Wow. Lorna Brett Howard, who apparently used to be the President of the Chicago chapter of NOW, has taped a pretty devastating account of why she recently switched from supporitng Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama.
For anyone who thought that this new Obama radio ad might just be a fluke, the following YouTube video will clear things up.
The Obama campaign has definitely decided to stop with the kid gloves around Hillary. To wit:
Forget about "experience vs. change"; the new meme is, quite simply, "honesty".
UPDATE: Since several people have pointed out that this diary is pretty short on content, and at least one person without audio wanted a transcript, I'll try to summarize:
The woman in the video is the past president of the Chicago chapter of NOW, has done extensive work with NARAL and Planned Parenthood, and currently works for some unnamed major pro-choice organization in New York (thus she has heavy connections in both IL and NY, appropriately enough).
She says that she was supporting Hillary up through Iowa and New Hampshire; in Iowa she personally witnessed Hillary's people lying flat-out to young women about Obama's record on choice issues, telling them that Obama was "weak" on choice issues.
She says she worked closely with Obama in Illinois while he was a state Senator in the '90's, and knows for a fact that he had a 100% record with every pro-choice organization there is.
She then says that even after the Iowa incidents, she stuck with Hillary through New Hampshire--where she saw the flyer being passed around by the Hillary camp once again accusing Obama of being "weak" on choice; this was the final straw for her, so she switched over to supporting Obama.
Her final statement was what really cuts to the core: She said that she's supporting Obama now because he's 100% pro-choice AND 100% honest.
Fade to black, and to a title card with the http://women.barackobama.com link.
UPDATE #2: Per request, here's the second video clip of Ms. Howard, in which she describes how Obama was the ONLY U.S. Senator to help out the pro-choice cause during the South Dakota abortion ban brouhaha: