Return-Path: <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id fBSLtd017044; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 16:55:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 16:55:39 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <94.1f0381cf.295e437e@aol.com> Errors-To: alcrsb@langate.gsu.edu Reply-To: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: KathleenBombach@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-womenlit@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-WOMENLIT:1846] Re: alert -- Aside X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 10021 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_94.1f0381cf.295e437e_boundary" Status: O Content-Length: 2128 Lines: 32 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The Bush administration's sudden concern for women's rights is a conscious strategy used for the following explicit reasons: 1. Bush did poorly with the women's vote and he wants to capture that vote in 2004. He is very aware that his father was only a one term president. 2. As is being pointed out, he can attract women voters without having to address the issues that American women have on the table, which are opposed by his primary voters: white men and Christian fundamentalists. 3. Bush's bombing completely halted the flow of aid for food and health care into Afghanistan, and most of the concern about that was coming from women, who have always been far more concerned with those issues than male voters. He needed to counter that criticism and show that he was fighting for a 'higher cause' for women. Y'all need to get out more. Kathleen Bombach
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