Last night I posted here on the threats by Clinton supporters to vote for John McCain and I said: As a Clinton supporter and a feminist I find a certain kind of irony in the fact that Clinton supporters are complaining about the sexism that Hillary weathered during her campaign but they are willing to support a candidate who called his wife the C word. A least a couple of folks in the comments weren’t convinced that their logic is...
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Robert F. Kennedy: What if he had lived? —– A Golden Age That Never Was
40 years ago today Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the world turned into a darker, meaner place in the decades that followed. As a young student at Columbia University – off for the summer — I was to join the RFK campaign staff the following week. The spring of 1968 had been exhilarating and tumultuous. Gene McCarthy was running an energetic anti-War campaign against the carnage in Vietnam. Martin Luther King had been assassinated in April. Students were...
Clinton and Obama Have A Secret Sit Down
Last night the word of a secret meeting between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama started to eek into the media. The two “ditched their traveling entourages, eluded camera crews across town and startled many of their own advisers as they held their first private meeting since becoming archrivals for the Democratic presidential nomination.” Jeff Zeleny reports in the NY Times on how Obama gave the media the slip: The evening began in routine fashion, with Mr. Obama holding a...
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