charlotteobserver's blog

Hillary Clinton asks North Carolinians to engage in a conversation in her first television commercial to air throughout the state.

The contributions that women have made to the history of this nation are rarely acknowledged.  Most of the children in the country grow up not knowing that women were at the forefront of the anti-slavery, civil right, social reform, suffrage, and gay rights movements.  They stood up for others, but few have stood up for them.  

The first women's movement began around 1848 at Seneca Falls, New York, when Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott and others formed organizations to fight for votes for women.  The movement came to fruition in 1919 when the 19th Amendment became part of the Constitution.

The second women's movement began in the late 1960's and 70's with women's liberation.  Its focus was to attain equal rights and equal pay for women, and should have come to fruition in the early 1980's with the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, but unfortunately, it did not occur.

According to the Charlotte Observer, a group of ostensible environmentalists will hold an expensive fundraiser for Barack Obama in their posh home in the Myers Park neighborhood of Charlotte. I quote:

The invitation-only fundraisers will be at the Bonwood Drive home of environmental activists Bob Perkowitz and Lisa Renstrom. A "general reception" costs $1,000 a person. A "host reception" costs $2,300.

Perhaps these ostensible environmentalists should research Obama's record on the environment before raising money for his campaign. Exelon, a nuclear energy giant in Illinois, is Obama's sixth largest donor. In fact, Exelon employees have donated over $269,100 to his federal campaigns and over $194,750 in 2008.