Last week Barack Obama retired Larry Palmer of his duties as ambassador to Venezuela after President Hugo Chávez disapproved of the selection.
Why did El Jefe say adios to the longtime American diplomat? He didn’t have that Hollywood wattage, baby! When the U.S. chooses an envoy to Chávez’s personal plaything of a South American nation, Read More
In January 2008, Tina Brown announced she would be penning a book on the Clinton family. The Clinton Chronicles was set to be a sprawling account of Bill and Hillary’s rise to power in American politics, perhaps in the vein of The Diana Chronicles, Tina Brown’s 2007 biography of the fallen Princess of Wales. Read More
Bill and Hilary Clinton are alternately extremely anxious and emotionally vulnerable as they careen toward their daughter’s wedding, reports the AP and Reuters, pulling from an interview with Andrea Mitchell.
Hillary Clinton is in Pakistan today, taking steps to begin a bold new chapter in our relationship with the nuclear-armed ally Read More
On August 12, 2004, a caller to a Westchester radio show was speaking at length about politics with the two guest hosts, when the caller wondered aloud: When will America have an Italian-American president?
“Soon as Rick runs,” said one of the hosts, referring to the other host, Rick Lazio.
The other host? Andrew Cuomo. Read More
On This Week yesterday, Bill Clinton shot down the fashionable hypothetical that–in a throwback to the bygone days of Washington civility and William Howard Taft–President Obama might nominate Mr. Clinton to the Supreme Court.
“I think I would enjoy it, but I don’t think it would be a good idea,” Mr. Clinton told Jake Read More
A little more news about Democratic attorney general candidate Sean Coffey, who announced he’s putting $2 million of his own money into his campaign:
He’s hired Jimmy Siegel to do his ads, a campaign source confirmed.
Siegel created the ads for Eliot Spitzer, when he needed to shave the edge off his Read More
President Obama won’t take Republican Senator Orrin Hatch’s suggestion that he nominate Hillary Clinton to the Supreme Court.
Mr. Hatch said he really likes her and she’s done a great job. And who knows, maybe the confirmation process will go smoothly. Yes, seeing how it went so well for Sonia Sotomayor–who had made almost Read More
The New York Times reveals a previously unseen side of the secretary of state and former first lady.
In Hollywood, they say, it can take a lifetime to become an overnight success. In Albany, it can take a lifetime to become an overnight failure.
Governor David Paterson has spent a lifetime in Albany.
Before his six-day-old campaign came to a halt last week—and long before he became Topic A for the New York Read More
Former aide to then-City Councilman David Yassly Evan Thies has set up his own consulting firm, called Brooklyn Strategies.
Thies ran for a City Council seat in Williaimsburg last year, and worked in Hillary Clinton’s office and on Andrew Cuomo’s 2006 attorney general’s race.
On his site, Thies says the company “can manage every Read More
