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The XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
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Last night I watched The Contender , a movie about the nomination of a female vice-president. It's mostly concerned with post-Lewinsky prurience and takes sexual politics to an absurd level to make that point (gang-bang allegations? Really?) but left Read More...
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Recent reports that Barack Obama is, in fact, a politician, and therefore fully capable of calculation, compromise and confessional performance art, neither alarmed nor crept up on me; throughout the primary season, every time I heard someone moan that Read More...
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But, back to living women who are entertaining the thought of McCain-ing. ...You know how during the primaries, we kept writing that supporting Obama over Hillary didn't make us woman-haters or even bad feminists? Belatedly, with the help of my McCain-flirting Read More...
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Just received this e-mail from a friend, a Washington lawyer who is a lifelong Democrat and a generous donor to the party. She supported Hillary in the primary and is undecided about what she'll do in November: I just read your XX column , and I wanted Read More...
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It was Zen Hillary who stepped to the podium tonight after her big win in West Virginia, where she spoke in modulated tones about money, death, and a campaign that may seem eternal but is "just an instant in time.'' Alas, a Clinton supporter named Florence Read More...
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Rach , my jaw is still on the floor, too; the "hard-working Americans, white Americans' ' remark from that person who still thinks she can be president absolutely disqualifies her from joining the ticket she would have been a drain on anyhow—because Obama Read More...
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Not only is it OK to admit being so over this endless campaign, it's all but required. Privately, even Stephen L. Carter must be fed up at least some of the time, with revulsion and rage and—where did that come from?—passion taking turns. I've started 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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The good news is, Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow did not hold a news conference to say she was sticking by her hubby of five years after he confessed to police that he'd been with a prostitute. On the contrary, after the news came out, Stabenow didn't Read More...
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Well, I woke up this morning, switched on my computer, read the headlines, and suddenly had a nightmare vision of Denver-Democratic-Convention-as-Florida-in-2000: a political horror show in which two candidates are running neck and neck, both sides are Read More...
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Slate minds seem to be thinking alike today. I hadn't read Mickey's crack of dawn post when I thought I had an inspiration for the deadlocked Democratic race: What if the superdelegates all lined up behind whoever won their state? Maybe that could deliver Read More...
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It's interesting that you're focusing on Obama and I on Clinton. But if she does have superior positions and intellectual firepower, plus near-universal name recognition and every institutional advantage in the world, doesn't that make her inability to Read More...
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Have you no shame, Madam , in your shocking refusal to see things exactly as I do? Nah — but tone and temperament do matter, not only in winning elections but in working with Congress, moving public opinion, and negotiating with our allies and adversaries Read More...
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On the campaign trail, Chelsea Clinton compares her mom to Margaret Thatcher. But can you imagine Thatcher whimpering that it seemed like she always had to go first in debates, and that just wasn't fair? One thinks not, and I was surprised when Hillary Read More...
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Over on his blog at Psychology Today , frequent Slate contributor Peter D. Kramer (author of, among other things, Listening to Prozac ) notes what plenty are rushing to note: that Clinton, having accused Obama of Xeroxing, went ahead and echoed other Read More...
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Barack Obama brought up Hillary Clinton's period ! "I understand that Senator Clinton periodically ,'' (See? He said it!) "when she's feeling down, launches attacks as a way of trying to boost her appeal." Clearly, he was saying his rival ought to look Read More...
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I never thought the day would come when I'd look at a photo of civil rights hero John Lewis and think unflattering thoughts, but here we are. When I first moved to Washington 35 years ago—OK, 13, but some of those years were longer than others, which Read More...
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Granted, Tim , the timing is convenient for Patti Solis Doyle's mommy crisis. But couldn't both versions of events be true for Hillary's former campaign manager? Say your life's work is going down in flames—to the point that One Life to Live seems more Read More...
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Hillary Clinton lost women in both Virginia and Maryland tonight, and not by a little; nearly 60 percent chose Barack Obama. (Or Oback Barama, as former Maryland Rep. Kweisi Mfume just called him on MSNBC, which I'm sure made all those who've ever mispronounced Read More...
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Wouldn't you love to know the back story on Paul Krugman's column today? Because without knowing that his real beef is that his wife can't stop singing "Yes, we can," or maybe that his idiot nephew won't shut up about how all the cool people are on the Read More...
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