The Real Reason Illinois Senator Barack Obama is Considering a Bid for the Presidency….
Ever since his stirring 2004 Democratic National Convention address, folks have been suggesting that he would make a damn fine President. And ever since the 2004 Democratic presidential loss, this call for an Obama run has been getting louder, especially in Illinois. Practically every Illinois politico has been nudging him to go for broke and [...]
...read moreBreaking up is hard to do
Hi everyone! Greetings from one of your guest bloggers. I’m really excited to be contributing at Feministe, although I do wish it was under slightly more cheerful circumstances. The short synopsis view of me: my background is primarily in bioethics (my name can be found on the President’s Council on Bioethics’s website if you look hard enough), and I’m currently a third year law student, which might help explain why my first guest post here is about divorce.
I’ve been following two very different stories in the news about marital discord: country singer Sara Evans’s recently filed divorce* and the race for Congress in the 10th district in Pennsylvania, where incumbent Don Sherwood (R-PA) has been dealing with the fallout from news of an affair with a twenty-nine-year-old staffer and the allegations that he choked her. Sherwood’s opponent has been harping on the affair in debates and campaign ads. Normally, celebrity divorces and allegations of sexual misconduct by politicians are not exactly news. But I’m writing about these two instances because there’s something kind of strange about each. First is Evans’s husband’s allegations that the singer’s “interest in her “marital roles and responsibilities” declined and she “neglected” their three children after she began appearing on ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars.”" Second is the letter Sherwood’s wife sent out to Republican voters talking about the affair.
...read moreHillary’s Woman Problem
Like many feminists, I’m conflicted about the whole Hillary-for-President thing. I think a lot of us had pinned our hopes on her, and we feel like she failed us. Her support of the Iraq war is one of the biggest issues for me; her support of welfare reform was a sad reminder that for all [...]
...read moreI am a bitter single woman.
Yup. And you can bet that I’m pissed off about the War in Iraq. Single women in this country are so, so bitter … about Iraq. Based on surveys and focus groups done by Women’s Voices Women Vote and its action fund, unmarried women are dissatisfied about the direction of the country, said the Democratic [...]
...read moreThe Mask Slips, A Continuing Series
Every now and again, the mask slips and you see the real person underneath. And that person is quite often a racist or misogynist, despite protests to the contrary. Take Mel Gibson. Now we have Senator George F. Allen of Virginia and his America: “MY FRIENDS, we’re going to run this campaign on positive, constructive [...]
...read moreStill Time To Squeeze In One More Asshole!
Joe Lieberman loses Democratic primary; vows to keep his seat by running as an independent. Way to prove you’re a loyal Democrat there, Joe.
...read moreNew Tactic: Make the Target of a Smear Prove It’s Not True
Oh, Ohio, You crazy, crazy place: Here’s a bizarre postscript to the story we brought you last week about the Republican operative who was fired by the Ohio GOP for sending out an email questioning Ted Strickland’s churchgoing record and floating speculation that Strickland and wife are gay. Ted Strickland is the Democratic nominee for [...]
...read moreCongressmen Fail the Middle Class
But Congresswomen don’t. According to the Drum Major Institute’s middle-class scorecard, Congress in general failed the middle class — but congresswomen faired far better than congressmen. While only 16% of the House is female, 32% of those who scored A’s on the 2005 Scorecard were women- and, astonishingly, 40% of women in the House got [...]
...read morePro-Choice Organizations Endorse Lieberman
I have a lot of respect for Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America, but I have to ask: What the hell are you thinking? Both groups have endorsed Joe Lieberman in Connecticut, before the Democratic primary. Both groups are apparently willing to ignore the fact that Joe isn’t exactly the most pro-choice candidate in the [...]
...read moreWhy Not Lieberman?
Why have so many mean lefty bloggers abandoned establishment Democrat Joe Lieberman, opting to support his opponent, Ned Lamont, instead? Well, there’s his position on the Iraq war, for one. But that’s hardly the nail in his coffin. Check out, for example, his ideas about women’s rights. Unfortunately, the establishment democrats are turning out to [...]
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