...The More Things Stay The Same
That thought ran through my head last night as I spent two pleasant hours reading some old magazines I recently found in an upstairs bedroom. They are mostly 1920s vintage women's magazines like The...
View ArticleThe new glass ceiling
Racist Geraldine Ferraro is happily constructing new glass ceilings for women politicians. In short, if they're not named "Hillary Clinton", they don't deserve VP consideration.She's apparently still...
View ArticleDear Geraldine Ferraro: Shut up
Also posted at my blog.I'm writing this in response to Kos's latest blog post about Geraldine Ferraro's continued bid to become the Phil Gramm of Team Hillary.Dear Geraldine: Shut up already.
View ArticleDKOS Poll Successfully Blackballed 13 VP Picks
I am pleased and proud to announce that NONE of the "worst possible VP picks" included in my DKOS poll http://www.dailykos.com/... was actually selected. In order of unpopularity, we successfully...
View ArticleThe Palin Pick: Her Female Idols In Politics And Why She Was Chosen
(Cross posted at The Albany Project)If you're a Republican woman, who is your idol in politics?Apparently for Republican vice presidential pick Sarah Palin, she has two: Geraldine Ferraro, who was a...
View ArticleHistorical Coincidence?
In 1967, Thurgood Marshall made history by becoming the first black Supreme Court judge, and a very liberal one at that.24 years later, in 1991, Clarence Thomas, an arch-conservative black man (of...
View ArticleREMEMBER: "Fritz & Tits"
We remember the Republican Party's insult of "Fritz & Tits", so what will the 2008 "RepublicCains" nickname this ticket?
View ArticlePalin Is a Lot Like Ferraro. And That's Not a Good Thing.
Because I still can't sleep, I'm going to share some post-midnight musings:Palin looks an awful lot like Geraldine Ferraro. Ferraro, as we all know, was the first woman to run for vice president on a...
View ArticleFive Albatrosses of an Ancient Mariner
It is a Republican tradition in modern times to carve a pit beneath the previously-known floor of public discourse and then to occupy it. Candidates Nixon, Reagan, Dole and both Bushes all demeaned...
View ArticleGeraldine Ferraro, president of PUMA Nation
So what does the ilustrious Geraldine Ferraro think of the Palin pick?See for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/...(Sorry for the crappy link. If anybody has a good video please let me know)
View ArticleA Palin response ad
Narrator: Congratulations to Sarah Palin on being selected by John McCain to be his running mate.
View ArticleLieberman-Ferraro '08!
BIG NEWS.Senator Joe Lieberman will be selecting Geraldine Ferraro to be his running mate in the 2008 race for "Democrats who used to be important but are now sort of a**holes."Lieberman's impeccable...
View ArticleFerraro-Palin similarity uncanny, I hope
Here's a section of the Wikipedia Entry on Geraldine Ferraro. Honestly, it's freakishly similar to what is happening and what seems very possible for Sarah Palin
View ArticleSarah Palin is Geraldine Ferraro
Sure, she seems to have everyone (republicans) excited now, but so did Geraldine Ferraro after she was nominated in 1984.
View ArticleForgetting Sarah Palin
I haven't written a diary in a while, but I thought I'd vent a few things just to make a position clear: FORGET SARAH PALIN. Every time I log onto Kos anymore, there are floods of Palin diaries,...
View ArticleHistory Doesn't Bode Well for Palin 2012
The closer election day and the more likely a positive outcome for the Democratic ticket, the more you can see and hear about Sarah Palin getting ready for a 2012 run for the nomination.This got me...
View ArticleGeraldine Ferraro WILL vote for Barack Obama.
Short. Sweet. Simple.Tonight on PBS "NOW with David Brancaccio," Geraldine Ferraro tells David...
View ArticleGerry Ferraro endorses OBAMA! (Updated)
I think this is an important endorsement symbolically. It tells the Hillary contingent of voters that it is ok to come over (if you haven't already).Ben Smith of Politico says:You know you're not...
View ArticleGeraldine Ferraro Endorses Obama! PUMA-wha? PUMA-who?
From an interview with PBS via "blogger" Ben Smith, Geraldine Ferraro endorses Obama, albeit a bit bitterly. Behold, the benevolent sound of a ringing endorsement:[on Obama] I don't know him that...
View ArticleDave Exemplifies Passions Nurtured In Queens
The recent death of Dave From Queens, David Weintraub, Esq., at 37, a man whose passion led him to trail Joe Lieberman in a Bush face mask, confront Sean Hannity by calling in repeatedly and accosting...
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