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Dana Milbank thinks Obama's taking the pandering just a bit too far

(NEWSER) - Good news, Barack Obama. You may not be the first black president (that would be Bill Clinton), but you are the first gay one , and apparently the first woman, too. That's how Dana Milbank of the Washington Post is interpreting yesterday's schedule. Eager to exploit his advantage over Mitt Romney with the fairer sex, Obama made his fourth appearance on The View, then gave the commencement speech at the all-female Barnard College. "Heck, he even appeared in public wearing a gown," Milbank quips. More»

Her looks have absolutely no relevance: Erin Gloria Ryan

(NEWSER) - The world was aflutter this week over pictures of Hillary Clinton sans makeup, with Matt Drudge and Fox News acting particularly smug about the whole thing. “I guess we're all supposed to gasp and feel faint, to acknowledge that yes, Hillary Clinton is a real live human with monstrous, terrible flaws, and this is the pictorial proof of that,” writes Erin Gloria Ryan on Jezebel . It’s not just Clinton: Our society is obsessed with these au naturel moments, but both sides of the conversation are “unnecessary and dangerous,” Ryan writes. More»

He launches Facebook group for conservative women

(NEWSER) - Updates in the Rush Limbaugh chronicles:

• Rush Babes: He has created the National Organization for Rush Babes to tweak the National Organization for Women, which is continuing to encourage advertisers to bail on him in the wake of the Sandra Fluke story , reports Yahoo News . NORB is a Facebook page dedicated to "the millions of conservative women who know what they believe in: family, American values, and not being told by faux feminist groups how to think."

She's just too easy to mock: Joanna Weiss

(NEWSER) - The Obama campaign trotted out the online avatar "Julia" last week, to show how an ordinary American woman benefits from Democratic health care policies over her lifetime. Republicans gleefully pounced, calling it a perfect example of "cradle-to-grave government dependence," notes Joanna Weiss at the Boston Globe . Weiss, too, would like Julia to go away, but not for politically ideological reasons. It's because the Julia campaign is simplistic and patronizing. More»

Parodies the 'war on women' in new Funny or Die video

(NEWSER) - What’s this about the Republicans waging a War on Women? Some women actually want nothing more than for the GOP to get all up in their business, argues Kate Beckinsale in a new Funny or Die video that is quite liberal in its use of the word “vagina.” Beckinsale, joined by Judy Greer and Andrea Savage, insists that as a woman, there’s nothing she wants more than to have all those hard reproductive decisions made for her by male politicians. More»