Bitter, much?
The Washington Post columnist Marie Cocco shares the aftertaste some feminists (though not, apparently, Naral) are feeling about Hillary Clinton’s all-but-failed presidential bid (John Edwards turned up at the end of the party to turn out the lights; roundup of effects from the blogger who had the scoop hours early), including this choice tidbit:
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per this event.
But the drum keeps beating:

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Today is the Day of Jubilee. It’s over. (Probably.)
Matt Drudge went first. Then Tim Russert, Chuck Todd, then Pat Buchanan and Karl Rove. Then Politico’s Ben Smith.
Clinton has cancelled her public schedule for today.
Ben Smith gets to the deep logic of why the race is over. By withstanding six weeks of Freak […]

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We’re so fond of Slate.com’s discovery of the widget - and this particular deathwatch - that we thought we’d give it our support. Yeah, we know it’s cheesy. And the analysis could be better. But when the boat finally sinks beneath the waves, it’ll be like the credits finally rolling on that horror film with […]

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“C is for clinton…that’s good enough for me?” And is John McCain really a Minotaur?
We already told you what kind, though.
She’s done Colbert. She’s suffered enough. Obama should bring her back now.

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I mean, The Speech was awesome, even one for the ages, but…seriously? (I stopped bidding at $20.)

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RTÉ Belfast reporter Michael Fisher nabbed a nice exclusive, as he caught up with Samantha Power after she gave a lecture at Queens University, after she split from the Obama campaign. She supposedly resigned, but as we wrote earlier and the NY Observer picked up from us (hi Niall Stanage), Samantha Power seemed pretty clear […]

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Cross-posted from Telegraph Brassneck:
Samantha Power, the Irish-born foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama and self-proclaimed “genocide chick”, expects she’ll get the “guillotine” from the Obama campaign today after calling Hillary Clinton “a monster”, she told an interviewer on state-owned RTÉ radio in Dublin this morning.

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Quick-moving meme of the day…Obama’s lips say no. But his fans say…maybe?
Would this mean the end of identity politics as we know it?
FWIW, I’m thinking…no…and a long fight is good.

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How can you not love Slate?

Came for the breezy, smart-but-funny analysis of John Dickerson about last night. Stayed for the wonderful column by Jeff Greenfield that will keep me smiling til Obama’s nomination - the Rosetta Stone of American presidential politics: Bugs Bunny always defeats Daffy Duck. Even if posted at an odd time - […]

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