The proclamation which established a national day of Thanksgiving was issued during the administration of President Abraham Lincoln on October 3, 1863.

It was a perilous time for our country, torn apart by a devastating Civil War. It is tempting to draw comparisons between then and now. Our country has...

President-elect Barack Obama made the right decision when he offered Senator Hillary Clinton the post of Secretary of State and she made the right decision when she accepted.

Some are already wondering, can these two former rivals get along? Can she report to the President when she wanted to be...

Ever since Barack Obama won the primary the question has been asked, "What will Hillary do?"

The assumption has been that President-elect Barack Obama would offer her some significant position for several reasons:

• He respects her intelligence and grit.


• It is better to have her on...

In my last blog I boasted that Vermont was the number one state in the percentage of women in our state legislature. Yesterday there were new results from Colorado; two more women were elected. That gives Colorado the distinction of being the first state in the nation for women, at...

Women have made history in the 2008 election in the state of New Hampshire. It has the honor of being the first state in the nation to have a majority of women in the State Senate. Unlike the House with 400 members, the Senate only has 24 and 13 of...

The lights of Washington, DC looked different to me last night as I flew into the capital to give a talk on my book, Pearls, Politics and Power: How Women Can Win and Lead.

The election of Barack Obama has cast a new aura over the city. And this...

It's beginning to sink in -- Barack Obama is the President-elect. The electoral votes tell me the facts. Still, I am slowly absorbing the reality that this is a new day for our country.

During these last few days of the campaign, I had been afraid to let myself imagine...

Have I become so addicted to polls, pundits, and projections that I will actually miss them after the polls close on November 4?

What will we talk about?

There will always be the results to dissect, who won, who lost, where and why? And the down ticket races will move...

Thirteen days is a long time in a political campaign. Having gone through nine elections myself, I know how unpredictable the final days are. Anything can happen.

In this campaign season, I am experiencing wild mood swings. One moment, when I scan the polls I'm convinced that nothing can stop...

The French have a wonderful expression, "He is comfortable in his skin." (Il est bien dans son peau.)

In last night's final Presidential debate that was the stark difference between Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama.

John McCain squirmed as if he were wearing scratchy winter underwear. He is...

A friend stopped me yesterday to say that the McCain/Palin rallies reminded her of the brown shirted fascists in Hitler's time. I reluctantly agreed.

Hatred unleashed in any era, is ugly. McCain is no Hitler but he and Palin are giving their fervent supporters permission, if not downright encouragement, to...

Doggone it; Sarah Palin did pretty well in the first and only vice presidential debate.

She did not commit a gaffe, was clearly well rehearsed, and said a lot of the things she needed to say, portraying herself as the hockey mom she is, representing the Main Street folks in...

Governor Sarah Palin has been blown off the front pages by the financial crises, which has spread across six columns of almost every newspaper. Wall Street has overtaken Main Street. Her credentials slim to begin with, appear even more flimsy under the blinding light of a financial melt down.

Still,...

Yes, Governor Sarah Palin has added a dash of excitement to the Republican ticket, a party which has no history of reaching out to women. Let's remember what this party stands for: the appointment of Justices who are determined to overturn Roe v. Wade.

In past elections, it was...

We always knew that people paid more attention to what women politicians looked like than to what they said. Hairstyles, shoes, skirts, or pants, and now glasses or contacts—that's all the talk about Governor Sarah Palin. She's become an overnight rock star—unlike any female politician we have known.

The problem...

Republicans tout Governor Sarah Palin's experience as commander-in-chief of the Alaska National Guard as preparation to be commander in chief of the United States.

Let me tell you what a Governor who is commander-in-chief does -- or more accurately, does not do. She does not command.

I was commander-in-chief of...

Governor Sarah Palin is no Senator Hillary Clinton. A bold choice, yes. No one expected this from the Republicans, and there is some irony in that. I have long suspected that the first female President is more likely to be a conservative Republican than a liberal Democrat. Conservative armor provides...

The only similarity between a football crowd at the Mile High Stadium in Denver and the crowd that was there for Barack Obama's acceptance speech was that they did "the wave." Spotlights danced along the upper tiers, as flag waving spectators stood up and sat down in rhythm, without...

The difference between being there, at the Democratic convention in Denver, with thousands of cheering, sign waving delegates, and watching the convention unfold on television, is of the mass surge of emotion which is overwhelming. There was no separation between what I felt, and what the crowd felt. The result...

When Chelsea Clinton introduced her mother simply as "my hero" I felt the tears welling up in my eyes. I had not anticipated such sadness for what might have been. It was not only her dream that had died; it was my dream to see the first woman President. But...