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Wednesday, January 09, 2008 - Posts
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I can't believe I'm going to get between Chris Matthews and a punch, but I don't think he's a Hillary hater at all; here is a recent clip of him describing her as sweet, sexy, delightful, charming and on and on... Unlike Meghan, he even called her mellifluous! Read More...
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Anne, The larger question about Hillary-as-beneficiary-of-Bill is fair game, and I want to say more about it in a second. First, though: what was creepy about Matthews wasn't that he was saying Hillary benefited from a form of nepotism (maritalism?); Read More...
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Totally agree that the Bradley Effect is a bogus explanation. Also that the racism vs. sexism competition and one-upsmanship is ick and should end now. That's about all I'm sure of today, though, because mostly I'm busy feeling torn. On the one hand, Read More...
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Meghan, Chris Matthews was more interested in being nasty than being right. But isn't there something to the fact that the reason Hillary's a US Senator, the reason she's a candidate for president...is the fact that her husband was president at all? Reverse Read More...
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We all knew Chris Matthews was no Hillary-lover, but what he said on air this morning takes the cake: "The reason she's a U.S. Senator, the reason she's a candidate for President, the reason she may be a front-runner, is her husband messed around. That's Read More...
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Now that Hillary's won New Hampshire everyone's falling all over themselves to ascribe racism as the cause —just as if she'd lost it would vindicate the view that Americans (unlike Brits or Germans) are fundamentally sexist. But I agree with Juliet that Read More...
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So, I did it. I made myself watch Hillary's post-victory speech . (Alas, Julia beat me to the punch with the post-speech review.) Unfortunately for her, she spoke after Barack Obama. He was his eloquent, soaring self, making references to those who blazed Read More...
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Dahlia argued yesterday that Obama is appealing because it's simpler "to be yourself than to be a piece of precision machinery." At the outset of Hillary's victory speech last night, she claimed to have had an epiphany along these lines: "Over the last Read More...
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With all due respect to Chris Matthews, and a few of Slate ' s very own pundits , I don't buy the theory that the " Bradley Effect " explains why Obama lost New Hampshire—that voters "lied" to pollsters to seem progressive. Here's why, via Marc Ambinder Read More...
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Some analysts have been arguing that many of the actual differences between Clinton and Obama are a matter of style rather than substance. But, wow, is that stylistic difference.... substantive. Watching the two candidates speak last night you couldn't Read More...
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Back when that book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten came out, I thought about how everything I needed to know I learned in my 92 years of dating. And as it turns out, those lessons hold up pretty well in political life, too, in that Read More...
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