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McCurry doubts Clinton's fitness for office Mike McCurry: "Flabbergasted that he could be so reckless" The former White House press spokesman, Mike McCurry, says he has "enormous doubts" about President Bill Clinton's fitness for office. Mr McCurry told the BBC's Newsnight programme President Clinton's behaviour was "surely reckless" and "contrary to the way you would expect a rational human being to behave". Asked whether he thought Mr Clinton was fit to be president, Mr McCurry, who had maintained his silence on presidential issues since his resignation in October, said: "I have enormous doubts because of the recklessness of his...

Mike McCurry, who was President Bill Clinton's press secretary a decade ago, is kicking himself to this day for ever allowing the White House briefings to be televised live. "It was a huge error on my part," Mr. McCurry recalled the other day after watching a relentless White House press corps badger Scott McClellan, the current White House press secretary, about a hunting accident in which Vice President Dick Cheney shot a friend, Harry M. Whittington, and delayed telling the news media about it. "It has turned into a theater of the absurd." SNIP But today, those on both sides...

George Soros is an exacting  taskmaster. In return for his money, he demands productivity. What he requires of employees and business associates in the investment world, Soros also demands from the political operatives he funds. “Mr. Soros isn't just writing checks and watching,” notes Wall Street Journalreporter Jeanne Cummings. “He is also imposing a business model on the notoriously unruly world of politics. He demands objective evidence of progress, and assigned an aide to monitor the groups he supports. He studies private polls to track the impact of an anti-Bush advertising campaign, and he is delivering his money in installments,...

Still reeling from his loss to President Bush on Tuesday, Senator John Kerry is being urged by top advisers and friends to take a high-profile role as the Democratic Party grapples with issues like selecting its next chairman and shaping its identity and course. Unlike Al Gore, who made a tortured exit from the public stage after his loss to Mr. Bush four years ago, Mr. Kerry has a Senate seat to return to and is under no pressure to disappear from view for the sake of national unity and the legitimacy of the presidency, his advisers say. They argue...

How to tell who really won the Debate: The Democratic SpinmeistersThe Mainstream Media take on who won the debate has been that it was more or less a tie, with alternate reports that one or the other of the two candidates scored needed points. But I noticed something last night as I was watching the post-debate Spinmeisters attempt to frame the results in a manner that suited their own candidate. The Republican spin largely focused on what went on in the debate itself and how it relates to some particular issue to which the commentator of the moment wished to...

Man, keep Mike McCurry out of the same room as Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi. I hear from informed sources that McCurry has written a letter to the Weekly Standard that includes the following: William Kristol’s editorial, “Disgraceful” (Oct. 4), lives up to its name by failing to note that Prime Minister Allawi’s “impressive speech” to Congress was likely drafted by political operatives for President Bush’s reelection campaign.Can we count on this prime minister to honor the election results here in America if Sen. Kerry wins?Mike McCurry Senior Adviser, Kerry-Edwards 2004 Washington, DCI understand the Weekly Standard has confirmed the letter...

MCCURRY CONSIDERS JOINING KERRY CAMPAIGN; EX-CLINTON PRESS SEC OFFERED A TOP POSITION, SAY SOURCES