Does Clinton Camp Talk of Sexism Risk the Democrats' Future?
This is how the Clintons could pull the Democratic Party down to general election defeat alongside their fading presidential hopes: a pointless fight over gender politics.
This is how the Clintons could pull the Democratic Party down to general election defeat alongside their fading presidential hopes: a pointless fight over gender politics.
RJ Eskow | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics
The Texas and Ohio results persuaded me that the Bradley Effect is real, and the Clinton campaign has been successful in characterizing Obama as a primarily "black" candidate.
Craig Crawford | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics
The nationwide popular vote race is significant because it represents Clinton's only chance for a winning argument to superdelegates who will ultimately decide the outcome.
Michael Fauntroy | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics
While Obama is still the overwhelming favorite to win the nomination, he now has some nagging questions to answer.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics
In yesterday's New York Times, columnist Stanley Fish weighed in on the "guilt by association" game that's played itself out again and again this poli...
Jim David | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics
At least Obama was trying, in his speech, to start a dialogue about the black elephant in the room. And that's more than any white politician has done.
The Swamp | Frank James | Posted 03.16.2008 | Politics
Geraldine Ferraro's comments about the role that Sen. Barack Obama's blackness has played in his political success are fodder for the Sunday talk show...
Ryan Barrett | Posted 03.14.2008 | Home
I guess you were right, Ms. Ferraro. One African-American man is lucky - to have you around helping him out, that is.
Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes | Posted 03.14.2008 | Home
Ms. Ferraro certainly has an odd view of the world. She sees an American society in which being black is an advantage - seems to believe you can quantify human misery...and then rank it to your own political advantage.
Michael Shaw | Posted 03.14.2008 | Media
Orlando Lima | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics
Ferraro is not racist but the fact that she doesn't understand what the term "racism" means highlights why it is a massive problem in America.
Tom Douglas | Posted 03.13.2008 | Home
I am keenly aware of historical ironies whereby would-be conquerors are destroyed from within by those who overreach as a result of their desire to at...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.13.2008 | Media
Text of Keith Olbermann's "Special Comment" delivered live last night on MSNBC, decrying Hillary Clinton for the tactics of her campaign and specifica...
Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
What Geraldine Ferarro said about Obama isn't entirely without merit -- it just entirely misses the fact that there hasn't been a candidate in our lifetimes that didn't benefit from a certain appeal due to their height, wealth, race, name, faith or smile.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
Ms. Ferraro said, "As it is, being a white woman, when I make racist remarks about black men everyone accuses me of being a racist."
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.12.2008 | Media
Jon Robin Baitz | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics
Underneath the stomach-turning Clintonian strategy for winning the nomination are little passion plays playing out -- about the state of the nation, and the state of its soul-sick psyche.
Susan Kaiser Greenland | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics
If the Clinton campaign isn't careful, it will set the women's movement back a generation or so. As women, it is not in our best interests to be viewed as victims.
Harold Pollack | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics
We are trying to be a better nation than Geraldine Ferraro's comments presume we are. We don't need these little drops of racial poison in our national life.
Daily Breeze | Gene Maddaus | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics
Former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro today defended a remark she made to the Daily Breeze last week, in which she suggested that Sen. ...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.12.2008 | Media
UPDATE, March 12, 2007: Well, he did it — and here it is. ---------- On last night's "Countdown," Keith Olbermann announced that tonight he'd...
Seth Greenland | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics
When Ferraro was named the Vice-Presidential candidate in 1984, the national reaction was: "Geraldine Who"? Does anyone really believe that this Democratic Party water-carrier was put on a national ticket for anything other than her lack of a Y chromosome?
Huffington Post | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics
"Geraldine Ferraro has stepped down from her role as a member of Hillary Clinton's finance committee," CNN reports. Ferraro said thousands of people...
James Moore | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics
If there is anyone qualified to make comparisons between Karl Rove and Hillary Clinton, it's me. Like democracy's Darth Vader, she relies on surrogates to go out and fire the gun.
AP | ANN SANNER | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics
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Eric Deggans | Posted 05.21.2008 | Politics