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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/03/opinion/brazile-gop-civil-war/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> <div class="cnn_clear"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="cnn_twocolbox cnn_filterareabox"> <div class="cnn_sdbx"> <div class="cnn_sdbx1"> <div class="cnn_sdbx2"> <div class="cnn_sdbx3"> <div class="cnn_sdbx4"> <div class="cnn_sdbx5"> <div class="cnn_sdbxcntnt cnn_spccovcbx1"> <h4 class="cnn_h4" id="cnn_LatestStories">Latest Stories</h4> <div class="cnn_divline cnn_skn_strylst_divline"></div> <div id="archive-display-page"> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/27/opinion/brazile-thanksgiving-hunger/index.html">Give thanks with acts of kindness</a><span time="1385596353" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Wed Nov 27 2013 18:52:33</span> </h2> <p>When the Dow Jones Industrial Average topped 16,000 earlier this month, headlines throughout the country trumpeted the milestone as a sign of recovery for the economy.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/27/opinion/brazile-thanksgiving-hunger/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/05/opinion/brazile-ultraconservatives-budget/index.html">Can the right wing ever compromise?</a><span time="1383660302" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Tue Nov 05 2013 09:05:02</span> </h2> <p>A remarkable thing just happened in Congress. Republicans and Democrats sat down together to work out a budget. This hasn't happened since 2009.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/05/opinion/brazile-ultraconservatives-budget/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/01/opinion/brazile-food-stamp-commenters/index.html">Donna Brazile takes on food stamp critics</a><span time="1380627716" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Tue Oct 01 2013 07:41:56</span> </h2> <p>After the vote in the House of Representatives to slash the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, I wrote a column against cutting food stamps. This column generated more than 5,200 online comments and hundreds of e-mails.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/01/opinion/brazile-food-stamp-commenters/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/23/opinion/brazile-food-stamps/index.html">Food stamp cuts a cruel proposal</a><span time="1379965422" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Mon Sep 23 2013 15:43:42</span> </h2> <p>We are in the middle of a fight to preserve the dignity and grace that makes all of us Americans. We have big hearts and great souls. I know. I have seen them, felt them and watched them in wonder when my family was lost and unreachable in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/23/opinion/brazile-food-stamps/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/10/opinion/brazile-obama-syria-speech/index.html">Can Obama sell America on its own values?</a><span time="1378816885" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Tue Sep 10 2013 08:41:25</span> </h2> <p>Tonight, President Obama will give a pivotal speech, perhaps the most pivotal speech of his second term. He will address the nation from the Oval Office and make the case for an air attack against Syria.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/10/opinion/brazile-obama-syria-speech/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/26/opinion/brazile-march-washington/index.html">At March of Washington, we're closer to the American dream </a><span time="1377523627" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Mon Aug 26 2013 09:27:07</span> </h2> <p>"Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, I'm free at last."</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/26/opinion/brazile-march-washington/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/19/opinion/brazile-obama-trayvon/index.html">Obama, Trayvon, and a path to healing</a><span time="1374273581" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Fri Jul 19 2013 18:39:41</span> </h2> <p>I finished this column at 7 a.m. Friday morning, interrupting my vacation to write it. About six hours later, President Obama made an impromptu appearance in the White House briefing room, sharing in detail his thoughts and feelings about the verdict in the case of George Zimmerman, who was acquitted of killing Trayvon Martin.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/19/opinion/brazile-obama-trayvon/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/14/opinion/brazile-zimmerman-verdict/index.html">In Zimmerman case, doing what's right not just about law</a><span time="1373825713" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Sun Jul 14 2013 14:15:13</span> </h2> <p>Like so many others, I am distraught. It will take many days to sort through my feelings and reactions to the verdict of not guilty in the Trayvon Martin case. Still, some thoughts and lessons are obvious, immediate and, in a sense, imperative.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/14/opinion/brazile-zimmerman-verdict/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/26/opinion/brazile-voting-rights-act/index.html">Congress, give us new Voting Rights Act</a><span time="1372248399" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Wed Jun 26 2013 08:06:39</span> </h2> <p>In an earthshaking 1965 speech to Congress and to the nation, President Lyndon Johnson spoke directly to the sinister forces that had restricted black Americans' right to vote across the South -- laying out the goals of the Voting Rights Act in the form of a command to this shameful cabal.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/26/opinion/brazile-voting-rights-act/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/16/opinion/brazile-franks-abortion-comment/index.html">Abortion bill sponsor said what?</a><span time="1371411424" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Sun Jun 16 2013 15:37:04</span> </h2> <p>"The stupidity is simply staggering," Rep. Charlie Dent, a moderate Republican from Pennsylvania, told Roll Call. He was referring to the political miscalculation of anti-abortion forces in the House Judiciary Committee who insisted this week on reviving the culture wars, years behind us, still again, with yet another proposed abortion bill.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/16/opinion/brazile-franks-abortion-comment/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/12/opinion/brazile-loving-decision/index.html">Two different marriage bans, both wrong</a><span time="1371037683" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Wed Jun 12 2013 07:48:03</span> </h2> <p>Today is the 46th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that declared unconstitutional any ban on interracial marriage. More than four decades after the historic and aptly named Loving decision, the U.S. Supreme Court is once again poised to rule in a case that could put an end to discriminatory bans prohibiting marriage, this time for gay and lesbian couples.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/12/opinion/brazile-loving-decision/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/18/opinion/brazile-democracy-in-danger/index.html">We're pointing a gun at our democracy</a><span time="1368900109" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Sat May 18 2013 14:01:49</span> </h2> <p>Our democracy is endangered. Not by the Russians, North Korea, the Iran regime, or even terrorists. To quote Pogo: "We have met the enemy and he is us."</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/18/opinion/brazile-democracy-in-danger/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/15/opinion/brazile-benghazi-truth/index.html">GOP using Benghazi to smear</a><span time="1368662863" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Wed May 15 2013 20:07:43</span> </h2> <p>For some Republicans, 2016 is 1992: Hating Hillary Clinton is chic again. Only more so, since the former secretary of state is also the partner of and potential successor to the last two Democratic presidents?Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/15/opinion/brazile-benghazi-truth/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/30/opinion/brazile-jason-collins/index.html">Brazile: But can the dude play?</a><span time="1367349490" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Tue Apr 30 2013 15:18:10</span> </h2> <p>My dad was an avid sports fan and a great athlete in his day. We used to watch basketball and football games together, and I know some of his proudest moments as a father were when I wore my sports uniforms in high school and college.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/30/opinion/brazile-jason-collins/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/25/opinion/brazile-katrina-bush/index.html">Brazile: Bush came through on Katrina</a><span time="1366870382" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Thu Apr 25 2013 02:13:02</span> </h2> <p>Despite the many differences I had with former President George W. Bush on a range of public policy issues, or as he called them, "decision points," I found common ground with him in one area, simply because we decided to put aside partisanship and do something good.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/25/opinion/brazile-katrina-bush/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/22/opinion/brazile-no-more-hurting-people/index.html">'No more hurting people'</a><span time="1366629355" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Mon Apr 22 2013 07:15:55</span> </h2> <p>The second Boston bombing suspect is in custody. Now everyone will focus on what it all means, what "lesson" we can learn from the events.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/22/opinion/brazile-no-more-hurting-people/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/02/opinion/brazile-princeton-alum/index.html">If only I'd snagged a Princeton man</a><span time="1364931312" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Tue Apr 02 2013 15:35:12</span> </h2> <p>Susan Patton kicked up a firestorm with her letter last week to the editor of The Daily Princetonian urging female students to find a man to marry before they graduate because "the cornerstone of your future and happiness will be inextricably linked to the man you marry, and you will never again have this concentration of men who are worthy of you."</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/02/opinion/brazile-princeton-alum/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/26/opinion/brazile-clintons-gay-marriage/index.html">Our journey with the Clintons on gay rights</a><span time="1364295128" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Tue Mar 26 2013 06:52:08</span> </h2> <p>Sometimes, a First Family remains a first family -- a mirror of our times -- even after the president leaves office. So it is with the Clintons.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/26/opinion/brazile-clintons-gay-marriage/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/21/opinion/brazile-black-history-crossroads/index.html">Obama a marker on post-racial path</a><span time="1361482477" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Thu Feb 21 2013 16:34:37</span> </h2> <p>Politicians and historians love to use the word "crossroads."</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/21/opinion/brazile-black-history-crossroads/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/03/opinion/brazile-grover-norquist/index.html">GOP, break Grover Norquist's grip on you </a><span time="1354543321" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Mon Dec 03 2012 09:02:01</span> </h2> <p>Who is Grover Norquist? He's a private citizen, a conservative lobbyist, the author of the Taxpayer's Protection Pledge and president of Americans for Tax Reform. His idea of tax reform is no more tax increases ever again. And no closed loopholes unless matched by cuts in government spending.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/03/opinion/brazile-grover-norquist/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/28/opinion/brazile-debates-overrated/index.html">Why debates don't always make a difference</a><span time="1348862428" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Fri Sep 28 2012 16:00:28</span> </h2> <p>It seems everyone -- except perhaps the die-hard NFL fan -- agrees that the most important event scheduled for next week is the first presidential debate. I say "scheduled" because you never know what the news cycle will kick in. Snickers might have a new chocolate bar. Or something.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/28/opinion/brazile-debates-overrated/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/22/opinion/brazile-emancipation-150-anniversary/index.html">A turning point for freedom in America, 150 years later</a><span time="1348335485" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Sat Sep 22 2012 13:38:05</span> </h2> <p>This weekend we pause to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation that set in motion the freeing of the slaves throughout the South.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/22/opinion/brazile-emancipation-150-anniversary/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/04/opinion/brazile-unions/index.html">What have unions done for us?</a><span time="1346759882" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Tue Sep 04 2012 07:58:02</span> </h2> <p>What have unions done for us lately? Other than give us Labor Day, and a three-day weekend to start football season.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/04/opinion/brazile-unions/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/25/opinion/brazile-romney-birther-line/index.html">Romney's 'birther' line is no joke</a><span time="1345930084" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Sat Aug 25 2012 17:28:04</span> </h2> <p>"No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate. They know that this is the place that I was born and raised."</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/25/opinion/brazile-romney-birther-line/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/11/opinion/brazile-romney-ryan/index.html">Paul Ryan's dangerous vision</a><span time="1344711895" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Sat Aug 11 2012 15:04:55</span> </h2> <p>The most important decision Mitt Romney has made in his campaign so far, the selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan for his running mate, tells us two things -- and neither bears good news for the middle class.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/11/opinion/brazile-romney-ryan/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/20/opinion/brazile-earth-day-bp/index.html">Three lessons linger from BP oil spill</a><span time="1334928310" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Fri Apr 20 2012 09:25:10</span> </h2> <p>As we prepare to celebrate Earth Day on Sunday, let us not forget that Friday marks the second anniversary of the start of the BP oil spill. It deserves more than a shrug, an "oh, yeah," and "how's the fishing?" It deserves more than a solemn voiced announcer relegating it to a "this day in history," with a picture from the archives to jog our memory.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/20/opinion/brazile-earth-day-bp/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/12/opinion/brazile-romney-negative/index.html">Romney bought the nomination with flood of nasty ads</a><span time="1334231189" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Thu Apr 12 2012 07:46:29</span> </h2> <p>Maybe money can't buy you love, but it buys a nomination.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/12/opinion/brazile-romney-negative/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/05/opinion/brazile-gop-primary/index.html">Super Tuesday won't end the GOP race</a><span time="1330983362" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Mon Mar 05 2012 16:36:02</span> </h2> <p>It's probably better to be the default candidate than the noncandidate, but it's a position that usually has too many gaps to fill. That seems to be the position of Mitt Romney, and it says a lot about the current state of the Republican Party.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/05/opinion/brazile-gop-primary/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/25/opinion/brazile-gop-campaign/index.html">Gingrich and Romney: The whole truth?</a><span time="1327511476" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Wed Jan 25 2012 12:11:16</span> </h2> <p>Perhaps you remember the Oscar-nominated movie "12 Angry Men." It's the story of an all-male, all-white jury meeting for a slam-dunk guilty-of-murder-one verdict against a Spanish teenager. Except for one lone juror, known only as No. 8. He quietly, persistently presents his arguments, asks questions and refuses to be diverted by emotional outbursts or personal attacks until he persuades the other jurors to examine the case logically and objectively.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/25/opinion/brazile-gop-campaign/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/15/opinion/brazile-mlk-voting-rights/index.html">For King, the right to vote was sacred</a><span time="1326637052" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Sun Jan 15 2012 09:17:32</span> </h2> <p>Every third Monday in January we gather as Americans to commemorate the values and beliefs -- as well as the ultimate sacrifice -- of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/15/opinion/brazile-mlk-voting-rights/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/07/opinion/brazile-romney-tea-party/index.html">Romney, the pretend Tea Partier</a><span time="1325964242" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Sat Jan 07 2012 14:24:02</span> </h2> <p>Running for president is an expensive endeavor, but the cost isn't measured in dollars alone.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/07/opinion/brazile-romney-tea-party/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/13/opinion/brazile-voting-rights/index.html">In U.S., right to vote still threatened</a><span time="1323807060" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Tue Dec 13 2011 15:11:00</span> </h2> <p>Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder delivers a major speech on voting rights at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. The location is significant: In 1965, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, a landmark piece of civil rights legislation that banned the worst forms of racial discrimination in American elections.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/13/opinion/brazile-voting-rights/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/22/opinion/brazile-obama-foreign/index.html">On foreign policy, Obama trounces GOP rivals</a><span time="1321981740" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Tue Nov 22 2011 12:09:00</span> </h2> <p>On Tuesday, for the second time this month, the Republican field will debate foreign policy, a topic that hasn't seen much attention in the race until now. The candidates will be fighting an uphill battle against the president's strong record on national security.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/22/opinion/brazile-obama-foreign/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/15/opinion/brazile-voter-id/index.html">GOP, protect Dorothy Cooper's right to vote</a><span time="1318693304" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Sat Oct 15 2011 11:41:44</span> </h2> <p>Dorothy Cooper is a 96-year-old African-American resident of Chattanooga, Tennessee. She was born in a small town in northern Georgia before women could vote and when Jim Crow laws mandated racial segregation. Her life has spanned nearly a century of progress: The 19th Amendment extended suffrage to women, the Civil Rights movement led to the dismantling of segregation laws, and the Voting Rights Act outlawed overt racial discrimination in elections.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/15/opinion/brazile-voter-id/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/21/opinion/brazile-nader-primary/index.html">Hasn't Ralph Nader done enough damage?</a><span time="1316642553" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Wed Sep 21 2011 18:02:33</span> </h2> <p>Ralph Nader floated the idea this week that a primary challenge to President Obama will help the president and the country.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/21/opinion/brazile-nader-primary/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/08/12/obama.control/index.html">Brazile: 4 ways Obama can take control to get America back on track</a><span time="1313184460" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Fri Aug 12 2011 17:27:40</span> </h2> <p>Ever since Republicans in Congress held our country hostage to the brink of default, there has been an ongoing discussion about how President Obama can reassert control over the American economy.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/08/12/obama.control/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/08/05/brazile.faa.gop/index.html">In FAA standoff, GOP played chicken with American jobs</a><span time="1312545205" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Fri Aug 05 2011 07:53:25</span> </h2> <p>Some Republicans love to talk about "job-destroying" progressive policies, but hate to own up to their own trickle-down ways. It's not that hard to get specific about the tepid economic recovery and all the Republican-backed policies that are destroying jobs though. Let me tell you about one we almost experienced.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/08/05/brazile.faa.gop/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/07/27/brazile.budget.debt/index.html">Don't ask the poorest to pay off our debt</a><span time="1311774470" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Wed Jul 27 2011 09:47:50</span> </h2> <p>My fellow Americans: In a matter of weeks you have become studied on the issues of budgets and deficits. You've also formed opinions on these issues, and these opinions are reflected in poll after poll. Isn't it strange that Congress has yet to listen?</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/07/27/brazile.budget.debt/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/04/04/brazile.voting.rights/index.html">Is Dr. King's achievement at risk?</a><span time="1301936054" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Mon Apr 04 2011 12:54:14</span> </h2> <p>On April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. went to Memphis, Tennessee, to stand in solidarity with sanitation workers of AFSCME Local 1733 and the wider community they inspired.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/04/04/brazile.voting.rights/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/01/10/brazile.pray.victims.giffords/index.html">Pray for Giffords -- and for civility</a><span time="1294695073" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Mon Jan 10 2011 16:31:13</span> </h2> <p>"Our democracy is a light -- a beacon, really -- around the world because we effect change at the ballot box and not because of these outbursts of violence." --Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, March 2010</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/01/10/brazile.pray.victims.giffords/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/11/22/brazile.volunteer.thanksgiving/index.html">Pay it forward this week</a><span time="1290449140" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Mon Nov 22 2010 13:05:40</span> </h2> <p>This week, as family and friends gather to give thanks for so many blessings, let us also remember to be of service.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/11/22/brazile.volunteer.thanksgiving/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/11/15/brazile.pelosi/index.html">Democrats need Pelosi's toughness</a><span time="1289841976" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Mon Nov 15 2010 12:26:16</span> </h2> <p>This week, visitors entering Washington's Union Station are greeted by a work of art -- a two-story, red open-toed lady's dress shoe. It reminds me of Cinderella's lost glass slipper. I thought to myself, if someone is looking for the woman big enough to fill this, they need look no further than Nancy Pelosi.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/11/15/brazile.pelosi/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/09/27/brazile.republicans.taxes/index.html">Tax cuts aren't key to creating jobs</a><span time="1285584629" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Mon Sep 27 2010 06:50:29</span> </h2> <p>Neil, one of my neighbors on Capitol Hill, recalled this story to me the other day after watching President Obama's town hall meeting: "She was recently widowed, about 93, having lost her husband of over 60 years. When I came upon her in a darkened church hallway, standing alone, staring at the floor, I wanted to know what was wrong.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/09/27/brazile.republicans.taxes/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/08/06/brazile.voting.rights.act/index.html">Stay vigilant to protect voting rights</a><span time="1281123201" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Fri Aug 06 2010 15:33:21</span> </h2> <p>This month marks the anniversary of many historical milestones in the continuing effort to guarantee equal rights to all Americans.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/08/06/brazile.voting.rights.act/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/05/03/brazile.oil.new.orleans/index.html">Greed, negligence behind BP oil spill</a><span time="1272910716" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Mon May 03 2010 14:18:36</span> </h2> <p>I spent a restless night, worrying that another man-made disaster might devastate my beloved hometown, New Orleans, just as its post-Katrina motto "Recover, Rebuild, Rebirth" was becoming real.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/05/03/brazile.oil.new.orleans/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/04/20/brazile.justice.stevens/index.html">Justice Stevens will be hard act to follow</a><span time="1271759991" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Tue Apr 20 2010 06:39:51</span> </h2> <p>Campaign finance reform advocates will lose a great hero when Justice John Paul Stevens retires from the Supreme Court. As the last remaining World War II veteran in such a place of eminence, he brings an invaluable perspective to the bench.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/04/20/brazile.justice.stevens/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/03/07/brazile.bloody.sunday/index.html">Protect voter gains of 'Bloody Sunday'</a><span time="1267975623" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Sun Mar 07 2010 10:27:03</span> </h2> <p>On Sunday we commemorate the courage and sacrifice of 600 men and women who dared 45 years ago to take the first steps in a 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital, Montgomery, for the right to vote. That day, Sunday, March 7, 1965, would come to be known as "Bloody Sunday."</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/03/07/brazile.bloody.sunday/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/12/24/brazile.health.care.democratic.view/index.html">Health bill is good, now make it better</a><span time="1261668648" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Thu Dec 24 2009 10:30:48</span> </h2> <p>"Comprehensive health insurance is an idea whose time has come in America. There has long been a need to assure every American financial access to high quality health care. As medical costs go up, that need grows more pressing." -- Republican President Nixon's special message to Congress proposing a "Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan," February 6, 1974</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2009/OPINION/12/24/brazile.health.care.democratic.view/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/30/brazile.obama.gates/index.html">Commentary: What's the 'teachable moment'?</a><span time="1248960327" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Thu Jul 30 2009 09:25:27</span> </h2> <p>The controversy involving the arrest of a black Harvard professor by a white police officer has brought race relations in America to the front burner.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/30/brazile.obama.gates/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> <div class="archive-item story cnn_skn_spccovstrylst"> <h2> <a href="/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/20/brazile.benjamin.button/index.html">Commentary: The curious case of New Orleans</a><span time="1235158084" class="cnnRelatedTimeOld">updated Fri Feb 20 2009 14:28:04</span> </h2> <p>There's an old saying down in my hometown of New Orleans about how to tell the changing of the seasons. I'm not referring to winter, spring, summer or fall, but rather to the aroma of what someone's cooking up fresh and delicious.</p> <div class="cnn_sclsts"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140122141800/http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/20/brazile.benjamin.button/index.html" class="cnn-social cnn-get-likes cnn-get-comments"></a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="clear"></div> <div class="cnn_pagination-pager" id="archive-display-pager"></div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="util-right cnn_spcovrghtcol"> <div class="cnn_spccovad336bx cnn_skn_spccovad336bxtop"> <div class="cnn_adspc336cntr"> <table width="336" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="center">   <div id="ad-caa169f0fbe4ab1e" align="center" style="padding: 0; margin: 0; border: 0;"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> 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