Things That Make Me Go “Hmm.”
Published by Lisa Kansas July 8th, 2008 in Reproductive Rights, Remember November, ObamaramaComing on the heels of the brouhaha over Obama’s recent remarks about late-term abortion, I found it very interesting that the Planned Parenthood Action Fund just today announced, in a very ringing and go-team-gooo! press release, that they are endorsing Obama’s candidacy. The news outlets and blogs picking it up are also excitedly pointing out, as the press release states, that this marks only the second time in Planned Parenthood’s history that the Action Fund has made an endorsement in a presidential campaign(!). The significance of that statement, I admit, escapes me to the point where I begin to suspect that they are being a little misleading here on purpose–there have only been four Democratic presidential candidates since the Action Fund came into being in 1989, which means that they have endorsed…well…half of ‘em.
At present I can only speculate as to their motives, and since I have no evidence pointing me in any particular direction, I will keep said speculation to myself til some kind of corroborating facts present themselves one way or another.
I’d assume they were like any political donor; they give money in the hope of getting what they want off him after the election. Mm?