Why women should worry.

Last year, I watched Obama's Planned Parenthood address with a sinking feeling. As a young woman and a feminist, I was excited to see a democratic presidential candidate stand up for womens health issues. Instead, I was sorely disappointed in his commitment to reach out to evangelicals in order to compromise on "common ground" for this vital topics. While I respect the concept of bipartisanship and celebrate unity as much as any American, I feared that this candidate would not be willing to stand firm and unwavering in support of my right to choose and the absolutely necessary access to sexual education and contraception.

I have become increasingly disillusioned by the Obama campaign and his supporters. I really feel that he is a danger to our economy as he already plans on continuing deficient spending to fund his health care plan and other programs. I see in Barack Obama the destruction of any hope this country has for a Universal Health Care plan this century.

The more I see and hear from Obama and his campaign, the more I come to the same conclusion: the self referential campaign is not coincidental, and progressive ideals and values are not a top priority.

Further evidence of this can be found in an article that Obama has posted on his own website. Reclusive Leftist has brought this article back into the light, asking Do feminists for Obama understand what the hell this guy is about?

Sen. Barack Obama had hired Pete Rouse for just such a moment.

It was the fall of 2005, and the celebrated young senator — still new to Capitol Hill but aware of his prospects for higher office — was thinking about voting to confirm John G. Roberts Jr. as chief justice. Talking with his aides, the Illinois Democrat expressed admiration for Roberts’s intellect. Besides, Obama said, if he were president he wouldn’t want his judicial nominees opposed simply on ideological grounds.

And then Rouse, his chief of staff, spoke up. This was no Harvard moot-court exercise, he said. If Obama voted for Roberts, Rouse told him, people would remind him of that every time the Supreme Court issued another conservative ruling, something that could cripple a future presidential run. Obama took it in. And when the roll was called, he voted no.

The final shred of support that I held for the Obama campaign if it enters the General Election came from the Supreme Court nominations. Clearly even in this way, I am let down by the great bringer of hope.