Monday, April 7, 2008

Is Hillary Pandering To Me?

Well, duh.
So she's on Ellen today and she's promising an extra $300 million in breast cancer research, etc.
And that's supposed to make tens of millions of American women who may have been wavering or already in the Obama camp come back to her.
These are the same tens of millions of women who don't know that they're much more likely to die of a heart attack or lung cancer than they are of breast cancer.
The same tens of millions of women who don't know that — thanks to very well organized activism among victims and their families and friends —breast cancer causes are relatively heavily funded compared to other equally frequently occurring diseases.
I'm not against breast cancer research, it's what has reduced breast cancer deaths by so much in the last decade.
And, yes, I've known many women who got breast cancer and I do take the risk personally. Getting my mammo on Thursday, actually.
But of all the things she could be promising, this one stinks of pandering, just like the pre-New Hampshire challenges the campaign put out questioning Obama's position on choice.
Hillary is pandering to me, and I take that personally, too.
In fact, it pisses me off.
End of rant.

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