I’m really surprised by Helen Mirren. Wow, didn’t see that one coming.

Unfortunately, Helen Mirren is correct and she is wise to be on guard against the bitchy journalist, excluding, of course, our own Liz Smith. Mrs. Blair’s comments, I find the most interesting. She is not delusional and there is a firm record of Tony Blair moving the Labor Party away from the far Left and thereby gaining huge majorities in Parliament after years of Thatcherism, - similar to how Bill Clinton moved the Democratic Party to the center to counter Reaganism. But to compare her husband to Churchill is a bit premature. Mr. Blair’s legacy, I am sure, will be in the top tier of the Prime Ministers who were judged excellent but not quite great , a la Disraeli, Pitt and Churchill.

“I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.” -Hillary Clinton discussing her 1996 visit to Bosnia “In what respect, Charlie?” -Sarah Palin in an interview with Charlie Gibson after being asked, “Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?” “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman of any color, he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.” -Geraldine Ferraro discussing Barack Obama “It will never work with all those Huns, wops and dagos.” -Britain’s Queen Mother on the EU, quoted by Edward Stourton in his book ‘It’s a PC World’. “I go three, maybe four times a year to get tested for sexually transmitted infections and most of the time I don’t even need to.” -Kelly Osborne on getting tested for sexually transmitted infections “This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can invade its neighbor, occupy a capital, overthrow a government and get away with it. Things have changed.” -Condoleezza Rice on military clashes between Russia and Georgia (oh the irony) “I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they pro-America or anti-America? I think people would love to see an expose like that.” -Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann speaking on MSNBC’s Hardball “He would probably not last long, a black man in the position of president. They would kill him. Hillary is a very sharp lady. It might be calmer if she wins.” -Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing on Barack Obama and the US presidency “He talks about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn’t resist the dessert. That’s not how it was.” -Monica Lewinsky on her encounters with Bill Clinton “Over the last week, I listened to you and, in the process, I found my own voice.” -Hillary Clinton

I think this is a very sad list indeed.

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“She says the moments with Palin—which she has been dreading because it has been an ugly week on the Republican campaign…have gone fine. She [Palin] asked me where my daughter was, Fey says. … She said Bristol could have babysat.” … “I feel clean about this, she [Fey] says. All these jokes were fair hits.” Vanity Fair January 2009