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The XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
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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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David Brooks raises an excellent question in his column today about demographics and the Democrats: I understand why affluent, college educated voters are drawn to Barack Obama, but how did Hillary Clinton become the candidate of the working class voter? Read More...
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Emily, your exegesis of Obama as Joshua to MLK's Moses, leading the people to the promised land, was inspiring, but it would have been laughed off the table at a Seder I attended this past weekend—also in the Philadelphia area—where three separate attendees Read More...
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Speaking of Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary, at our family seder in Philadelphia over the weekend, my mother pointed out that just as 40 years elapsed before the Israelites made it to the Promised Land, so 40 years have passed since the assassination of Read More...
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I thought I was onboard with Emily about all the benefits of openly airing this buried anger and rage about race and gender. I’d been arguing for months that it was past time to lance this boil and just have it out in the streets about how mad everyone Read More...
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Rosa, I'm glad to know that Rev. Wright made it to the Clinton White House, but no, I don't think it's time to stop talking about him. Obama and the country are better off for his amazing and moving race speech, which Wright popping up on YouTube forced 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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In "A Room of One's Own," Virginia Woolf talks about how the struggle to be heard and taken seriously by a dismissive and mocking world leaves ugly traces in a writer's work-- how it distorts reasoning, undermines arguments, sharpens the tone. Woolf is Read More...
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Good for Huckabee. Here's what he had to say yesterday on MSNBC : On Obama's speech: ... I think that, you know, Obama has handled this about as well as anybody could. And I agree, it’s a very historic speech. ... And I thought he handled it very, very Read More...
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In a newsroom, you see right away that a high percentage of people who would like you to write about them — people with serious grievances of all kinds, against the cops or the city or the hospital or whatever — are at least a little bit crazy. Unfortunately, Read More...
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Judith your In Treatment post calls to mind another dim cultural memory — of Clarence Thomas’ stunning autobiography (I reviewed it here ) and the ways in which Justice Thomas both worships the grandfather who raised him and is scarred by him. Thomas Read More...
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Does anyone at XX Factor watch "In Treatment"? I watched last night's episode immediately after watching Obama's magnificent speech on YouTube, and was struck an echo of the speech in the show. It had me thinking about something like the point you made, Read More...
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I'm with Maureen Dowd today: The Obama who talks of grays and of complicated legacies and long evolutions, not just of high hopes and change, is my kind of guy. See, there's a reason the campaign isn't over yet — we need to see this man dealing with more Read More...
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Do three saps make a trend? What I like best about Obama is that he does not play dumb and keep moving, or shout, Hey, look over there ! So that instead of either rushing by this outcry over his preacher's remarks, or attempting to minimize what's happened, Read More...
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Meghan , I am also a sap, but I don't think you needed to be one to be moved by this speech. Obama has often tried to transcend race. Wright's remarks reminded us all that sometimes you just can't. And so Obama got out there and owned the specific injustices Read More...
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I've been more and more impressed with Obama's speeches — especially since I saw him at a rally in San Antonio . But I still wasn't entirely prepared for today's speech — inspired by the criticism of his pastor, Jeremiah Wright. In it, Obama tackled racism Read More...
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I am so ready to read the long magazine take-out story (Hanna?) about Obama and his church and its pastor: What Trinity United Church of Christ and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright mean to Chicago, what it means that Obama and his family joined this church and Read More...
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Melinda H. posts for me, except I'd take her argument a step further. It is actually a politician's job to have nutty acquaintances, because a politician needs to foster alliances with a wide range of different groups. That's how he or she acquires enough Read More...
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