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The XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
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Maybe, Emily, I didn't see Bill Clinton's speech the way you did because I actually expected him to do Barack Obama some good tonight. But then, that I expected better of him is an old, old story. History was made in the Pepsi Center this evening, when Read More...
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Bill, the original stickler for exact language , manages to give a roaring, inspiring endorsement of Obama without entirely selling out his wife: "Barack Obama is the man for this job." [Emphasis mine. Just sayin'.] Read More...
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Wow. I have spent these many months — years? — gnashing my teeth over Bill Clinton, ruing his narcissism and practically forgetting the good he did as president. And there he is tonight, showing us his best side: the commanding, masterful framer of Democratic Read More...
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"If anything, the country shows every sign of yearning for Clintonism as a governing idea now as much as it ever has." -- Mark Penn, today in Politico So I guess the Politico called Mark Penn and said hey, cowboy, we've got some rope over here that would Read More...
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McCain's new ad " Passed Over " urges Hillary voters to see the fact that she wasn't chosen as Obama's running mate as a fresh betrayal—and evidence that he's just too wimpy to countenance a strong, truth-telling woman: "She won millions of votes,'' a Read More...
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Go, Ruth ! In her column in the Post this morning, she says there isn't a wife in the world who doesn't want to slap "99 percent'' Honest John Edwards silly right about now. And on account of the senator's perfidy, are husbands across the land enduring Read More...
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This is rich: Now Hillary Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson, who might as well have an "Is it 2012 yet?'' bumper sticker, is undermining Obama's candidacy by complaining to ABCNews.com that if only John Edwards' affair had come out sooner, Clinton woulda Read More...
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Just a couple of questions are clouding my understanding of all this, counselor, and stuff I'd still like to know includes: Was all this going on when you renewed your wedding vows last summer at that intimate backyard ceremony where you wrote your own Read More...
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"I think everybody's got a right to run for president who qualifies under the Constitution,'' he said today on Good Morning America. Also, he promised that as soon as the election in November is over, he'll have lots more to say. Can't wait. Read More...
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I'm not saying she literally hopes he dies soon. (Plus, she's apologized, so case closed, right?) But Hillary didn't mean what she said this time just like she wasn't exactly shouting out to hardworking white people, and Bill didn't quite say Jesse equals Read More...
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Emily Y ., I quite agree that we haven't seen the last of the rev.; he'll be with us through November and beyond. But in trying to prove that Obama couldn't stand up to the Attack Machine, Hillary put him through a pretty good simulation and wound up Read More...
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We surely haven't heard the last of the Rev. Wright problem, but after the Obama campaign has been focused on fighting off the notion that Obama is part of this country's deep racial divide, it did feel good to hear him talk again of it being time to Read More...
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A couple of years ago, my son remarked that President Bush seemed to think every day was Opposites Day, which would explain how he always wound up listening to the wrong people and giving the best ideas the boot. That's how I feel now, listening to Hillary's Read More...
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Two items today that should go to the top of the "Clinton fatigue" greatest hits. First is Hillary laughing at a reporter's question about Bill getting paid $800,000 to speak at a group that supports the Colombia free-trade agreement (that the Democrats Read More...
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I hear you, Hanna , and I've sometimes thought about the downside of success for Hollywood women when their marriages fall apart. Cases in point: Hilary Swank wins an Oscar. She and her husband break up. Reese Witherspoon wins an Oscar. She and her husband Read More...
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Noooo... it wasn't Monica. It was the Rev. Jeremiah Wright , of course, joining Bill and Hillary for a breakfast with "religious leaders" on Sept. 11, 1998. There is a lovely photo , too. Q. Does this mean Bill & Hillary are closet Wright parishioners Read More...
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However Obama's speech plays out, Hillary Clinton's No. 1 surrogate, Bill, has weighed in again on race. He said the idea that he has said anything racially insensitive during the campaign (particularly comparing Obama's win in South Carolina to Jesse Read More...
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"Deserve got nuthin' to do with it."—Snoop (and before her, Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven .) Whatever the mix of bad breaks and pathology and misguided, "I Wanna Be a Supermodel" ambition that led Ashley Dupre to the Emperors' Club, I feel sorry for anybody Read More...
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Whoa, there, Nellie! Hanna, you're at least kinda sorta kidding , right? About initially being "lured into this notion that ... it was poor Eliot Spitzer who got played by a young vixen, a conniving madam, petty payment schemes, and a culture that suffocates Read More...
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Today, Washington Post science writer Shankar Vedantam has a piece titled " Intimate Rivalries " about how married couples and close friends negotiate their jealousy when they are both in the same field. He says researchers have found that "unhappy couples Read More...
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