What Bill Cosby Means for Hillary Clinton

Published: Good Men Project (July 25, 2015), Daily Dot (July 27, 2015)

If the rape allegations against Bill Clinton are true, Hillary Clinton needs to get on them right now.

What if America’s first female president was married to a sex offender?

This is not a hypothetical question. A multitude of allegations against Clinton have appeared over the years.... Read Original Article

Hillary Clinton will never be as progressive as the Internet wants her to be

Published: Daily Dot (July 20, 2015)

In becoming our nation’s first female president, a Hillary Clinton presidency would be a milestone in American history. However, Clinton’s moment in the sun may never come: Hillary Clinton will never become the progressive that many of her supporters would like her to be, and this fact may create serious problems for her candidacy.... Read Original Article

8 potential candidates who are ready to be Hillary’s running mate

Published: Daily Dot (April 16, 2015)

“I am Vice President. In this I am nothing, but I may be everything.”

Much has changed since America’s first vice president, John Adams, offered that observation about the “insignificant” position which “my country has in its wisdom contrived for me.” Since Adams’ statement about his own irrelevancy, the power of the office itself has grown considerably thanks to constitutional clarity on the power and scope of the position, as well as recent occupants like Walter Mondale, Al Gore, Dick Cheney, and Joe Biden.... Read Original Article

The real reason Hillary Clinton might not be elected president in 2016

Published: Daily Dot (April 13, 2015)

With polls giving her a four-to-one lead over her closest rivals, it would seem like Hillary Clinton has good reason to be optimistic about her recently announced presidential campaign. After all, she is quite literally the odds-on favorite.

However, although her frontrunner status will almost certainly give her huge advantages in fundraising, attracting attention from the media, and cultivating grassroots support, it could also turn out to be her greatest political liability.... Read Original Article

Is Hillary’s shot at being America’s first female president over?

Published: Daily Dot (March 9, 2015)

Whether or not Hillary Clinton becomes America’s first female president on January 20, 2017, one thing is certain: If the American electorate denies her the privilege of shattering the nation’s highest glass ceiling, it won’t be because she decided to use a personalized email address as Secretary of State.... Read Original Article

The 5 most important takeaways from Obama’s State of the Union address

Published: Daily Dot (January 21, 2015)

The gist of President Obama’s State of the Union speech can be found in one sentence: “The shadow of crisis has passed and the State of the Union is strong.”

This was not the address of a president whose party suffered a historic shellacking in the most recent set of midterm elections, but one whose approval rating has reached 50 percent and is emerging as a tough, creative statesman during his lame duck years.... Read Original Article