Blog Entries by Stephen Ducat
Confronting and Ending the Politics of Humiliation: Part 1, From the Warsaw Ghetto to Guantanamo Bay
At this point, to wax rhapsodic over the end of the Bush regime would be a foolishly premature celebration. A lot of damage could be done between now and January of 2009. And, I don't even want to think about the possibility that John McCain could replace the current autocrat-in-chief....
Understanding Obama's Recent Right Turn
385 Comments | Posted June 29, 2008 | 12:30 AM (EST)
OK, we all knew, deep down, that our wondrous golden boy of change would one day reveal his feet of clay. What most of us did not anticipate was just how easily they would fit into jackboots.
There has emerged a conventional wisdom among progressives that is not entirely...
Emasculation in Republican Psychological Warfare, And Why It Works
65 Comments | Posted June 12, 2008 | 04:16 PM (EST)
The racist lynchings of the 19th and 20th centuries featured castration as a central component of those ritualized assaults. The same appears to be true of contemporary rhetorical lynchings visible in the right wing media-scape. First aired on April 23 of this year as a news item, the latest ad...
Cowboys, Prairie Fairies, and Mother Earth: The Political Psychology of Gendering Nature Female
3 Comments | Posted June 4, 2008 | 12:16 PM (EST)
The beautiful bosom of nature will be exposed to our view. We shall enter its garden and taste of its fruits, and satisfy ourselves with its plenty. - Thomas Sprat, a founding member of the Royal Society of London for the Advancement of Science, circa 1662.
Well ... you...
Death Wish II: What Hillary Was Aiming at With Her Two Assassination "Gaffes"
Posted May 25, 2008 | 03:12 PM (EST)
Opinion polls are the vital political weather reports that all politicians rely on, especially during campaigns. Arguably, there has been no political couple in history more vigilantly attentive to their fluctuations than the Clinton's -- and never more so than during the stormy conditions of electoral contests. Senator Clinton's campaign...
Revenge of the Wimp Factor: The Ironies of Proving Manhood in the Democratic Primary
Posted May 12, 2008 | 06:10 PM (EST)
Hi, I'm Hillary Clinton. But tonight, in honor of the WWE, you can call me Hill-Rod. This election is starting to feel a lot like "King of the Ring." The only difference? The last man standing may just be a woman. -- Hillary Rodham Clinton, from her opening monologue prior...
How Barack Obama Can Frame His "Liberal" Label
Posted April 27, 2008 | 11:40 PM (EST)
One of the measures of just how successful Republicans have been at seizing and defining the political language of our epoch is the fact that conservative has become a much coveted designation, whereas liberal is an accusation. They have not yet figured out how to weaponize progressive but no doubt...
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
**UPDATE 7/25** ThinkProgress now reports that the bar...
John McCain's famously cozy relationship with the press is getting a bit testy. Taking questions in...
There is one more John McCain gaffe that...
As we have observed throughout the last several years,...
In a flagrant political act, the State Department has...
Major news organizations are drawing...
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I have a wait problem. I hate to wait. When...
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Ashcroft Claims Waterboarding...
1 Comments | Posted July 7, 2008 | 12:26 PM (EST)