25 August 2008

"to our friends in labor"

You know you're pretty focused on birth when you hear Hillary give a shout out to "our friends in labor" during the opening of the Dem convention and you think, "wow- that's cool of her" and then realize she means organized workers and not birthing women!

6 comments:

Wendy said...

That is so funny! I would have done the same thing.

DoulaMomma said...

glad I'm not the only one! ;-)

Elizabeth Gallo said...

I laughed out loud when I read this!

Emma Magenta Blog said...

me too...laughed out loud! wouldn't it be cool if more politicians DID give shout-outs to birthing women?

Anonymous said...

She could also have meant the Labor party in the UK:P Tony Blair's party

DoulaMomma said...

good point - I didn't see a transcript, so she could have said "Labour", but I heard "labor"! ;-)