Adele M. Stan

This year’s Take Back America (TBA) conference, which concluded yesterday, had a distinctly different feel to it than in years past. Last year, of course, there was the thrill of having each of the major Democratic presidential contenders come to woo the conference-goers. The timing of this year’s confab was presumably based on the notion […]

I know a lady, a close relative, shall we say, who has a few things in common with I know a lady, a close relative, shall we say, who has a few things in common with Geraldine Ferraro — generation, ethnic experience, outer-borough accent. After Barack Obama, in his grand national debut, addressed the Democratic […]

Does anybody in Hillary Clinton‘s campaign care about the future of the Democratic Party? That’s what I’d like to know. I spent yesterday arguing that while Geraldine Ferraro‘s comments about the role Barack Obama‘s race played in his propulsion into the presidential race may have some grounding in fact (his personal story providing a powerful […]

As a feminist who remembers the thrill of seeing As a feminist who remembers the thrill of seeing Geraldine Ferraro take the stage at the 1984 Democratic National Convention as the party’s vice presidential nominee, I can’t tell you just how depressing I find the remarks she made about Barack Obama, blogged here by Dana. […]

The inimitable Maureen Dowd, in yesterday’s column, churned up her customary blend of insight and meanness to send that message to Barack Obama, with whose campaign she has been traveling. Obama sounded whiny after his losses, chastising reporters on his plane for asking him hard questions about Goolsbee and Antonin Rezko. Privately, his people conceded […]

An interesting fact about An interesting fact about Hillary Clinton‘s win in Ohio is that, according to MSNBC’s Nora O’Donnell, for the first time in any of these primaries, a substantial majority of white men (59 percent) voted for her. Likely the Clinton campaign’s deft play of the NAFTA issue — especially news of the […]

Last night, Sen. Last night, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), admitted to feeling a bit guilty, as a woman, for her support of Barack Obama in the contest for the Democratic presidential nominee. Appearing on MSNBC’s “Hardball”, McCaskill conceded that Hillary Clinton would make “a terrific president,” but that an Obama presidency would best suit the […]

Yesterday, as called by Brian Beutler, the House of Representatives voted to issue contempt of Congress citations to White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten, and former White House Counsel and Deputy Chief of Staff Harriet Miers for failing to comply with House subpoenas summoning their testimony regarding the controversial firing of eight U.S. Attorneys […]

I’ll admit it: At first I was extremely annoyed at the refusal of Karl Rove, former deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush, to just go away. But now, the more Rove sticks around, the more interesting he becomes. On the outside, untethered to his prince, Rove could prove to be a walking, […]