Hillary Clinton
June 7, 2008
- The Apotheosis of Hillary Saturday, June 7, 2008: I was, and am, a supporter of Barack Obama for president. However, my satirical play notwithstanding - to which some of you have objected* - I have always had a very high regard for Hillary Rodham Clinton. If Obama had not been running, I would have supported her. However, by her speech today, Hillary has won, not only my deeper respect, but ...
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June 5, 2008
- A quote from the New York Times that pretty much sums up the last two months in American politics for me: “We pledged to support her to the end,” said Representative Charles B. Rangel, a New York Democrat who has been a patron of Mrs. Clinton since she first ran for the Senate. “Our problem is not being able to determine when the hell the end is.”
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June 4, 2008
- I try to stay away from political blogging as much as so many seem to run towards it. I'm kind of cynical about all this posturing coming from the Clinton side. All this talk of boys' clubs and glass ceilings makes my flesh crawl. I think it's a grift.Some years ago a female writer got a crappy review for some book she wrote and went around telling anyone who would listen (and print it) how she ...
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June 3, 2008
- A few hours ago, the Associated Press announced that it had calculated that Barack Obama had secured the endorsement of enough delegates to win the Democratic nomination. Soon after, it announced that Hillary Clinton was prepared to concede that fact, if not the race. Twenty minutes later, the Clinton camp announced that that was untrue. But just an hour ago the AP released another report that ...
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May 29, 2008
- An interesting study here on media treatment of Obama, Clinton, and McCain since the beginning of the year, conducted by Harvard's Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy and the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. It's hard to be truly quantitative and objective about such stuff, but its method is pretty good: a team of researchers examined most ...
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May 23, 2008
- A few months ago, Carla Marinucci told me that she thinks the current election has more drama and excitement than any she's ever covered, and I don't think she's alone. Barely a day goes by without something happening that can snag your attention: bizarre, bald-faced, nasty, funny, shrewd, unexpected, irritating, suspenseful or just plain encouraging, the bane of cynics everywhere.Today the ...
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May 21, 2008
- Dear Senator Clinton: Congratulations on winning Kentucky. I think I should start on the positive first because I’m going to say some things that might not be considered positive. First, I’ll tell you a story. Ten years ago, when Monica Levinsky became a household name, my mother wrote you a letter. No doubt, you don’t remember, and that’s okay. ...
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May 15, 2008
- “Spitting in the eye of the strongest woman candidate in the history of the country.” That’s what Allison Fine called it when NARAL Pro-Choice America endorsed Barack Obama for President two days ago. Fine wrote passionately on the Huffington Post of her fellow NARAL supporters, middled-aged and older women who forged the feminist and reproductive rights movements in the ‘60s and ‘70s: ...
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May 13, 2008
- As I watch the Democratic presidential campaign and realize with increasing dismay that it appears America will not get to cast its votes for or against the first female nominee, I’ve been thinking of how we as a culture, and history by and large, has engaged in a subtle, and, at times, not so subtle character assassination of women in power. Already, media giants proclaim Hillary is damaging ...
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May 11, 2008
