Eleanor Clift
Eleanor Clift
Eleanor Cliftis an American liberal political reporter, television pundit, and author. She is currently a contributor to MSNBC and blogger for The Daily Beast. She is a regular panelist on the nationally syndicated show The McLaughlin Group, which she has compared to "a televised food fight"...
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ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
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If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics.
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Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.
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People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
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If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.
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Frankly, to be a poor child in Cuba may in many instances be better than being a poor child in Miami, and I’m not going to condemn their lifestyle so gratuitously.
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Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.
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Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.
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You get elected, often, if you're a woman, on the strength of the women's vote; then you get into office, and you have to adapt to an overwhelmingly male environment.
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Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.
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Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.
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Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.
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Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.
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If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.
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John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante