‘Wife is away’ - Bill Stays Home & Watches Television
March 26, 2007

President Clinton is a big fan of “24″ even though “an uber right-wing guy” produces the Emmy-winning political thriller.
Clinton told TV advertisers Friday that his favorite show is the medical drama “Grey’s Anatomy,” and he appreciates “Boston Legal” for the dynamic between William Shatner and James Spader. “It’s something to behold,” he said.
Hillary Hauls In $10 Million in One Week
March 26, 2007

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s weekend trip to California capped off a breathless week of fund-raising that hauled in nearly $10 million, revealing the reach of her network of wealthy supporters.
Clinton raised a cool $1 million in the San Francisco Bay Area yesterday, according to the Clinton camp - just a day after hauling in a reported $2.6 million at grocery store billionaire Ron Burkle’s Beverly Hills mansion.
Hillary’s dialing all the wrong numbers
March 26, 2007

By Donald Lambro
Buried within a recent presidential-preference poll that asked voters who they would never vote for, an unexpectedly large number gave an emphatic thumbs-down to Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.
A national poll of likely voters by independent pollster John Zogby found that nearly half (46 percent) said they couldn’t vote for the former first lady under any circumstances. That is certainly a huge portion of the American electorate, which will no doubt feed growing doubts in her party about the New York senator’s electability. But another number was even more disturbing to senior advisers in her campaign.
For Clinton and Obama, a Common Ideological Touchstone: Alinsky
March 25, 2007

The job offer to “Miss Hillary Rodham, Wellesley College” was dated Oct. 25, 1968, and signed by Saul D. Alinsky, the charismatic community organizer who believed that the urban poor could become their own best advocates in a world that largely ignored them.
Alinsky thought highly of 21-year-old Rodham, a student government president who grew up in the Chicago suburbs. She was in the midst of a year-long analysis of Alinsky’s aggressive mobilizing tactics, and he was searching for “competent political literates” to move to Chicago to build grass-roots organizations.
Seventeen years later, another young honor student was offered a job as an organizer in Chicago. By then, Alinsky had died, but a group of his disciples hired Barack Obama, a 23-year-old Columbia University graduate, to organize black residents on the South Side, while learning and applying Alinsky’s philosophy of street-level democracy. The recruiter called the $13,000-a-year job “very romantic, until you do it.”
Today, as Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton face off for the Democratic presidential nomination, their common connection to Alinsky is one of the striking aspects of their biographies. Obama embraced many of Alinsky’s tactics and recently said his years as an organizer gave him the best education of his life. Clinton’s interest was more intellectual — she turned down the job offer — and she has said little about Alinsky since their association became a favorite subject of conservative critics during her husband’s presidency.
Hillary Hits Beverly Hills Up For Cash
March 24, 2007
Presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., could haul away as much as $2.5 million in campaign contributions at a gala dinner Sat. night in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Some 700 diners will each donate as much as $4,600 at the affair being held at the Green Acres home of billionaire investor Ron Burkle, according to a report in the LA Times.
Burkle has hosted at least three events for her and yet others for husband Bill and was an early donor to Hillary — giving her $1,000 in June 1999 as she launched her first Senate campaign.
According to the report, Hillary has dug up some $400,000 from ZIP code 90210 in the past.
