It was anybody's guess what Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg were talking about when they met for a breakfast date in Manhattan Friday morning — but Obama picked up the tab. Judith Perez, a waitress at the New York Luncheonette on East 50th Street, said Obama picked up the $17.34 check and left a $10 tip for the early riser nosh of coffee and eggs.
Hilary goes and does something that makes me think that she wouldn't be that bad:
During the standoff, Eisenberg had three conversations with CNN staffers in Washington and Atlanta, Georgia, during which he said he had mental health problems and could not get the help he needed. CNN and police refused his requests to speak with Clinton. "As a tactical standpoint, that would not have been wise for us to do that" because it would have reduced negotiators' bargaining leverage, Rochester Police Chief David Dubois said. Clinton said she made it clear to authorities that she would "take their direction" in deciding what to do.
Can you imagine GW in this sort of situation? Would he even show up? Or would he phone in a "we don't negotiate with terrorists" from his ranch? If he did show up, or if anyone from his administration showed up, do you think they would take direction from the Rochester Police? Or would four cars full of NSA experts flank him and take over?
Maybe this isn't fair: he's the President and the stakes are different. I should have worded everything in the past tense: When GW was running way back in '99 when the world didn't hate us and our military wasn't spread out like that last little bit of peanut butter on a piece of honey wheat and we were not buried beneath $9,142,461,538,254.04 of debt and so on and so forth, do you think he would have shown up?
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