Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Diane Elayne Dees
This morning, a 70-year-old visually impaired African American woman called in to C-Span’s “Washington Journal” to express her support for Obama and her opposition to Clinton. She spoke for a moment about the discrimination she had experienced as a black woman and about the hope Obama gives her. Then she spoke about how disappointed she [...]
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Posted on May 8th, 2008 by Diane Elayne Dees
…That John Kerry sniped mercilessly at Howard Dean during the 2004 primary, but no one ever accused him of being a traitor to the Democratic Party?
…That when feminists complain of massive sexism and misogyny during the campaign, they are called “whiners,” but when Obama supporters complain of racism, they are called “victims of injustice”?
…That when [...]
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Posted on May 6th, 2008 by Diane Elayne Dees
Not content to make money just by calling Hillary Clinton every type of sexist name and making every type of sexist or misogynistic reference to her and to other women, NBC has now begun selling the infamous Hillary nutcracker in its airport shops.
Here is a report from Mike Caulfield at Blue Hampshire, after he [...]
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Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by Diane Elayne Dees
“After all this time, after all these stupid articles about how powerless white men are and how they can’t even get into college because of overachieving women and affirmative action and mean lady teachers who expected them to sit still in the third grade even though they were all suffering from terminal attention deficit disorder–after [...]
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Posted on April 21st, 2008 by Diane Elayne Dees
In a recent interview with The Advocate, this is what Barack Obama had to say about a former professor of his:
“He was a wonderful guy. He was the first openly gay professor that I had ever come in contact with, or openly gay person of authority that I had come in contact with. And he [...]
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Posted on April 9th, 2008 by Diane Elayne Dees
So tonight, Elton John gave his concert for Hillary Clinton. “I’m still standing,” she quipped, and he said “I never cease to be amazed at the misogynist(ic) attitude of some of the people in this country. I say to hell with them.”
And bloggers and those who comment on blogs have already begun screaming that not [...]
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Posted on April 5th, 2008 by Diane Elayne Dees
“I don’t think anybody predicted 9/11.”
If you guessed Condoleezza Rice, you would be correct. But you would also be correct if you guessed Barack Obama. That’s what he said a few days ago on MSNBC’s Hardball. How quickly some of us forget the August 2001 memos ignored by George W. Bush.
Is Obama protecting the Bush [...]
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Posted on April 5th, 2008 by Diane Elayne Dees
In their latest column, “Let superdelegates decide race? Not this year,” Steve and Cokie Roberts argue that 2008 is absolutely the wrong year to let superdelegates decide who is the Democratic presidential nominee. Why?
They are the superdelegates, the elected officials and representatives of Democratic Party constituencies who this year are expected to make the difference [...]
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Posted on April 4th, 2008 by Diane Elayne Dees
That the 2004 election–and I have no doubts about this–was stolen in Ohio in broad daylight. With few exceptions, the news media has chosen to ignore this, as has Congress. Since it is old news–and was never really news at all–what is to keep it from happening again?
While the news media is having a field [...]
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Posted on April 4th, 2008 by Diane Elayne Dees
Sen. Clinton accepted an invitation to be interviewed by the Philadelphia Gay News, and here is some of what she had to say:
On governments that execute LGBT citizens:
I would be very strongly outspoken about this and it would be part of American foreign policy.
On extending the Domestic-Partnership Benefits and Obligation Act to all employees:
Of course. [...]
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Posted on March 30th, 2008 by Diane Elayne Dees
Professor Sean Wilentz of Princeton, who wrote “The Worst President in History?” for Rolling Stone last year, has a piece in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer–”Obama was the first to play the race card.”
Wilentz discusses not only the “race card” charges and their origins, but also some of the racial insensitivity shown by those in the Obama [...]
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Posted on March 29th, 2008 by Diane Elayne Dees
John McCain recently had a tough time with an interview in Iowa. Apparently, he doesn’t quite understand some simple facts about contraception and disease prevention:
Q: What about grants for sex education in the United States? Should they include instructions about using contraceptives? Or should it be Bush’s policy, which is just abstinence?
Mr. McCain: (Long pause) [...]
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