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Why I’m Having a Hard Time With Barack Obama

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Barack Obama never misses an opportunity to get a personal dig in at Hillary Clinton. While he tries to remind us all of her negative campaign style, his negative approach is to kill her with a thousand cuts. More subtle, …

PunditMom & MOMocrats on Motherhood Uncensored Podcast Live on Wednesday Evening!

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

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Join me and fellow MOMocrat Kristen Chase, you know her better as Motherhood Uncensored, as we discuss all things political on Kristen’s weekly podcast tomorrow evening (Wednesday) from 9-9:30pm EST. It’s a LIVE show and we’d love to hear …

Universal Health Insurance — Should I Laugh or Cry?

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

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Thanks to fellow MOMocrat Glennia for the head’s up on this “cartoon.” Hmmm. A cartoon. Do you think we could get George Bush’s attention about the health care crisis if we told him he’d only have to watch a one-and-a-half …

Lessons for the Next ‘Serious Woman Presidential Candidate’

Monday, March 3, 2008

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A few things are clear to me this week. Hannah Montana is the next big thing. I’ll need some help to survive the fact that Project Runway Season Four will soon be over. And attacking Hillary Clinton has become …

MOMocrats and "Just Call Me Hussein" Day

Friday, February 29, 2008

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In an effort to put childish bullies like Bill Cunningham in their place, we MOMocrats hosted a “Call Yourself Hussein Day” yesterday. For your enjoyment, I share with you mine — “Joanne Hussein PunditMom.” Trust me, I’ve been called worse …

Remember, Just Because You’re Paranoid …

Thursday, February 28, 2008

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… doesn’t mean they aren’t really out to get you. In all great humor, there’s always a grain of truth. Sure, Comedy Central is having a little fun, but how do we explain MSNBC’s Chris Matthews turning a guest’s favorable …

Mothers of Intention: i miss the dream, by CityMama

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

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Things are heating up in the presidential race as we winnow the field of candidates. And emotions, as I’m noticing on comments here and elsewhere, are reflective of that. So today I’m introducing a new, regular feature here at PunditMom …

Barack, You Don’t Have to Worry About My Soul

Monday, February 25, 2008

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I hate to agree with uber-conservative Bill Kristol on anything, but I guess just on pure statistics it was bound to happen at some point in my life. I’ve been having this nagging feeling that something just didn’t feel right …

Do My Parents Deserve Health Care?

Sunday, February 17, 2008

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It’s pretty easy to think of the health care situation in this country in the abstract. For those of us who have the opportunity to blog (and read blogs), as well as the finances to have a computer and, probably, …

Why We Should Have Universal Health Care

Thursday, February 14, 2008

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I can’t say it any better than today’s guest post by Kyla at MOMocrats. After reading this, how can one not be grateful if they’ve got decent health insurance and want everyone, especially children, to have it, as well.…

"In Times Like These, We Need a Grown-Up"

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

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While watching the South Carolina debates on CNN last night, and watching Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama do the “Nuh-HUH! Nuh-UH!” version of political debating, I turned to my husband and said:“It looks like John Edwards is the only …

Dear New Hampshire

Monday, January 7, 2008

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Dear New Hampshire, I know things are a little crazy there right now, what will all the Presidential candidates hurrying about the state. Plus, I’m sure that CNN’s John King and Dana Bash are trying to scope out wedding sites …