Posted on 08/05/2003 10:09:54 AM PDT by BigWaveBetty
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:15:31 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
August 5, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - Amid talk he's being urged to jump back into the presidential race, Al Gore has arranged to speak out on Iraq to a large anti-war group at New York University on Thursday. A Gore spokeswoman insisted, "Truly, honestly, he's not planning on getting back into the race," but the former vice president's speech to the organization MoveOn should only fuel the speculation.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Life is so hard.
I read today that Donna Hanover has married her high school sweetheart, Edwin Oster. The new hubby is also a lawyer. (What's this thing with lawyers, anyway?)
Somebody needs a bro.
They had to know how bad that clunker was even before it was released, so why all the hype? Why all the kissey smoochy on Dateline (for three segments on different nights)?
Bill is busy, busy, busy.
-- BILL Clinton has become the master strategist in California Gov. Gray Davis' campaign to prevent his recall on Oct. 7. "Clinton has been out there a couple of times and is micro-managing the whole deal every day by phone," said a political insider. "If Davis survives, he'll owe it to the Clintons. Then if Hillary jumps into the presidential race, she'll have the California delegates locked up as well as New York's." Sen. Clinton is definitely running, according to Carl Limbacher, author of the best-selling "Hillary's Scheme: Inside the Next Clinton's Agenda to Take the White House" (Crown). Limbacher says the money she's raising for her re-election to the Senate will be turned over to the Democratic National Committee, which will then spend it on her presidential race. PageSix
Kim turned down the invitation, according to Clinton's secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, who had met with Kim in October 2000 during a groundbreaking visit to Pyongyang.
Albright's account appears in her new book, "Madam Secretary," excerpts of which are published in the September issue of Vanity Fair magazine.
[snip]The purpose of a Clinton visit to Pyongyang would have been to sign a deal featuring a North Korean pledge to curb all of its missile activities, including production, testing, deployment and export. Albright acknowledged that one of her major worries was that North Korea might not comply with any deal that might be reached. [NO! Really?!]
[snip] In retrospect, the vision of Kim being welcomed into the Oval Office seems incongruous nowadays, particularly in light of disclosures over the past year that North Korea had been violating international commitments during the 1990s to forswear nuclear weapons. [biting lip to keep from screaming obscenities ]
Speaking of the Would-be Queen of the Universe:
Sen. Hillary Clinton is considering returning a $2,000 campaign contribution from a donor who says he was pressured to fork over the money by his then-boss - wealthy songwriter Denise Rich. "We are looking into it," Philippe Reines, the New York senator's spokesman, said in a statement. "Obviously we would not want to keep any contribution that was inappropriately given." [Obviously - now that we've gotten caught, he means]
.... The former first lady reflected on why she and husband Bill are lightning rods for conservative politicians, judges, talking heads and activists.
"It's not surprising to me, since I'm in the arena," she said. "My husband is the only one who has defeated them. It is about power."
And organization. The political right has a practiced ability to bedevil its devil figures.
"Part of it is a truly organized effort, with allies in the media, to whip up people. It is both ideologically and commercially driven," said Clinton, echoing her famous vast-right-wing-conspiracy remark from the "Today" show.
"Part of it, too, is our position on issues, which they find unsettling and threatening, since we are willing to speak out and make changes where it would help the country."
Entire gag-inducing article from Seattle (where she's appearing this a.m. for another book signing).
More stupid hillary! fan quotes...
Julie Ustin of Solana Beach arrived at 3:30 a.m. with her mother and found herself about 25th in line for the 11:30 a.m. signing.
"I'm a big admirer of her," Ustin said as she sat in a lawn chair. "I didn't want to miss an opportunity to meet her."
Ernestine Rosas was first in the line. She arrived at 11:30 p.m. Sunday, waiting with her sister, son and niece.
"I wanted to make sure I will have my book signed," Rosas said, praising Sen. Clinton as intelligent and a strong woman and wife. "To see her will be my dream come true."
"She's really someone to look up to," said Whitecastle, a junior at University of San Diego High School.
One woman pulled a small black puppy from her purse to show Clinton, stopping the line as the senator, assistants and customers leaned in to gawk.
Said another customer, her autographed book in hand: "We'll see you in the White House." Clinton, without responding, turned her attention to the next person in line.
"I was just so appreciative." said Ustin, the woman who had arrived at 3:30 a.m. "She's raised the bar for women."
Ustin did something customers had been admonished against: She asked the senator to personalize her copy by signing it to her. Clinton obliged.
Afterward, outside on the street, Ustin opened the book to the title page to show in large, clear legible handwriting: "Julie" and beneath it "Hillary Rodham Clinton."
"I'm shaking," Ustin said. blurb about protestors near the end
CNN anchor Jack Cafferty got off with a $250 fine and 70 hours of community service after pleading guilty to a hit-and-run on a bicyclist. As PAGE SIX reported on July 26, Cafferty - traced by his license plate - was charged after he knocked a man off a bike with his Cadillac on May 14 on Ninth Avenue. A traffic cop and five pedestrians chased Cafferty, but - dragging the bike underneath his Caddy - he drove through two red lights as he fled, police said. The cyclist was slightly injured. "This was never anything more than a traffic incident," said Cafferty's lawyer, Seth Rosenberg. "Jack acted responsibly in this, as he always has." PageSix
CNN must be so proud Jack acted responsibly.
One of the beast's minions lets the cat out of the bag.
'You'll Run the World'
A Washington Post report on the meeting of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy--the liberal group that bills itself as an alternative to the Federalist Society--concludes with this chilling quote from Judge Louis Oberdorfer, a Carter-appointed senior judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia: "If you do it right, you people here will become law clerks and the law clerks will become judges and the assistant secretaries and you'll run the world."
ACSLAP, according to the Post, "says it's dedicated to protecting the Constitution from conservatives." How about protecting it from people who think the job of judges is to "run the world"? BestoftheWeb
Fund also refers to Jamie Lee Curtis' appearance last night on Leno. Did any of you see it? OMG, she's soooooo fat! She was sitting like fat people do....hands over the midriff, legs tucked all kinds of ways, anything to cover her body. It was hard to watch.
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