This was originally posted on my personal blog site “Thoughts From Granny T”and was reader submitted to Real Clear Politics yesterday.
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Edit: I’m adding 2 additions to this post. Note: The 2nd addition is at the end.
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First addition:
I’m editing this post because I forgot to mention something which is very relevant to the theme of this article. This is the introduction of the original news article I mentioned that caused me to write this in the first place:

*While Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has produced a television ad criticizing Sen. John McCain’s position on equal pay for women and pointing out that women in America are paid only 77 cents on the dollar compared to men, Obama pays his own female Senate staffers, on average, only 78 percent of what he pays male staffers. *

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