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Wattenberg, 62, a columnist and think tanker for the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, makes much of his Democratic credentials: if he refers to his years as a speechwriter for Lyndon B. Johnson once, he does so a dozen times. He lays out his lifetime voting record, which reveals he is that mottled beast, a Reagan Democrat. He voted for Bill Clinton in 1992. And so he presents his book essentially as an open letter to Clinton, describing how the President has strayed from the centrist positions that got him elected and suggesting ways in which he--or whoever captures...
...Landers could use a little advice. The columnist, who cheerfully uttered a grab-bag of insults about famous figures in a New York magazine profile published this week, today apologized to the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America for having called Pope John Paul II a "polack" in the article. "It's time to get out the wet noodle and give myself 40 lashes," read a statement. "I should not have used a slang term for Polish. It was poor judgment, and I apologize." Landers, who once topped a World Almanac poll as the most influential woman in the United...
Presented essentially as an open letter to President Clinton, the new book by columnist Ben Wattenberg describes how Clinton swayed from the centrist social positions that got him elected and suggests ways in which he, or whoever captures the "values" debate, can win the presidency in '96. "Wattenberg is at his most impressive when dealing with the specifics of the disjunction between what Clinton promised and how he has governed," says TIME's Elizabeth Gleick. "These rare sharp moments, however, are surrounded by more stuffing than a Thanksgiving turkey. Wattenberg fills 400 windy and repetitive pages with folksy statements...
...feel sorry for Belle, and not just because his temper cost him the MVP award voted on by the baseball writers," columnist Bill Livingston wrote. "I feel sorry for a man who is so joyless, when he created so much happiness for this city. And I feel bad for a man who hears the music, but cannot dance...
What's a handler to do with a President who is addicted to bouts of over-the-phone self-analysis with not always friendly reporters? Sigh--and then insist the reporters have taken key phrases out of context. Such was the White House response after columnist Ben Wattenberg published excerpts of a telephone call he recently received from President Clinton. According to Wattenberg, the voluble Clinton offered a self-critique of his first two years: the President had "lost the language" appropriate to a moderate New Democrat; he had become too interested in the "legislative scorecard"; he had erred...