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Feel like you've been missing out on US politics?
- We like our Mitt mitt just fine, but where's our inflatable newt?
- While HRC was on all five Sunday shows, Bill Clinton was enjoying some quality IHOP time.
- Justin: "Dude, how many members of Congress are having their staff laminate this right now?"
- Al Gore will relaunch the Current TV web on 10/15 and will soon appear on NBC's "Tonight Show." Gore, on his appearance: "Well, I am intending to make an announcement" ( Business Week).
- "I have never, along with Mayor Bloomberg, as far as I know, come to any conclusions or worked our way towards that kind of outcome or applied any focus on that. I don't really see that happening" -- Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), on reports he and Bloomberg may run together in '08 ("Late Edition").
- "It's a tossup between Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon" -- Alan Greenspan, asked the smartest POTUS he's worked for ("Meet").
- "I just installed a huge window in my barn where I write my books" -- Bill Clinton ( Financial Times).
- Bill Maher, on Ahmadinejad wanting to visit Ground Zero: "His critics said, 'No, no. You are trying to exploit Ground Zero for political gain, and that is Rudy Giuliani's job" ("Real Time").
Finally:
SHOT . . .
"On GOP Trail, Campaigns Have No Place At All For Bush" (AP , 9/24).
. . . CHASER
"'Hey,' he yelled, 'That's no place for a monkey!' George thought it was a fine place for a monkey, but he did not want to cause trouble. So he climbed down" ("Curious George Goes to the Beach," 1999).
"On GOP Trail, Campaigns Have No Place At All For Bush" (AP , 9/24).
. . . CHASER
"'Hey,' he yelled, 'That's no place for a monkey!' George thought it was a fine place for a monkey, but he did not want to cause trouble. So he climbed down" ("Curious George Goes to the Beach," 1999).
