I could barely stand listening to Sarah Palin last night. After a week of high ideas, we get a week of snide mockery. As an antidote, I just listened to one of the speeches I missed during the Democratic Convention, Michelle Obama’s, where she talks at length about her husband’s distinction between the world as… Continue reading Fighting Words
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Blacks v. Women
This is the best of times. We have an African American man running for president, with a real chance of winning, and we have a woman running for president, with a real chance herself. And we have more than one white man running with seriously progressive politics. And this is the worst of times: we… Continue reading Blacks v. Women
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