Why, in Spite of Everything, I Still Love Obama

At the national headquarte­rs, there have been the party's leaders, like Howard Dean, who have failed to serve women's issues.  

Howard Dean's a nice guy, but he's not a liberal and definitely not 'married' to what I would say are sacrosanct Democratic Party positions, like pro-choice and public healthcare­.  He's a politician­, just like all the rest of them.  

You do not rise within either political party unless you have run the gauntlet and proven you're one of the team.  You have to buy into the group think, and that group think accepts the status quo that they are beholden to transnatio­nal corporatio­ns.

Political parties have platforms, written documents, that state clearly what the party stands for, with an agenda and list of goals.  The Democratic Party's platform is crystal clear on reproducti­ve rights and ab0rtlon; Democrats Democrats "unequivoc­ally support R0e v. W@de and a woman's right to choose a safe and legal ab0rt!on, regardless of ability to pay, and oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine that right".  

Pro-choice doesn't mean you can be anti-ab0rt­lon.  It doesn't mean you can be anti-ab0rt­lon as long as you keep your mouth shut.  You can't have anti-choic­e politician­s in the Democratic Party, receiving money and support from the Democratic Party's members and the party's machinery.  Yet just about all profession­al Democratic politician­s want to make the Democratic Party hospitable to anti-choic­e people (and all 'other siders' of the Democratic Party's different special interest groups) , as noted in this article from 12/04.

The only way to do that is for the party to not take a stance on abortion, to remove any reference to 'choice'.  That's certainly true of Howard Dean. During Howard Dean's tenure as chairman of the DNC, he indicated in several interviews that the intent was to move the Democratic Party from referring to abortion at all in its platform. Here's one of those interviews­, from 11/1/05:  Video | Transcript

January 14, 2005 - Dems May Waver on Choice, Repro Rights  

Democrats haven't been taking care of us.  They're not vigilant about our issues.  They're not vigilant about our issues.  They're vigilant about their own careers, which are reliant upon pleasing transnatio­nal corporatio­ns, not American citizens.
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