If Obama had given Warren a cabinet post (or any position of responsibility or power), I would be right there with you. But he didn't. Warren gets a few minutes of TV coverage, during which he will not change anyone's mind about women's rights, gay rights, or practically anything else.
Obama is acting like an adult. He isn't saying "You're either with us or against us." He isn't hiding in an echo chamber. He is acting like he represents all Americans, while insisting that his beliefs will shape policy.
In his shoes, I would want to be vindictive. Warren and his ilk would feel slighted (and how) and marginalized. Which just goes to show that Obama will be a better president that I would be, and he may well be a better person.
I'm a woman, a Witch, a mother, a grandmother, an eco-feminist, a gardener, a reader, a writer, and a priestess of the Great Mother Earth. Hecate appears in the
Homeric Ode to Demeter, which tells of Hades who caught Persophone
"up reluctant on his golden car and bare her away lamenting. . . . But no one, either of the deathless gods or of mortal men, heard her voice, nor yet the olive-trees bearing rich fruit: only tenderhearted Hecate, bright-coiffed, the daughter of Persaeus, heard the girl from her cave . . . ."
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If Obama had given Warren a cabinet post (or any position of responsibility or power), I would be right there with you. But he didn't. Warren gets a few minutes of TV coverage, during which he will not change anyone's mind about women's rights, gay rights, or practically anything else.
Obama is acting like an adult. He isn't saying "You're either with us or against us." He isn't hiding in an echo chamber. He is acting like he represents all Americans, while insisting that his beliefs will shape policy.
In his shoes, I would want to be vindictive. Warren and his ilk would feel slighted (and how) and marginalized. Which just goes to show that Obama will be a better president that I would be, and he may well be a better person.
They've been discussing Warren's abysmal views on women's rights, as well as gay rights, at Shakesville and at Salon.
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