The latest email from Team Obama.
From: Sandra Fluke <info@barackobama.com>
Date: Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 6:30 PM
Subject: “Legitimate rape”Friend –
In a recent statement that was both factually inaccurate and horribly offensive, Republican Missouri Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin said that victims of “legitimate rape” don’t get pregnant because “the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan tried to distance themselves from the remark — but the fact is they’re in lockstep with Akin on the major women’s health issues of our time. Just this morning, the Republican Party voted to include the “Human Life Amendment” in their platform, calling for a constitutional ban on abortions nationwide, even for rape victims. Several Romney supporters and advisers stood silently by while this vote took place, and the Los Angeles Times reports that the platform “was written at the direction of Romney’s campaign.”
President Obama spoke out in response to Akin’s comments: “What I think these comments do underscore is why we shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.”
This controversy is not an accident, or a mistake, or an isolated incident. It’s a reflection of a Republican Party whose policies are dangerous for women.
There is a clear choice for women in this election: Stand with President Obama.
I entered this national debate on women’s rights in February, when, as a Georgetown Law student, I testified before members of Congress on the issue of contraception.
Without knowing me or my story, Rush Limbaugh called me a “slut” and a “prostitute” on his radio show.
Many Americans stepped forward to tell me they agreed with me, and supported my right to speak out without being verbally attacked. President Obama stood with us.
Mitt Romney, on the other hand? He didn’t even condemn the remark, instead saying only: “It’s not the language I would have used.”
Since that moment, I’m even more resolved to continue the fight to make sure every single woman — and every man who cares about the women in his life — knows exactly what’s at stake in this election. The Republicans are frighteningly clear on these issues.
The party platform itself includes a “salute” to states that have pushed “informed consent” laws, such as those that force women seeking an abortion to first undergo an invasive and medically unnecessary ultrasound.
Just last year, Paul Ryan joined Todd Akin and more than 200 other Republicans in co-sponsoring legislation that would have narrowed the definition of rape, limiting which victims of rape were “legitimate” enough to receive financial assistance for access to abortion care.
Mitt Romney famously says he would “get rid of” Planned Parenthood if he had the chance. And both Romney and Ryan pledge to go back to a system where insurance companies can discriminate against women and charge us more than men for the same health insurance.
Akin’s comments shouldn’t be surprising. But this isn’t about him — just like it was never about me.
President Obama has told us what he’s fighting for: “I want women to control their own health choices, just like I want my daughters to have the same opportunities as your sons.”
Republicans, led by Romney and Ryan, have made it clear that they want to make our decisions for us.
President Obama trusts us to make our own.
It’s as simple as that. Join me and stand with him today:
http://my.barackobama.com/A-Clear-Choice
Thanks,
Sandra Fluke
Sandra Fluke will be speaking at the DNC convention. In 2016 she will be 35, the minimum age to run for President.
Barack Obama went from being an obscure state senator to a presidential candidate in one four-year election cycle on the strength of a single convention speech.
Sandra Fluke has been dating the scion of a wealthy, connected Leftist family. If she is not the presidential candidate for 2016—her resume, as yet, is even slimmer than Obama’s—look for her to be Obama 2.0, the Voice of Youth and the Chance for the First Female President (after Hillary loses to Romney in 2016) when it is Time For A Change in 2020.
Fair warning, indeed! — Even the sophistry, aka lies, are of the same order!
Please, don’t even joke Fluke considering running for office! I am only able to process the current Presidential idiot without losing my cool. Just the thought of Fluke considering running is enough to cause me a conniption!
Too angry. Barry O lulled a lot of people to sleep with his postpartisan shtick. Won’t work with a shrieking harpy like Fluke.
No, she’ll be the Youth and Change candidate—the Voice of the New Century—running in 2020 under the campaign slogan, “2020 Vision.”
You heard it here first.
The “2020 Vision” tag is going to sound completely ridiculous when applied to a candidate with only one issue. Listen to Sandy talk or read her writings and you have someone completely obsessed with the goings-on about her genitalia. That is hardly the makings of a rounded, multi-dimensional candidate.
Fluke is this year’s shiny object on the single issue of “reproductive rights”. Do not expect much long-term mileage from her presence, however.
More likely rallying cry for Fluke: Pussy Riot.
– law school. Try taking the California Bar Exam.
Keep ‘em coming, Sandy. One of these days you are going to find out that there is more to being a woman than what goes on around your hoo-hah!
If Obama wasn’t fundraising via Fluke and her uterus he’d find another way to squeeze every last dollar out of his base. Fortunately for Romney, women are more than their ‘reproductive rights’. Women care about their kids’ future and at the moment it is saddled with so much debt they’re thinking Obama has failed them.
Akin needs to go, though.
Good grief, but these people live in such a bubble.
So Sandra Fluke is such a great spokesperson for the Democrats? I’m sure they all get excited about her, but what does she represent to the bulk of the populace who are even aware of her existence? Someone who thinks we should subsidize college students’ sex lives.
NOT a winning issue with most of us who can, off the top of our heads, think of several solutions she can avail herself of without having to reach into our pockets.
SLUT!!!!
THAT was cheap(and funny)!
The liberals are all worried about what senate candidate Akin said about “legimate rape”.but I naver remember any criticism of Whopy Goldberg,s saying anything about Julin Assange and his “not real rape, rape”. you see a liberal can say almost any idiot thing ,and get away with it. We are about to be Sandra Fluked , but I don,t think it is going to work this time.
I have been finding it amusing that everyone is complaining about Akin’s “legitimate rape” comment while ignoring the real outrage; his “shut the whole thing down” idiocy. The former is an attempt to distinguish violent sexual assault from underage contact or from someone persuaded into bed by a smooth talker only to regret their decision later on. The latter is an old-wives-tale invention that does not comport with any known scientific or medical facts. Be Pro-Life if you feel it to be correct. And support your position with consistent philosophical underpinnings. But junk science should never inform any public policy (AGW fanatics take note please).
So just a couple months ago, Sandra was a poor law school student who needed Uncle Sugar Daddy to fund her daily condom supply.
Now she is traveling around the country on someone else’s dime, trying to raise money of Obama and raise awareness of women’s issues (mainly to raise money for Obana.)
So tell us Sandra, who is funding your travels? And your daily condom supply?
Anyone want to bet she is on the payroll of the DNC?
Please understand this for your own good, Sandra. You are just another useful idiot, and as soon as the DNC has squeezed whatever they can get out of you, you will be discarded like yesterday’s pizza box.
She was about as much a “poor” law student as uncle O’Barry! — Poor law student, too? Now THERE’s another question, entirely!
Bet money there was always someone paying HER rent — poster child for “didn’t do it alone” — count on it.
She is a HardLeft Dem plant whose actual function can be summed with greater precision by adding one letter to her family name: Flu(n)ke!
I still think someone (I can’t, it’s a Catholic thing) should take up a collection to “Spay Sandy”; any unused funds would be used to buy chicken sandwiches and iced tea for homeless people.