Posted: 3:04 am
August 28, 2008
DENVER - The Hillary thing. Immediate reactions of those present - like the country itself - were divided. Take Gayle King, always referred to as Oprah's Best Friend. Leaving the convention hall, she said: "Wonderful. She gave her heart and soul to Obama." Take Charlie Rose. In the after-party Newsweek's Jonathan Alter hosted at the home of Coors beer's Steve Coors: "Wasn't genuine. I'd have preferred it if she'd been more real." Take a political operative: "Chelsea introduced her mother on live TV to 800 billion people, so enough already with the saying she doesn't do media."
LIKE an errant husband to a spouse he done wrong, might Hillary receive a make-nice present? With heavy-duty tension between Camps Clinton and Obama, the rumor's been around that her could-be gift could be the Supreme Court. Whether she even wants that, nobody knows. I only know its rumblings just grew louder. As loud as when I first told you Aug. 20 - before everyone confirmed it - that Bloomy who hopes to be our future and forever mayor would for sure try to kill off term limits.
TYPES schlepping around this convention run from Charlize Theron to retired basketball pro Charles Barkley. When they crossed paths, Barkley's eyes crossed. "Oooohhh. Man, that's ghetto, for I dig her," he said as all 6 feet 6 inches, 260ish pounds of him squashed alongside me at the CNN Grill.
"When Barack ran for senator, I introduced him in Alabama. He asked me to. I'm from Alabama, he'd never been there before, and he knew I knew about the civil rights church bombings, the massacres in Selma, all the bull - - - - that was going down there," said Barkley through a Grey Goose and cranberry. "So he's my friend, and with all this happening now I just knew I gotta f - - - ing be there for him."
After Michelle Obama's speech Robert Kennedy Jr. was heading to a place called Event Space for a function called Evolve America. After Ted Kennedy's speech, Maria Shriver, Caroline Kennedy and the Kennedy/Shriver/Schwarzenegger/Schlossberg chorus line hit CNN Grill for a snack.
Chevy Chase, Luke Russert, Rosario Dawson, former Democratic chair Terry McAuliffe inhaled Mexican food at GQ magazine's party. The Creative Coalition, staging some event here every 20 minutes, is piloting around Spike Lee and the best faces in town. At their "Movies With a Message" pre-lunch I caught up with Alan Cumming.
