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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - Posts

  • When Is a Taxpayer Not a Taxpayer? When She's a Spouse.


    So of course I plugged my stats into the handy-dandy wage gap calculator that Trailhead mentioned , which the Clinton campaign has posted on its Web site in honor of Equal Pay Day (April 22, in case you haven't pencilled it in yet) and the results were Read More...
  • Of Bitterness and Boilermakers


    A guest post from Barbara Ehrenreich : I spent an hour yesterday trying to persuade Tom Frank, author of What's the Mater with Kansas? and the apparent intellectual source of Obama's remark on white working class "bitterness," to weigh in with an op-ed Read More...
  • More on Ecstatic Cling


    Rachael , I wholly agree with 50 percent of what you say. Obama’s message about our tendency to hunker down behind extreme identity differences (religious, ideological, racial) would have been better delivered directly to the group he was addressing. Read More...
  • What Would Saul Alinsky Do? (A Way-Out Way Out for Obama)


    Until he walked into a manhole with his remarks about bitter bumpkins, the genius of the Obama campaign was in throwing away the playbook. He regularly violated the time-honored wisdom of Rules #1 (Treat voters like idiots at all times.) and #2 (When Read More...
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