How is it that a club that has a membership of 300 has become a national issue? Both Obama and Romney are going to waste time talking about who a private club should allow to join? Hey, how about the deficit? How about the failure of Congress to pass a budget in 3 years? Maybe we could discuss employment. Or Iran’s nuclear program. No, instead we’re going to discuss a golf course and who gets to play the links. Good grief. The whole point of this is to distract from the real issues, such as those I mentioned. Also, it has the benefit of fitting into Obama’s War on Women narrative.
For the sake of argument, let us suppose that Augusta sees the error of its ways and starts allowing women as members. And let us even suppose that half of the memberships become available in the next 4 years. How many people benefit? Well, that would be 150 women, all of whom will be among the vilified richest One Percenters. This is what the leader of the free world wants to accomplish?
On a related note, the First Amendment says, among other things, that Congress shall make no law respecting … the right of the people peaceably to assemble. This is often referred to as the Freedom of Association. The government has no business telling private individuals with whom they must associate. This right became a casualty of the Civil Rights Movement.
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It's not Obama's war on women. It's the republicans who are waging war on women. You're right, Augusta is a distraction and women know that. All the repub. run states are passing bills so fast that will make womens' lives much more difficult. Abortion, contraception, equal pay were settled and here we go again. All arguments will be weighed against gov. intrusion by the 10 in. probe. What is more intrusive than that??????
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