Edwards is doing it again! In the last debate, John Edwards said he was against gay marriage, but his wife Elizabeth supported it. This time, he tells us his daughter Cate supports gay marriage. He bets his 9-year old and 7-year old will probably someday support gay marriage, too. Wow. Obama jumps onto the bandwagon! […]
Dana Goldstein
Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.
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TIM RUSSERT A TOUGH MODERATOR.
Russert is turning the discussion on universal health care into a referendum on HillaryCare. Then he points out to Edwards that when he ran for president in 2004, he didn’t support universal health care, saying it would be too expensive. That’s is a hard hit against Edwards, and nobody’s made it so clearly before. “You’ve […]
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HILLARY CLEAREST, MOST CONCISE ON IMMIGRATION.
No, she says, local police shouldn’t be made to enforce federal immigration policy: “It’s not their job.” —Dana Goldstein
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SHOULD CITIES BE SANCTUARIES FOR UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS?
Richardson says, “You asked me because I’m the Hispanic here, but I’ll answer.” The problem is the lack of a federal legalization process, he continues, and the Mexican’s government’s tacit approval of illegal immigration. We should be allowing more immigrants to come to the U.S. legally. But then he says, “Would it be more bureaucracy? […]
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RESIDUAL TROOPS.
This is the most honest and detailed discussion on the topic we’ve heard to this point. Obama says he would hope to have all U.S. troops out of Iraq by 2013, but Clinton and Edwards won’t make the same promise. Edwards guesses 3,500 to 5,000 troops will be necessary to protect the American embassy in […]
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WILL THIS BE A MORE HOSTILE DEBATE?
The CW going into the Democratic primary debate about to air on MSNBC is that we should be watching whether Barack Obama attacks Hillary Clinton tonight, particularly on Iraq. Chris Matthews says, “If he won’t accuse her of blowing it…of making the worst decision in the world…than why should the American people reject Hillary if […]
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THE DEBATE WILL BE LIVE-BLOGGED. HERE. TONIGHT.
So please come visit. It’ll be fun! I promise! Festivities begin at 9 pm Eastern. —Dana Goldstein
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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE EDWARDS EDUCATION PLAN.
The first candidate with a comprehensive education plan is John Edwards. No surprise there, and no surprise that the proposals are excellent. The details were released last Friday and highlighted in a speech at an Iowa middle school; apologies for not getting to it until today. The basics: Universal pre-school for 4-year olds, with tuition […]
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TIMES TO EMBRACE COMMENTING. FINALLY.
In a Q&A with readers at NYTimes.com, Editorial Page Editor Andrew Rosenthal lets slip that “in the not-too-distant future” selected articles, editorials, and columns on the Times‘ website will feature user commenting. The paper is planning on continuing to approve each and every submitted comment before publication, so it could be a slow roll-out. I […]
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HILLARY AND YOUNG FEMINISTS.
In his Baltimore Sun column today essentially predicting a Hillary Clinton win in both the primary and general election — unless something goes terribly wrong — Tom Schaller highlights one of the less-talked about strengths of her campaign: The grassroots organizing muscle of women’s leadership group Emily’s List. The National Organization of Women’s PAC has […]
