Posts Tagged ‘Hillary Clinton’

The Needle: General Election Edition

D.C. Votes! The election that Professional Washington devoted its last year to predicting may be taking place everywhere but the District. But polls are open here in Our Nation's Capital, too. Not much drama to report: Even without Democratic primary loser Adrian Fenty's tepid opposition to a write-in effort on his behalf, it's a good [...]

Dennis Quaid and Julianne Moore to Play Clintons

I don't see it, but then again, Josh Brolin wasn't exactly an obvious choice as Dubya, either.
Quaid and Moore will star in an HBO movie called The Special Relationship. Which would be totally gag-inducing if the story centered on Bill and Hillary instead of Bill and Tony Blair, and "the unique and sometimes turbulent political [...]

Election 2008 Write-Ins: Newt Gingrich, Paris Hilton, and Other People Who Are Not President

In a thoroughly predictable turn of events, Hillary Clinton and Ron Paul were the write-in champions of 2008 (by all accounts a banner year for write-ins). That makes plenty of sense, given that both Clinton and Paul boasted die-hard adherents with a bit of a disenfranchisement complex.
To paraphrase President-elect Obama: "When people get [...]

Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State?

Huffington Post reports that President-Elect Obama offered Hillary Clinton the Secretary of State job. Jake Tapper at Political Punch captures the Clinton-for-Sec. buzz as well.
I'm not so sure this is a good idea. Yeah, I know Team of Rivals. But it's Hillary. And it's Hillary and Bill all over again. Slate thinks Richard Holbrooke would [...]