A Hoosegow Hairdo
There were times when we wondered if we would see
Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich deprived of his liberty.
But one thing’s for sure
When Blago hits the stir —
He’ll have the best-looking hair on Cellblock C.
Day: December 8, 2011
Clinton on Gingrich’s Communication Style
Newt can turn a phrase… He says ‘Obama is the food stamp president. I want to be the paycheck president.’ It’s a great line. And the problem with great lines is sometimes they stop you from thinking.
— Bill Clinton, in an interview on The View.
Bachmann’s Book a Bomb
3,000
Number of copies of Rep. Michele Bachmann’s new memoir sold since it debuted two weeks ago, according to Minnesota Public Radio. The figure doesn’t include “bulk purchases made by political campaigns and outside groups. In the run-up to the book launch, Bachmann’s campaign was offering donors an autographed copy of the book for $75.”
Time Looks Inside Obama’s War Room
Obama’s guerrilla war on Republicans is being waged on three fronts. At the White House, senior aides including David Plouffe oversee a master strategy and communicate most often with the President, while the growing Chicago operation focuses on rapid responses to candidate attacks on Obama. The Dems’ attacks come from the second floor of the DNC headquarters, a few blocks south of the Capitol, where communications director Brad Woodhouse oversees a daily flood of biting e-mails, ads and Web videos. A sign of his instincts: his glass-walled office is plastered with a half-dozen images of kittens in fields, kittens purring for the camera, kittens pawing each other. Look closely and one of the images stands out: a Photoshopped picture of George W. Bush biting into a kitten like a cob of corn, a clear sign that this is not the workplace for the faint of heart. It is an oft repeated maxim of Obamaland’s that the country is closely divided and the final count next November is likely to be so too.
— Time magazine.
Occupy Wall Street Moment
Occupy Wall Street’s planned protest at Lincoln Center turned into an amazing moment (skip to 3:00 in the video) with Philip Glass reading the closing lines from his opera “Satyagraha,” echoed by the people in attendance.
The words: “When righteousness withers away and evil rules the land, we come into being, age after age, and take visible shape, and move, a man among men, for the protection of good, thrusting back evil and setting virtue on her seat again.”
