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...Within two days, death threats forced Gonzalez to go into hiding. Websites went up with his personal details—e-mail accounts, telephone numbers, his home address. Even Paul Begala, the supposedly liberal former advisor to U.S. President Bill Clinton, urged CNN viewers to send letters critical of Gonzalez to The Daily Collegian, the student newspaper that had published the essay. Instead of defending one of his students from terrorist threats, university president Jack Wilson called Gonzalez’s essay “a disgusting, arrogant and intellectually immature attack on a human being who died in service...
...give. Meanwhile, amid hard economic times - and absent the political intensity of a hard-fought campaign - it is more difficult to get small donors to open their checkbooks. Still, Clinton is determined to clear her balance sheet. "She feels a real moral obligation to pay off the debt," says Begala, "to pay off every last nickel to everybody." As for his own role in her latest fundraising drive, Begala says, "I'm doing this because I just want her to have a clear conscience...
...these once in a lifetime opportunities!" Among them: a chance to spend a day with former President Bill Clinton, "followed by your own special New York City weekend." Or perhaps you would prefer lunch in Washington with consultants turned cable pundits James Carville and Paul Begala, "where you will get to tour all the amazing sights D.C. has to offer and who knows what else could happen!" And if politics isn't really your thing, well, there's always the third option: "You and a guest will watch live as the American Idol judges make their final comments and decisions...
Limbaugh, Rush • groveling at the feet of by penitent Republicans is mocked by enemies of • preference of for country of going down in flames rather than political philosophy of being proven erroneous is expressed quite emphatically by • reference by Paul Begala to as "the bloated face and drug-addled voice of the Republican party" • rooting of for planet to explode...
...imagine Obama bypassing all of that experience in the name of bringing in only fresh blood. Undoubtedly, Obama will also bring in loyal campaign staffers and advisers who are not Clinton-era veterans. But installing someone like Emanuel to anchor the White House staff makes eminent sense. As Begala says, "It helps to have someone around who knows where the Situation Room...