Bill Clinton
"And at the Capitol in Madison, Wis., where police on Thursday discovered 41 rounds of live ammunition, we pretty much attained the apogee of incivility..."
"It’s the sort of behavior that you’d think a civility institute would thrive on. Yet we haven’t heard a peep from the two ex-presidents and the…
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Gloria Steinem hopes Donald Trump will lose "in a very definitive and humiliating way."
She wants humiliation . What is that about? It made me think about something else I read this morning: "MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Caught on Hot Mi…
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"Unlike Barack Obama, who will leave the White House with more or less the same handful of friends he came in with..."
"... the Clintons occupy their own unique and formidable and often exhausting place in American politics. Over the decades, they’ve operated lik…
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"Is the New York Times being guest edited by Rush Limbaugh? Today it runs with a fascinating takedown of the Clinton Foundation..."
"... that vast vanity project that conservatives are wary of criticising for being seen to attack a body that tries to do good. But the liberal …
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Whose leg felt that thrill?
The NYT book review of Gabriel Sherman’s biography of Roger Ailes, "The Loudest Voice in the Room," is written by Janet Maslin, who trashe…
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A civility matchup: Christie's "Sit down and shut up" versus Rand Paul's "The Republican brand sucks."
I greatly enjoyed Rand Paul's performance yesterday on "Face the Nation." At one point, I was moved to exclaim "He's very art…
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The One-Sided, Out-of-Context Valentine's Dialogue now playing in its full context — Glenn Loury and I are talking about love, sex, and gender.
Here 's the out-of-context, super-short tease I posted last night, and here's the fully dimensional interrelationship: ADDED: You might parti…
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"Why Millennials Are Having Less Sex."
Is this something I have to read? Or can I just ask why Baby Boomers need to know how much sex millennials are having and why? I was going to read i…
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Hillary Clinton versus Princess Diana?
Mickey Kaus plots some connectable dots: Dot 1: Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta report in their recent book that Hillary Clinton personally listened to …
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Remember when the President called us to "a national conversation on race" and told us to "Be blunt"?
Back in 1997. A therapeutic model of group dynamics seems to underlie the president’s initiative. We are supposed to be getting our long-hidden fears…
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"I am focused on doing the best job that I can to represent my constituents here in Florida’s 23rd District.... My focus, which is what my constituents elected me to do, is to make sure that I can fight for the things they care about."
Said Debbie Wasserman Schultz , reacting to pressure to respond to the many accusations of abject mismanagement lodged against her by Donna Brazile. …
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Bill Clinton did not come to Wisconsin to help Tom Barrett win the recall election.
The Democrats have given so little help to Tom Barrett in his effort to oust Scott Walker, but Bill Clinton did show up for a rally yesterday, 4 days…
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Robin Givhan on Cindy McCain and Michelle Obama in Vogue.
Vogue transforms : If there is one word the picture seems to be aggressively striving to evoke, it would be "relaxed." McCain's studied…
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David Gregory tries to drag Rand Paul into the war on women.
On "Meet the Press" this morning, Gregory seemed intent on extracting something from Rand Paul that would hurt him with women voters. Firs…
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Bill Clinton — doing his first rally for Hillary — talks about Franklin Pierce and Abraham Lincoln and the need for a President who fits the spirit of the times.
I jumped in somewhere in the middle, when he was reminiscing about his early years with Hillary, drawing from what was meant to seem like a wellsprin…
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Obama and McCain "exemplify 'post-partisan' politics."
Perhaps. And if so, it's clear — isn't it? — that Obama is the stronger opponent for the Republican's presumptive nominee. George Will la…
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"Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime."
That's how Toni Morrison described Bill Clinton. But now, she's supporting Obama , and it's not necessarily a contradiction. He's def…
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Hillary Clinton: "You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about."
"That's why I believe, if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and or the Senate, that's when civility can start again." Q…
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