Democratic National Convention Bans Babies and Now the Feminists Are Upset
- Posted on August 27, 2012 at 9:49am by
Mytheos Holt
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It’s a recurring gag that Presidents have to do a lot of kissing babies. If so, President Obama must be really sick of that particular ritual.
Why? Because the Democratic National Convention has just banned children from the convention floor — including breastfeeding babies — unless those children have convention credentials. Which, needless to say, is relatively unlikely.
It is not clear what motivated this particular policy. However, in a development that may surprise some people, the move has infuriated the party’s feminist luminaries. Feminist icon Gloria Steinem issued a statement to the Charlotte Observer slamming the policy:
“Women are the key to a Democratic victory, and sometimes, children are the key to women,” Steinem said in a statement. “It’s both right and smart for the Democratic Convention to behave as if children exist.”
The National Organization for Women has also lept on the bandwagon, slamming the DNC’s no-child-policy as sexist because it amounts to an “insurmountable barrier for mothers.” Given that the convention has also refused to provide child care in any way (though private child care vendors will be listed on a convention directory), this arguably isn’t much of an exaggeration. The RNC has taken a more mild tack, and only banned strollers from the convention floor.
Naturally enough, the convention’s spokespeople have denied that anything untoward is taking place. Spokeswoman Joanne Peters told the Charlotte Observer that this practice is in keeping with historical precedent – which is to say, the DNC has always required only those with credentials to access the convention floor, babies or otherwise.
Certainly, more than a few feminists can be expected to object to this line of defense. “This is the way it has always been done” is not typically a successful talking point to use when dealing with members of the feminist movement.
(H/T: David Madiera Show)
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Comments (139)
Henry22
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 12:02pmWell…………..the Democrats have no problem killing the unborn baby in the late term…………..I think they have a “war on babies” going …………….
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 12:30pmMajor problem! If the children have 2 Moms, OR 2 Dads….How would they determine WHO STAYS WITH THE KIDS? IT CAN’T EVEN BE A “Sexist” PROBLEM HERE!
Report Post »momrules
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 12:43pmThe DNC does not want babies or Cardinal Dolan at their convention but look who is an invited guest. Guess what, he is an America hating Muslim.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/08/obama-refused-cardinals-prayers-at-dnc-but-lists-muslim-jumah-prayers-as-official-function.html
Report Post »momrules
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 12:56pmI have been trying to post a link from Atlasshrugs.com regarding the DNC not wanting Cardinal Dolan there but they are inviting Imam Siraj Wahhaj who has urged the overthrow of the *filthy* U.S. government and was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the WTC bombing. This Muslim will be the Grand Imam and he and 20,000 other Muslims are honored guests.
I have a feeling Satan himself would be an invited guest at this convention, probably as the keynote speaker.
Report Post »i2luvmyusa
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 1:08pmCome On all, whimpering crying Obama can not have competition of another crying baby!
Report Post »tuppenceworth
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 1:43pm@MOMRULES,
That speech by Satan himself has already been written. See “Screwtape Proposes A Toast” by C.S. Lewis, it would fit the bill and finish removing the mask!
Does this mean Chris Matthews is banned? Just hoping after reading today’s leads. Funny how rules get murky with liberals, which “label” trumps which?
“Children banned …unless those children have convention credentials. Which, needless to say, is relatively unlikely.” Not in Mr. Matthews case.
Report Post »westtitus
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 1:44pmThank God someone else see’s it (in jest)!!!! What a bunch of losers! It’s ok to be a low life as most Dems are, Charles Rangel, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barney Frank, Al Frankin, Barbara Boxer, Maxine Waters shall I list the rest or should I just list the ones that are not, would be pretty short list but if you are a Republican you are held to a higher standard and must be perfect. How can anyone even consider voting for all these losers and crooks, makes no sense to me at all. I guess if you are a low life you are a good person and if you have values and morals you are a bad person. This world has really changed. And remember NO BABIES allowed not even if you are pregneant, oh I forgot if you are pregnant you are not carrying a life..
Report Post »sillyfreshness
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 2:11pmDNC sign: “no children allowed at any time, but mentally ill gays allowed at all times.”
Report Post »Ray2447
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 2:39pmDemocrats have been throwing babies in dumpsters for decades so why all the upset over this latest abusive treatment of babies? It‘s not like it’s anything new. :-/
Report Post »Ray2447
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 2:45pm… but, but, but, it’s part of their official identification: http://tinyurl.com/8wtaohh
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 4:17pmI guess the Democrats didn’t get the message from Obama,,,They were suppose to have Abortions not Babies, I‘ll bet the Muslims don’t subscribe to this agenda.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 4:42pmNow they are only banning them. Usually they enjoy slicing them up.Those wacky DEMOCRATS
Report Post »Contrarian51
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 6:08pmWow, what a stunner. The DNC is anti-baby. Well, more funding for Planned Parenthood and maybe they won’t have this problem in the future.
Report Post »DEMOCRATS.ARE.EVIL
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 7:34amIf the Democrats don’t want young children at their convention, why don’t they just kill them? Isn’t that what they do? Why should this be any different?
Report Post »AnAmerican111
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:55amWho cares?…If the DNC banned stupid people than no one would be allowed in!……………………………………………………
Report Post »red_white_blue2
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 1:00pmNothing but crickets, would they have.
Report Post »PilgrimStuckInBizarroWorld
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:39amThe Dem’s “war on babies” going FORWARD! LOL
Report Post »CatB
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:47amEveryone please share with all (any?) Democrat friends ;-) Babies need I.D. but voters don’t??? Abortion good .. babies BAD.
Report Post »jcldwl
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:56amOh come on it‘s Bush’s fault.
Report Post »jokar
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:36amHmmm, the Dems say everyone needs credentials….is that like asking for identification when a person wants to vote?!! I thought that was racist?
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:56amDems also require ID for children coming into the WH. Track, track, track…..unless you’re dead and voting.
Report Post »STGCSSW
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 1:39pmCredentials are important. Remember when the Obama children went on “tour” credentialed as “Senior Advisors”. Hey, anyone can be a senior adivsor in the Obama adminstration and they can get proper ID if necessary… but not to vote, nope, never to vote. That is racists, just ask the black guy in the Oval Office and all his narrow minded minions in the media.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 1:56pmIf showing ID’s is against the Dems policy, just tell them your child is 28 years old and is just slow to mature.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:35amI wasn’t sure any Democrat women HAD children, since most of them don’t want to be burdened with them. They get in the way of career advancement, dates, vacations, kennels won’t accept babies, etc.
Report Post »OniKaze
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:47amThat’s what I thought…. I didn’t see it being a problem, but apparently I was wrong…
Report Post »neidermeyer
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 12:19pmAnonymous ,, you’re forgetting the welfare mothers… and the recent Mexican immigrant women ,, but I’m repeating myself.
Report Post »term limits for congress
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 12:23pmThe ban is aimed at the lesbians. They have the babies. For the 2012 season, Russian babies are in vogue. One ‘natural born’ baby is acceptable, the others should be Russian. Last year’s popular baby selection was Romanian babies.
The DNC has realized that they have exceeded their lesbian quota and they’re now afraid that their convention will be a boob-fest. One way or another (babies, or not), there will be boobs blowin’ in the wind all over that convention. Bet we’ll see some interesting tats!
Report Post »Beachbaby
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:30amMakes sense since the dems are all babykillers and lesbians.
Report Post »Ray2447
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 2:53pmProper Credentials? How ironic. The only form of I.D. most babies have is a – - – clear and valid birth certificate.
Report Post »txannie
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:29amThe dems are just showing their true colors.
Report Post »two4america
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:21amI thought it was the Republicans that have the “war on women”? At least that‘s how the Democrats portray the Republicans that are against taxpayers paying for some women’s choice of birth control or abortion. How about the Democrats’ war on babies? Maybe it is just the unborn babies, or is it?
Report Post »AmericanPatriot
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 1:27pmMy thoughts exactly! Grin!!!
Report Post »OneTermPresident
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:18amThe goofy Dems.. probably want to see a Photo ID too…
Report Post »bekhiet
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:09amPerhaps if they allow babies to come, it would be a good time to start micro chipping babies. For safety reasons of course…
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:32amCan you blame Obama! I have 4 grandsons all under age 10 and at least 1 of them always seems to have a runny nose. I don‘t mind kissing my G sons but you won’t catch me kissing someone elses snot nosed kid. Why do you think Obama supports Q_ueers and L_izzies getting married – no kids. If the USA is to feed the rest of the world we have to start cutting down on our population right now. I bet that within the next 10 years there will be a quota on how many kids you can have. Obama has already stepped up to the plate and said, “If one of his daughters made a mistake that he wouldn’t want that kid to run her life.” This is his potential grand child he was talking about. Me personally – I couldn’t face one of my kids if they had aborted one of my grandkids.
Report Post »bekhiet
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:06amI just love watching them hang themselves…
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:13amhypocritical double standards are the radical lefts normal forte.
Report Post »Constructionist
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:03amSince when do feminists care about children? I thought the whole point was not having children so they could focus on corporate success and political activism.
Report Post »doomytram
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:03amOblamer‘s and Axelrod’s war on Women and Children! Their less compassionate than the Red Chinese and are serving Dog and Crap Sandwiches to their hapless group of Lefty Terrorist’s at their ridiculous Convention. In truth, The Military, The working, The Proud American’s have run away from these American Commies that are known as Democrat Obamunist..
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:01amAre the babies dead? Dem’s love dead babies
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 12:37pm@Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:01am
Are the babies dead? Dem’s love dead babies
Report Post »***
Gee, do you suppose in 2016 they’ll have an abortionist on standby to solve the problem? (Covered by obamacare of course and according to rumors I’ve read, to one of his advisers that would include up to the age of 8 yrs old.)
biohazard23
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 3:37pmDon’t worry, the Dems and ACORN will make sure all of those aborted babies are registered to vote.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:00amDemocrats have rules ? Democrats must have ” credentials?” Isn‘t that like voter ID’s ? I thought Democrats were against IDs ? Oh, the hypocrisy of the Far Left .
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:26amDon’t state the obvious. It will just confuse a liberal.
Report Post »Texas Hills Patriot
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:00am“children are the key to women”. Would that be the ones were allowed to be born, or the ones women chose to kill in the womb?
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:02amFor the DNC, that would be the latter.
Report Post »OhSuzieQ
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:05amRight !
Report Post »Deborah
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 12:24pmOf course, pregnant women are allowed in–ONLY if they can provide proof of an upcoming scheduled abortion.
Report Post »yougottabekidding
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:00amTalk about your war on women!
Report Post »Don’t you have to have ID for your kids too?
But you don’t want ID to vote, you surprise military vote.
How many sides do you have to that mouth? Usually it”s out of
both sides this seems like alot more.
RJJinGadsden
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 9:59amThese Dem-wits step out of one bucket of sh/t and into another, and another. But, the MSM will never mention this.
Report Post »This is hilarious though. What will they ban next in the sake of humanity and equal rights?
502_eagle
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:02amThought
Report Post »lamarlamar
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 9:57amWho is behind the “war” on women?
Report Post »watersRpeople
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 9:57amIt’s hardly a difficult task for Democrats to ban babies from the DNC when it is they can actively engage their support of banning babies in the womb – it hardly takes any self mental conditioning to ban babies from all other places.
Report Post »momrules
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 9:57amGoody……something finally rattled the cage of the feminists, something that the ungodly way Islam treats women has never done.
The DNC outlaws babies but trucks in Muslims by the thousands to their convention. LOL at the stupidity of some women.
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 9:56amThe only babies that democrats approve of are aborted babies. As we all know, the democrat party is the party that does not want women to be “burdened” with children; the democrat party is the anti-family, anti-women, anti-marriage, pro-abortion party.
Report Post »Skippy_John_Jones
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 9:56am“Women are the key to a Democratic victory, and sometimes, children are the key to women,” Steinem said in a statement. “It’s both right and smart for the Democratic Convention to behave as if children exist.”
But I thought liberals only liked aborted children.
Report Post »502_eagle
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 9:53amLOL, oh the compassion…………………
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 9:53amBWAHAHAHAHAHA…….the Dems just loooooove women and babies.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:01amOnly until their usefulness wears out.
Report Post »OhSuzieQ
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:03amPerhaps this will wake up the Dem Mommies up.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:55amThey don’t even love them then, BIO. A pawn is always a pawn to a Progressive. I don’t know how they keep up with their hypocrisy and lies. Well, maybe they aren’t……they are seeming to come unglued. I have a strange feeling about the DNC. What’s with the Dems telling their members to stay home this year? And sending Biden to the RNC then having him not go? Another BLAZER posted a link saying the Dems are bussing in 20,000 Muslims to Charlotte. It all seems very strange.
OHSUZIE, would be nice but I remain skeptical. Dems are one brainwashed group.
Sorry to both for the delay. Blaze was having technical difficulties with comments. :-)
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 12:22pmCoPats, true that. And things are getting curiouser and curiouser…..
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