THE fund-raiser the other day for Wesley Clark (a.k.a The General) was a reunion for three of the most creative members of Bill and Hillary Clinton's vast left-wing conspiracy in Hollywood. Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, Harry Thomason and Tom Baer - who all toiled on Clinton's two presidential campaigns, conventions and inaugurals - parachuted into the Clark campaign with a Thomason biopic on Clark featured at a heavily produced event by Baer (lights, bugles, flags and Juilliard musicians). Where were Harold Ickes and Susan Thomases? (PageSix)
Will someone please tell that frumpy chambermaid to shut her yap?
Former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright has criticised Washington for its lack of a proper post-war roadmap for Iraq. Ms Albright, served under former US president Bill Clinton, described the US-led war on Iraq as "a war of choice, not of necessity," in a speech at a conference in New Delhi organised by the Hindustan Times newspaper....
Ms Albright sought the help of the international community to help organise another reconstruction conference and "drive the Taliban and Al Qaeda out of business permanently." [We all know how effective the "international community" has been in dealing with terorists, Maddie] full story
However, a search of the records shows that nobody in the administration has ever even insinuated that Democratic congressional leaders or presidential candidates were unpatriotic, the magazine said.
"There is, however, one political figure who's been accused time and again of being unpatriotic: President Bush. The accusers? Democrats.
"[Florida Sen. Bob] Graham said Bush's Iraq policy is 'anti-patriotic at the core, because it's asking only one group of Americans, those soldiers in Iraq and their families, to pay the price of the occupation.'
"[Massachusetts Sen. John] Kerry was harsher. In a candidate debate last September, he said Bush 'lives out a creed of greed for he and his friends. I'm tired of seeing chief executives be permitted to take their millions or billions to Bermuda and leave the average American here at home stuck with the tax bill. You know what I call that? Unpatriotic.'
"Democratic presidential candidate Al Sharpton complained of Bush, 'Real patriots don't put troops in harm's way on a flawed policy.' And [Howard] Dean has questioned the patriotism of Bush's attorney general, John Ashcroft." WashTimes