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The XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - Posts
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I don't know about the rest of you, but I grew up admiring Geraldine Ferraro . I was 14 when she ran for vice president, and I viewed her as a trailblazer. When I saw her initial comments about Obama last week (" If Obama was a white man ... if he was Read More...
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Rosa, I'm glad you mentioned tragedy in your last post . I've been thinking all day that what makes Spitzer's downfall electrifying to watch isn't just the comical pop schadenfreude of seeing a public figure stand accused of the very vice he has publicly Read More...
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It would have been just one more distressing story about a controversial, possibly threatening student essay; gun possession on campus ; and an expulsion and involuntary hospitalization in Virginia. There are almost too many layers to untangle: The 23-year-old Read More...
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"Dow Climbs 416.66 for Its Biggest Gain in Over Five Years," reports the New York Times . The Gray Lady attributes it all to the actions of the Fed, which "injected a burst of financial adrenaline into the ailing banking system." Well, maybe so! But maybe Read More...
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That's a good point, Dahlia—if I understand you correctly, the argument would be that human nature is constant, in high places and low, and that the proportion of wrongdoers and plain idiots is bound to be the same among politicians (even moralizing ones) Read More...
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Dahlia, Mrs. Chatterbox was right. I'm amazed, in fact, at the lengths we'll go to, to prove that these people's every gesture and utterance fits into some grand scheme. When five minutes in the Senate visitors' gallery should make plain that even when Read More...
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Liza and Melinda , I confess I am torn here: Is the problem that big-deal moralizing politicians always cheat or that everyone cheats and the big-deal moralizing politicians always get caught? The late Mrs. Chatterbox, Tim Noah’s wife, Marjorie Williams, Read More...
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So behind every squeak is a little bit of grease? These super-clean super-moralizers usually do turn out to have been railing against themselves all along. And if I feel like looking away, I guess it's lucky for me that I have finally given in and made Read More...
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Yes, exactly—I don't find the Spitzer debacle tedious yet, in part because the details (some prostitutes found him " difficult "—in what way?) are too interesting and in part because it's just so striking how the loudest moralizers often turn to have Read More...
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I think you have a point, Melinda , and had Eliot Spitzer merely had a boring old affair, we probably wouldn't be making such a fuss. But there are a couple of factors that make this case different. One is the hypocrisy of it all . Spitzer made his name Read More...
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I am guessing that the answer will be yes—but am I the only one who finds this Spitzer stupidity actually kind of tedious? Why don't we out the handful of big-deal politicians who actually keep their pants on and be done with it? Which would solve the Read More...
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My friend Corey Owens takes me to school for last week's gender-based generalizations . . . . Guest post follows: Not to stand between you and your spitball-straw, but "...if women ever ran the country"...?!? Come on. The not-so-subtle suggestion that Read More...
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