Hillary Clinton

From The Room: TV Hosts, What the $#@! Are You Doing?

May 16, 2008 - Times are hard, and our trusted TV hosts, who should know better, are becoming unglued. New York WNBC's anchor Sue Simmons, who I have watched since puberty and always seen as a paragon of professionalism...

From The Room: World Shocked By Reality

May 15, 2008 - So, there's racism. And this is "news"... why? Have you been outside lately? Or are we all still under the blissfully terr...

From The Room: I Just Don't See How Obama Can Win This Thing

May 15, 2008 - Barrack Obama leads in the popular vote and by 153 pledged delegates in the race to the nomination. After Tuesday's primaries in Kentucky and Oregon, a large number of...

From The Room: When Prophecy Fails and the Lights Go Out on the Clintons

May 15, 2008 - What happens next? A landmark study of cognitive dissonance is chronicled in When Prophecy Fails. The book studies a group predicting the imminent end of the world, and then lays out what happened when reality crashed the party...

Maureen Dowd: The Reader's Guide

May 15, 2008 - The West Virginia primary is over, but what does it all mean? For that, of course, a nation turns to Maureen Dowd. Her political insight and analysis has proven invaluable during past elections, and we expect no less from her with this one. There's a war on, we're...

From The Room: Hillary Clinton Refuses to Get Off Treadmill Despite Clear Signs She Is Over the Time Limit

May 14, 2008 - Chappaqua, NY - New York Senator Hillary Clinton caused a bit of a stir Wednesday during a brief break from the campaign trail after the West Virginia primary. Stopping at the New York Sports Club near her home to get in a quick w...

From The Room: Take Me Home Country Roads (Hillary Version)

May 14, 2008 - Thank you so much, West Virginia Your votes give me A reason to continya Folks are poor there Poor and with disease Never want ta touch one Yet they vote for me Take me home country roads To the place I belong West Virginia, Hill's your mamma Take...

WV PRIMARY: Ask a West Virginian Voter Chatbot!

May 13, 2008 - West Virginian Democrats headed to the polls Tuesday night, and as expected, they voted overwhelmingly for Hillary Clinton, in part because of people like Sam Vetter, 64, who says, "Obama just doesn't sound right for an American president." An Obama supporter in Hardy County (97% white) explains the...

Know Your Maureen Dowd: a quiz

May 12, 2008 - The Democratic race for the nomination isn't over yet, and that means there's just a little bit of time left to enjoy Maureen Dowd's deliciously delightlful and insightful sing-song cheap shots analysis. Her latest column doesn't disappoint. For instance, did you know that Hillary s...

From The Room: Dear 2008 Primaries, I'm Just Not That Into You

May 12, 2008 - Dear 2008 Primaries, I hate to do this, but we have to talk. When we first met it was exciting and new--you opened me up to so many new experiences with so many new people. (I'd never done this with a woman or a black man before--much...

From The Room: Hillary's in Ballpark Range

May 12, 2008 - After the continual pummeling she's received in the past few weeks, Hillary Clinton now claims that she's within striking distance of the popular vote. And while that's clearly not true, I disagree with those who claim s...

Quick Quiz: Hillary Clinton

May 12, 2008 - Paul Slansky has some questions about the failed presidential candidate who's not polarizing anymore, she's unifying - everybody hates her now...

Just humor me, Hillary tells Obama, media, America and world

May 12, 2008 - Hillary Clinton sent a letter to Barack Obama (and the press) last week, asking his campaign to agree to seat the Michigan and Florida delegates. Since Newsweek speculates that, in the end...

From The Room: It's Over

May 9, 2008 - I'm not saying Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's historic presidential run is toast. Finished. Down the drain. Caput. Washed up. History. A memory. In the archives. Defunct. Extinct. Artifacto. Took a hike. Sleeping with the fishes. Part of the vast past tense. Joined the choir invisible. Totally obl...

Quick Quiz: Rush Limbaugh

May 9, 2008 - Paul Slansky finds Rush Limbaugh's claiming credit for the results of the Indiana primary the perfect excuse to ask some questions about yet another soft, porcine, probably-closeted-gay right-winger...