A Lack of Reality About Women From Obama
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 25th, 2009 4:41 am by HL
A Lack of Reality About Women From Obama
Amidst troubling reports of our nation’s economic woes and pressing national security issues, one news story earlier this month received fairly little attention: President Obama’s March 11 executive order establishing a White House Council on Women and Girls. While the Council’s role is likely to be more symbolic than practical, its creation, and the accompanying rhetoric, suggests that the Obama White House is bringing a blinkered, outdated approach to gender issues – one that, far from transcending ideological divisions, takes us back to a narrow and dogmatic feminist ideology. According to the White House press release, the purpose of the Council is to “ensure that agencies across the federal government … take into account the particular needs and concerns of women and girls.” Specifically, it will focus on “improving women’s economic security,” promoting policies that help balance work and family, preventing violence against women, and furthering women’s health care.
Obama’s Just Not That Into You
Does President Obama truly believe that he can castigate and condemn Wall Street on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and then secure its cooperation on the other days of the week? Does he not understand that when he ignites a public furor over AIG bonuses and then incites Congress to pass a punitive tax, he sends shivers down the spines of every other corporate executive who makes a lot of money?
