Behold, another tell-tale area in which Barack Hussein Obama is, indeed, an honorary Kennedy.

First, the loudly proclaimed theory:

Obama spoke in Albuquerque, N.M. last week about his commitment to the issue and his support of a Senate bill to make it easier to sue an employer for pay discrimination.

“Mr. McCain is an honorable man, we respect his service. But when you look at our records and our plans on issues that matter to working women, the choice could not be clearer,” Obama told the audience in New Mexico, a voter-swing state. “It starts with equal pay. Sixty-two percent of working women in America earn half or more than of their family’s income. But women still earn 77 cents for every dollar earned by men in 2008. You’d think that Washington would be united it its determination to fight for equal pay.”

He continued, saying that he is proud to have supported the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, which would extend the limit on how long an employee can wait before suing an employer for pay discrimination.

It is beyond tiresome to have to point out anew that there are other reasons for “pay inequality” besides “sexism.”  Predominantly the fact that women do not stay in the workforce as long as men because of that biological clock thing and the urge to stay home with the families they eventually choose to have.  For people who claim such unshakably blind faith in naturalism, their stubborn unwillingness to acknowledge this maternal instinct of species propagation and preservation is most curious.

Okay, blatantly hypocritical.  But no more so than Lucifer’s application of his theory to his own shop:

While Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has vowed to make pay equity for women a top priority if elected president, an analysis of his Senate staff shows that women are outnumbered and out-paid by men.

That is in contrast to Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s Senate office, where women, for the most part, out-rank and are paid more than men.

On “equal pay,” at least, John Sith McCain is not just straight talk, but straight walk as well, while his front-running opponent is, as on every other issue, full of Barack.

Makes me look forward to his first sex scandal, just to see how closely the Enemy Media’s protection of him on that parallels their interference-running for Sick Willie.  So far, the template is being followed to the tiniest detail.

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