I have been trying to figure out how it is that one can legitimately declare oneself a winner without actually winning. Obama is prepared to do that tonight in Iowa because he is clearly too impatient to wait until June 3, let alone August, and yet every Democratic nominee in recent history has had to wait [...]
Yahoo Headline from the Wall Street Journal today: Hillary to Boring to be President. Dammit, why didn’t I see that? Of course she is too boring. Bill was not boring back in the day, but there hasn’t been one boyfriend or girlfriend, one indicted crony, or one crazy minister. No early coke habit to make he [...]
Now that I have helped Obama pick his cabinet, I would like to help him with other problems he is going to face in his First Hundred Days. He needs the right press secretary and there are a lot of gay guys or guys on the down low vying for that job: Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, [...]
Now that the Obama presidency is all but inevitable, he needs to get a head start picking his cabinet. I am not speculating on the Vice Presidential position yet, but Bill Richardson, I would not hold my breath. It won’t be Hillary Clinton.
Here are my bets for the cabinet:
Secretary of State: Fareed Zakaria (Madeleine Albright [...]
“Well behaved women seldom make history.” Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard historian —Well behaved women seldom go into politics, that bastion of male prerogative, where patriarchy still rules. Women make up 52% of the population of the United States, but only 14% of the Senate and House offices in the U.S. Congress. Of top executive offices, 6% [...]
Now that Jenna Bush has weighed in, we need to know…Will they go for Hillary or Barack or John (McCain)? I am going to offer my predictions, but we gotta know:
Elvis (because we know he is out there somewhere): I think he’ll be an Obama guy, which pains me a little. I know Elvis was [...]
58% to 42% amongst gun owners? What gun owner would vote for Obama? Leading among church-goers, I totally get; she leads among them too. I think she leads well, which is why I am all for her and not for him.
I am predicting she gets him by 12% points just because I have a gambling [...]
Real men like hunting. They like their women religious. They don’t whine about stuff. They might be a little xenophobic but they don’t really know what that means. But they in fact get along OK with anyone who will drink beer, which includes whites, blacks, Mexicans, Haitians, and Poles, not to mention Germans and Irish [...]
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton laid out her plan to keep jobs from being shipped abroad as she appealed to blue collar workers in Pennsylvania, the next big primary contest. Her plan includes investing billions of dollars in remaking American industry and business.
The Senator from New York focused on job creation and challenges [...]
In a profoundly moving, complex speech today, Hillary Clinton announced the end to her campaign for the Democratic Nomination. She acknowledged the complexities of sexism in America, and spoke of the need to understand the historical context in which sexism arose. “For an older generation of both men and women, white and black,” she said [...]
