Showing posts with label Clinton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clinton. Show all posts

Monday, June 9, 2008

A Political Glass Ceiling?

The LATimes has been running a series of "dustups" between young and old feminists,Amanda Marcotte and Katha Pollitt, about the state of women in politics. The first of the series is at
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-marcotte-pollitt2-2008jun02,0,3755296.story at the end, click on the subsequent days, 5 in total.

And, from the New Republic http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=2c2ec3a8-e813-4d4e-b566-510e0f19eced

Monday, November 5, 2007

More on "The Gender Card"

Adam Nagourney and Patrick Healy's article in today's NYT "Different Rules When a Rival is a Woman" http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/05/us/politics/05memo.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
Reminds me that the primaries are about getting on the ballot, so its bash the top runner.

I would love to hear candidates actually discuss their own policies, and how nominating them/electing them would make a difference.


p.s. Have you noticed that it is other women who are accusing Clinton of playing the gender card? What does that say and mean?