we have a brand new website here at Washington Conservation Voters! This is the project that has been consuming many of my hours for the past couple months. Check it out :-)

We released the National Environmental Scorecard today in WA.
Clinton's Score: 73
Obama: 67
McCain: 0

great piece!

Quoted: Battle-Tested - The Huffington Post
Nobody dislikes such poisonous partisanship, especially in foreign policy, more than I do. I am one of very few Foreign Service officers who have served as ambassador in the administrations of both George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, yet I have spent the past four years fighting a concerted character assassination campaign orchestrated by the George W. Bush White House.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is one of the few who fully understood the stakes in that battle. Time and again, she reached out to my wife -- outed CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson -- and me to remind us that as painful as the attacks were, we simply could not allow ourselves to be driven from the public square by bullying.

once again, India's policies for women in politics are far better than many places in the "developed" world.

Quoted: As the United States contemplates the possibility of its first female president, we look at India, which in 1992 mandated a place for women in local governments. Esther Duflo of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab found that women there lead differently than men.

this was an interesting NPR story yesterday.

Quoted: Mayawati Kumari is the chief minister of one of India's largest and poorest states. She's also the richest woman in India and one of the best known. Now there's talk about her possibly becoming the country's next prime minister.

another good article to read re: the democratic presidential election

Quoted: Most of the venom is coming from supporters of Barack Obama, who want their hero or nobody. His campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality.

This is an incredibly powerful piece. Whether you're an Obama supporter, Hillary supporter or Mccain supporter, you should read it.
Quoted:
Goodbye to...
February 2, 2008

Goodbye To All That” was my (in)famous 1970 essay breaking free from a politics of accommodation especially affecting women (for an online version, see http://blog.fair-use.org/category/chicago/).

During my decades in civil-rights, anti-war, and contemporary women’s movements, I’ve avoided writing another specific “Goodbye . . .” But not since the suffrage struggle have two communities—joint conscience-keepers of this country—been so set in competition, as the contest between Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC) and Barack Obama (BO) unfurls. So.

interesting... global warming is gaining ground!

Quoted: The changing politics of global warming will be a useful gauge to measure change in Washington.

how ridiculous is this?

Quoted:“I think that is a position which is not consistent with the fact,” Mr. Romney said. “Actually, just look at what Osam — uh — Barack Obama, said just yesterday. Barack Obama calling on radicals, jihadists of all different types, to come together in Iraq. That is the battlefield. That is the central place, he said. Come join us under one banner.”