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 Magical Mystery Tour
-- If Hillary Rodham Clinton Rodham wants to prove she is serious about running in New York she should immediately file a tax return as a New York resident. The New York GOP should follow Hillary around with a giant New York State tax form so, at a minimum, she would know what one looked like.
-- Assuming the Rodham Clintons filed a joint return, then President Bill Clinton, too, would understand the joys of being a New Yorker. Something they can share. As a family. Together.
-- It would give Bill as reason to be angry at Hillary, for a change. And, when they take their vacation on The Vineyard this summer, they could have Grover Norquist as their houseguest.
-- Someone on the Rodham-Clinton-Rodham-for-Senate campaign has to get rid of that "You Go Girl" sign they are waving behind Hillary in all the television shots. Our First Lady has not shown herself to be a "You Go Girl" kind of, um, person.
-- Here's some more cigarette ash from the Gore campaign: When we last left Tobacco Al he had hired Carter Eskew, who produced that huge pro-tobacco ad campaign last year. I am led to believe that the national finance director of the campaign, Tina Flournoy, also reportedly has close ties to the tobacco industry and, in fact, may have lobbied on their behalf.
-- Someone should ask Mr. Eskew and Ms. Flournoy how much they earned from their tobacco clients. Someone should ask Tobacco Al how he feels about that money.
-- Someone should also ask New York's Jonathan Tisch, a strong Gore supporter, how he feels about this new coziness with the tobacco industry especially since he was forbidden to introduce Gore at a recent event in New York because of HIS family ties to tobacco.
-- On to the Bush campaign: When Governor Bush first announced the fund raising totals for the first six months he said it was $32 million and change. During the rest of the afternoon the total kept going up until it hit the $36.25 million mark.
-- It was a little like watching the Jerry Lewis telethon. I would not have been surprised to see footage of Bush on stage gratefully accepting a donation from the Raritan, New Jersey Volunteer Fire Department.
-- The LA Times recently did a story on Bush's military record with the Texas Air National Guard making the strong suggestion that he, as the son of a Congressman, was shown special favors.
-- He went to learn to fly fighter jets. He passed the course. He flew jets. The U.S. Military might let a lot of things skate in deference to a federal official, but putting a Congressman's son into a jet plane that he was likely to crash into the ground is probably not one of them.
-- I am, with breath bated, awaiting the LA Times expose' on the military career of the son of Senator Al Gore, Senior. Little Al served in Viet Nam. As a journalist. Any special favors there, do you suppose? Any danger of Little Al's crashing a number two pencil into a desk?
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