As her husband trails Clinton and Obama in national polls, Elizabeth Edwards has been an outspoken critic of his opponents. Last month, she said her husband would be a better champion for women as president than Clinton and more recently said, “We can’t make John black, we can’t make him a woman. Those things get you a lot of press, worth a certain amount of fundraising dollars.”
Democrat Barack Obama’s presidential campaign launched a new website Monday that has a single purpose: to track and highlight rival Hillary Clinton’s negative comments about Obama. The minisite, simply named Hillary Attacks, catalogs negative newspaper articles, speeches and press releases that the New York senator’s campaign has issued that the Obama campaign says are personal attacks on Obama’s character.
Bill Clinton’s new attack on Barack Obama is reverberating across the presidential trail this weekend, with politicos wondering whether Hillary’s surrogate-in-chief is actually helping her. In a wide-ranging interview with Charlie Rose, Clinton suggested Obama was a risky and inexperienced choice. “When is the last time we elected a president based on one year of service in the Senate before he started running?” Clinton asked, arguing that voters who back Obama are “rolling the dice.” “In theory, we could find someone who is a gifted television commentator and let them run,” he added. The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder reports that near the end of the interview, “Rose indicated that Clinton’s staff was asking producers in his show’s control room to get them to have Rose end the interview.”
In considering the qualities of effective and ineffective U.S. presidents, Fred I. Greenstein focused on the twelve modern presidents from FDR to George W. Bush, and used six criteria: Public communication, organizational capacity, political skill, vision, cognitive style, and emotional intelligence. And there is one attribute on his list to which he gives special emphasis, noting that without it, “all else may turn to ashes.” Greenstein is author or editor of eight books on the U.S. presidency and is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Princeton University.
To become a supermodel you must have thick skin, killer cheekbones and hate eating. But after spending Saturday night with Tyson Beckford, the co-host of Bravo’s new series Make Me a Supermodel, we think it might be a smart idea for him to chow down on some humble pie! (Although we’re secretly glad he hasn’t…) When asked what he thinks about Tyra Banks and her like-minded reality show, Tyson didn’t hold back.
Excerpt from Tarnished Heisman scheduled to be released January 15.
Reggie Bush stepped to the podium, flashing one of the most electric smiles in all of college sports. Past Heisman Trophy winners served as a historic and humble backdrop. An adoring audience stood and cheered as an elated yet poised Bush beamed with pride.
“I haven’t said `no’ to Terrell Owens since I gave him the check,” [Jerry] Jones said. “There’s no question that he’s going to say that he wants to play. … Terrell knows his situation better than any trainer, or any doctor or certainly than Wade or anybody else. He knows his situation very well, and you’re going to have to count on him to use a little bit of judgment.”
“In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?” Barack Obama
