Posted by
Playful Walrus on Saturday, March 15, 2008 4:26:49 PM
Today, I saw B. Hussein Obama taking questions from starry-eyed people, and one woman asked him what he's going to do about violence against women. I noticed he didn't point out what the President Bush-led military efforts against Islamofascists has done to reduce violence and oppression of women. He also didn't say that, as far as domestic violence, it is not the President's job to do anything but encourage local law enforcement efforts. He didn't point out that girls are being killed in the womb just for being girls.
What he did say indicated he either hadn't developed or didn't remember a smooth stock answer to that question. Eventually, though, he did kick in to his prepared talking points - the bogus chestnuts that women stay in abusive relationships because women get paid less than men, and because of a lack of educational opportunities. Both of these are FALSE. Careful studies show that women who do the same level, quality, and quantity of work in the same job as a man get paid the same as the man. Also, there are more women in college than men, and more pursuing higher degrees.
But none of that matters, because, as Obama said, he has diverse pieces of American in him. Apparently, whether your parents were black or white or whatever does make a difference in your abilities - at least according to him. This blatantly racist claptrap should be laughed off of the political stage.
I would have loved to have been there in that group and risk some "tolerant" Leftist shouting me down, assaulting me, or keying my car by asking Obama, "There are more women than men in college. There are for more men in prison than women. What are you going to do about these gender inequalities?"
Women don't stay in abusive relationships for the reasons Obama cited. Women stay in abusive relationships because they have allowed themselves to believe that is normal, or that they can't do any better, or that they can change the man, or that they deserve to be abused. What do we expect, when girls are being raised without their father married to their mother, with a endless string of their mother's "boyfriends" coming through the home, more likely to abuse her? When we encourage girls to engage in dangerous and demeaning behaviors?
It is up to women to stick up for themselves, to leave if need be, to get law enforcement involved if possible. It is up to women not to tie themselves to an abusive man by making babies with him. It is up to all of us to stand between the innocent and those who would do harm to them - to a certain extent. As a father and a brother, I can tell you I would stand between anyone who would abuse my daughter or my sister - but if they chose to go back to that person and keep subjecting themselves to that abuse, there wouldn't be much I could do. And Obama can't do anything about it.