"It's all been about local issues," said Kuhl campaign manager Justine Stokes. Read More
DENVER—"There's my girl!" Chevy Chase bellowed as Madeline Albright walked into the backroom of the Vanity Fair-Google party on Thursday, August 28. The towering comedian, who was clad in a blazer, T-shirt and jeans, bent down to embrace his old friend. They discussed plans to get together—Mr. Chase promising an e-mail from "his people"—mugged for Read More
The background of the Clark flap is by now familiar: On CBS’ Face the Nation on Sunday, the retired general said that “I don’t think riding in a fighter Read More
Despite all the feigned outrage fanned by the mainstream media and the right-wing noisemakers, Wesley Clark—retired four-star general, former Supreme Commander of NATO, wounded and highly decorated veteran of ground combat in Vietnam, and a military man to his core—assuredly did not denigrate the war record of John McCain when he talked about the Republican Read More
The simplest way is to run for the office you covet when it comes open and to win it—or, failing that, to wage a noble-but-losing campaign that puts you first in line Read More
“No one can tell you how to Read More
Hillary Clinton debuts a not-particularly-timely ad in which General Wesley Clark says she can "avert war with Iran," although his vote of confidence may help her recover from the N.P.R. debate yesterday.Clark also says in the spot: "I see that Hillary's opponents have started attacking her. That's politics. What this country needs Read More
After greeting a few locals eating in the booths, the trio sat at the counter for coffee and fruit cup in front of about a dozen cameras.
After some Read More
Here's former general Wesley Clark stirring up the Hillary volunteers before last night's debate, and shortly before he was verbally assaulted at close quarters by a very angry Obama supporter.
After evading pointed attacks from Obama and John Edwards over Iran, Iraq, social security and taxes for much of Tuesday night’s Read More
The retired general and former NATO Supreme Allied Commander is popular with a segment of the Democratic base, and being able to claim support from such a decorated military man can only help her considerable efforts Read More
Sure, they look like friends now, but Wesley Clark was anything but pandering when he exchanged words with Anna Wildling, one of the people who came to hear him speak at Taj Lounge last night. During a Q and A, Wilding asked why America was so arrogant and, normally doesn't play well with other Read More
So now that the Democrats have won control of Congress, what should they do about the war in Iraq? “I never understand that question,” answered Charlie Rangel, the incoming chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. “You have a President that’s in deep shit. He got us into the war, and all the reasons Read More
Tonight might be Siberia's last night on 40th Street--it's still open, people!--but the reporters' no-man's-land has already found a new home on the World Wide Web. Last night The Transom stopped by to raise a glass and give a bear hug to Tracy Westmoreland, the grizzly barman with a big heart, only find him huddling Read More
The idea of dividing Iraq into a Federalist system with three autonomous regions once had some currency amongst Democrats seeking alternative approaches in Iraq. Now it is all but abandoned. The idea, associated most closely with Leslie Gelb, the President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, gained traction when it was endorsed by Read More
