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For many professional women, having your physical appearance tacked onto a list of career achievements can feel demeaning—suddenly you’re reminded that you’re not just an attorney, journalist, or politician, but a female attorney, journalist, or politician. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
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Offended by Obama’s ‘Best-Looking Attorney General’ Gaffe? Well, Looks Still Matter in Politics
Posted by admin on April 5th, 2013
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No Comments »Australia’s “First Bloke” Makes Gaffe
Posted by admin on January 29th, 2013
Tim Mathieson, the long-term partner of Australian prime minister Julia Gillard, “has landed himself in hot water over comments that men wanting to get their prostates checked should seek out small, female Asian doctors to perform the examination,” the Guardian reports. Tweet This Post
Biden’s “U.S. president” gaffe points to 2016 ambitions
Posted by admin on January 20th, 2013
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Was it just another slip of the tongue by Vice President Joe Biden, or a preview of 2016? Hours before he and President Barack Obama were due to be sworn in for their second four-year terms, Biden told supporters at the Iowa State Society inauguration ball late Saturday: "I'm proud to be [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: 2016, ambitions, Biden's, Gaffe, points, President, U.S. No Comments »Romney’s Last Gaffe
Posted by admin on November 15th, 2012
John Avlon lacerates Mitt Romney for blaming his election defeat on “gifts” given to special interests by President Obama. Tweet This Post
Cons hilariously try to defend Romney’s ‘route to sea’ gaffe
Posted by admin on October 23rd, 2012
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Romney’s Gaffe Strategy
Posted by admin on September 21st, 2012
Jonathan Chait: “Mitt Romney’s campaign has been notable for its reliance on President Obama’s gaffes. It built its entire convention theme around Obama’s slightly disjointed disquisition about infrastructure (‘You didn’t build that’) and has, at other points, seized gleefully on such lines as ‘the private sector is doing fine’ and ‘our plan worked,’ Joe Biden’s [...]
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: More than a gaffe for Romney
Posted by admin on September 21st, 2012
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Romney keeps relearning history’s gaffe lessons
Posted by admin on September 19th, 2012
Who says Mitt Romney doesn't worry much about the very poor? That he believes corporations are people, too? That his wife drives two Cadillacs? Tweet This Post
What is a Gaffe?
Posted by admin on September 10th, 2012
Marc Ambinder: “So what is a gaffe? Is it an error? Is it a lie? Is it, a la Michael Kinsley, when a politician accidentally tells the truth?… Is it a malicious exaggeration? Or does something become a gaffe when the other side latches on to it and exploits it for partisan advantage? Think of [...]
The Real Gaffe In Obama’s ‘Best-Looking Attorney General’ Comment
President Obama’s biggest gaffe yesterday when speaking of California Attorney General Kamala Harris was not in flirtatiously complimenting her as “the best-looking attorney general,” but in introducing an observation from the system of beauty into a forum that was about the system of power. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post