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Gov. Ann Endorses Obama
Always liked that Ann Richards,
and am not exactly immune to Obama's charms, either. Yet I was
surprised when the governor posthumously endorsed the presumptive
Democratic nominee yesterday: "If she were still around she would suit
up and campaign for Senator Obama in the farthest corner of the
farthest state,'' her daughter Cecile Richards wrote
on the Huffington Post. "Mom would see in him a leader with a long and
consistent record for standing up for women's health care. ... She'd
see in him what we at the Planned Parenthood Action Fund see. ... Mom
would have said that women voting for John McCain would be like
chickens choosing to vote for the Colonel.'' And I would have said Ann
for VP! Unless Eleanor Roosevelt were available. Or my
across-the-street neighbor Clara Barton,
an Obama girl if ever there was one. And definitely not the sort who
might be flirting with McCain, like that recently deceased voter
Hillary kept talking about. But, what would Bella Abzug do?
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