Posted on April 28, 2008. Filed under: politics | Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, U.S. election 2008, U.S. Presidential Race, women in politics |
Very interesting commentary from Judith Timson of the Globe and Mail on Thursday, writing about the Pennsylvania primaries and Sen. Clinton’s victory there. The op-ed piece went on at length about Clinton’s “macho” campaign and Sen. Obama’s rather weak response to the full metal jacket approach of Team Clinton.
My favorite quote in the article was [...]
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Posted on April 24, 2008. Filed under: politics | Tags: Barack Obama, bitter people and Obama, U.S. Presidential Race |
So Obama stirred up a bit of a problem for himself in the recent past with his painting of the working class as “bitter” though in truth he is about half right. People do not cling to religion or guns or bigotry out of frustration over their ejection from the American Dream race. They were [...]
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Posted on April 6, 2008. Filed under: Feminism, Sexism, politics | Tags: 2008 Democratic Race, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, media favoritism in 2008 presidential race, Sexism, U.S. Presidential Election |
It irks me when I read that I should be thrilled by the Democratic presidential race because the leading contenders for the nomination are black and woman. When I see that in print what I read is “women should just be happy to have had the shot but should realize that voting for Obama is [...]
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Posted on March 9, 2008. Filed under: American Life, Feminism, Sexism, politics | Tags: 2008 Democratic Race, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, media favoritism in 2008 presidential race, media unfairness to Hillary Clinton, racism, Sexism, U.S. Presidential Election |
There is an article on MSNBC discussing Hillary Clinton’s recent resurgence in Texas and Ohio. The author talks about her main base of supporters being Boomer women with the typical being a 50 year old white woman who is jazzed about the fact that as a gender we are SO close to putting [...]
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Posted on March 5, 2008. Filed under: Feminism, politics | Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, racism, Sexism, U.S. Presidential Race |
I was reading an article in Newsweek that put forth the idea that Barack Obama will be the first female president of the United States much as Bill Clinton was the first black president. The idea that Clinton was “black” in a spiritual sense of the word was first put forth by the author Toni Morrison. I [...]
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