O.K., NOWiennes, Now I'm Really Mad

My reservations about Hillary Clinton have to do with her Iraq War vote, her yes vote on the Kyl-Lieberman amendment that opens the door to an attack on Iran, her corporatist connections (don't even get me started on the Tan family donations, those corrupt oppressors of women in Mariannas Islands sweatshops). But what really swung me hard was the feminist leaders in New Hampshire who sent out a late flyer to women voters before the primary accusing Obama of being shaky on choice issues because of some of his present votes in the Illinois Legislature.
Some of those women later recanted, having taken the word of the Clinton campaign, which misrepresented the issue to the signatories.
His votes were a deliberate, NARAL Illinois tactic, to lend protection to Dem legislators in swing districts faced with horrible bills promulgated by Republicans specifically to put them on the spot.
One former NOW leader in Illinois disagreed with the tactic (Illinois pro-choice politics are, apparently, like all Illinois politics, acrimonious) and now she's being cited as the expert for Connecticut NOW to pull the same thing in that state on Monday.
I was so incensed by the New Hampshire thing, and then the statement by NY State NOW president Marcia Pappas calling Ted Kennedy's Obama endorsement a betrayal of all women that I wrote Pappas and National NOW an angry, but polite, letter.
Pappas didn't reply. But National NOW did. Although they've endorsed Clinton, they do not endorse Pappas' position, but state leaders speak for themselves, I was told. Fair enough.
Bottom line: Women's right to choose is about more than our bodies. And slimy tactics to manipulate us by our so-called sisters is not okay.
Whew. Thanks for the rant space. Oh, that's right, I own it. Heh.