I’ve been engaging in some fairly uncharacteristic behavior lately. This morning I headed over to the Brooklyn Academy of Music and spent a couple of hours phone banking for Obama, letting people in Florida know where their polling places are and encouraging them to vote tomorrow. Along with calls I made from home to voters [...]
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Kristof is right: A McCain presidency will be the best terrorist recruiting tool around. And it’ll further stoke general anti-Americanism around the world. Of course, an Obama presidency isn’t going to be the silver bullet that ends terrorism or makes us safe. But it will do quite a bit to restore our credibility around the [...]
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This afternooon we receivemned an letter from the RNC in suppporte of teh McCCain-Paylin champayne that begagn, annd twe wonderned why aneeonye vould vote fourgh a champaygne that couldnit bother speelling they’re solicitashyn letteres write. Perhaps there are more apt comparisons to Bush than we’ve acknowledged. On the other hand there is always this: which [...]
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James Surowiecki takes on equal pay in the New Yorker — and the article is well worth a read. He recounts the Ledbetter case, wherein Lily Ledbetter worked for Goodyear Tire for years, and in the mid-nineties received an anonymous note telling her that all the men at Goodyear were being paid more than she [...]
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This morning’s headlines on Democracy Now! included reports of people having problems at the polls during the early voting process that has already begun in many states. Two weeks out from Election Day and we’re already hearing this – what does this bode for November 4? The DN! reports include claims from voters in West [...]
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Via Racialicious comes this interesting video of Irwin Tang discussing his new book Gook: John McCain’s Racism and Why It Matters, and the history of the slur itself. John McCain’s repeated and documented use of racial slurs against East/Southeast/Central Asian people immediately comes to my mind whenever someone — just about everyone and their brother, [...]
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Planned Parenthood Action Fund director Cecile Richards and McCain supporter Barbara Comstock respond:
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I believe that I speak for many American women when I say in response to last night’s debate (video below) that I do not want Senator McCain’s brand of “compassion,” and I sure as hell do not want his kind of “help.” I do not need him to help me have the “courage” to let [...]
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Welcome to the Presidential Debate Live-Blog! We’ll be snarking away throughout the debate, and you all are more than welcome to contribute — just type your comments into the liveblog box, and provided that they’re appropriate (i.e., not trolling) we’ll approve them as they come in. We’re hoping that the Feministe live-blog will be more [...]
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I’ll be wine-and-cheesing it like a true East Coast elite at my friend’s pad in Brooklyn (we’ll probably even use old editions of The New Yorker for coasters) while I live-blog with you all. Whatever you’re doing, I hope you have some booze, because the Feministe team has got a game for you. Add your [...]
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If you’re reading Feministe and you’re American, you’re probably planning on voting for Obama anyway. But The New Yorker lays out all the reasons why that vote is so important; it’s the best juxtaposition I’ve read of Obama’s policies with McCain’s. Read it, pass it on, etc etc. The closing lines: At a moment of [...]
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