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Live-blog: “Bill to Michelle, Cindy to Ann: A Media Perspective on Spouses and Gender in the 2008 Race”


This live-blog will begin at 8:30am on Saturday morning, May 17, 2008 from the “From Front Porch to Webcast: The History and Impact of Spouses in Presidential Campaigns.” This session will feature:

Dianne Bystrom, Director fo the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics, Iowa State University
Evan Cornog, Associate Dean, Academic Affairs, Columbia Journalism School
Connie Schultz, Cleveland Plain Dealer Pulitzer Prise winning Journalist

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:37 am May 17th, 2008 in Politics 

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4 Responses to “Live-blog: “Bill to Michelle, Cindy to Ann: A Media Perspective on Spouses and Gender in the 2008 Race””

  1. 1 Terry on May 17th, 2008 1:36 pm

    This live blog tool is great. I’ve never seen it before. What’s it called?

  2. 2 Cheri on May 17th, 2008 3:47 pm

    I remember hearing about this conference a few months ago. When I checked out the cost ($165 for day!),I sighed & moved on.

    I was therefore quite happy to find out that you were live-blogging. I felt (almost) like I was in the room with you. Summarizing & typing takes a special kind of brainpower.

    (And I bet you now have lots of material for your upcoming programs!)

  3. 3 oengus on May 18th, 2008 11:02 am

    I find Michelle Obama interesting; she is an anomaly, offered Ivy League Royalty and ran with it. The outsider on the inside, she leveraged her way up, but seems to not have liked what she saw.

    I like this one, she is a bit more real than the others.

    The thing is she was offered a seat in the club and took it, and all the benefits that go with it, but all the while, she sees how things are handed to people with prestige. She gained access through nepotism and race. She plays the part, too wise not to.

    She in some ways got the free pass, but she did not squander it, she capitalized on it.

    I wonder if she will hold back as a first lady, I did nothing more than climb the ladder, once the ladder was presented to me, no fear of heights. Graduated with a degree in African American Studies, that ladder was not so steep. Then Harvard and the Law Degree, which is the golden ticket, your golden once you have that.

    This woman herself may become political; she has the credentials and experience.

    To me the pair look as some sort of destiny, unfolding.

    “Feel — don’t think!” Telling her husband his “over-thinking” during past debates had tripped him up with rival Hillary Clinton, she said: “Don’t get caught in the weeds. Be visceral. Use your heart — and your head.”

    Haha…I like her.

  4. 4 oengus on May 18th, 2008 11:06 am

    She has an entirely female staff to support her role in her husband campaign, she gave birth to two daughters, do these woman refuse to give birth to boys?

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