Opinion: Clinton enters her 60s in style
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The movable feast that has been the celebration of Hillary Clinton’s 60th birthday (which is today) culminated Thursday night with a big bash at Manhattan’s Beacon Theater.
To the delight of friends and supporters willing to fork over even more money to her well-heeled campaign, the Democratic presidential candidate, her husband (the ex-president) and their daughter, Chelsea, made a rare public appearance together.
Actor/director Rob Reiner gained a fair amount of attention Sunday when he sang ‘Happy Birthday, Mrs. President’ to Hillary Clinton at a party/fundraiser he hosted in Los Angeles for her. At the New York fete, Brit musician Elvis Costello offered his rendition with the same lyric (here’s the clip, courtesy of CNN).
Extensive coverage of Thursday’s party by the Big Apple media included this New York Times story, which focused on the barb Clinton directed (without mentioning his name) at Republican Rudy Giuliani over the great Yankees-Red Sox flap. A Newsday story, meanwhile, noted that comic Billy Crystal ‘made repeated references to Giuliani’s baseball flip-flop.’
Pulling out all the stops on its website is the New York Daily News, which provides a photo album of Clinton through the years and a transcript of her (none-too-memorable) remarks.
-- Don Frederick