Did you know Haitians have cooties? You didn’t? Then you’re a step behind George W. Bush. When he was a little kid, mama Laura told him that girls and Haitians have cooties. That’s why, in this video from a trip to Haiti with Bill Clinton, he wipes his hand on the former president’s shirt sleeve after shaking hands with some earthquake survivors. Rumors that Bush then walked back to his hotel avoiding any cracks in the ground for fear he’d break his mom’s back are still unconfirmed.
Politics and Protest: Scenes From the 2012 Hofstra Debate
From a man with a long white beard wearing half a dozen neckties and a boot on his head to a woman dressed in a polar bear costume railing about global warming, the 2012 Presidential Debate at Hofstra University injected much more into the national [...]
‘Is there a War on Women?’
That was the question recently posed at the packed VFW Post 5253 hall in Albertson by Ann Salpeter Schockett, president of the Nassau County Federation of Republican Women, and Wendy Long, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in New York, had a [...]
AP Analysis: Clinton, Cuomo Give Each Other a Hand
It was just the sort of photo op President Barack Obama didn’t need: a former Democratic president who ushered in prosperity and surpluses and a current Democratic governor announcing job growth. But there it was Tuesday in the warm embrace at [...]