QUOTE OF THE DAY
"The barometer for democracy is where you stand on women." Rola Dashti, candidate for the Kuwaiti Parliament. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/29/AR2006062900063.html The place of women in society and their rights therein has been a recurring theme of the Bush administration in the war on Islamic extremists. Mr. Bush has always linked the degree of women's suffrage to the establishment of democracy in the Middle East and in other areas. Though Ms. dashti has been waging her battle for suffrage since 1999, you cannot dismiss the influence on her country of that suffrage being in existence in neighboring Iraq. George Bush did that!
posted by Gunston Hall Moderator at 8:53 AM
2 Comments:
Absolutely right on!! Remember Republicans, it is our forebears in the Republican Party who saw to it that women and Black Americans have the right to vote in the USA. Without US the civil rights act and the right to vote for the aforesaid groups would NOT have passed the Congress. Many Democrat's fought long and hard against approving those "Rights".
Bravo, remarkable idea
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