Lucy Blogs (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
... false… In these final days, what is coming subtly to the forefront is the attention to racism and sexism. Both parties have the advantage, or disadvantage, here… it’s more than obvious that the Republican ticket has been playing the sexism card since the beginning - even since their plan to only allow a few interviews with high-profile media personnel backfired. And we all...
f/k/a . . . (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
... politically-correct response to the New Yorker Cover ; or my general aversion to the over-played sexism card , and to the Left’s neo-puritanism ? (Was I too tough a few years ago on Lani Guinier? Last year on Hillary Clinton ?) Can Barack take a little constructive criticism from a supporter who hopes he lives up to his own highest ideals? ( E.g. , my complaints over his dodge on...
Environmental Republican (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
Here we are on the final day of a race that literally began on January 21, 2005. Back then, it looked as though it was Hillary's race to lose with her competition being perhaps John Edwards or Al Gore. As the race started heating up, before the Iowa Caucuses, we saw the advent of a new campaign strategy, one which had never been used and the playbook showed no defense against it: the Race Card....
PoliGazette (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
... This too turned Button, quite a feminist, off. She saw that Clinton was destroyed purely based on sexism. Whenever the sexism card could be used, it was used. Not only by the Obama campaign, but mostly by his friends and allies in the media. If Obama and other Democrats truly supported emancipation for women, Button argues, they should have condemned these sexist attacks. Then...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
... of being a "Ms.", which meant that none of the Republican opportunists could play their flim-flam sexism card. That ploy became so quickly transparent it disgusted the most frustrated Hillary supporters and sent them racing back to the Democratic ticket. It also provided tremendous material for *Tina Fey. Palin's act was so astonishing that Fey needed to rely only on her brilliant...
The Hill's Pundit Blog (Free subscription) | 10/14/2008
... of being a "Ms.,” which meant that none of the Republican opportunists could play their flim-flam sexism card. That ploy became so quickly transparent it disgusted the most frustrated Hillary supporters and sent them racing back to the Democratic ticket. It also provided tremendous material for …
