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The XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
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It's not just the foreign policy chops; he brings some blood (and flab!) and jaw-flapping to a sometimes too-cool-for-school campaign. Voters actually liked it when Bush tripped over his own tongue; when he failed in his battle with blurting, they could 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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Now this is interesting: Obama might pick a Republican woman as his running mate. It's hard to know how seriously to take a trial balloon like this; some of the people rounding out these lists are obviously there for courtesy's sake, or in the hope of Read More...
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If Obama is really lucky, Jesse Jackson will curse him every day from now until November—and keep right on apologizing. The candidate himself shouldn't issue any more needless apologies, though, as he sort of did in second-guessing his decision to let 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's interesting that Ruth and Rachael both used the word evil —as in, what Hillary said about RFK's assassination was unfortunate but not evil . Now, I wouldn't use that particular word to describe Clinton or what she said about Bobby Kennedy, either. 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 things dominated my psyche yesterday: that excruciating Max Moseley video showing the famous son of Nazis engaging in some concentration camp orgy, and Steve Coll's The Bin Ladens , which I am currently reading. Coll's book is like an epic Russian Read More...
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Last weekend, I finally got the chance to finish watching Frontline' s excellent two-part, four-hour series, " Bush's War ," which recounts in excruciating detail the events leading up to the Iraq war and the events of the war itself. I'm sure some will Read More...
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Here's one thing George W. and Hillary have in common: She never was a big consumer of news. In fact, according to Carl Bernstein's book , during her Little Rock years "Hillary didn't read newspapers or watch television news. Instead, she listened to Read More...
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The Toronto Star has an extremely graphic photo (h/t How Appealing and Carol Rosenberg at the Miami Herald ) of Omar Khadr, the 21-year-old Canadian at Guantanamo Bay, apparently being treated by U.S. soldiers after being injured in a firefight. In a 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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Somewhat lost in the presidential horse race this week, the Senate again takes up the question of retroactive immunity for the phone companies that helped the Bush administration in its illegal eavesdropping program. The rationale for granting telecom Read More...
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Ann Coulter is not so much a partisan as she is a performance artist, and her medium is the lie. So, normally, when she takes the stage and does her thing, there is nothing to conclude, beyond the fact that just as Gene Kelly had to dance and Karen Finley Read More...
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Dahlia’s right that last night’s debate was conciliatory and eggshell-tiptoeing to an almost comic degree: After you , my dear Alphonse. But it was a relief to have a break from last week’s victim-of-oppression sweepstakes (which was approaching its nadir Read More...
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All three of the Democratic presidential contenders insist that the next occupant of the Oval Office has got to be more open and honest with the American people. After seven years of gut-instinct infallibility, who could disagree? Yet when asked at last Read More...
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Oh, Emily, I didn't mean to suggest that Hillary really is beyond caring that she's hated; for that, I think you either have to be dead or the Dalai Lama, and then you wouldn't be hated. I was just admiring how convincingly she seemed not to care, and Read More...
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Maybe John is right that the assassination of Benazir Bhutto is apt to win supporters for the "safe'' presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and John McCain. In much the same way that voters decided it was "safer'' to reward George W. Bush's bumbling Read More...
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Our son insisted that we watch Sand and Sorrow on HBO last night, and I am filled with shame after seeing it: Not only has our government done little to stop the ongoing genocide in Darfur, but have I so much as dropped a note to my elected representatives? Read More...
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Writing in Slate , former Reagan administration lawyer Bruce Fein has gone on an impeachment tear this year—calling for Bush's impeachment , Cheney's , and maybe Nancy Pelosi''s next . He has also co-written a play, with Richard Lasser, "I—The Impeachment Read More...
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