Politics | Politics
Mar.05.2008
I have political fatigue.
A dream ticket that would be headed up by Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton -- on which one gifted Democrat would agree to have the other's back -- is perhaps not possible in a cynical nation. Even devoted public servants are vulnerable where pride takes precedence over...
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Mar.02.2008
"Any kind of weather will do if you are an indoorsy person."
Spring is here, perhaps, with a few fits and starts -- and here in paradise...
"In California the weather is wonderful, but people complain about it just as much."
And I am getting out my spring flowers and my spring...
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Mar.01.2008
David Ignatius has just written a column in the Washington Post expressing his doubts that Barack Obama will be an effective bipartisan "bridge builder" because he "has not shown much willingness to take risks or make enemies to try to restore a working center in Washington."...
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Feb.28.2008
Mr. Nader announced today his running mate for president: former San Francisco Supervisor and 2003 SF Mayoral Green Party Candidate Matt Gonzalez. It makes me sort of sad that Gonzalez has hitched his wagon to the Lar "American First" Daly of our generation.
There are now people who are...
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Feb.28.2008
The bad news for me is that, because of family conflicts, I won't be able to go to Ohio to help canvass for Obama before the primary. (I guess this is why most political volunteers are a lot younger or a lot older than I am. This kid-career-engagement-with-the-greater- world act is quite a trick.)...
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Feb.26.2008
What keeps me confident in my support for Barack Obama, more than anything, is his grace under fire. With rare exceptions, he retains a poise in the face of attack unlike any I've seen from a politician in years, unlike any I've seen from a Democrat in my adult life. His supporters do not always...
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Feb.25.2008
Saturday Night found me in emergency. What they did on Wednesday apparently was not fully accomplished, and the process decided to finish itself on Saturday...leaving my husband like an evil pit bull in the Emergency Room:
HEY! LADY HEMMORAGHING HERE! Hans can indeed be a scary, angry white guy...
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Feb.24.2008
When I fly from California to Ohio next week, one of my jobs will be to go into blue-collar neighborhoods and convince people that they should vote for Barack Obama. Most of them will be voters whom the demographers call “less educated” or “high school diploma or less.” It’s a category that Hillary...
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Feb.22.2008
For years my son's favorite book was Watership Down, in which the novelist Richard Adams richly imagined the language and world view of a band of rabbits. Among the mostly puzzling and frightening "man-things" to the rabbits is the automobile, the hrududu. At night, says one rabbit, that...
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Feb.21.2008
I wish my mom had lived to see this election. Leslie Jones was the definition of a Loyal Democrat. In November 2000 she was dying of cancer—she’d chosen not to continue chemotherapy and we all knew that the end couldn’t be more than a few months away—but she was more depressed about George Bush’s...
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