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John McCain's 10 Best Pickup Lines

2008-12-04T10:26:26Z

Knock women dead with these tips from swinger John McCain.

A Vote 4 Maxine (Video) & How Women Got To Vote (Story)

2008-10-28T21:31:04Z

How Women Got To Vote-A short history lesson on the privilege of voting The women were innocent and defenseless. 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 Burn, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air. 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. 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. So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote this year because--why, exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get to work? Our vote doesn't matter? It's raining? Last week, I went to a sparsely attended screening of HBO's new movie "Iron Jawed Angels." It is a graphic depiction of the battle these women waged so that I could pull the curtain at the polling booth and have my say. I am ashamed to say I needed the reminder. All these years later, voter registration is still my passion. But the actual act of voting had become less personal for me, more rote. Frankly, voting often felt more like an obligation than a privilege. Sometimes it was inconvenient. My friend Wendy, who is my age and studied women's history, saw the HBO movie, too. When she stopped by my desk to talk about it, she looked angry. She was--with herself. "One thought kept coming back to me as I watched that movie," she said. "What would those women think of the way I use--or don't use--my right to vote? All of us take it for granted now, not just younger women, but those of us who did seek to learn." The right to vote, she said, had become valuable to her "all over again." HBO will run the movie periodically before releasing it on video and DVD. I wish all history, s ocial studies and government teachers would include the movie i n their curriculum. I want it shown on Bunko night, too, and anywhere else women gather. I realize this isn't our usual idea of socializing, but we are not voting in the numbers that we should be, and I think a little shock therapy is in order. It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his cronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be permanently institutionalized. And it is inspiring to watch the doctor refuse. Alice Paul was strong, he said, and brave. That didn't make her crazy. The doctor admonished the men: "Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity." Please pass this on to all the women you know. We need to get out and vote and use this right that was fought so hard for by these very courageous women... (Author Unknown)

OBAMA 08

Obama Shows Gains Among Women

2008-11-20T15:39:37Z

Barack Obama now leads John McCain by 13 percentage points among women nationally, more than doubling the 5-point advantage he posted just prior to Hillary Clinton's departure from the race.

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Obama Can't Attack Clinton Because She Has The Women Shield

2008-10-26T03:31:20Z

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Did Obama Run A Sexist Campaign???

2008-10-19T21:30:10Z

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Is Clinton Lucky To Be A White Woman?

2008-10-18T03:29:52Z

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Liberals Have Been On Right Side Of Major Issues

2008-10-15T03:30:06Z

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Women's Voices, Women Vote

2008-10-22T21:29:47Z

Cool effort to register 1.3 million women to vote this cycle. When politicians use women's rights as a political punching bag, it would make sense for more women to take their destiny into their own hands.

Let's hope it works.

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Headzup: Coulter Cuts Women's Right To Vote

2008-10-23T21:30:14Z

Talking to Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter explains how she'd like to take the right to vote away from women.

Read more about her comments here--
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Coulter_If_we_took_away_womens_1003.html

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Everywoman- White House Race- 03 Aug 07- Part 1

2008-10-25T21:29:56Z

Can Hillary Clinton win the women's vote?

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Everywoman- White House Race- 03 Aug 07- Part 2

2008-10-25T21:29:53Z

Can Hillary Clinton win the women's vote?

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