Hillary Spoofs the Sopranos

In announcing her new campaign song today, Hillary Clinton unveiled a 'Sopranos'-spoof video. See it for yourself on her site:
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/.

I wonder if my friends at the Sons of Italy are going to take her to task for "offending Italian Americans." As one, I certainly am not; smart way to leverage a cultural phenomenon.

Back in 2004 I asked friends to share with me favorite campaign songs, or ones that should be, for a mix/itunes playlist I sent around. I will have to post that here and talk about Hillary's new song too. This might seem like a trivial thing, but as a former advance person, I know how important it is to set a theme at an event with music. One of my fondest campaign memories took place on election eve, 1992 at the Meadowlands arena, listening to a live performance of Sam Cooke's classic "A Change is Gonna Come."

Back to Hillary: I was lucky to be able to attend a Hillary event here in NJ on Monday night. (The song they used was "Suddenly I see", not the Celine song that won the contest and was announced the next morning.) I wanted to see if I could absorb some enthusiasm for the Hillary campaign. (I haven't decided who I am supporting yet.) There were lots of young people there working as volunteers (all women, how great!), and many of the folks I talked to were quite passionate in their support. One up and coming NJ operative who was there, however, referred to the Clintons as old and tired and relying on calling in favors for support.

I need to post an entry here about Susan Estrich's book, "The Case for Hillary". I just finished it and I am near-convinced.

Another interesting topic for discussion in a future post: What role should President Clinton have in this campaign? What role will he have?

What Happened to Camille Paglia??

Camille Paglia has lost it.
Have you been reading Camille Paglia's columns on Salon? Seriously, I ignored the early critics of these columns as rants from haters, but now I see for myself . . . can Ms. Paglia still consider herself a feminist? Where does all this hate come from? I think we on the left need to stop paying attention to people like this (she is on her way to becoming Christopher Hitchens!) Can you imagine how the world would change if we elected a woman president? Yet, here she is foaming with hatred for Hillary. Al Gore has done so much to advance the issue of global warming, but here she is, not only insisting he ought not run for president, but accusing Gore of HARMING the environmental movement?!?!? Yeah, because it was going so well before his book and movie. Did Exxon and Halliburton send flowers, gifts or cash in thanks? "Basta", enough, as my nonna would say.



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Fred Thomson's 'Red Truck' a sham!

Media Matters has the truth behind the 'folksy' Fred Thomson and the 'Red Truck' he 'drove' around TN for his Senate campaign.
It was a rental, and he didn't even drive it!
Read more: http://mediamatters.org/items/200706020001