Hillary Clinton
September 26, 2008
- It's sickeningly cloying - the reportage on Sarah Palin’s meeting with world leaders. The unfortunate thing about Sarah is that she has a glamorous background. Ignore her politics for the moment, politics that stink, there is far too much sexist bias against her, and not unusually from feminists themselves. Ms. Palin did not need a makeover, she came made-over. What about the rest who get ...
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September 15, 2008
- I generally resist, indeed reject, the term soap opera when it's used as shorthand for those cheap and melodramatic plot twists that define soap opera as an adjective (discussed here ). Of course, if I had a dollar for every time the 2008 election has been described as a soap opera, I'd have a nice little nest egg. And I'm not even talking about the John Edwards affair and Bristol (a soap opera ...
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September 5, 2008
- ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 5...Inside the Denver Pepsi Center two weeks ago Hillary Clinton was congratulating women on the progress they've made in the last eighty years. But outside, Leah Schildkraut was on a hunger strike in front of the heavily guarded doors of to protest what she called the "Democratic party's willful neglect of the dire plight of women around the world." While ...
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August 29, 2008
- Wednesday, April 9, 2008 LYRICS OF A LOWBROW (with apologies to Robert W. Service) THE CHAPPAQUA HILLARYBILLIES I.Twinkle, twinkle, little tartAt the White House, played her part.Made the master moan and groanWhile they played with each his own,Just a weekend matinee.But, ere Sunday morn gave wayShe’d have to go 'cause heMust go to church with Hillary. II.With ...
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August 28, 2008
- I.The 60's crowd – they had a ball -When drugs and sex and self were all.“Make love not war. We’re all for peace.”(Except when fighting the Police).“Get me some weed. Turn on, drop out.”That’s what they were all about.No moral compass, just inhale.“Strive not and you can never fail.”II.“Religion? Not my cup of tea.The only god I need is me.”“There is no right. There is no ...
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August 4, 2008
- I’m going to go ahead and spend some time writing my own blog tonight. I’m a little irritated. Well, a lot! I got a few bones to pick all with the same theme.I’m going to go ahead and start with the ignorant bitchasses that keep saying…“You’re just voting for Obama because he is black!”I will try and respond to this without cursing or getting angry.Since I’m a factual kinda gal, ...
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June 14, 2008
- This is an open letter to those white women who, despite their proclamations of progressivism, and supposedly because of their commitment to feminism, are threatening to withhold support from Barack Obama in November. You know who you are.I know that it's probably a bad time for this. Your disappointment at the electoral defeat of Senator Hillary Clinton is fresh, the sting is new, and the ...
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June 13, 2008
- It was the summer of 1866. Congress with much rancor and many protests passed the 13th amendment. Frederick Douglass, an abolitionist and outspoken supporter of women’s rights had campaigned long and hard for the amendment. He worked with anyone to forward his agenda of justice and opportunity for all. "I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong," he would ...
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June 9, 2008
- The post-mortems for the Clinton campaign still fill the punditverse, most of which fade into one long, annoying drone: hubris...didn't find her voice...no plan after Super Tuesday...underestimated caucuses...generation gap....But Dr. G. Clotaire Rapaille, founder of a marketing consultancy called Archetype Studies, brings a new twist that is, if nothing else, more fun than the rest. As Paul ...
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June 8, 2008
- For all the talk of identity politics in this past Democratic race, what strikes me is how little it really was about that. The press wanted it to be all about "women for Clinton," how resentful they are and how hard it is for them to accept being unable to vote for a female president this year. And yet, millions of men voted for Clinton too. In many states, the male vote broke strongly ...
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