The protracted and increasingly acrimonious fight for the Democratic presidential nomination is unnerving core constituencies — African Americans and wealthy liberals — who are becoming convinced that the party could suffer irreversible harm if Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton maintains her
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I was just listening to a fairly uninspired discussion on NPR about race and the coverage of the Democratic primary (while driving to the airport). One interesting tidbit from the Washington Post’s Kevin Merida is that the Obama campaign has
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Rich Lowry notes something that’s been unsettling to me the last several days:
When an unimpeachably liberal former vice-presidential candidate of the Democratic party is likened to David Duke by a liberal media hero, the political apocalypse — or at
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(Queue Beatles, Revolution Number 9)
OK, for all that we’ve been busy chatting about how Spitzer came over at the Mayflower, there was , in fact, other stuff in my head, and on the wires, besides Spitzer, today. Here’s
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Gender feminists, see photo, keep trying to promote the ficton that having a set of boobs somehow makes women better leaders. To promote this assine notion the former Playboy Bunny also known as Gloria Steinem has disparaged the courage of
An amusing article at Captain’s Quarters, today….
Susan Estrich either wants to build credibility as a satirist, or her latest column provides a long-overdue look in the mirror for Democrats. Detecting more a whiff of the so-called Bradley Effect
- McQ puts up a few telling comments about Identity politics, in the context of the ever increasingly irrelevant “National Origination for (Leftist) Women. Not much of a shock that we both draw the same conclusion about NOW in particular… but
Sam Stein at HuffPo:
Obama’s presidential campaign has prepared a detailed memo listing various instances in which it perceived Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign to have deliberately played the race card in the Democratic primary.
Yeah, no shock for that. But
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Ben Smith over at the Politico notes that there’s been a lot the last 48 or so over charges of racism:
A series of comments from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, her husband and her supporters are spurring a racial
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Gloria Steinem gives the gender feminist moo of the day in the New York Times.
So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one? The reasons are as pervasive as the air we breathe:
Sister Toldjah says in a post from yesterday:
The discussions over Hillary Clinton’s use of the victim card after her poor performance at last week’s Democratic presidential candidate debate haven’t died down. In fact, they seem to be intensifying.
There’s