If embittered hostility to President Obama is tied to race, why did the GOP go the full crazy on Bill Clinton? My take on the presidency and race.
For those of you who think millennials are getting too PC or persnickety with their commencement speaker protests, open your eyes. This has been going on for decades. Great piece.
Here are photos of the announcement of former executive editor Jill Abramson in the NYT newsroom. Her name has already been replaced on the paper’s masthead.
Federal Judge Candy Dale denies Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter’s request to put gay marriages on hold while he appeals her decision striking down the state’s ban on same sex marriages. So Friday is the day to get your same-sex marriage license in Idaho.
From TPM Reader PL …
I’m from the deep pit of the south, Biloxi and remember hearing my racist Jewish father passing rumors about Clinton’s black father back and forth among his racist friends, luridly snickering all the while, and also that Clinton’s mother had been a prostitute. This just seems like an interesting aside to your post today about Clinton.
For years, we’ve had a running conversation about how much or whether the often vitriolic, seemingly gut level opposition to President Obama is tied to his race as opposed to simple partisanship, opposition to policies and more. It’s a tangled question since supporters and opponents each bring preconceptions and commitments to it. And it’s a question that is inherently over-determined since the same people who might bear a racial animus toward the President probably also oppose him intensely purely on policy grounds.
But we do have a resounding counter-factual always ready at hand: Bill Clinton.
GOP strategist has an idea about how to get Karl Rove to quit wildly speculating about whether Hillary Clinton suffered a “traumatic brain injury.”
Ed Kilgore: Yo, GOP establishment, is this what your comeback year is supposed to look like?
BREAKING: Federal judge rules Idaho’s same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional.
— Idaho Statesman (@IdahoStatesman) May 13, 2014
More on the ruling here.
TPM’s Dylan Scott dismantles the GOP’s next line of attack against Obamacare and shows it’s missing a pretty key fact.