Time to save the world, or... whatever
By Amy Z. Quinn | Confetti Betty
Fellow members of Generation X: So, like, no pressure or anything, but it's time for us to save the world.
» read morePosted on Wed, April 2, 2008
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Putting race in the race
By Mark Paul | Moonbats
"Barack Obama had only words today, but it would take a heart of stone and a closed mind to deny their power at this moment in American history," Robert Stein writes of the Illinois senator's March 18 speech on race. "There can and should be debate over what he said and didn't say, and it should start now on the level to which he has raised this campaign. Anything less would be a shame."
How well did the blogosphere meet Stein's challenge? As always, you can find any answer you want. » read morePosted on Tue, March 25, 2008
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The Hundred-and-Ten Percenters
By Amy Z. Quinn | McClatchy Newspapers
Michelle Obama frames womens' challenges around her own struggle as a "hundred-and-ten percent-er," part of a generation of women raised to believe they could "have it all" but never actually told what that means or most importantly, how to achieve it. She sees herself as part of a "a generation of women plagued with guilt, dealing with the guilt of that failure and what kind of psychological effect is that having?"
» read morePosted on Fri, March 14, 2008
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Red state sweetheart
By Mark Paul | Moonbats
Hillary Clinton has become a bloggers' dream - a Red State blogger's dream with conservatives making her the candidate they love to hate.
» read morePosted on Mon, March 10, 2008
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Sketches from Jessica Hagy
By Jessica Hagy
Youth, politics and sex - all part of modern American politics. Jessica Hagy is a cartoonist and writer living in the swinging state of Ohio.
» read morePosted on Tue, March 4, 2008
Writing off Clinton
By Mark Paul | Moonbats
I know how Hillary Clinton must feel. A few years back, I sat half naked on the examining table as my doctor pored over my charts. "Anything wrong?" I finally asked after a couple minutes of uncomfortable silence. "No," he replied, "I'm just trying to figure out what's going to kill you." Sen. Clinton is still alive, but much of the blogosphere, convinced that the end of her presidential run is near, is busy conducting what can only be called the premortem.
» read morePosted on Mon, February 25, 2008
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The Other Women In The Campaign
By Amy Z. Quinn | Confetti Betty
Cindy McCain comes out of the shadows and supports her man, Presidential candidate John McCain, in the face of allegations of impropriety with a woman lobbyists. On another note, Chelsea Clinton 'honors' a 9-year-old journalist by treating her the same way Clinton treats grown-up journalists - "I can't talk to Press."
» read morePosted on Thu, February 21, 2008
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How they decided
By Mark Paul | Moonbats
Finally, there was no place left to hide. It was Super Tuesday, and in half the country the ballot box called. Forget the snarky asides and quirky comments and obscure links it was time for lefty bloggers to decide. Clinton or Obama? Who will it be?
» read morePosted on Sun, February 10, 2008
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WELCOME TO ALT.CAMPAIGN
A poet? A screenplay with fictional endings? Pop culture?
What's all that doing alongside the REAL campaign coverage on a news site?
Well, it's amplifying, we hope. Illuminating. Invigorating.
The feature called "alt.campaign" is an alternative look at the presidential campaign. A world where YouTube and Swift Boats are crowding Tim Russert and George Will deserves some new points of view. When one of the top stories from the real campaign is about an Obama Girl who doesn't have a thing to do with the Obama campaign, you might as well ask a screenwriter to spin out some alternative endings now and then.
We're asking a handful of high-quality observers to make some non-traditional observations for you as this campaign unfolds. Your ideas, reactions, suggestions and opinions are solicited. Help Joe find an angle that needs coverage in our campaign screenplay. Whisper campaign secrets in Amy's always-eager ear. Send us your own video coverage of campaign events, or your own commentary about the unfolding pageant of democracy.
And welcome to alt.campaign.
ABOUT JESSICA HAGY
Jessica Hagy is a cartoonist and writer living in the swinging state of Ohio. At indexed.blogspot.com, she posts charts, graphs, and Venn diagrams drawn on index cards that the make fun of some subjects and sense of others. Her first book will be relased by Penguin's Viking Studio in February. E-mail: jhagy@yahoo.com
ABOUT JOE ACTON
Joe Acton was born and raised in Alaska with a typical upbringing: dodging earthquakes, fishing commercially, flying airplanes, and spending most winters trying to figure how to get the hell out (what, like on "Career Day" they couldn't have mentioned the other 48 states?). Law school finally got him out and the easy weather in Seattle kept him out. Now Zaydoe Films keeps him busy as a writer and director. E-mail: jacton@mcclatchydc.com
ABOUT MARK PAUL
Mark Paul, Senior Scholar at the New America Foundation, caught the political bug early — his first summer job at 15 was with the campaign of a Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Wisconsin — and he has stayed hooked through his career as a journalist, historian, and policy wonk. Formerly a deputy editorial page editor and columnist for the Sacramento Bee, he has served as Deputy Treasurer of the State of California and policy director for the 2006 gubernatorial campaign of Phil Angelides, a Democrat. He lives and writes in Sacramento, Calif. E-mail: mpaul@mcclatchydc.com
ABOUT AMY Z. QUINN
Amy Z. Quinn started out as a "real" journalist, working as an award-winning reporter, editorial writer and columnist for the Asbury Park Press and the Philadelphia Inquirer, before realizing that life as a stay-at-home mom offered better material for about the same pay. Since 2004, she's blogged at her own site, Citizen Mom, and also writes and edits at Phawker.com. She writes from her home in the Philadelphia suburbs.
ABOUT RIVES
Rives is part poet, part storyteller, and all maverick. He favors wordplay, romance, jokes you can't remember, and anecdotes that don't suck. He has appeared on the last four seasons of "HBO's Def Poetry Jam," and he was the 2004 National Poetry Slam champion. Originally trained as a "paper engineer," Rives has designed and written several pop-up books for children. Visit his Web site at Shopliftwindchimes.com.
