Among the people who are disappointed with President Obama, none
has more reason to be disappointed than those who thought he was
going to be “a uniter, rather than a divider” and that he would
“bring us all together.”
It was a noble hope, but one with no factual foundation. Barack
Obama had been a divider all his adult life, especially as a
community organizer, and he had repeatedly sought out and allied
himself with other dividers, the most blatant of whom was the man
whose church he attend for 20 years, Jeremiah Wright.
Now, with his presidency on the line and the polls looking
dicey, President Obama’s re-election campaign has become more
openly divisive than ever.
He has embraced the strident “Occupy Wall Street” movement, with
its ridiculous claim of representing the 99 percent against the 1
percent. Obama’s Department of Justice has been spreading the
hysteria that states requiring photo identification for voting are
trying to keep minorities from voting, and using the prevention of
voter fraud as a pretext.
But anyone who doubts the existence of voter fraud should read
John Fund’s book “Stealing Elections” or J. Christian Adams’s book,
“Injustice,” which deals specifically with the Obama Justice
Department’s overlooking voter fraud when those involved are black
Democrats.
Not content with dividing classes and races, the Obama campaign
is now seeking to divide the sexes by declaring that women are
being paid less than men, as part of a “war on women” conducted by
villains, from whom Obama and company will protect the women —
and, not incidentally, expect to receive their votes this
November.
The old — and repeatedly discredited — game of citing women’s
incomes as some percentage of men’s incomes is being played once
again, as part of the “war on women” theme.
Since women average fewer hours of work per year, and fewer
years of consecutive full-time employment than men, among other
differences, comparisons of male and female annual earnings are
comparisons of apples and oranges, as various female economists
have pointed out. Read Diana Furchtgott-Roth of the Hudson
Institute or Professor Claudia Goldin of Harvard, for example.
When you compare women and men in the same occupations with the
same skills, education, hours of work, and many other factors that
go into determining pay, the differences in incomes shrink to the
vanishing point — and, in some cases, the women earn more than
comparable men.
But why let mere facts spoil the emotional rhetoric or the
political ploys to drum up hysteria and collect votes?
The farcical nature of these ploys came out after House Minority
Leader Nancy Pelosi declared that Congress needed to pass the Fair
Pay Act, because women average 23 percent lower incomes than
men.
A reporter from the Daily Caller then pointed out that
the women on Nancy Pelosi’s own staff average 27 percent lower
incomes than the men on her staff. Does that show that Pelosi
herself is guilty of discrimination against women? Or does it show
that such simple-minded statistics are grossly misleading?
The so-called Fair Pay Act has nothing to do with fairness and
everything to do with election-year politics. No one in his right
mind expects that bill to become law. It will be lucky to pass the
Senate, and has no chance whatever of getting passed in the House
of Representatives.
The whole point of this political exercise is to get Republicans
on record voting against “fairness” for women, as part of the
Democrats’ campaign strategy to claim that there is a “war on
women.”
If you are looking for a real war on women, you might look at
the practice of aborting girl babies after an ultrasound picture
shows that they are girls. These abortions are the most basic kind
of discrimination, and their consequences have already been
demonstrated in countries like China and India, where sexually
discriminatory abortions and female infanticide have produced an
imbalance in the number of adult males and females.
A bill to outlaw sexually and racially discriminatory abortions
has been opposed and defeated by House Democrats.
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