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No pressure!
With the inauguration less than a week away, I keep feeling like everyone is holding their collective breath. Some people enjoy speculating about Cabinet appointments, and that’s a way to wile away the time, but it doesn’t do much to assuage concerns, especially in light of how much time and…
John Dean on Prop 8 and the blame game
While he’s a little late with a reaction to the results of Prop 8, John Dean weighs in with an insightful look at the matter of race and the ballot initiative, “Why Claims that Black Californians Deserve Blame for the Passage of California’s Anti-Gay-Marriage Proposition 8 Are Unfair and Untrue.”…
Go ahead and enjoy fashion a little
Some fluffy Friday night Obamamania. I’m with the women at Broadsheet; I have mixed feelings about the focus on Michelle Obama as a style icon. On one hand, the whole thing smacks of the same old sexism that reduces women—even brilliant, ambitious, multi-faceted women like Michelle Obama—to decorative objects. But…
The High Cost Of Looking Confused
All I’m saying is that if a girly-man Democrat had spent $150,000 outfitting themselves for ten weeks, it would be the story that consigned them, their ticket and perhaps their party to FOREVER ELECTORAL DOOOOOOOOOOM. Now, obviously part of this is the gender differential – it’s okay for women to…
You’d Love It If You Were White
One of the more bizarre (if expected) attacks on the Obamas this year has been the idea that Michelle Obama is some sort of affirmative action drama queen whose entire life has been spent complaining about…well, everything really. Byron York takes this to an absurd new level. Michelle Obama, you…
Georgia Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland calls Obama ‘uppity’
The GOP’s white sheet is showing (again). There’s a reason the RNC has hit a record low in black attendees at its convention. Georgia Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland used the racially-tinged term “uppity” to describe Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama Thursday. Westmoreland was discussing vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s speech…
Promise Keepers
David Broder writes today on the lost promise of Obama’s changing politics because…well, because he’s a Democrat. If this were just an off night by a speaker we know can soar, it would be no more than a blip on the screen. Obama picked a bad night to be ordinary,…
In Defense Of Fuck
Michelle Malkin doesn’t like the fact that the Fuck Panel called her out by name. She also doesn’t like Arabs, Muslims, the Japanese, liberals, sick kids, craftsmen, Mexicans, troops, Rachael Ray, filmmakers, black people, immigrants, feminists, John McCain, moderate Republicans, Michelle Obama and perhaps saddest of all…herself.…
Sexism and racism – what lies beneath…
NOTE: This is the guest post I have up on Open Left today. I was invited by front-pager Jon Pincus to participate in a mutual guest-blogging series to bring more diverse perspectives to that progressive blog. The subject selected was the treatment of Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama by the…
A Contest!
Twenty dollars to the first person who can give any rational reason why Michelle Obama is mentioned in Maureen Dowd’s latest piece. This isn’t even the failure to write something relevant (the entire article is basically a laundry list of Weird Things The French President’s Wife Did), but Maureen Dowd’s…
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