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News Flash: National Organization for Women Hates Laura Bush

by Nathan Harden - Fix Editor on June 19, 2012

When the Sewall-Belmont house–a museum dedicated to advancing women–decided to give its highest honor this year to former first lady Laura Bush, not everyone was happy about it.

Twenty-two women, including former members of the museum’s board, have penned a letter to the museum in protest of Bush’s selection for the Alice Award, as first reported by the Washington Post. Sonia Pressman Fuentes, co-founder of the National Organization for Women, led the charge.

“When I read that the award was going to be given to Laura Bush, I felt as if I’d had a sudden onset of Alzheimer’s,” she told Yeas & Nays. “I couldn’t believe my eyes.”

It’s not Bush’s political affiliation that she objects to, Fuentes insists. “It’s not partisan,” she said. “I’m not complaining that she’s a Republican. I’m complaining that she’s never done anything for women to get this award.”

Fuentes adds that she wouldn’t give President Obama or the first lady an award either. “Both he and his wife have disappointed me in terms of women’s rights,” she said.

“Here you have a woman who was a brilliant attorney,” Fuentes said of Michelle Obama. “She’s just published a book about how to garden.”

It must be amazing to walk in Fuentes’s shoes. Just imagine what it’s like to be the sole arbiter of all that qualifies as pro-woman in this world. Nay, to be the living, walking, breathing conscience of Womankind. Such a heavy burden to bear.

And that Michelle Obama–gee–she has some nerve growing a garden. I’m sure Cleopatra, Susan B. Anthony, Elanor Roosevelt, or Amelia Earhart would never have been caught dead holding a trowel and a watering can.

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  • andrea

    I guess all her efforts in Africa on AIDS, education, and women empowerment don’t count for much to the NOW nags…

  • Loni

    It would be wise to remember it takes but a small apocalypse to render brilliant lawyering useless. Whereas gardening expertise have been passed woman to woman for millennia (at least until the feminists devalued it). I’ve watched more and more women hired at a law firm because of affirmative action or their superior grades. The majority proved useless compared to the average man of mediocre grades when it came to real practice of law – and most required constant coddling. That’s a witnessed fact from a once professed feminist. What’s more, most of these women begged special treatment to go part-time when the stress of family life hit them – thereafter occupying a wasteful position within the firm that a man or single mother solely supporting his/her family could have otherwise held. Indeed, one can argue the ramifications of such devaluing of traditional roles have done a lot of harm to the economy and to families everywhere.

  • Marie

    Personally, I do not think NOW has done anything to advance women in any way. I worked with a woman from NOW at one time and during that same time period, I was paid in the same corporation as she was $12,000 less than the man I replaced who didn’t get the job done that I was able to do and she never said a word nor offered any support. It’s only a personal feel good organization. Another point….where do they stand when it comes to Sharia Law that’s starting to sneak into our courts? Not a peep out of them….but they sure support lefty views and say nothing. No, I think they could closely resemble hypocrites.

  • Marie

    I also think Laura Bush has done much more to help women than NOW has with a much more honorable outcome besides useless word bantering.

  • http://FoxNews Mari Jo O’Neill

    The NOW grooup should just shut up, they have ruined things for women in my opinion.
    this is going back to the “burn your bra era” I thought it was stupid then and it is awful today. Women wanted equal rights until the going got tough. If you want the same pay and be equal to the men youmust be able to do the job both mentally and physically. In the case of physical the the requirements were changed to accomodate women. This is not fair. I speak from expierence as I worked all of my life (49years) and I am retired now but I always held my own and did what I did to get my equal pay. Quit whining and demanding things that really don’t matter. I sometimes have been embarassed to be a member of the female gender especially when they do not speak for me. I know that there are many women who feel this same was. To make this disparaging remarks about Laura Bush is demeaning to her and shows the pettiness of the NOW women. Grow up and quit your whining.

  • http://foxnews.com P. Lamar

    Thank you, Mrs. Laura Bush, for setting a wonderful example for all women everywhere, on how to be kind and good, gracious and ladylike…..as well as for your service to our nation as a genuine first lady!
    the barking fools at NOW are just jealous, and should never be given a forum to speak, ever again!

  • Blair

    Laura Bush has done more for women than NAGS, the National Association of Gals, has ever done.

  • Mmort

    Michelle Obama a brilliant lawyer? The truth about that is swept under the rug, along with her law license revokation. How she could possibly do anything for other women while jetting around the world every other day- it’s beyond me. We are fortunate she hasn’t had time to do anything for women. We don’t need that kind of quirky help.

  • http://[email protected] percy1799

    These gals are left wing fem-nazis who hate men and probably can’t keep a man. A true women doesn’t need to join an organization. Most women now a days do not need your phony organization.

  • nanblan

    Well, I guess this outright criticism of a former First Lady has paved the way for those on the other side to freely criticize the current First Lady.
    Right?