Saturday: In case you have forgotten…

THIS is what a feminist looks like:

and this:

Hillary Clinton has been a feminist for decades.  She has championed issues important to women and never backed down from a fight.  One of the most recent issues she tackled was the Bush Conscience Rule, and Executive Order that would have exempted health providers from providing reproductive services to women out of conscientious objection.  The order takes effect just as Bush leaves office but instead of vowing to rescind this order while passionately defending the rights of women to obtain the best medical care available according to “their” consciences, Barack Obama said he will study the order and make changes.

But it is the Lilly Ledbetter Act and Paycheck Fairness Act that is important here.  It’s payback time, Conflucians.  That’s what the Ms. Magazine cover is all about.  Remember the horribly racist thing that Hillary Clinton said about Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Act of 1964?  She said that we need dreams and vision but they aren’t enough.  If you want to see your dream fulfilled, you need a president.  See where I’m going with this now?

Here it is: The House just passed the Lilly Ledbetter Act and the Paycheck Fairness bill yesterday.  Hillary Clinton, who sponsored the bills, along with Tom Harkin, reintroduced those bills in the Senate yesterday.  She originally introduced them over a year ago but they failed to be passed by the Republicans who didn’t want the Democrats to win a single triumph during the Bush years.  Fine, so they will now be passed by the Senate as Hillary’s swan song before she leaves the Senate for greener pastures at Foggy Bottom.  And then what?

You got it.  President Barack Obama will sign these two bills as his first acts as president, probably a mere seconds after he takes the oath.  Thus, he will go down in legend as a great feminist leader after being not only the most corrupt, cheating fraud the DNC ever selected but also as the man who actively participated in the denigration of women in last year’s presidential contests, while doing absolutely *nothing* for women while he was in the Senate.  Pretty fricking sweet, ain’t it?

No doubt it will all be followed by the smarmiest, most insincere inaugural speech that Jon Favreau has ever penned.  If it weren’t so true that Obama needs Hillary at State, I would have to say that his and the Obamacrats’ hatred of Hillary Clinton is beyond pathological, irrational and stupid.  We are about to inaugurate this man.  He’s going to be our president, this most opportunist of politicians.  And women like Hillary will be completely forgotten as the true workhorses and champions of women’s rights.

Ms. Magazine, intoxicated with Obama worship is completely clueless that Obama has just slipped Rohypnol into its kool-ade and is about to screw them silly.

Update: Commenter gxm17 says this is not the first time Obama has gotten unearned credit for the hard work of others:

[Emil] Jones appointed Obama sponsor of virtually every high-profile piece of legislation, angering many rank-and-file state legislators who had more seniority than Obama and had spent years championing the bills.

“I took all the beatings and insults and endured all the racist comments over the years from nasty Republican committee chairmen,” State Senator Rickey Hendon, the original sponsor of landmark racial profiling and videotaped confession legislation yanked away by Jones and given to Obama, complained to me at the time. “Barack didn’t have to endure any of it, yet, in the end, he got all the credit.

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