STATE HOUSE — Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, Sen. Karen Spilka, and Rep. Elizabeth Malia will be among the honorees at this year's Abigail Adams Awards, the Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus announced Wednesday.
The women's civic engagement group is preparing for its 29th annual tribute to Adams, a Weymouth native and the politically-minded wife of President John Adams. A dinner reception is set for Oct. 27 at the Fairmont Copley Plaza.
President Obama finally made it down to Baton Rouge to see the flooding — after finishing his vacation on tony Martha's Vineyard, of course. The entire charade is a lesson in leftist hypocrisy. The same press that excoriated President Bush for flying over New Orleans to view the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 didn't make a peep about Obama prioritizing his golf games.
In fact, come to think of it, it wasn't just the press that criticized President Bush's response to Katrina. During his 2008 campaign for the presidency, Obama himself said, "We can talk about what happened for two days in 2005, and we should. We can talk about … a president who only saw the people from the window of an airplane instead of down here on the ground."
