Obama Jokes for His Supper at His First Gridiron Dinner Appearance as President
Bowing to precedent -- and perhaps the advice of his 2012 campaign staff -- President Obama attended a Gridiron Dinner on Saturday night for the first time since winning the White House. He had skipped the two previous white-tie banquets and amateur theatricals where some of Washington's top journalists spoof the political/media establishment in song, dance and ridiculous costumes. But on Saturday night, Obama duly snarked for his supper by mocking himself, potential rivals and the tradition-bound club that even in this age of Twitter and You Tube, steadfastly bars TV coverage. As ...
The Gridiron Club's 2011 Political/Media Roast and Toast Lyrics
Once again, you won't see this costumed spoof on C-SPAN or YouTube, unless someone among the record 633 invited guests at Saturday night's 126th annual Gridiron Dinner surreptitiously captures the singing, dancing and wise-cracking and posts it online. Of course there's always a chance an adroit cellphone or camera-toting guest will violate club rules, either at the dinner or at Sunday's matinee reprise show, thus busting an image-less tradition in place since 1885. Say what you will about the irony or hypocrisy of a group of journalists barring media cameras from broadcasting the onstage ...
Too Short, Too Fat -- Even Too Attractive -- to Be President?
Is Mitch Daniels too short and balding to be president? Are Haley Barbour, Chris Christie and Newt Gingrich too fat? Mitt Romney too handsome? Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann too thin and beautiful? Granted, it's a little early to know who's actually running and whether Republicans will nominate someone with a pretty face, low body-mass-index, great hair and above-average stature, or instead go for ideology sans cosmetology, and let policy trump physique. But with the first GOP debate of the 2012 campaign set for May 2, and with height, weight and attractiveness already being discussed ...
Ex-Rep. Chris Lee, Wife in Retreat While Craigslist Ad-Placer Yesha Callahan Speaks Out
And now, just in time for Valentine's Day, news of two women in the Craigslist congressman's tumultuous life: Michele Lee, his anguished spouse, and Yesha Callahan, who placed the "women seeking men" personals ad that derailed a promising political career and could wreck his marriage. Mrs. Lee, 44, rushed from Buffalo to the ultra-posh and private Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo, Florida, "hoping to work things out" with ex-Rep. Chris Lee, 46, the New York Post reports. The second-term New York Republican abruptly quit the House on Wednesday just hours after Gawker.com broke the story that he ...
Yesha Callahan, Who Outed Craigslist Romeo Chris Lee, Is No Longer Anonymous
Her name is Yesha Callahan, the formerly anonymous single mother whose "women seeking men" Craigslist ad last month inspired married Rep. Chris Lee (R-N.Y.) to tell her he was a divorced lobbyist, send her a topless muscle photo of himself and, on Wednesday, to quit Congress just hours after Gawker.com went public with the story. Meanwhile House Speaker John Boehner said Lee's lightning-speed resignation was the result of a personal jump, not a leadership shove. The two-term GOP rising star "made his own decision that he thought was in his best interests and the interests of his family," ...
'Craigslist Congressman' Chris Lee and the 'Leggy Glamazon' Who Unmasked Him
In less than 11 hours -- between 2:30 p.m. Wednesday and 1:18 a.m. Thursday -- the very-married two-term Rep. Christopher Lee, a millionaire international businessman and Republican rising star from New York: - Quit Congress amid Gawker.com revelations he'd answered a Craigslist singles ad using his real name and a bare-chested muscle photo of himself, while calling himself a divorced lobbyist. It took just three hours from publication to resignation. - Became the butt of jokes at the Washington Press Club Foundation dinner attended by many politicians and journalists. Emcee Jake Tapper ...
New York Rep. Chris Lee Resigns Over Craigslist Dating Ad and Sexy Photo
What started last month with an anonymous woman's Craigslist dating search for men who don't "look like toads" ended Wednesday with the resignation of two-term Rep. Christopher Lee, R-N.Y., a married father who passed himself off as a divorced lobbyist when he sent her a topless muscle photo of himself. Gawker.com broke the story about the lying lawmaker under the headline "Married GOP Congressman Sent Sexy Pictures to Craigslist Babe." Within hours, he had quit his $174,000-a-year job and issued this statement: "I regret the harm that my actions have caused my family, my staff and ...
Chelsea Clinton in New York, Marc Mezvinsky in Wyoming, Still a 'Very Happy' Couple, Friend Says
Is the state of the union of former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton and Marc Mezvinsky, her husband of barely seven months, solid? "The couple are very happy," a family friend told Politics Daily, in response to questions raised in media reports about why the two are currently living nearly 1,900 miles apart. Clinton, 30, is in Manhattan pursuing her doctorate in public policy at New York University, while Mezvinsky, 34, who recently quit his financial sector job at G3 Capital, is spending a few months skiing and snowboarding in Jackson Hole, Wyo. The National Enquirer cited a "close" ...
Reagan Road Trip -- Sites to Visit, Coast to Coast
Are you wild enough about the 40th president to spend your summer vacation on a Ronald Reagan pilgrimage? Lord knows, it would take you to some very interesting spots, from the Ronald Reagan Peace Through Strength Missile Silo Historic Site in Cooperstown, N.D. (home of the state's last Minuteman Missile launch complex) to an exhibition of Reagan memorabilia at the Checkpoint Charlie Museum in Berlin, Germany, where the Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989 by anti-Communist protesters who toppled what Reagan once blasted as the Soviet Union's "evil empire." Related ...
Ronald Reagan Lives On -- in Schools, Streets and a Warship Bearing His Name
Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday falls on Sunday, Feb. 6. But Grover Norquist, the conservative Republican who founded Americans for Tax Reform, wants something more permanent than mere speeches and celebrations to memorialize the 40th president of the United States. As founder of the Ronald Reagan Legacy Project, Norquist dreams of the day when all 3,130 U.S. counties, parishes, boroughs and independent municipalities have something, anything -- a school, a street, a library -- named for Ronald Reagan. This president earned it fair and square because "he broke the back of the Soviet Union ...
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