For anyone who may wonder what all the commotion is around McCain using air quotes to mock women’s health issues (where late term abortion is concerned) during last week’s debate, you must read this:
http://flotsamblog.com/2008/10/16/more-wounded-that-eloquent-im-afraid/.
The post is an amazing story about one woman’s near death experience with the birth of her children, but the last paragraph says it all:
“I have long suspected that McCain does not think much of women. First because of what I regarded as his rather uncouth treatment of the women in his personal life, and later when he chose Sarah Palin as his running mate. But his words last night, and the tone in which he spoke them, show such a terrible and deep disregard for our personhood that they left me shocked and speechless. I have never felt so powerfully disenfranchised as when hearing McCain insinuate that women—us crafty minxes—are not above using trickery to get a (much-coveted, apparently) late-term abortion. How dare he. How dare he imply that women are either too stupid or immoral to be trusted to wrestle with ethical issues on their own. How dare he insult my intelligence, my character, and my commitment to my babies, to my much wanted and years-in-the-making pregnancy, by implying that he is better equipped than myself and my doctors to weigh my child’s life against my health. Women may have the vote, but we do not have the respect of a frighteningly vast segment of our government, and I am sickened and saddened to see it.”
Wow, You really haved a stick up your ass!