Hillary, and Lewis, and Penn, Attack

The bloodletting between the Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton was not stanched by the end of last night’s debate in Myrtle Beach. It continued in the spin room.

Ann Lewis continued to talk about Obama’s comments about the trajectory changing force of Republican ideas to a Las Vegas editorial board.

“He said that they Read More

An Educational Meeting with Ann Lewis

The host of an event tomorrow night featuring Hillary Clinton advisor Ann Lewis tells me that the 30-person gathering is intended as an occasion for her friends to learn more about Hillary, and isn’t simply an effort to round up undecided donors and activists.

“I’m a huge Hillary supporter and I’m a great admirer Read More

Still Not Sold on Hillary?

A reader passes on some information about a “conversation and cocktail” geared towards some New York donors who should be in Hillary Clinton’s corner but still aren’t.

The event, which will feature senior Hillary advisor Ann Lewis, is set to take place on April 11 in the Lower East Side home of Sally Susman and Read More

Ann Lewis Online

Hillary aide Ann Lewis gives a classically unrevealing interview to Gregg Birnbaum’s (alightly stalkerish) JustHillary.com:

A sample:

JH: Lastly, a vital question that has gone unanswered for months. Let’s take care of it here and now. Has Sen. Clinton seen the ABC show about a woman president, “Commander in Chief,” and what does she Read More

Fearsome

That’s how The New Republic’s Ryan Lizza describes Hillary’s operation, in a comprehensive look at Hillaryland that has the rare virtue of not understating the role of an operative who will, as always, remain nameless.

He can’t quite decide if the operation is a tight band of (mostly) sisters or if internal strife is Read More

Defending Hillary

A reader in the comments section the other day posted an interesting reaction to the onslaught of anti-Clinton venom that came when The Politicker was linked on the Drudge Report. It’s a glimpse at why Clinton aides seem not to mind the victim trope so much.

“Those of us who are regular readers here Read More

Jeanine’s Inheritor

If Jeanine goes, and Republicans can’t talk Ed Cox back into the race (he seems, understandably, to want them to ask very nicely), Hillary’s likely challenger is a man whom, did he not exist, Ann Lewis might have had to invent: former Yonkers Mayor Spencer, and in a campaign already characterized by hysterical fundraising pleas Read More

Bill’s Celebfest Tough Game For Sen. Meritocrat

On the evening of Sept. 15, former President Bill Clinton stood at the center of a flock of reporters and well-wishers at Nobu 57. The first day of his sprawlingly ambitious conference, the Clinton Global Initiative, had gone smashingly well, and now he was enjoying the company of a mostly fawning press corps as it Read More

Bill’s Celebfest Tough Game For Sen. Meritocrat

On the evening of Sept. 15, former President Bill Clinton stood at the center of a flock of reporters and well-wishers at Nobu 57. The first day of his sprawlingly ambitious conference, the Clinton Global Initiative, had gone smashingly well, and now he was enjoying the company of a mostly fawning press corps as it Read More