What is going on with Hillary Clinton’s surrogates? Between Andrew Young, Gloria Steinem and Bob Johnson, they’ve been doing a lor more harm than good. None of those artless endorsements comes close to the shrillness of the New York State chapter of the National Organization of Women’s tirade, which calls liberal stalwart Ted Kennedy a Read More
No Chitchat Between Clinton and Obama Laurie Kellerman, Associated Press WASHINGTON — So close, yet so far away — and so bitter. Rival Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama came within a foot of each other just before President Bush’s State of the Union speech Monday night and managed not to acknowledge each other, Read More
The New York Times editorial page threw its endorsements for the Democratic and Republican nominations behind Hillary Clinton and John McCain, respectively. The editorial page says it is impressed by Clinton’s experience and wonkishness (though it asks her to have Bill Clinton back off. The McCain endorsement trumpeted the Arizona Senator’s ability to reach across Read More
We know where they stand on energy, economy, and the war. John McCain’s favorite foods are shrimp and pepperoni and onion pizza, Barack Obama (still) loves “The Wire”, and yes, Hillary Clinton does know how to text message her daughter (thanks for clearing that up, Tyra). From stump speeches to televised debates, however, the candidates’ Read More
Nearly forty years ago when she was an overachieving college senior at Wellesley College, Hillary Rodham was chosen to give a speech at her commencement, the first time a Wellelesley student had ever done so. She garnered considerable press attention for criticizing Senator Edward Brooke, who’d spoken just before she did (interestingly, Brooke was the Read More
Barack Obama doesn’t want to have back and forths on the MLK thing anymore, and this spate of increasingly reductive (and stupid) gender vs. race discussions may finally be over. We hope.
Looking past New Hampshire tomorrow, the Democratic primary in South Carolina is a must-win for Edwards and Clinton, but for Obama, it has special import. For most of 2007 Obama’s been feeling a chill down here, too. With African-Americans likely to make up a majority of primary voters on the Democratic side, South Carolina’s contest Read More
So this is what it looks like for the Blue Team after Iowa: Barack Obama, John Edwards, and (just behind him) Hillary Clinton. Joe Biden and Chris Dodd called it a campaign, after likely canceling each other out for several months (Bill Richardson, for some reason, didn’t). Edwards, without the substantial cake of Obama and Read More
Between the Jena 6 and that Columbia University professor, nooses have been all over the news lately. NPR wonders if that’s due to a rise in racist incidents involving nooses, or a rise in their coverage. There’s a pretty well-done profile on The Wire‘s David Simon in The New Yorker (spoiler alert for the folks Read More
