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By Carol Eisenberg - August 27, 2008

With all the talk of political dynasties passing the torch - or being shoved out of the way - little attention has been paid to another Democratic scion who shared the stage with Hillary Clinton last night.

Her name is Cecile Richards. And like her mother, the late Ann Richards, she is a powerful, in-your-face speaker who drives home political points with wit and, often, raunch.

“Elections are about choices, and Mom would have said that women voting for John McCain would be like chickens choosing to vote for the Colonel,” Richards wrote in a recent column on Huffington Post.

Now president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Richards spent her time last night excoriating John McCain’s record on women’s health issues.

“John McCain has voted against women’s health care 125 times,” she said. “You can look it up.”

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