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Clinton was advised to portray Obama as foreign By MIKE ALLEN | 8/10/08 12:47 AM EST Mark Penn, the top campaign strategist for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), advised her to portray Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) as having a “limited” connection “to basic American values and culture,” according to a forthcoming article in The Atlantic magazine. The magazine reports Penn suggested getting much rougher with Obama in a memo on March 30, after her crucial wins in Texas and Ohio: “Does anyone believe that it is possible to win the nomination without, over these next two months, raising all these...

Not long after the polls close in the May 20 Kentucky and Oregon primaries, Barack Obama plans to declare victory in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. And, until at least May 31 and perhaps longer, Hillary Clinton's campaign plans to dispute it. It's a train wreck waiting to happen, with one candidate claiming to be the nominee while the other vigorously denies it, all predicated on an argument over what exactly constitutes the finish line of the primary race.

So, Kathleen Willey writes a book about how she was attacked by the Clinton machine when she was forced to testify about his sexual predatory behavior. I put up a post about it, with (what I thought was) a link to an interview of her. A commenter (anonymous, other than a first name) shows up and implies that she's lying about her book manuscript being stolen (i.e., slandering her and besmirching her character). I challenged the commenter to go actually follow the link, and read the interview. (S)he said that (s)he had done both. Funny thing, though. It turns out...

Hillary Clinton will make a campaign stop in Fresno on Monday, October 22, 2007. She will be speaking at Fresno High school at 8:30 A.M.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, facing a 2006 re-election race and a possible presidential bid two years later, is kicking off a two-week, six-state pre-Christmas tour to boost her already hefty campaign bank account and earn political chits along the way. Clinton campaign guru Ann Lewis said while the holiday period between Thanksgiving and Christmas is traditionally a tough time to raise money, it can be done. "It's a festive time and if you do your parties right, if you can do it as a festive occasion, I think it works better," Lewis said Wednesday. While any money left over from...

There are times when Hillary Clinton must wish that her husband were dead. Don't get me wrong. I want Bill Clinton to live a long and scandal-filled life. I have no plans to hurl an ashtray at the former beach-boy president. In fact, I would take a bullet for Bill Clinton if only to protect my income as a reporter. However, if Hillary wants to win the White House, she could make it a cakewalk if Bill were pushing up daises. Imagine Hillary running for president if Bill were suddenly to die. The former first lady would be the object...

The 25-year-old son of newly elected congresswoman Gwen Moore was arrested Friday by Milwaukee police and later released in connection with the election day slashing of tires on 20 vans and cars rented by the Republican Party, according to police records. Sowande Ajumoke Omokunde, also known as Supreme Solar Allah, arrived at the Milwaukee police administration building Friday morning with his attorney, was arrested at 9 a.m. and held in the police holding facility for several hours before being released, according to records. Omokunde is one of three suspects who had been arrested as of late Friday. Opel E. Simmons...

A federal judge Tuesday sentenced Ernest G. Green to 90 days of home detention and two years probation on a tax charge in the investigation of fund-raising practices in Bill Clinton's 1996 presidential campaign. Green pleaded guilty Dec. 21 before U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton to failing to declare and pay taxes on $30,000 from Charlie Trie, a central figure in the fund-raising investigation of the 1996 campaign. Green also will pay a $10,000 fine. The 27th person charged by the Justice Department's campaign task force, Green had come under scrutiny over allegations he may have been reimbursed for part...