2014: An eventful year before it even begins by Susan Reimer Baltimore Sun

2014: An eventful year before it even begins by Susan Reimer Baltimore Sun

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Susan Reimer

6:00 a.m. EST, December 29, 2013

As the smartphone calendar app closes on 2013, we can open it up for 2014 and start tapping in a busy year of notable events.

… Baltimore, we will be celebrating the 200th birthday of "The Star-Spangled Banner" in early September with tall ships, the Blue Angels, fireworks and much more.

It was in the early hours of Sept. 14, 1814, that Francis Scott Key gazed through the haze of a British bombardment at Fort McHenry and spied the Stars and Stripes, which inspired him to write the poem that was to become the national anthem…

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All 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 33 in the Senate will be contested in November, as well as 38 governorships — including in Maryland.

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Voters in Scotland will vote on possible independence from the United Kingdom.

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In 1914, the War to End All Wars began with the assassination June 28 of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. Just a month earlier, Congress passed a joint resolution creating Mother's Day.

The Panama Canal will celebrate its 100th birthday, and so will frozen food. It took 10 years and cost 5,600 lives to create the shortcut between the American coasts. And a century ago, Clarence Birdseye sold the first frozen fish.

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On Monday, I wrote a column criticizing the McCain campaign for what I saw as a cynical attempt to gather in unhappy women voters by naming Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin his vice presidential candidate and for exploiting the poignant story of her youngest child to appease the Republican Party's pro-life base.

And then the storm began.

More than 8,200 comments were posted to the column on The Baltimore Sun's Web site. I received more than 700 personal e-mails and about 50 phone calls.

The column was mentioned by Rush Limbaugh and Brit Hume. Matt Drudge's hugely popular Web site, Drudge Report, posted a link to it. Fox News and every shock jock from here to San Francisco called and asked me to appear on the air to defend myself.

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Many criticized me for writing that by choosing Palin, who gave birth this spring to a child she knew to have Down syndrome, the Republican Party was exploiting her decision to keep her child - that the party was trading on her story.

In no way did I suggest that she should not have carried her child to term. Or that she did not love him and count him as a blessing to her family. Or that she made the decision out of anything but her own strong beliefs, a strength that was clearly on display during her speech Wednesday night.

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Among the first to respond was my 30-year-old nephew, Bill, a Republican as conservative as his father and so politically aware that he was predicting Palin would be McCain's choice before it happened.

Bill made the excellent point that the Republican Party was not reaching out to me with the Palin pick. It was reaching out to him.

"I don't want to vote for old white guys, either," Bill said. "With this pick, a woman and young, the party is letting me know that there is a place in it for me."

Others wrote to say that if I was going to question the depth of Palin's professional resume, Obama's experience deserved the same scrutiny. That is more than a fair point.

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Watching the convention is like seeing a bad divorce by Susan Reimer for the Baltimore Sun

Watching the convention is like seeing a bad divorce by Susan Reimer for the Baltimore Sun

I’ve been an avid fan of Susan Reimer for quite some time and her take on the tension as a result of the high profile role of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton at the Democrat National Convention is inspired.

Susan Reimer August 25, 2008 Bio Recent columns Susan Reimer's column will appear on Mondays in this space and on Saturdays in the You Section.

The Democratic National Convention that begins today in Denver looks to me less like the coronation of Barack Obama than a soap opera wedding. The kind everyone tunes in to for the fireworks.

[…]

You have to wonder what's going to happen when Obama turns the convention over to Hillary Clinton for the roll call of the delegates that she amassed in their overlong primary battle.

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So the Obama and the Clinton camps agreed to these arrangements through what sounded like clenched teeth.

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I wasn't there, but I bet the choreography for this event rivaled any of those sweaty studio scenes from Dancing with the Stars - the ones where star and the dancer are sniping at each other.

There is all this talk about catharsis and closure and moving forward, but take a look at the keep-the-faith-Hillary slide shows on YouTube and read all the "Nobama" comments attached by the members of PUMA (Party Unity My ...).

Talk about bitter.

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Melinda Henneberger, writing at Salon.com, said they could carry Hillary through town and into the stadium on a bier - like the statue of the Virgin Mary in The Godfather, Part II - throwing flowers at her feet all the way, and it still wouldn't be over for her supporters.

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Read the entire column her: Watching the convention is like seeing a bad divorce

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