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August 18, 2008
Jennifer Foster: Conventions, protesters and peaceful assembly
The conventions are right around the corner, and you know what that means: Long-winded speeches with painfully predictable sound bites. Goofy pins and hats that look more at home in the Disney costume collection. The hackneyed balloon-and-confetti drop.
August 11, 2008
Jennifer Foster: Equality isn’t achieved through unequal laws
The case of Luis Ramirez is the latest incident that has civil rights advocates calling for an expansion in the federal hate crimes law.
August 04, 2008
Jennifer Foster: Should your vote still count if you’re dead?
The stories we’ve all heard about dead people voting are generally linked to allegations of fraud in tight races. Some locales have developed enduring reputations for, shall we say, high postmortem voter turnout.
July 21, 2008
Jennifer Foster: Dreaded disease is back among politicians
Bad news, friends: That dreaded disease, flipflopitis, is back – and it’s spreading.
July 09, 2008
Jennifer Foster: Holiday special for three American families
But for three American families, freedom this Fourth of July takes on a whole new meaning.
June 29, 2008
Jennifer Foster: Young people: Voting is your right — and your responsibility
Is Election Day voter registration a good idea? Yes, says Tim Russert’s son, Luke — especially as a means of increasing young voter turnout.
June 23, 2008
Jennifer Foster: Well-behaved candidates’ wives rob voters of authenticity
The national media must be sick of writing about John McCain and Barack Obama, because this week, it was all about the ladies.
June 16, 2008
Jennifer Foster: Free advice for vice presidential search teams
John McCain and Barack Obama are turning their attention to what John Adams once called “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived:” the vice presidency.
June 09, 2008
Jennifer Foster: Actions have consequences – for better or worse
If you’re a regular reader of this column, you’ve read about the three little girls my husband and I have running around at our house.
May 27, 2008
Jennifer Foster: Senate failures lead Alabamians to consider recourse
Alabama lawmakers will return to Montgomery Tuesday to try to do in five days what they couldn’t in three months: Pass a budget to fund this state’s schools.
May 19, 2008
Jennifer Foster: A great idea from our right honorable friend
I knew that if I waited long enough, one of the presidential candidates would deliver an idea that would really fire me up.
May 05, 2008
Jennifer Foster: Week of Wright, Riley, Folsom’s actions and double-dipping
This week has been crazy. And I’m not just talking about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his Amazing Traveling Media Circus.
April 28, 2008
Surrogates offer steady diet of spin, if you still have an appetite
The good news: Hillary Clinton’s win in Pennsylvania on Tuesday assured political junkies like me of at least another month of drama and fun.
April 21, 2008
Jennifer Foster: Dreadful ABC debate likely last in Democratic series
Are the news networks just trying to out-awful each other when it comes to presidential debates?
April 14, 2008
Jennifer Foster: Does every child matter? Candidates will decide
Last week, I challenged our presidential candidates to ditch their television ads for the month of May and donate the money that would have been spent to air them to domestic violence shelters and/or child welfare programs.
April 05, 2008
Jennifer Foster: Candidates can hit the child abuse prevention jackpot
A media watchdog group reported this week that when it comes to destination advertising for presidential candidates, nothing beats the Wheel – of Fortune, that is.
March 31, 2008
Jennifer Foster: Party faithful fumes as Democratic race drags on
You may remember reading here last month about the “Democrats’ dirty little secret:” Under Democratic National Committee rules, there’s really no such thing as a “pledged” delegate. Theoretically, they’re almost all up for grabs at the convention.
March 27, 2008
Jennifer Foster: Spitzer’s scandal opened door to number of moral, legal debates
Political watchers were stupefied this week by the meteoric downfall of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who resigned in disgrace after being linked to a high-dollar prostitution ring
March 25, 2008
Jennifer Foster: Win or lose, Obama’s speech was good for America
Ever since the national press began taking marching orders from Saturday Night Live and began giving Barack Obama the once-over a couple of weeks ago, it was just a matter of time before the country was introduced to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., the now-former pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
March 11, 2008
Jennifer Foster: Democratic race muddled as delegate showdown looms
Super Tuesday giveth clarity to the Democratic race for president; Super Tuesday II taketh away.
March 03, 2008
Jennifer Foster: Rules just suggestions in Alabama House
The chair of a standing committee shall take a recorded vote on any motion if requested by a committee member and sustained by one additional committee member — Rule 75 of the Alabama House of Representatives.
February 25, 2008
Jennifer Foster: Democrats’ dirty delegate secret is out
Think the Democratic presidential campaign is in knots now? Hang on. Barack Obama made it 10-for-10 with victories over Hillary Clinton in contests in Wisconsin and Hawaii Tuesday while trend numbers continued to reflect his increasing reach into her core base of supporters.
February 19, 2008
Just who is the Democratic frontrunner these days?
Frontrunner status is a funny thing in politics.
February 13, 2008
Cleaning out the notebook from Super Tuesday
Some leftover thoughts from Super Tuesday:
February 11, 2008
Jennifer Foster: Romney exit leaves McCain to mend fences
Jennifer Foster is a political enthusiast who lives in Auburn and writes a column for the Opelika-Auburn News.It’s a good thing I’m a procrastinator. Here I was, all set to analyze Super Tuesday results for you, when former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney shocked influential conservative activists in Washington Thursday with news that he was “suspending” his campaign.
February 04, 2008
Jennifer Foster: Streamlined field rumbles toward Super Tuesday
You may remember that last summer, a woman at Barack Obama’s campaign kickoff in Birmingham told me, “I haven’t been this excited about politics since the Kennedys.”
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