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Served Cold: Reich Versus Clinton, Bradley Versus Corzine
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This weekend brought two reminders that what happens in politics is often, more than anything, about the past.
On Friday, Robert Reich formally endorsed Barack Obama, a decision that was greeted as noteworthy since Reich was an old Oxford chum of Bill Clinton’s and served as the 42nd president’s first labor secretary. He also scored a date with a young Hillary Rodham back in 1966, when, as the freshman class president at Dartmouth, he asked Hillary, his counterpart at Wellesley, to meet him for “a presidential summit” in Hanover. (There was no second date.) read more »
Bill Bradley on Clintons and 'Full Disclosure'
Barack Obama supporters just held a conference call with reporters to discuss health care, pushing the idea that Obama's plan, unlike someone else's, isn't a big government mandate. But right before it ended, a reporter from Washington slipped in an off-topic question: tax returns. read more »
Obama, Bradley and Dar Williams
A reader sent along this invitation for a February 20th Barack Obama fund-raiser in New York featuring folksy singer-songwriter Dar Williams and hosted by former Senator Bill Bradley.
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Hillary’s Fallback Plan: Do What Gore Did
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Hillary Clinton.
As she figures out how to cope with the shifting field in the 2008 Presidential contest, Hillary Cli read more »
Forget John Spencer: Hillary's Win Means Iowa Caucus Next
You probably know this one already: the celebrity Senator—a Democrat from a big Northeastern state read more »
New York Democrats Prefer Bill Bradley to Run With Gore
Back in the days when Bill Bradley's Presidential campaign was considered a formidable threat to Al read more »
Gore Campaign Boss Checks Her Choices Following Big Win
This much we know: Al Gore will be around the Democratic Presidential campaign through November, and read more »
March Madness in New York
The photographers jamming the doorway of Gray's Papaya at Eighth Street and Sixth Avenue on March 2 read more »
New Sharpton? Only to Old Fools
When it comes to race, liberal politics in New York has become a theater of the blind. read more »
Three Good Men
The show has come to town-that unexpectedly dramatic, often exciting and occasionally unedifying spe read more »
Ed Koch Teaches the World His Bill Bradley Cheer
An Odd Bradley EventBill Bradley's New York backers are steeling themselves for a thumping in the Ma read more »
Gore Has Two Foes: Bradley and the Press
In a box seat above the stage of the Apollo Theater, Spike Lee enjoyed a perfect view of the Democra read more »
Ironists Can't Bear Bradley's Truth-Telling
The contempt heaped upon Bill Bradley in recent weeks is a sure sign that he is a decent human being read more »
The New Bill Bradley Isn't Hurting Al Gore in Rough State Contest
Not long after the final buzzer sounded in the shootout between Bill Bradley and Al Gore at the Apol read more »
New York's Political Smackdown 2000!
Hillary Unveils Hillary and New 'Hillary' Logo Her speech took almost 30 minutes, but her message co read more »
McCain Makes It Here
At long last, democracy has prevailed in New York. read more »
Who Took the Sex Out of Politics? Clinton Leaves Successors Neutered
I remember the birth of charisma. One friend's father, a Republican, got a blue Mustang with J.F.K. read more »
Bill Bradley Talks Values Without Mentioning Jesus
Especially now that the pollsters and pundits are turning on him, it's plain that Bill Bradley is ru read more »
Hail, Hail to the (Tall, Hairy) Chief
At first, I thought nightly Presidential debates were a good thing. read more »
By the People? Not in New York
Prepare to be embarrassed again, New Yorkers: The eyes of the nation will soon be upon you, and as h read more »
Pointy-Headed, Yes. But Unicorns? Nope!
From the lowliest assistant to the loftiest pundit, nearly every political journalist in America cul read more »
The Selling of the … Bumper Sticker
With the primary season right around the corner, I've been feeling a certain amount of pressure to p read more »
Want to Be President? Get a Life (Story)!
Of the many frightening pronouncements that have leached out of the Beltway in recent weeks, none wa read more »
Ideas? Who Cares! Let 'Em Read Fluff
Coverage of the Democratic Presidential contest suffered a brief lapse into substance the other day, read more »
Bill Bradley's the One for Millennial Mugwumps
Like Molière's bourgeois gentleman Monsieur Jourdain, who discovers to his delight and amazement th read more »
George W. Is No Orator, but He's the Right Choice
Wanting to see how the remoralizing of America was going, Iwent to George W. read more »
Is Bradley Too Snobby? Former Jersey Friends Haunt Campaign
Sharpe James, the Mayor of Newark, is a sly politicaloperator with a wolfish grin. read more »
Bradley and McCain: The Out-of-Towners
Usually you wouldn't describe U.S. Senators as Washingtonoutsiders. read more »
Buchanan May Be Wrong, But He's No Race-Baiter
Pat Buchanan, unwilling to be a three-time loser in the Republican primaries, is setting sail for th read more »
Can Dollar Bill Bradley Dunk Al Gore?
Bill Bradley hasn't run around in a tank top and short pants since the late 1970's, so most of today read more »
Bradley, the Great Unifier? Well, It's a Nice Story
Al Gore's got corruption and Tony Coelho, Gee Dubbya's gotcocaine, Hillary's got those padded legal read more »
Al Gore's Biggest Woe: Clinton's a Republican!
In his new book, Name-Dropping , John Kenneth Galbraith suggests that Dwight Eisenhower's political read more »
Writer Lost on Mt. Rainier Driven by Sense of Mission
Democratic Presidential hopeful Bill Bradley was one of the last people to see Joe Wood before the 3 read more »
With Gore in Doubt, Bill Bradley Basks in Love and Money
"First of all, the rap has gone out that Gore can't win," said Democratic insider John LoCicero, apr read more »
Bill Bradley Plays Thoughtful Jock Early in the Game Against Al Gore
"When I was 14 years old, I went to basketball camp."It was at least the third time in two days that read more »
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