Dollars & Numbers Expose Obama’s Real-Life Practice of Sexist Inequity
By SusanUnPC on September 12, 2008 at 11:39 AM in Barack Obama, McCain/Palin 2008, Misogyny, Sexism
Share this article with every woman you know. A shocking and revelatory op-ed in today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer exposes that, despite his claims for “equal pay for an equal day’s work,” Barack Obama pays the women in his own U.S. Senate office:
- “83 cents for every dollar the men make”
In stark contrast, John McCain pays the women in his U.S. Senate office:
- “$1.04 for every dollar a man makes”
There’s more proof of Obama’s unequal treatment of women, despite his lofty rhetoric to the contrary: “Among Obama’s five best-paid advisors, only one was a woman. Among his top 20, seven were women.”
The op-ed’s title sums up the one of Obama’s more egregious faults — the vast chasm between what Obama says and what Obama does: “Obama only talks good game on gender pay equity.”
I am repeatedly astonished by the number of otherwise intelligent and educated people I know, particularly women, who BELIEVE that Obama means what he says. (Didn’t their mothers teach them that “talk is cheap”?) Never once do my besotted ‘bot friends offer up any proof that he follows through on his talk. In contrast, John McCain quietly DELIVERS equity to the women he hires. Here’s more from the op-ed:
“Now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day’s work,” Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Aug. 28 in his convention acceptance speech. He told the crowd in Denver: “I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons.”
Obama’s campaign website is even more specific. Under the heading “Fighting for Pay Equity,” the women’s issues page laments that, “Despite decades of progress, women still make only 77 cents for every dollar a man makes. A recent study estimates it will take another 47 years for women to close the wage gap with men at Fortune 500 corporate offices. Barack Obama believes the government needs to take steps to better enforce the Equal Pay Act…”
Obama’s commitment to federally mandated pay equity stretches from the Rockies to Wall Street and beyond. And yet it seems to have eluded his Senate office. Compensation figures for his legislative staff reveal that Obama pays women just 83 cents for every dollar his men make. …
Again: SHARE this article with every woman you know.
And let them know about my own mother’s adage that “talk is cheap.”
Remind them about another adage others have told me, “Don’t listen to what they SAY. Watch what they DO.”
Perhaps you can gently deprogram them before November. I know, I know. The odds are poor.
And it’s killing me too to contemplate that I may end up voting for a Republican presidential ticket. I constantly torture myself over the prospect. I flat-out do NOT want to vote for the Republican ticket.
But do I think that John McCain is vastly more qualified than Barack Obama? Oh my god yes! And his moderate and maverick policy views have appeal for me.
DCMediaGirl’s exceptional essay yesterday, “A Ball of Confusion,” expressed my own quandary and the sources of my own anger, in good part about Obama’s and the Democratic party’s sexist behavior and remarks during the primaries, as well as Obama’s exploitation of the “race card” .
Today, we have yet more proof that Barack Obama is a thoughtless sexist who treats and pays women like second-class citizens.
And now I know that John McCain honors women in a way that really counts: IN THEIR PAYCHECKS.
I will not forget come November.
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Tonight, at 6 p.m. ET (thereabouts), look for LisaB’s new article, “A Great Leap for Women?”
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