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The XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
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Bonnie, thanks for your response. These are very complicated and delicate issues, which is why so often we'd all prefer to just sip our lattes and talk about something else. One problem is that we don't even have a common language for discussion. We can't Read More...
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Welcome, Kim, and I’m glad you brought up Alice Walker's “womanist” position. Her Root essay last March, “Lest We Forget: An Open Letter to My Sisters Who Are Brave,” endorsing Barack Obama stayed with me a long time. Not just because I found Walker’s Read More...
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Rachael, I could not agree more. Hillary Clinton is far too smart a cookie (oops, is that sexist?) for me to believe her comments were but a sad, sad slip of the tongue. She knew exactly which signal flag she was waving toward the hills of West Virginia. Read More...
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Emily , Hillary can be called a lot of things, but dumb is not one of them. So I don't buy for a second that she thinks that her comments about white working-class voters was the "dumbest thing she ever said." (Especially considering the other worthy Read More...
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Remember how Hillary said last week that Obama's support was weakening among "working, hardworking Americans, white Americans?" Not smart, some of us at Slate thought . Clinton may not have intended to , but her remark tiptoed up to the line of suggesting Read More...
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It was Zen Hillary who stepped to the podium tonight after her big win in West Virginia, where she spoke in modulated tones about money, death, and a campaign that may seem eternal but is "just an instant in time.'' Alas, a Clinton supporter named Florence Read More...
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Emily asked a good question yesterday about the proper feminist reading of Hillary Clinton’s weird new Bartleby phase — wherein she is all but mathematically eliminated; superdelegates are running screaming for the exits; the office furniture is being Read More...
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... you never know how strong she is until she is in hot water." This quote from Eleanor Roosevelt is Hillary's latest feminist argument for her candidacy. As she continues to campaign and tries to turn being behind into a virtue, she keeps reminding Read More...
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Try to imagine the Obama-Clinton race reversed at this point: She is the clear nominee, but he just won’t get out of the race and starts trying on different personas and makes increasingly incendiary racial comments. Actually, it’s impossible to imagine Read More...
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Rach , my jaw is still on the floor, too; the "hard-working Americans, white Americans' ' remark from that person who still thinks she can be president absolutely disqualifies her from joining the ticket she would have been a drain on anyhow—because Obama Read More...
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While still shaking my head in disbelief at Hillary Clinton's comments that she is continuing her campaign because "Senator Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again" (See Andrew Sullivan and Obsidian Wings Read More...
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For whatever it’s worth, I shared Melinda’s sense that Bill had just sort of left his face in his other pants last night. (Now forcibly restraining myself from making the joke about where he might have left his other pants.) Emily , you are right that Read More...
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Emily and Melinda : I thought the ruddy and spaced-out Bill looked like his heart was under strain last night for a different reason: because he was witnessing the first chapter of his wife's valedictory speech . The whole proceedings seemed logy, so Read More...
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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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Nothing like a good welfare-mom-makes-good story, Emily ; look what it did for J.K. Rowling. And though Obama's mom (and everybody else's, for that matter) was obviously so much more than that, this is just the kind of pithy, shorthand description that Read More...
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I'm feeling better this morning: I agree with you, Dahlia , about the virtues of Obama's speech, and now that we've woken up to the slim margin of Clinton's victory in Indiana, the superdelegates should have an excuse to break for him and help Democrats Read More...
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Emily you’re right : It would have been bad enough if this Democratic primary had seen voters tearing the party in half over the war or immigration or health insurance. But it’s dispiriting as hell to see them ever more hardened along race, class, age, Read More...
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Another night, another split decision, another unrelenting headache. (This according to CBS , which called Indiana early for Clinton, and Obama's clearer win in North Carolina.) Torie is right, we at the Gabfest have looked high and low for the best sports Read More...
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Well Emily Y., you sure were right that Obama had to fend off Wright more decisively. Now he has, and it's not clear whether we should thank the good reverend for behaving so badly that he pushed Obama to denunciation or just wish he'd kept his big mouth Read More...
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