GAG alert - Hillary's on the attack against President Bush:
WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) delivered her sharpest attack yet on President Bush's handling of foreign policy - reviving speculation she may challenge him for the presidency. Clinton's speech slammed Bush for excessive secrecy that she suggested shields the American people from the truth about Iraq and 9/11 intelligence failures.
She even suggested the administration was trying to hide casualty figures in the Iraq war. [No shame]
"We must always be vigilant against letting our desire to keep information confidential be used as a pretext for classifying information that is more about political embarrassment," she said.
The hard-hitting tone of her comments come at a time when poll numbers indicate public confidence in Bush's foreign policy is slipping. And it prompted some to speculate Clinton was keeping presidential options open. full story
Clintonites caught in bedroom farce: From Nantucket comes this surprising story concerning the recent wedding of Sky Raiser, the daughter of former President Bill Clinton's chief of protocol, Molly Raiser.
After a night of partying on the Massachusetts island, bridesmaid Lyn Stout decided to play a practical joke on the bride and her groom, David Perlin. Stout crept through the Raisers' darkened house into what she thought was the happy couple's room and did a swan dive into the bed.
"I'm here to spice up your life!" she announced.
Unfortunately, it was the wrong bed. Former Clinton national security adviser Anthony Lake, who'd been fast asleep next to the mother of the bride, immediately awoke and sat bolt-upright. (Molly Raiser's sleep was apparently undisturbed.) The quick-thinking Lake quipped to the mortified Stout: "Must've been quite a party!" NY Daily News
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Shut up, Chris Matthews:
Vice President Dick Cheney better remain in a secure, undisclosed location - at least if MSNBC's Chris Matthews is lurking. Speaking at Brown University this week, the "Hardball" player told students that the White House's rationale for invading Iraq was "totally dishonest" and that the Veep "is behind it all. The whole neo-conservative power vortex, it all goes through his office. He has become the chief executive ...It's scary."
Cheney and the neo-cons saw in George W. Bush "a man who never read any books, who didn't think too deeply, and they gave him something to think about for the first time in his life," Matthews said, according to Rhode Island's Woonsocket Call.
A White House spokesman tells us Matthews' analysis is "disrespectful, totally false and irresponsible. Mr. Matthews has lost touch with reality. The President made the decision to go to war using the same facts as the previous administration and the United Nations, which judged Saddam Hussein as a threat to the region." source.
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Say it isn't so!
It's been nearly three weeks since Chelsea Clinton and boyfriend Ian Klaus appeared to be having a spat at the PM Lounge. (After putting her in a cab, our spy heard him tell a friend, "I love her, but I hate her.") Since then, Chelsea has been spotted at Pipa, at the Canal Room and at Phil Suarez's new restaurant, Lucy. Klaus was missing from all three outings ... (Daily Dish, NY Daily News)