Today… January 20, 2009
Posted by Onely in Food for Thought.Tags: barack obama, inauguration
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Barack Obama is really, truly PRESIDENT.
Onely LIKES! We hope for peace and much-needed policy change favoring equality for all human beings.
— L & CC
Remind Obama About Singles’ Issues November 12, 2008
Posted by Onely in Food for Thought.Tags: barack obama, single, singlism and politics
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Copious Readership,
Let me draw your attention to Singletude, a positive blog for singles. Singletude has an excellent post about how Barack Obama’s diversity-focused rhetoric doesn’t seem to be as inclusive of singles as it could be.
I’ll give just one example here–see the Singletude post itself for more great examples:
I’m going to pick on Obama for a minute simply because he is the favored candidate among the majority of singles. If you visit his web site and view the drop-down menu under “People,” you will see 23 special-interest demographics. One of them must be “Singles,” right? Nope. There are “Arab Americans,” “Rural Americans,” even “Sportsmen.” But no “Singles.”
But the good news is that Obama is flexible and open-minded. I am certain that if a number of Onelies (more…)
Onelies save the free world! November 6, 2008
Posted by Onely in Food for Thought, We like. . ..Tags: 2008 election, barack obama, john mccain, single, unmarried women
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Here’s a fun fact from Feministing.com: Unmarried women gave Barack Obama a margin of victory of more than 12 million votes.
As of this posting, Obama has 64.6 million popular votes and the crazed basta—oops I mean McCain–has 56.9 million popular votes. That’s a margin of 7.7 million popular votes!
You’re WELCOME, world!
–Lisa and Christina
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