Political Shorts – 19
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Are you surprised to learn Mitt Romney watched his father march “hand in hand” with Martin Luther King? Don’t be. He’s not the only candidate whose relative touched greatness.
• Hillary Clinton’s husband, Bill received his first penicillin shot from the grand nephew of Louis Pasteur.
• Mike Huckabee’s father, the first member of the Columbia Record Club, collected 10 free wax-coated phonograph cylinders from Thomas Edison. He then signed up his entire family and collected 300 more.
• Barack Obama’s mother appeared on Art Linkletter’s short-lived show, “Wives Have the Weirdest Last Names.”
• Rudy Giuliani watched his uncle march a Joe Valachi associate into the trunk of a waiting car.
• Dennis Kucinich’s father was business partners with ObeWanKanobe.
According to a CNN-WMUR poll, Hillary Clinton is beating Barack Obama, 42 percent to 25 percent among females -- although both are trailing Joe Biden among female impersonators.
Mike Huckabee is adopting a tougher stance on immigration. For example, he now feels no illegal immigrant should be allowed to stay in this country until he or she has vacuumed Huckabee’s pool.
According to a newly declassified document, former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in 1950 had a plan to suspend the rules against illegal detention and arrest up to 12,000 Americans he suspected of being disloyal -- or as it is now being called: the Bush Doctrine.
Bay State Bombast
Boston’s $14.8 billion Big Dig has finally been completed. The Mass Turnpike Authority celebrated by opening the leaking tunnels’ first “Fast Lane” for boats.
Small Street Journal
Paris Hilton’s grandfather, Barron Hilton, the former CEO of Hilton Hotel Corp., will leave 97 percent of his $2.3-billion fortune to charity. This is the worst news Paris has received since her boyfriend told her he left the lens cap on.
Media Bites
A local TV newscast in Chicago was interrupted when a minivan crashed into the station’s glass-walled studio. It also marked the first time an eyewitness ever interviewed himself.
Inside Scoop
French President Nicolas Sarkozy met his new girlfriend, singer and ex-supermodel Carla Bruni on MistressMatch.com.
Weekly Prediction
To attract older female voters, Barack Obama will stage a series of rallies with Angela Lansbury.
