Ellen Malcolm, president of influential EMILY's List and a supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton, was not happy about NARAL's endorsement today of Sen. Barack Obama.
Here's her statement:
"I think it is tremendously disrespectful to Sen. Clinton - who held up the nomination of a FDA commissioner in order to force approval of Plan B and who spoke so eloquently during the Supreme Court nomination about the importance of protecting Roe vs. Wade - to not give her the courtesy to finish the final three weeks of the primary process. It certainly must be disconcerting for elected leaders who stand up for reproductive rights and expect the choice community will stand with them."
— Christina Bellantoni, national political reporter, The Washington Times
Comments (4)
How is this disrespectful? It's about time people put an end to Hillary's in heard of reasons for taking the DNC thru all this junk. I wish more supers would stand up and do the same. It's over, why can't she and her supportes see this? Geez, I think they all have had nervous breakdowns..
Posted by branqua | May 14, 2008 4:18 PM
Disrespectful. What respect?
Hillary Clinton lost most of my respect � and I daresay a good chunk of her self-respect � more than a decade ago when after her then 50-something husband committed adultry with a 22-year-old woman she stayed with him. AFTER Gennifer Flowers, AFTER Paula Jones and AFTER Lord knows how many other women.
Look, I'm sure Hillary's got her reasons for sticking it out with one of recent history's favorite American presidents (namely a child), but couldn't she have trotted out a trial separation, a public spat or something, ANYTHING, to show that women (and men for that matter) don't have to have to make their beds with dogs (and, yes, Bill Clinton behaved like a D-O-G, dog) to get ahead in America. Apparently, not.
So Ellen R. Malcom needs to go somewhere else and talk about somebody else when it comes to disrespect, because Hillary doesn't have any respect left to dis.
Posted by Sandy | May 14, 2008 11:18 PM
This is typical, you owe me, Clinton politics. It devalues any of Senator Clinton's statements because once again, she is saying what people want to hear and not what she believes.
Posted by Larry Stone | May 15, 2008 4:52 AM
Since when is it disrespectful to express your own opinions in America. The Clintons think that if you supported them in the past, you are forever locked into supporting them in the future. If they want support, their action should earn that support. Hillary has run around the nation sucking up to every liberal PAC, and radical political organization and as a result has lost a large part of her loyal supporters. If you want to win an election, you should look at what the majority of Americans desire for America, not at the desires of the radical left.
Posted by joe mcCullough | May 20, 2008 11:36 AM