Why women should vote

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Why women should vote
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Wed, 09-24-2008 - 9:24am
WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE.

This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago.

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Remember, it was not until 1920

that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.
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The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed
nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking
for the vote.
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(Lucy Burns)
And by the end of the night, they were barely alive.

Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing
went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of
'obstructing sidewalk traffic.'
They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above

her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping
for air.
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(Dora Lewis)
They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her
head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate,
Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack.
Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging,
beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.

Thus unfolded the
'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917,
when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his
guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because
they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right
to vote.
For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their
food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms.
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(Alice Paul)
When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/nwp/prisoners.pdf

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Registered: 05-06-2007
Wed, 09-24-2008 - 4:49pm

Thank you for apologizing for any feelings you may have hurt. I still wonder though why you choose not to respond when factual information is given disputing your claims? For example, earlier in this thread (and another one) you've implied that Obama supports infanticide but when I offered information disputing that, you seem to have ignored it. Like you, I enjoy a debate but it's not a real honest debate if you just pick and choose when and to what you're going to respond.


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mom to Aidan 8/21/03
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Registered: 07-23-2008
Wed, 09-24-2008 - 4:56pm
Wow. Just wow. That's all I can say - for once I am basically speechless!




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Registered: 09-11-2007
Wed, 09-24-2008 - 5:00pm

This country was founded on diversity....and allowing those to come here who wished to have a better life. Give me your poor..your huddled masses...all that on the statue of liberty. I have to say I am simply not suprised you don't value diversity.


As to Immigration law....is it NOT easy to come live in this country legally. My DH was born in Scotland and lived in Canada for most of his life. He moved here 2 years ago. It is a very involved and costly. When his residency is renewed this fall.....he will have given the government over 2 thousnad dollars.....submitted to 10 background checks...and 3 different biometrics procedures ( dna and fingerprinting). Not to mention the pysical and medical tests.


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Wed, 09-24-2008 - 5:05pm

Wow. Just wow. That's all I can say - for once I am basically speechless!


Every time she opens her mouth, it just shows how much lower she can go.


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Registered: 06-23-2008
Wed, 09-24-2008 - 5:48pm




MONTANA MOM !

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Registered: 06-23-2008
Wed, 09-24-2008 - 5:53pm


MONTANA MOM !

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Registered: 07-05-2006
Wed, 09-24-2008 - 5:56pm

Who the heck is Rosie?


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Wed, 09-24-2008 - 6:00pm

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I think it's not as far fetched a proposition as many think it is.

 


 


I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure

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Registered: 09-11-2007
Wed, 09-24-2008 - 6:01pm

From the republican co-sponsor of the bill..it did pass. For the record...Obama was not the only one who voted no. It was a comitee vote.


A storm of controversy has risen in the presidential race concerning Barack Obama and legislation I sponsored in 2003 ("Obama's '03 abortion vote on forefront," Eric Zorn, Metro, Aug. 21). I introduced Senate Bill 1082 because of a nurse's claims that abortions at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn resulted in living infants whom hospital personnel then allowed to die without medical or comfort care.



SB-1082 defined born-alive infants and required that courts recognize them fully as persons and accord them immediate protection under the law—including statutes outlawing infanticide. Opponents of the bill believed it was an attack on Roe vs. Wade, so I added neutrality language identical to the 2001 federal Born Alive Infant Protection Act that the United States Senate approved 98 to 0.


On March 12, 2003, I presented the neutrality amendment before the state Health and Human Services Committee chaired by then state Sen. Obama. All 10 committee members voted to add the amendment. Nevertheless, during the same hearing, the committee rejected the bill as amended on a vote of 4-6-0. Obama voted no.


I was stunned because the neutrality amendment addressed the concerns of opponents. It was the same neutrality language approved by U.S. Sens. Barbara Boxer, Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry in the federal bill.


None of those who voted against SB-1082 favored infanticide. Rather their zeal for pro-choice dogma was clearly the overriding force behind their negative votes rather than concern that my bill would protect babies who are born alive.


In 2005, I joined 116 state representatives and 54 senators in voting for HB-984, which contained the same born-alive definition and neutrality language as Senate Bill 1082, plus some extra language to satisfy the most zealous pro-choice legislators, yet harmless to the bill's purpose. No one voted against it. We had finally accomplished what we had set out to do - protect a newborn baby's life.


- Rick Winkel
Former state senator
Urbana


http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2008/09/obama_calls_born_alive_ad_a_de.html

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Registered: 04-18-2008
Wed, 09-24-2008 - 6:01pm

I plan to vote for Obama.

I DO take care of myself. I work and support myself financially. If my husband walked out on me tomorrow, I would still have my own job, my own health insurance, credit in my own name, etc. etc.

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