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Showing Original Post only (View all)"Selfish women backed Obama" LTTE from a Republican sore loser in today's paper! [View all]
Published: Thursday, November 15, 2012
By Alice Lehr, North Branford
"It is hard for me to believe that the majority of women voters picked Barack Obama for president on the issue of you are not going to tell me what to do with my body.
Are these women so selfish and egotistic to think this issue is more important than our economy, military, jobs, education for children and foreign policy? Where were they educated?
It is a sad state of affairs when women have no regard for the future of this great country.
They have set women back tremendously."
I don't know where to begin with this incredibly STUPID letter! I tried to think of a response but I couldn't even start to figure out what she was REALLY saying. My guess is that it was a lame-assed attack on women supporting contraception coverage and abortion rights, but I gave up because it made my head hurt...
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"Selfish women backed Obama" LTTE from a Republican sore loser in today's paper! [View all]
CTyankee
Nov 2012
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what is really a hoot is when us women can vote with a voice that it is our body, and still be votin
seabeyond
Nov 2012
#2
Maybe if the republicans hadn't gone out of their way to shove medical devices
Warren Stupidity
Nov 2012
#10
how is it selfish to want my 3 girls to have able to have choices in their lives?
ejpoeta
Nov 2012
#11
Well, put yourself in the place of this woman and other RW idiots! They have to live in
CTyankee
Nov 2012
#16
I am SO tempted to say "Ya know, it sounds like you'd feel more at home in Mississippi, doncha
CTyankee
Nov 2012
#18
Guess what Alice? Democratic women can multitask. We can juggle MANY issues at once
riderinthestorm
Nov 2012
#26
We read the Courant on Sundays. It is never this obnoxious and I think it endorsed Obama.
CTyankee
Nov 2012
#38