Unfetter Women's Intellect on Campaign Trail
Is anyone else as appalled as I am at how quickly we have gone back to thinking of women in the oldest of stereotypes -- as only wives and mothers?
Is anyone else as appalled as I am at how quickly we have gone back to thinking of women in the oldest of stereotypes -- as only wives and mothers?
Paul Peete | Posted 06.13.2008 | Home
This is going to be a white-hot, bitterly contested election cycle, and even though the McCain campaign has forsworn dirty tactics, the 527s and right wing blogs and rumor mills will rush to attack Michelle Obama. But a word of caution is warranted: "Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."
Amy Ephron | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics
I have a theory that in order to be First Lady you have to have a cookie recipe.
Myriam Miedzian | Posted 03.10.2008 | Politics
There is enough to criticize Hillary about without demonstrating what might be perceived as both a lack of historical awareness and lack of sensitivity to many women's life experiences.
236.com | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics
In a profile of Michelle Obama published by the New York Times, the 44-year-old Chicago native and Harvard grad revealed that she only recently finish...
Letty Cottin Pogrebin | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics
History suggests that rather than enhance her image the way a wife enhances a male candidate, a husband can complicate a woman's leadership aspirations.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.20.2007 | Politics
Experience is one of the many things that might contribute to good judgment, but it is not a proxy for it. Experience by itself means nothing. The real question is who has better judgment?
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Lisa Witter | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics