Women. Bernie Sanders and Womens' Rights. What's up with that?

[HappyPlace]

Please give this a watch. Bernie has been out there for women's rights for decades.

Visit our website: http://www.Women4Bernie.us

[beam me up scottie]

1. Did you see my op from June?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026797633

DU women know who's always been on their side!

Thanks for the reminder!

[HappyPlace]

12. Nice one! Thanks!

I had not seen it, no!

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Bernie is and has been more of a Feminist than half the women in the country, Hillary and Andrea are

examples of that .

[rhett o rick]

5. IMO H. Clinton and Andrea are more concerned about wealth accumulation. nm

[CharlotteVale]

9. [phone]

[hifiguy]

3. He has ALWAYS walked the walk.

Bernie is the Real Deal. Always has been.

[BooScout]

4. Oh so now Bernie knows what's best for women too?

Damn.....he knows what's best for everyone! Is there an on-line petition I can sign to make sure everyone knows that Bernie knows best?

[rhett o rick]

6. Sen Sanders is the people's candidate and not the billionaires candidate. nm

[beam me up scottie]

10. She's just angry because DU women aren't flocking to Hillary.

Damn uppity women have minds of their own.

How dare we not fall in line for the queen?

[lunamagica]

38. Yes, because DU women will decide the primaries

[beam me up scottie]

40. See post #8

http://election.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=573018

[lunamagica]

41. Oh, So DU women wll decide the primaries. I see.

[beam me up scottie]

42. .

[rhett o rick]

39. Exactly. It's an authoritarian thing. Doesn't matter what she has done, she is the tough

leader that some feel safe with. They are willing to give up their freedoms and liberties for a promise of a little security. I hate to tell them that the 1% don't really love them.

[djean111]

7. So you are saying that no one but a woman can champion women's rights? Interesting.

Oh, and I suppose that fracking, trade agreements, H-1B visas and war will not be affecting women and children? Great to know! Speaking as a woman.

[beam me up scottie]

8. Pfft.

[Bonobo]

18. God, that infantile posturing has grown wearisome. nt

[neverforget]

25. Lol. I'm sure you were saying that in 2012 when he said this.

[Garrett78]

34. Let me ask you a question.

When it comes to issues pertaining to persons of color, would you take Ben Carson or Bernie Sanders? What about Ben Carson or Hillary Clinton?

It's outrageous that there's never been a woman POTUS. It truly is. And I hope like hell someone such as Elizabeth Warren or Jill Stein will become POTUS. But to assume any woman is stronger than any man on matters of sex (gender is a social construct, thus my use of 'sex') equality is like assuming any person of color is stronger than any white person on racial equality.

[Metric System]

11. Hillary has been out there for women's rights for decades, too. Plus, she actually knows what it is

to, you know, BE a woman- a woman who has been with the Democratic party for decades.

[beam me up scottie]

13. Just being a woman isn't enough, especially when you don't stand up for all women.

[HappyPlace]

20. Ouch!

That's gonna leave a mark....

[delrem]

24. She put on her sunday going to church uniform

and stood up strong for traditional heterosexual marriage, a tradition going back eons, to a pre-historical goodness where Hillary Clinton and Kim Davis are rooted in truth.

Such a strong and lasting tradition, measured in countless generations of truth, can't just "evolve" on a dime. Can it?

If Hillary's sermon, delivered in her age of wisdom, in her late 50's, doesn't speak to her ever present convictions, then what does?

[CharlotteVale]

28. ROFL...she waved her arms around, too.

[CharlotteVale]

26. That was truly nauseating. As a woman, I can't support her.

[beam me up scottie]

37. She didn't come around until 2013.

She did evolve but only after polls showed that most Americans favoured marriage equality.

[Metric System]

30. And yet the gay community overwhelmingly favors her.

[Metric System]

33. The majority of Democrats, including Pres. Obama, held this position until very recently. Good on

Sanders for always favoring it, but he also was never a national figure until now and he also represented a more liberal than average state. Up until a few years ago, you couldn't run for President or Congress )in most places) and actually win while publicly supporting gay marriage. That was a political reality. A reality faced by Hillary, Kerry, Obama, Biden and many other good Democrats.

[beam me up scottie]

36. Yes, good on Bernie for always standing up for equal rights.

And it wasn't easy, he faced a backlash in Vermont but stood up for lgbt people anyway.

[HappyPlace]

14. How many womens' lives have been destroyed by policy decisions?

Or, by actions perpetrated by US Secretaries of State?

When jobs are outsourced, when wages and benefits fall, women are hurt.

Being a woman doesn't make one an authentic champion of womens' causes.

To be honest, I was skeptical of her motives from the beginning.

Her actions have done more harm than good over time, IMHO.

[orpupilofnature57]

15. + 1000

[zeemike]

22. Yes but those are just "little" women.

And little people don't count.
I don't think some people actually know women or men for that matter that work for a living and are struggling to make ends meet. Those people live outside their bubble.

[Live and Learn]

17. A rich, white woman, you mean? nt

[jfern]

27. Yes, she is the best candidate for rich white women like Alice Walton

Walton liked how Hillary was on the union busting Walmart board of directors. Walton is rich because her daddy destroyed many American jobs. So it's natural she supports Hillary.

[Lancero]

21. Except for those decades she told LBT women to take a hike.

[AlbertCat]

23. Plus, she actually knows what it is to, you know, BE a woman- a woman

Like Sarah Palin and Phillis Schlafly?

[Metric System]

29. I said DEMOCRATIC woman. Do you think Hillary is anything like those women?

[AlbertCat]

31. You said, in what I quoted, "a woman".

Now I don't doubt for a second that a woman knows more about being a woman than a man does, but...


Women also come in every shape and size and attitude. Just being a woman does not necessarily mean you know what is best for "women".

Like someone else said on this thread... all the Dem candidates are good on women's issues.

[questionseverything]

32. they all applauded welfare reform

which shredded the safety net

[Doctor_J]

16. Bernie has been for rights for EVERYONE for 50 YEARS

He hasn't had to evolve, or apologize for votes that led to trillion-dollar, million-life debacles, and he doesn't have to wait until he's president to tell uswhere he stands. That really seems to put off some special interest groups

[Live and Learn]

35. +1 nt

[eridani]

19. All the Dem ccndidates for president are good on women's rights

Except maybe Jim Webb.