Esquire has some fun with people in the news:
The 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century
We set out to find them across every field of endeavor, the people who are bending history right now. It was an impossible task, but the result is a determined, defiant, earnest, brilliant, philanthropic, space-going, smoking-hot group, and together they are writing the first chapter of the rest of our lives.
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Now that the election is over, Newsweek is at liberity to reveal all the juicy gossip it’s been saving up throughout the campaign. Here are a few nuggets:
- $150,000 is actually a low estimate for the amount Sarah Palin spent on her wardrobe.
- The Secret Service found “a sharp and disturbing increase in threats to Obama in September and early October” after vitrolic Palin rallies.
- McCain’s advisers decided not to tell him the campaign was over before his last debate.
- Palin brought up Obama’s relationship with William Ayers without McCain’s approval.
- McCain set the following boundaries: “no Jeremiah Wright; no attacking Michelle Obama; no attacking Obama for not serving in the military.”
- Obama didn’t choose Hillary Clinton because of her husband. This relieved McCain.
- Hillary Clinton and John McCain are friends who do shots together.
- Before her RNC speech, Sarah Palin greeted campaign advisors wearing only a towel.
This is ridiculous. The man obviously fears that Obama the candidate in 2008 will become President in 2008 and again in 2012.
Memo to Bubba: you partially cost your wife in 2008 and your behavior now will cost her in 2012 or 2016. Electors are not that stupid.
If John McCain wanted to poach the women’s vote from Barack Obama, he shouldn’t have tapped a running mate who dubbed herself a “pit bull with lipstick.”
At least, that’s the assessment of women Democratic operatives who seem tickled at Obama’s prospects for November.
“So much of the information about her [Palin’s] agenda and her experience did not resonate with women voters outside the Republican base,” said Ellen Moran, executive director of EMILY’s List, which promotes Democratic women candidates.
There was a collective deep breath, and even a bit of shock, in the world where Hillary Clinton is queen after McCain turned Palin into the new sensation in the race for the White House.
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“Undecided women voters care about getting out of Iraq, affordable health care, and creating jobs,” said Kirszner. “On those issues, Sarah Palin is no different than John McCain or George Bush - and that’s going to be a deal breaker for a lot of women. If Obama can keep the debate on those terms, he’ll win.”
Read more.
What kind of ass-backwards poll was this?
They’re the odd couple again: George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton, the most admired man and woman in America.
Though they stand on opposite sides of a political divide, the Republican president and the Democratic senator from New York are sharing the honour for a sixth straight year, according to a USA Today-Gallup poll.
Read more and weep.
Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is tipping Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to team up and win the U.S. presidential election.Clinton leads Obama in the race to be the Democratic nominee for the November 2008 election, and Castro said they would make a winning combination.
“The word today is that an apparently unbeatable ticket could be Hillary for president and Obama as her running mate,” he wrote in an editorial column on U.S. presidents published on Tuesday by Cuba’s Communist Party newspaper, Granma.
At 81, Castro has outlasted nine U.S. presidents since his 1959 revolution turned Cuba into a thorn in Washington’s side by building a communist society about 90 miles offshore from the United States.
Read more. See our feature on Fidel Castro here, Barack Obama here and Hillary Clinton here.
WSJ’s Eric Savitz took the time to break down who contributed how to who much amongst the SF investing and business elite:
Barack Obama:
Hillary Clinton:
John Edwards:
Chris Dodd:
Bill Richardson
John McCain:
Mitt Romney:
Rudy Guiliani:
Multiple candidates:
Interesting…
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