

[Nikki Stone1]

15. No problem.

This is such a great way to act on such an important issue. Stupak is just awful.

[StarfarerBill]

17. I agree.

I imagine anti-abortionists are dancing with glee now after so many unsuccessful attempts to roll back abortion rights...and with so many Democrats' help, to boot.

[Nikki Stone1]

20. I know. And the fact that it is Democrats

It was a Democrat (Casey) that brought the biggest Supreme Court blow to Roe V Wade. They kept telling us that anti-choice Republicans (like Casey, Stupak and Reid) would not be a problem, that we had to back them because they were Democrats.

Bullshit.

[emilyg]

12. k/r

[Luciferous]

16. I could care less about Palin and I already signed the petition

yesterday, so... kick :)

[Nikki Stone1]

18. Fist bump

:fistbump:

[StarfarerBill]

19. Are Palin fetishists unreccing this petition?

Jerks.

[Nikki Stone1]

21. It certainly seems that way, doesn't it.

They don't really care about reality.

[StarfarerBill]

22. Well, she is a demagogue...

...but unworthy of all this vituperation. In all likelihood, she'll be history by the time the Republicans' masters select their puppet for 2012.

[Nikki Stone1]

23. I hope so. She's got the potential to be very dangerous to women

If abortion is ever completely banned here, it will be by a female president, methinks.

[StarfarerBill]

24. Then let's get Cynthia McKinney into the White House;

I bet she'd never let it be touched. :)

[Nikki Stone1]

25. I love McKinney

But AIPAC would never let that happen

[StarfarerBill]

26. If we could get her anywhere near the Oval Office...

...that would mean a state of affairs where AIPAC no longer holds sway...or corporate corruptors, um, donors, for that matter.

[Nikki Stone1]

27. True. She's a real hero

.

[StarfarerBill]

28. Yep. She'd shake the status quo like nobody's business.

[Nikki Stone1]

30. No kidding!

Well, I can dream

[StarfarerBill]

31. So can we all. :)

I like the way you think. Good night. :)