Tuesday, September 9, 2008

EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN

About six weeks ago I saw Diane Sawyer interviewing Barack Hussein Obama. As she leaned forward with her brow furrowed and an expression of earnestness and intensity on her face as if she was trying to solve the puzzle of Fermat's Last Theorem, I heard her ask him about his position on equal pay for women. He could not, it seemed, have been more pleased with this question and he went on to dilate about how this was, of course, something near and dear to his heart, an article of faith almost. 

As the camera pulled back to show these two so portentously engaged I could not help noticing the size of Obama's shoes. They looked as if they were made by the John Brown shipyard on Clydebank and came with a set of oars. With his weight properly distributed, using just the right amount of torque, with the wind at his back and aided by copious amounts of his own hot air, he might be able to use them to walk on water something that so many, already in his thrall, confidently assume he does with regularity and with a good deal of ease. His shoes are large, but not nearly as large as his pretensions or the inflated ego that feeds them.

As reported on the "LOFT" blog on the GOPUSA website a recent report by CNSNews.com stated: " While Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has vowed to make pay equity for women a top priority if elected president, an analysis of his Senate staff shows that women are outnumbered and out-paid by men. That is in contrast to Republican presidential candidate John McCain's Senate office, where women, for the most part, out-rank and are paid more than men.........on average, women working in Obama's senate office were paid at least $6,000.00 below the average man working for the Illinois senator." CNSNews.com also points out that "of five people in Obama's Senate office who were paid $100,000.00 or more on an annual basis only one, Obama's administrative manager, was a woman."

By contrast, women outnumbered men on McCain's Senate payroll by 30 to 16. The women were paid an average of $3,000.00 more than the men. It appears then, that as an employer, Obama has no problems doing exactly what he is speaking against. His audacity of hope is that he hopes this part of his record, as with so much else of it, is hidden from public scrutiny.

Towards the end of a speech given in New Mexico Obama said, 'I want my daughters to grow up in an America where they have opportunities that are even greater than their mother had, or their grandmothers, or their great grandmothers; an America where our daughters truly have the same opportunities as our sons.'

Well, here's some advice for Obama's daughters: don't go to work for your dad.

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