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Hillary's Man in South Texas Defies Obama's 'Butt-Kicking' Organization

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:44:57 -0500

In South Texas, one of the state's remaining Democratic strongholds, people love the Clintons. They know Bill's favorite taco restaurant in McAllen, a city of about 150,000 on the Mexico border. They mobbed him at a Barnes & Noble last fall. They named a school after him.

So things should look pretty good for Hillary Clinton in next week's Texas primary.

It's simple, says local operative and former Democratic National Committee member and superdelegate Billy Leo,...

Celebrity Stumpers: In Which Ugly Betty Star Does A Dance Called 'Hillary'

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:20:08 -0500

Warning to those affected by motion sickness—now is the time to pop a Dramamine.

Beyond all the jiggles and giggles, the nougat at the core of this promo clip—a sewing-circle interview of Hillary Clinton conducted by Traveling Pants sister Amber Tamblyn, Ugly Betty star America Ferrera and the inside of her mouth (Chelsea Clinton is apparently there, too)—is d’lish.

After an obligatory joke about Ms. Ferrera’s first name, Ms. Tamblyn—who, fittingly here,...

MSNBC's David Shuster to Apologize to the Clintons

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:55:10 -0500

According to Howard Kurtz, MSNBC's David Shuster will be issuing an on-air apology this evening at 6 p.m. on Tucker, for comments he made yesterday about Chelsea Clinton's role campaigning for her mother.

"Doesn't it seem as if Chelsea is sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?" he asked (watch the segment above).

Yikes.

"The comment was completely inappropriate, and we have called the Clinton campaign to apologize," MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines...

Hillary Leaving South Carolina to Bill and Chelsea [updated]

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:09:15 -0500

A source in the Clinton campaign confirms that Hillary Clinton will be spending most of the week before the South Carolina primary in states other than South Carolina.

She’s expected to spend Tuesday in California and Arizona, and New Mexico. Wednesday she will be in New Mexico and New Jersey and probably New York. And on Friday, she will return to South Carolina, a day before the primary here.

The Clinton campaign clearly sees difficult odds...

Chelsea Doesn't Stump, Does Canvass

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:22:46 -0500

Chelsea Clinton appeared on stage with her mother on a half dozen stages in a half dozen towns in Iowa yesterday without saying a word. (She tells reporters, as a matter of policy, that she doesn’t speak to the press.) She does, however, talk to voters on the rope line. "Thank you for coming,” she said to an attendee after one of her mother’s stump speeches. “I hope you are going to caucus for...

Clinton's 'Family Values' Ad

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:00:47 -0500

Hillary Clinton's campaign makes more use of footage from last weekend, when the candidate campaigned with her mother and daughter, in a new ad that emphasizes "family...

Weekend in Review: Chelsea, Dorothy, Oprah

Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:27:57 -0500

The top Democratic presidential candidates brought out some of their more powerful symbolic stumpers this weekend. To counter Barack Obama’s breathlessly awaited Oprah event in Iowa, Hillary Clinton campaigned with both her generally press-shy daughter Chelsea and her mother, Dorothy Rodham.

Clinton also sent her husband, who arguably has as much star power as Oprah, to South Carolina. In New Hampshire, the Clinton team dispatched the former secretary of the Navy to deliver a speech...

Bill Clinton Says He's 'Ready' To Be 'First Gentleman'

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:11:57 -0400

Last night we asked Bill Clinton whether he was ready to become America’s first male First Lady (OK, first gentleman.)

“If the American people are ready to elect [Hillary Clinton], I am," the 61-year-old Mr. Clinton told The Transom. "I’ll do whatever I’m asked to do. I hope they will, because I think it’ll be good for America and the world, but whatever happens…” And then he gave a slight shrug.

A...

Come Celebrate Bill's 60th! But Bring Six Figures

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:00:00 -0500

So what if Bill Clinton tied New York traffic in knots just over a month ago with the Clinton Global Initiative Conference? And who really cares that his real birthday was more than two months ago?

Ready or not, he’s back. This weekend, the former President will be dining and drinking to 60 years with some of world’s deepest-pocketed donors at a series of glamorous events around Manhattan, beginning Friday evening and...

Come Celebrate Bill’s 60th! But Bring Six Figures

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:00:00 -0500

So what if Bill Clinton tied New York traffic in knots just over a month ago with the Clinton Global Initiative Conference? And who really cares that his real birthday was more than two months ago? Ready or not, he’s back. This weekend, the former President will be dining and drinking to 60 years with some of world’s deepest-pocketed donors at a series of glamorous events around Manhattan, beginning Friday evening and ending with...

First Girls Go Wild

Sun, 22 Feb 2004 19:00:00 -0500

On Friday, Feb. 13, photographs of First Daughter Barbara Bush flopping like a wet noodle over the arm of Ecuadorian socialite Fabian Basabe at Sette on Seventh Avenue appeared on the front pages of the Daily News .

And into our usual Manhattan morning cup of steamed Schadenfreude fell a few drops of dismay, followed by a stiff chaser of nostalgia: for Amy Carter reading quietly in the Oval Office; for Susan Ford writing a...

Power Punk: Chelsea Clinton

Sun, 14 Dec 2003 19:00:00 -0500

First Daughter at McKinsey; Versace; straight hair; Chappaqua? Where's that?

The lot of the modern Presidential offspring is a hard one. What with the constant media scrutiny and the oppressive parental shadow, it's no surprise that the current crop is heavy on the shrill family feuding, boozing and Playboy pictorials. So it's all the more impressive that 23-year-old Chelsea Clinton, now a resident of-where else?-Chelsea, appears to be not just a functional citizen but...

Chelsea Talks to Tina: Former First Daughter To Write on Trade Center Attack

Sun, 30 Sep 2001 20:00:00 -0400

Tina Brown finally got a Clinton on her payroll.

Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton, 21, has agreed to write a story for Talk Magazine about her experiences during the World Trade Center attack, a source at the magazine said. "Chelsea Clinton is pursuing a piece for us related to the World Trade Center disaster," the Talk source said. The story is expected to run in the November issue of the magazine, though the publication date...

Ring-a-Ding-Ding! Bill and Hill's 'Crat Pack Swings In

Sun, 24 Dec 2000 19:00:00 -0500

High on the 34th floor of the Grand Hyatt, deep within the force field of Secret Service men and federal agents in riot gear, they stood in a loose group around the woman who hours before had been elected New York's junior Senator. Hillary Clinton stood staring at an open copy of a hot-off-the-presses New York Post that bore front-and-back "Election Extra" news covers. "CAPITOL HILL" blared one of the headlines above what...

BushGore Are DarnClose

Sun, 12 Nov 2000 19:00:00 -0500

In the first election of the new century, New Yorkers chose First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton as their first woman U.S. Senator, while the presidential election lived up to its billing as Wednesday, November 8 chugged into the East Coast without a winner.

But New York had one. With more then 92 percent of the vote counted in New York, Mrs. Clinton had 56 percent of the vote, to Republican Representative Rick Lazio's 43...

A Barbaric Solution

Sun, 06 Aug 2000 20:00:00 -0400

It is somewhat startling to realize that in this election year, New Yorkers, who like to think of themselves as a fairly enlightened, educated and ethical bunch, nevertheless are faced with four major candidates-George W. Bush, Al Gore, Rick Lazio and Hillary Clinton-who favor the death penalty. The political calculations that went into each candidate's pro–death penalty stance are not difficult to understand. A majority of Americans favor this barbaric solution. The harsh truth...

Was Mrs. Clinton's Protest Too Much?

Sun, 23 Jul 2000 20:00:00 -0400

New York Post columnist Cindy Adams was not present at the most heavily protected residence on Old House Lane in Chappaqua for the press conference on the afternoon of Sunday, July 16, which had been hastily called so that the First Lady of the United States could categorically deny that she had called a southern Baptist a "fucking Jew bastard" in 1974, but her favorite trademarked phrase was written all over the event, and...