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Entries by Caryl Rivers from 06/2008

Let's Hear It for Politics As Usual

| Posted 06.08.2008 | Politics
Read More: John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama John McCain, Barack Obama Nominee, Martin Luther King, Barack Obama, Politics News

I love Barack's his ideas about a new politics of hope -- I attended MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech. But I worry that Obama is more Harvard law than Chicago street fighter.

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"Women's Lib" Reborn?

| Posted 06.15.2008 | Politics
Read More: 2008 Election and Sexism, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton 2008, Hillary Clinton Sexism, Sexism, Politics News

The message when the first woman to have a real shot at the presidency is consistently called shrill and cackling is that women should have no voice in the public arena and will be humiliated if they try to enter it.

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Bad, Mad Michelle

| Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
Read More: Michelle Obama, Hillary Wellesly Thesis, Barack and Michelle Obama Fist Bump, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama Baby Mama, Michelle Obama the View, Elizabeth Dole, Michelle Obama Princeton, Politics News

Michelle Obama represents, for the right, a pair of stereotypical images that go far back in history: the "Scary Black" and the "Scary Woman."

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