The Bush-Belichick connection
There's still time, but it's going to be hard, very hard, for the other presidential campaigns to top Bill Richardson for the release of the week.
Richardson, campaigning today in Iowa, through his staff issued the following statement on the much-publicized spying incident involving the National Football League’s New England Patriots:
"The President has been allowed to spy on Americans without a warrant, and our U.S. Senate is letting it continue. You know something is wrong when the New England Patriots face stiffer penalties for spying on innocent Americans than Dick Cheney and George Bush."
We especially like the question posed by Frank James of the Chicago Tribune's "Swamp" blog, who jumped on the release: "So is Richardson saying he thinks the president should have to give up a first-round draft choice, too?"
-- Don Frederick
Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
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I sure wouldn't mind him being fined half a million dollars.
Posted by: Noah Klein | September 15, 2007 at 08:11 PM
The Bush-Belichick connection?
How about the Hillary-O. J. connection?
(how is Vince Foster, these days?
Makes as much sense.
Posted by: Left by Leftwest | September 16, 2007 at 12:38 AM