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The XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
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Emily Y ., I quite agree that we haven't seen the last of the rev.; he'll be with us through November and beyond. But in trying to prove that Obama couldn't stand up to the Attack Machine, Hillary put him through a pretty good simulation and wound up Read More...
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We surely haven't heard the last of the Rev. Wright problem, but after the Obama campaign has been focused on fighting off the notion that Obama is part of this country's deep racial divide, it did feel good to hear him talk again of it being time to Read More...
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A couple of years ago, my son remarked that President Bush seemed to think every day was Opposites Day, which would explain how he always wound up listening to the wrong people and giving the best ideas the boot. That's how I feel now, listening to Hillary's Read More...
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Two items today that should go to the top of the "Clinton fatigue" greatest hits. First is Hillary laughing at a reporter's question about Bill getting paid $800,000 to speak at a group that supports the Colombia free-trade agreement (that the Democrats Read More...
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I hear you, Hanna , and I've sometimes thought about the downside of success for Hollywood women when their marriages fall apart. Cases in point: Hilary Swank wins an Oscar. She and her husband break up. Reese Witherspoon wins an Oscar. She and her husband Read More...
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Noooo... it wasn't Monica. It was the Rev. Jeremiah Wright , of course, joining Bill and Hillary for a breakfast with "religious leaders" on Sept. 11, 1998. There is a lovely photo , too. Q. Does this mean Bill & Hillary are closet Wright parishioners Read More...
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However Obama's speech plays out, Hillary Clinton's No. 1 surrogate, Bill, has weighed in again on race. He said the idea that he has said anything racially insensitive during the campaign (particularly comparing Obama's win in South Carolina to Jesse Read More...
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"Deserve got nuthin' to do with it."—Snoop (and before her, Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven .) Whatever the mix of bad breaks and pathology and misguided, "I Wanna Be a Supermodel" ambition that led Ashley Dupre to the Emperors' Club, I feel sorry for anybody Read More...
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Whoa, there, Nellie! Hanna, you're at least kinda sorta kidding , right? About initially being "lured into this notion that ... it was poor Eliot Spitzer who got played by a young vixen, a conniving madam, petty payment schemes, and a culture that suffocates Read More...
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Today, Washington Post science writer Shankar Vedantam has a piece titled " Intimate Rivalries " about how married couples and close friends negotiate their jealousy when they are both in the same field. He says researchers have found that "unhappy couples Read More...
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Ann , your daughter is surely right that nobody pressured Chelsea Clinton into making those calls on her mom's behalf—but I'm not even sure that's what David Shuster was saying. " Pimped out " is pretty harsh, and not something anyone would have said Read More...
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I don't guess I have ever seen The View —even if we are a sort of online homage to their caffeinated trailblazing. (Only, who is our Elisabeth?) But on yesterday's show, Whoopi and Joy and Sherri went where no Washington reporter has ever dared to tread; Read More...
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Emily Y. makes a great point about the risks involved in sharing a joint tax return with Bill Clinton; I had an off-the-record chat with the charming Kazakh dictator once, and there is zero chance Clinton did not know he was dealing with a complete thug. Read More...
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Anyone wanna tell me what to make of the Clinton campaign loaning itself $5 million —ostensibly to level the playing field with Obama? We had a rollicking discussion here over the merits of Hillary’s refracted glory last month, and at the time I had no Read More...
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We have a guest post from Sally Quinn, who is moderator, with Jon Meacham of Newsweek , of OnFaith , an online conversation about religion. ( Slate and Newsweek are owned by the Washington Post Co.) The shrinks must be having a field day with this one. Read More...
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Ann Coulter is not so much a partisan as she is a performance artist, and her medium is the lie. So, normally, when she takes the stage and does her thing, there is nothing to conclude, beyond the fact that just as Gene Kelly had to dance and Karen Finley Read More...
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I saw HBO's therapy series In Treatment last night, and felt it could be helped by adding a long-married couple to the lineup of patients: Therapist: Why don't we start by-- Hillary: Have you seen his finger? It's out of control. He's wagging it at everyone. Read More...
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I am also ready for Bill Clinton to sit down. But it's worth pointing out that among white women in South Carolina, Bill disaffection—or whatever turned women away from Hillary—seemed to produced a boost for Edwards rather than for Obama. You're right, Read More...
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It’s not going to be about gender when the pundits turn Barack Obama’s thrashing of Hillary Clinton in South Carolina into a referendum on her husband. The truth is that long before Bill turned himself into the Tasmanian Devil on the campaign trail, we Read More...
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As far as meta-themes go in this presidential campaign, this week’s “Hoppin’ Mad” trope has quickly become tiresome. Yesterday we heard endless reports about an incident in which Barack Obama ostensibly had a “testy” exchange with a reporter that proved Read More...
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