Sleeper Issues I
Bogus character issues aside, the General Election dialog will be dominated by two broadly defined issues: the economy and national security. Specifically, we will hear about: gas prices, jobs, trade...
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This is the second of a two (maybe three, maybe four) part diary on "sleeper issues" that could be important and useful to the Democratic nominee in he General Election. My first diary on this subject...
View ArticleOne Article, One Point
For several days, I put off reading this article at the Huffington Post, Why Do We Stick With Her?. In the heat of the endgame, I couldn't imagine an answer to that question that wouldn't give me a...
View ArticleA Classy Exit?
I think that the most important thing Sen. Clinton, and maybe Bill Clinton, could say tomorrow, if she's really going to bow out, is that nothing they've been complaining about ... sexism against...
View ArticleRehabilitating "Bipartisanship"
Too often, "bipartisanship" has meant either, "Stop arguing and vote my way!", or some kind of split-the-difference, horsetrading compromise which, though civil, can produce policy just as bad as...
View ArticleDisability Policy Initiatives
I just posted this challenge on the barackobama.com web site, in two disability policy groups. I have been visiting two barackobama.com blogs on disability issues for a couple of months now, and while...
View ArticleLiberal Elite Index
Us "liberal elites" don't actually need to be attacked to feel outnumbered and apologetic about our beliefs and tastes. In conversation, we reflexively discount or add caveats to our every utterance on...
View ArticleAnother McCain Housing Problem
America's premier advocacy organization for people with disabilities, ADAPT, is staging a lengthy, dramatic and ambitious fight for affordable, accessible housing for people with disabilities in...
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