Joe Klein

Time columnist Joe Klein created a stir at the Council on Foreign Relations earlier today when he suggested that "an element of unwitting sabotage" may be behind Bill Clinton's series of apparently off-message comments while campaigning on behalf of his wife.

Klein speculated: "He's worrying, 'Maybe she's going to be a better president than I was'."

He also suggested that Clinton was ambivalent about his wife’s candidacy because, alongside those fears, "Consciously, I think that he sees her [possible] election as president as the final validation of his presidency."  read more »

Hillary Clinton is quitting her job on the Democratic policy steering committee in the Senate because of other time commitments, reports Glenn Thrush.

Time magazine has a Joe Klein story billed on the cover as "Why the Center is the Place to Be" but Greg Sargent says that "the story inside doesn't say anything like that."

The President picked a new RNC Chairman: Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida.

Jerry Skurnik breaks down the demographics of who will be voting in two City Council special elections.

New York magazine's well-written political blog announces that it won't be posting early or often anymore.

Eliot Spitzer and Chuck Schumer met for a bite to eat at 7:30 a.m. this morning.

Incoming GOP state chairman Joseph Mondello works at the same law firm where Assemblyman Mark Weprin is of counsel. Weprin is close to Democrats Spitzer and Sheldon Silver. And pictured above is the El San Juan Hotel and Casino, where at least one person who attended the Somos El Futuro conference is demanding some money back because the hotel's pool is under construction.  read more »

-- Azi Paybarah

Time Magazine came away somewhat underwhlemed in a cover story on Barack Obama.

Essayist Shelby Steele tells Joe Klein:

"White people are just thrilled when a prominent black person comes along and doesn't rub their noses in racial guilt. White people just go crazy over people like that."

Klein adds this observation:

"With the exception of a bipartisan effort with ultra-conservative Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma to publish every government contract--a matter of some embarrassment to their pork-loving colleagues--his record has been predictably liberal."

-- Azi Paybarah

For those of you who are interested, former City Politic columnist Greg Sargent has the culmination of a noteworthy, acrimonious exchange over Iraq coverage with former City Politic columnist Joe Klein here. -- Josh Benson

Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the  read more »

Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the  read more »

Back in the autumn of 2002, as pundits were portraying Hillary Clinton as a surprisingly moderate U.  read more »

So the Ferrer campaign is out with their response to Joel Klein's attack on their candidate's education record. And, yes, they've managed to misspell the chancellor's name twice and his title once.

"Chancelor Joe Klein" is how the first line reads. Later, he's "Joe Kline."  read more »

Can they blame it on the poor quality of New York's public schools?

Joe Klein-the writer made famous when he copped to being Anonymous, author of Primary Colors -is lea  read more »

The modern Democratic Party, like New York itself, came into itsown around the time of the Erie Cana  read more »