Trudi Foutts Loh has appeared on NPR and Open Line and lectured on topics ranging from political fundraising to the Bush Administration policies impact on working families. She served as the National Chair of the Women’s Leadership Forum of the Democratic National Committee in 2000 and as a consultant to EMILY’s List, American Coming Together and The Media Fund. Currently, she is a Los Angeles based attorney and political consultant.

Blog Entries by Trudi Loh

Where in the World is Gov. Tim Kaine?

Posted February 22, 2009 | 02:44 PM (EST)


I would like to put out an all points bulletin on Chairman Tim Kaine.

We are now more than a month into Barack Obama's presidency and there is little or no evidence that a national Democratic Party structure exists. Gov. Kaine, who was appointed Chairman of the Democratic Party...

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Senator Clinton, Are Your Fifteen Minutes About Up?

Posted March 4, 2008 | 06:47 PM (EST)


As I was sleepily wandering around my kitchen this morning, watching the sunrise, I was thinking about the Democratic primary election in general and the past week in particular. For reasons that probably have a lot to do with lack of sleep, I found that lines from the movie American...

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The YouTube/CNN Debate: Everything New Is Old Again

Posted July 26, 2007 | 10:52 AM (EST)


I have just returned from Charleston, South Carolina where I witnessed, from the press spin room, the "historic" YouTube/CNN debate. The trouble is, this was nothing so much as one more demonstration of the prowess of the Clinton press operation and the tendency of the MSM to follow along as...

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Mount Rushmore

Posted May 23, 2007 | 04:30 PM (EST)


As I listened to Al Gore last night as he was interviewed by Harry Shearer, it came to me -- let's cut to the chase and put Gore's likeness on Mount Rushmore now.

He has already done more to preserve and protect America and democracy than have many occupants of...

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Last Night's Debate

Posted April 27, 2007 | 09:18 AM (EST)


Tonight's MSNBC post-debate coverage of the first Democratic debate was a testament to the skill of the Clinton press operation. Somehow the Clinton press shop had convinced the talking heads that the issue of the night was whether Hillary Clinton could look like a credible Commander-in-Chief. In particular, the candidate...

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Fortunate To Know John and Elizabeth Edwards

Posted March 27, 2007 | 05:11 PM (EST)


I saw John and Elizabeth Edwards Friday night, one day after they announced to the world that her cancer had returned and was no longer curable. I went to the event to be supportive. I left realizing that it was John and Elizabeth who were supporting of all of us....

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I Saw John and Elizabeth

Posted March 25, 2007 | 02:42 PM (EST)


I saw John and Elizabeth Edwards last night, one day after they announced to the world that her cancer had returned and was no longer curable. I went to the event to be supportive. I left realizing that it was John and Elizabeth who were supporting of all of us....

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Chris Mathews: The Iraq War is the Fault of the American People

Posted March 20, 2007 | 11:07 AM (EST)


I really could not believe my ears. Chris Mathews, host of MSNBC's Hardball, made the breathtakingly stupid statement yesterday morning on MSNBC during an interview with Norah O'Donnell on a segment entitled, The Iraq War: Four years In, that the Iraq War is the fault of the American people...

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Iraq: The Central Issue in '06 and in '08

Posted November 14, 2006 | 08:14 PM (EST)


We must never forget who was right and who was wrong on the Iraq War. President Bush and the Republicans, if they had their druthers, would now change the subject to "where do we go from here". While this is a valid and necessary inquiry as we chart a new...

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On Wimpy Democrats and Cute Nicknames for Terrorists

Posted September 8, 2006 | 02:39 PM (EST)


To paraphrase that master communicator, Ronald Reagan, here we go again.

This week, in fine Rip Van Winkle style, President Bush emerged from his apparent slumber and announced that he does indeed have a plan to fight a war on terror. And he now urgently needs the Congress to...

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The Truth About the War in Iraq and Al Gore

Posted May 8, 2006 | 09:42 PM (EST)


It is sometimes said that good ideas have many fathers but bad ideas are always orphans. And so it is with the retrospective of the decision to go to war in Iraq. As everyone from the White House and Secretary of Defense to members of Congress and the media engage...

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Bush Iraq Victory Plan

Posted December 3, 2005 | 08:35 PM (EST)


The gap between the leader we have and the leader we need becomes more apparent every day. President Bush’s prepared remarks on the “National Strategy for Victory In Iraq” only served to further expose this gap.

The handwriting is on the wall. Regardless of what President Bush...

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Gore's Crystal Ball

Posted November 18, 2005 | 08:49 PM (EST)


As the Democrats rage about the war –- 3 years too late -- and the Bush Administration huffs and puffs about the Democrats playing politics with an issue and rewriting history, I felt the need to re-read some of the remarks made by Vice President Al Gore at the Commonwealth...

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