Working out of the Talk Radio News Service row here in Manchester, New Hampshire, I ran across Pat Buchanan, who, 12 years ago, delivered quite a surprise to G.O.P. leaders when he won the 1996 New Hampshire primary. Yesterday afternoon, when he finished up a long interview with a Boston radio station, I tailed after […]
Adele M. Stan
Adele M. Stan is a columnist for The American Prospect. She is editor of Right Wing Watch, and a winner of the Hillman Prize for Opinion & Analysis Journalism.
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Benazir Bhutto: An Imperfect Feminist
However disappointing Bhutto was in her actions on behalf of Pakistan’s women, she was a potent symbol of their potential empowerment. And symbols matter.
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GENUINE ANTI-POLITICS.
Good stuff from Kos and Josh Marshall taking on the latest iteration (this time from Newsweek‘s Evan Thomas) of the perennial elite DC press chestnut that partisanship and polarization depress mass political engagement. Of course, empirical evidence and not a small degree of basic common sense have indicated for a while now that this thesis […]
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IS EDWARDS MUSHARRAF’S PICK?
Among the more perplexing moments to occur during the aftermath of the assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was yesterday’s call from Pakistan’s dictator, Pres. Pervez Musharraf, to Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards. As Edwards explained it last night to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer while the latter acted as Larry King‘s guest host, Edwards […]
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REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES WAGE EPIC STRUGGLE FOR CIVILIZATION — AND NOMINATION.
As Brother Tom noted here, the presidential candidates spent yesterday, after news broke of the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, falling over themselves in an effort to show that they would know better than the current occupant of the White House how to deal with the troubled South Asian nation. The response of […]
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BUSH: “MURDEROUS EXTREMISTS” KILLED BHUTTO
President George W. Bush, in his statement on the assassination of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, pinned her killing on “murderous extremists.” News reports say that the administration does not yet know who ordered or executed the attack on Bhutto. If that is the case, it would appear that Bush is seeking to deflect […]
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BENAZIR BHUTTO DONE IN. NOW WHAT?
She was the first democratically elected woman to become the prime minister of a Muslim country, and was poised to come roaring back to power in Pakistan’s upcoming January 8 parliamentary elections. To the foreign policy establishment of the United States, she represented the last, best hope for a Pakistani leader with whom the U.S. […]
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The Real Race Card
The Clinton campaign’s discussion of Barack Obama’s admitted drug use is having an effect, all right. An effect on the black community’s acceptance of Hillary Clinton.
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SENATE: YOU’RE IN CONTEMPT. BUSH: SO WHAT?
As Brian Beutler reports today at TAP Online, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted yesterday to put before the full Senate the matter of contempt citations for White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten and former Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove for their refusal to comply with subpoenas for information on the controversial firings of […]
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HILLARY CLINTON APOLOGIZES.
For what it’s worth, Clinton campaign spokesperson For what it’s worth, Clinton campaign spokesperson Kathleen Strand says that Hillary Clinton personally apologized to Barack Obama for comments by Clinton advisor Bill Shaheen that Obama’s past drug use impeded his electability. No further word on Shaheen’s future with the Clinton campaign.–Adele M. Stan
