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Ben Smith

Bush-Hillary: She Inflates As G.O.P. Attacks

President George W. Bush stood in Times Square the other day carrying a sign. It read: “Hillary 2008.”

Granted, George W. Bush was made of wax. “He” was on hand for the Feb. 16 unveiling of a Hillary Clinton figure at Madame Tussaud’s, where photographers tramped the red, white and blue balloons while volunteers assembled Read More

Bush-Hillary: She Inflates As G.O.P. Attacks

President George W. Bush stood in Times Square the other day carrying a sign. It read: “Hillary 2008.”

Granted, George W. Bush was made of wax. “He” was on hand for the Feb. 16 unveiling of a Hillary Clinton figure at Madame Tussaud’s, where photographers tramped the red, white and blue balloons while volunteers Read More

Will Mike Run For President As Sane Perot?

Back in the late 1990’s, Mike Bloomberg was just another media mogul and Kevin Sheekey was a young aide floating a crazy idea: that his boss would run for Mayor of New York.

Now Mr. Bloomberg is Mayor, and Mr. Sheekey, freighted with a long City Hall title, has been floating another suggestion: Mike Read More

Will Mike Run For President As Sane Perot?

Back in the late 1990’s, Mike Bloomberg was just another media mogul and Kevin Sheekey was a young aide floating a crazy idea: that his boss would run for Mayor of New York.

Now Mr. Bloomberg is Mayor, and Mr. Sheekey, freighted with a long City Hall title, has been floating another suggestion: Mike for Read More

Spitzer’s Mate David Paterson Is Mystery Man

State Senator David Paterson’s bid to be Eliot Spitzer’s candidate for Lieutenant Governor and campaign-trail partner was launched last month in a flurry of confusion and political intrigue. It stunned his Harlem-based world, and left him for a few days opposed by a candidate who had been endorsed by his wife and father. And when Read More

Spitzer’s Mate David Paterson Is Mystery Man

State Senator David Paterson’s bid to be Eliot Spitzer’s candidate for Lieutenant Governor and campaign-trail partner was launched last month in a flurry of confusion and political intrigue. It stunned his Harlem-based world, and left him for a few days opposed by a candidate who had been endorsed by his wife and father. And when Read More

Spitzer Unchills As Race Begins, Notices Suozzi

The black Ford Crown Victoria that Eliot Spitzer uses on official business is Car Four, ranking him automotively behind the Governor, Lieutenant Governor and State Comptroller. His driver, a retired cop, is cruising in from Suffolk County on the Long Island Expressway, where the city’s skyline comes into view. The State Attorney General picks out Read More

Spitzer Unchills As Race Begins, Notices Suozzi

The black Ford Crown Victoria that Eliot Spitzer uses on official business is Car Four, ranking him automotively behind the Governor, Lieutenant Governor and State Comptroller. His driver, a retired cop, is cruising in from Suffolk County on the Long Island Expressway, where the city’s skyline comes into view. The State Attorney General picks out Read More

Gore Is Bigger Than Ever!

A crowd of nearly 500 in the Library Theater in Park City, Utah, stayed on through a standing ovation and into the question-and-answer session as Al Gore—one Kentucky reporter actually addressed him as “Mr. President,” to laughs and cheers—restated his warnings about the “planetary emergency,” global warming.

Mr. Gore is the star of a documentary Read More

Schumer Reports: Tough Guys Don’t Make Wives Cry

Senator Charles Schumer may not have stopped the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, but he is declaring a minor victory after the candidate’s confirmation hearings.

“The three-year tack I’ve been taking has been vindicated,” the Senator said, a few days after it became clear that his fellow Democrats had failed to stop—or Read More