January 19, 2007
What A Party: Terry McAuliffe's Years And Yarns
The following is a true story. One night, South Korean security agents guarding the suite of then-President Bill Clinton noticed a handsome young man stumble through the door at 4:40 in the morning. The agents wondered whether Clinton was having an affair. With a man. They asked their U.S. Secret Service counterparts whether there was anything they should know about the president. Was he... you know?
The agents laughed. The man, they said, was just Terry McAuliffe, the happily married, very heterosexual best friend of the president's. Clinton had kept him up late playing cards.
McAuliffe delights in revealing that story in his new book, What A Party, which is full of candor, (a wee bit of) blarney (or so the author says), and McAuliffe;s famous, endearing bluster. There are also more than a few good stories.
Reading it with an eye for nuggets and keeping in mind McAuliffe's penchant for being McAuliffe, we learn that
(a) Bill Clinton was irate on the eve of his '00 convention that Gore's staff allegedly "slowed down" the schedule to prevent him from appearing in prime time.
(b) At the end of her Senate campaign in '00, Hillary Clinton was close to running out of money.
(c) Ralph Nader is an "egomaniac."
(d) Yassir Arafat liked to the rub the legs of those he was conversing with over dinner.
(e) Arafat's aides trusted McAuliffe and used him as an emissary to Pres. Clinton
(f) the Marc Rich pardon "was a mistake" but wasn't, according to McAullife, Clinton's fault
(g) McAuliffe reveals the details of "many heated discussions" with Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) over the primary calendar.
(h) McAuliffe, accompanied by then AZ Dem chair Jim Pederson and his wife Roberta, once walked in on Kerry shirtless, and "pulling up his pants"
(i) Asked by Cherie Blair what Americans thought of her husband, McAuliffe responded that "most people think you're a lap-dog for President Bush." Cherie Blair then elbowed her husband and said "See, Tony, I told you so."
There's oodles in the book about the '04 election and behind-the-scenes disputes with Kerry and his team.
One name we couldn't find in the book: Bob Shrum. [MARC AMBINDER]
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Jessica | 01.28.08 10:51 AM
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Help. I cannot find McAuliffe email address. I remember the Willy Clinton democratic campaign manager several years ago. Today it’s Billary. I hear about Terry often sadly for me and millions of fellow Americans I watch MSNBC especially Tim Russert the Meet the Press and moderator at several debates. Billary was on for one hour and refused to answer many questions like her vote for Iraq war. In the last debate Tim got her and she answered she voted twice for the Bush war and wouldn’t do it again.
Bill O’Reilly and Tim Russert have tough questions daily and when to McAuliffe comes to the tele it’s 100% crap.
(a) Bill Clinton was irate on the eve of his '00 convention that Gore's staff allegedly "slowed down" the schedule to prevent him from appearing in prime time.
(b) At the end of her Senate campaign in '00, Hillary Clinton was close to running out of money.
(c) Ralph Nader is an "egomaniac."
(d) Yassir Arafat liked to the rub the legs of those he was conversing with over dinner.
(e) Arafat's aides trusted McAuliffe and used him as an emissary to Pres. Clinton
(f) the Marc Rich pardon "was a mistake" but wasn't, according to McAullife, Clinton's fault.
All I have to do is read your article, cut, copy and paste and here it is.
(g) McAuliffe reveals the details of "many heated discussions" with Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) over the primary calendar.
(h) McAuliffe, accompanied by then AZ Dem chair Jim Pederson and his wife Roberta, once walked in on Kerry shirtless, and "pulling up his pants"
(i) Asked by Cherie Blair what Americans thought of her husband, McAuliffe responded that "most people think you're a lap-dog for President Bush." Cherie Blair then elbowed her husband and said, "See, Tony, I told you so."
There are oodles in the book about the '04 election and behind-the-scenes disputes with Kerry and his team.
One name we couldn't find in the book: Bob Shrum. [MARC AMBINDER]
In my lifetime Yassir Arafat was a criminal/terrorist and having rub Billaries leg makes sense to me.
The following is a true story. One night, South Korean security agents guarding the suite of then-President Bill Clinton noticed a handsome young man stumble through the door at 4:40 in the morning. The agents wondered whether Clinton was having an affair. With a man. They asked their U.S. Secret Service counterparts whether there was anything they should know about the president. Was he... you know?
The agents laughed. The man, they said, was just Terry McAuliffe, the happily married, very heterosexual best friend of the president's. Clinton had kept him up late playing cards. For several years she was identified as having an affair with a Clinton adviser and that she was probably gay. Wow, if Obama spook from the Clinton 90’s horror story which he isn’t going to staying on the high road he wouldn’t have lost the Texas popular vote. McAuliffe has spoken for many months that Billary agrees with the DNC reprimand of Michigan and Florida’s dates of their primaries.
McAuliffe delights in revealing that story in his new book, What A Party, which is full of candor, (a wee bit of) blarney (or so the author says), and McAuliffe;s famous, endearing bluster. There are also more than a few good stories.
ABC, Mark Matthews comments and almost always it’s a Stanford expert on foreign affairs like the one below.
Terry McAuliffe: "Listen, we just got into this campaign a week ago, she's doing great, she's beating the Democratic field by three-to-one."
Of the other Democratic hopefules, Barack Obama favors a phased withdrawal. Senator John Edwards says we should pull 40,000 troops out immediately. Senator Joseph Biden believes Iraq should be divided between the Sunnis, the Shia and the Kurds. And McAuliffe says it doesn't matter what Republican candidates want if Iraq doesn't improve.
Terry McAuliffe: "If Iraq is still around, what we have today, there is no chance for Republicans, I don't care who it is, they cannot win the White House. People have had it."
McAuliffe told me anti-war sentiment have driven President Bush's approval rating down to Nixonian levels. An interesting reference, considering that in '72, in the midst of another very unpopular war, an incumbent Republican, Richard Nixon, defeated an anti-war Democrat, George McGovern.
Prof. Dave Brady, Ph.D., Stanford University: "Well, the problem with Senator McGovern was that he didn't really have a plan to get out."
Professor David Brady is an expert on the American political system at Stanford University. He says Richard Nixon won because he convinced Americans he had a plan to get out of Vietnam. In this war, he says, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden and John Edwards all voted to give the president the authority to go war.
Prof. Dave Brady: "Some Republicans like Romney and Guiliani have no commitment in regard to the war, so it seems to me they have freedom to move in ways that maybe Senator Clinton doesn't."
There's someone else who doesn't have a war vote to worry about, that's Senator Barack Obama. But it's way to early to know how big a factor that is going to be for any candidate. The presidential race and the war are both in flux.
>> Watch Terry McAuliffe's appearance on ABC7's The View from the Bay today here.
(Copyright ©2008 KGO-TV/DT. All Rights Reserved.)
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Mark Matthews
Mark Matthews joined ABC7 News in December, 2003 as the Political Reporter....
It’s too bad Barack doesn’t use these messages but he doesn’t care like the MsNBC commentators on Tim Russert and his group yesterday at 9AM PST. God Bless, JB.
Jerry Beatty | 03.09.08 03:15 PM
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Help. I cannot find McAuliffe email address. I remember the Willy Clinton democratic campaign manager several years ago. Today it’s Billary. I hear about Terry often sadly for me and millions of fellow Americans I watch MSNBC especially Tim Russert the Meet the Press and moderator at several debates. Billary was on for one hour and refused to answer many questions like her vote for Iraq war. In the last debate Tim got her and she answered she voted twice for the Bush war and wouldn’t do it again.
Bill O’Reilly and Tim Russert have tough questions daily and when to McAuliffe comes to the tele it’s 100% crap.
(a) Bill Clinton was irate on the eve of his '00 convention that Gore's staff allegedly "slowed down" the schedule to prevent him from appearing in prime time.
(b) At the end of her Senate campaign in '00, Hillary Clinton was close to running out of money.
(c) Ralph Nader is an "egomaniac."
(d) Yassir Arafat liked to the rub the legs of those he was conversing with over dinner.
(e) Arafat's aides trusted McAuliffe and used him as an emissary to Pres. Clinton
(f) the Marc Rich pardon "was a mistake" but wasn't, according to McAullife, Clinton's fault.
All I have to do is read your article, cut, copy and paste and here it is.
(g) McAuliffe reveals the details of "many heated discussions" with Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) over the primary calendar.
(h) McAuliffe, accompanied by then AZ Dem chair Jim Pederson and his wife Roberta, once walked in on Kerry shirtless, and "pulling up his pants"
(i) Asked by Cherie Blair what Americans thought of her husband, McAuliffe responded that "most people think you're a lap-dog for President Bush." Cherie Blair then elbowed her husband and said, "See, Tony, I told you so."
There are oodles in the book about the '04 election and behind-the-scenes disputes with Kerry and his team.
One name we couldn't find in the book: Bob Shrum. [MARC AMBINDER]
In my lifetime Yassir Arafat was a criminal/terrorist and having rub Billaries leg makes sense to me.
The following is a true story. One night, South Korean security agents guarding the suite of then-President Bill Clinton noticed a handsome young man stumble through the door at 4:40 in the morning. The agents wondered whether Clinton was having an affair. With a man. They asked their U.S. Secret Service counterparts whether there was anything they should know about the president. Was he... you know?
The agents laughed. The man, they said, was just Terry McAuliffe, the happily married, very heterosexual best friend of the president's. Clinton had kept him up late playing cards. For several years she was identified as having an affair with a Clinton adviser and that she was probably gay. Wow, if Obama spook from the Clinton 90’s horror story which he isn’t going to staying on the high road he wouldn’t have lost the Texas popular vote. McAuliffe has spoken for many months that Billary agrees with the DNC reprimand of Michigan and Florida’s dates of their primaries.
McAuliffe delights in revealing that story in his new book, What A Party, which is full of candor, (a wee bit of) blarney (or so the author says), and McAuliffe;s famous, endearing bluster. There are also more than a few good stories.
ABC, Mark Matthews comments and almost always it’s a Stanford expert on foreign affairs like the one below.
Terry McAuliffe: "Listen, we just got into this campaign a week ago, she's doing great, she's beating the Democratic field by three-to-one."
Of the other Democratic hopefules, Barack Obama favors a phased withdrawal. Senator John Edwards says we should pull 40,000 troops out immediately. Senator Joseph Biden believes Iraq should be divided between the Sunnis, the Shia and the Kurds. And McAuliffe says it doesn't matter what Republican candidates want if Iraq doesn't improve.
Terry McAuliffe: "If Iraq is still around, what we have today, there is no chance for Republicans, I don't care who it is, they cannot win the White House. People have had it."
McAuliffe told me anti-war sentiment have driven President Bush's approval rating down to Nixonian levels. An interesting reference, considering that in '72, in the midst of another very unpopular war, an incumbent Republican, Richard Nixon, defeated an anti-war Democrat, George McGovern.
Prof. Dave Brady, Ph.D., Stanford University: "Well, the problem with Senator McGovern was that he didn't really have a plan to get out."
Professor David Brady is an expert on the American political system at Stanford University. He says Richard Nixon won because he convinced Americans he had a plan to get out of Vietnam. In this war, he says, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden and John Edwards all voted to give the president the authority to go war.
Prof. Dave Brady: "Some Republicans like Romney and Guiliani have no commitment in regard to the war, so it seems to me they have freedom to move in ways that maybe Senator Clinton doesn't."
There's someone else who doesn't have a war vote to worry about, that's Senator Barack Obama. But it's way to early to know how big a factor that is going to be for any candidate. The presidential race and the war are both in flux.
>> Watch Terry McAuliffe's appearance on ABC7's The View from the Bay today here.
(Copyright ©2008 KGO-TV/DT. All Rights Reserved.)
· E-Mail story
· Print Article
abc7 News Team
Mark Matthews
Mark Matthews joined ABC7 News in December, 2003 as the Political Reporter....
It’s too bad Barack doesn’t use these messages but he doesn’t care like the MsNBC commentators on Tim Russert and his group yesterday at 9AM PST. God Bless, JB.
Jerry Beatty | 03.09.08 03:17 PM
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