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• Who Is This Article About?

  Published: September 5, 2007, 4:31 pm

  Tags: Campaign 2008, Bill Clinton, Roger Simon, Politico Com

  the apparently star-struck Roger Simon at Politico.com. The notion behind The long campaign of Bill Clinton is that the former prez just loves campaigning and, um, human contact, and is incredibly good at the art of retail politics. In fairness, there's no doubt that Clinton is a schmoozer supreme. Even so, can anyone imagine a Republican

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• GMA, NY Sun, Politico cut out part of Obama sentence in claiming he "stumbled" on driver's license question

  Published: November 16, 2007, 12:10 pm

  Tags: Roger Simon, Abc, Good Morning America, The New York Sun, The Politico, 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Government And Elections

  chief political columnist Roger Simon also cropped Obama's answer in his November 16 column and claimed that Obama had a "real stumble" on the driver's license issue. Simon wrote that Obama gave "a non-answer answer," and quoted Obama saying, "No, no, no, no, look," writing that Obama was "trying to stumble his way out of

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• Politico's Simon on Clinton: "The (rhymes with rich) is back."

  Published: November 16, 2007, 6:41 pm

  Tags: Roger Simon, The Politico, 2008 Elections, Government And Elections, Hillary Clinton

  chief political columnist Roger Simon began his November 16 column by asserting, "The (rhymes with rich) is back." Simon began his column with that phrase just two days after his colleague, Politico chief political writer Mike Allen, responded to a question about referring to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) as a "bitch" by saying,

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• Matthews, repeatedly using "cocaine," falsely asserted Clinton strategist "raised drugs"

  Published: December 17, 2007, 5:41 pm

  Tags: Chris Matthews, David Gregory, Roger Simon, Hardball, Msnbc, Nbc, The Chris Matthews Show, 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Government And Elections, Hillary Clinton, Media, Propaganda Noise Machine

  chief political columnist Roger Simon also asserted that Clinton has "gone negative just in stupid ways," citing as an example "Mark Penn's raising the cocaine issue on with you yesterday." Matthews replied, "Yeah, right here." Further, while Matthews accused Clinton's campaign of engaging in "dirty politics," he began the

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• So Dangerous, Bill Sent . . . Chelsea?

  Published: March 25, 2008, 10:05 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Europe, Foreign Policy, Chelsea Clinton, Chris Matthews, Hillary Clinton, Margaret Carlson, Perry Bacon, Roger Simon, Hardball, Msnbc, Video

  Fire. Credit Politico's Roger Simon with the most devastating remark. Hillary's heroic claim has been that "we used to say in the White House that if a place is too dangerous, too small or too poor, send the First Lady." Simon said what in retrospect might be obvious but something I hadn't previously heard anyone else observe.

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• Face The Nation: Withdrawal Of Troops In Iraq Helps McCain

  Published: July 13, 2008, 8:00 pm

  Tags: Face The Nation Bob Schieffer, Afghanistan, Bob Schieffer, Election 08, Iraq, John Mccain, Military, Politico, Roger Simon

  with a campaign quick check: Roger Simon, the chief political columnist of Politico and our old friend. Roger, what do you make of this? Suddenly we’re talking about drawing out more troops out of Iraq and before the November elections. Now, you just heard Ed Gillespie say this has kind of always kind of been in the works, and in fact, I

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• Andrea on Obama Trip: 'What Some Would Call Fake Interviews'

  Published: July 21, 2008, 8:00 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Afghanistan, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Foreign Policy, Iraq, Race Issues, Sudden Respect, Andrea Mitchell, Barack Obama, Chris Matthews, Roger Simon, Hardball, Msnbc, Politico Com, Journalistic Issues

  made her displeasure known, Roger Simon of Politico, Chris Matthews's other guest during the segment, depicted the images coming out of the war zone as all Obama could have dreamed of. View video here. ROGER SIMON: The optics are all very good on this trip. I mean, the beginning of this trip is so good, Senator Obama might just want to call off

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