Hillary:I hang suspended Until I know .....

drawing by marguerita
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is clearly itching to hit the road. But to where?Curiosity Rises Over Clinton's Itinerary - NYTimes.com
She:
Oh why do the leaves
Of the Mulberry tree
Whisper differently now
And why is the nightingale singing
At noon on the Mulberry bow
For some most mysterious reason
This isn't the garden I know
No it's paradise now
That was only a garden
A moment ago

He:
Take my hand
I'm a stranger in paradise
All lost in a wonderland
A stranger in paradise
If I stand starry-eyed
That's a danger in paradise
For mortals who stand beside
An angel like you

I saw your face
And I ascended
Out of the commonplace
Into the rare
Somewhere in space
I hang suspended
Until I know
There's a chance that you care

Won't you answer the fervent prayer
Of a stranger in paradise
Don't send me in dark despair
From all that I hunger for
But open your angel's arms
To the stranger in paradise
And tell him
That he need be
A stranger no more

She:
I saw your face
And I ascended
Out of the commonplace
Into the rare

Both:
Somewhere in space
I hang suspended

She:
Until I know

He:
Till the moment I know

She:
There's a chance that you care

He:
There's a chance that you care

She:
Won't you answer the fervent prayer
Of a stranger in paradise

He:
Don't send me in dark despair
From all that I hunger for

Both:
But open your angel's arms
To the stranger in paradise
And tell me that I may be
A stranger no more.

Madoff : Ole!

drawing by marguerita
He added:
"That was the most important thing; he was looked on as someone who could make you money.
Really make you money."
Recommendations, word of mouth.
That’s how it was done.”
“He was very well known.”
There were wider worlds to conquer.
The only thing that struck the Swiss banker as odd was the bull memorabilia strewn about his office.
“It seemed strange for a guy to have all these bulls, little sculptures, paintings of bulls,” he recalled. “I’ve seen offices with bears. This was bulls.”

Obama and Hill: Sometimes, good things come to those who don’t wait (forever).

drawing by marguerita (first published in the poignant frog- May 22.2008)
There will be a press conference tomorrow morning declaring the whole thing official, in which the former warring enemies will smile for the cameras and say kind things.

As he read the ads in the weekly newspaper, Mr. Obama, a Chicago young President -elect,, wondered about : people who thought they had shared a meaningful exchange with a stranger (on a bus, in a supermarket, at a stoplight), but could not muster the courage to speak at that moment. What drove them to engage in these improbable long-shot attempts to find that person again?

“These little blurbs are delightfully futile and kind of sad — but so hopeful,” . He was inspired .

There, he and Hillary made eye contact, but they did not speak.

“We did the look-at-you, look-away dance,” Hillary recalled. Those looks continued throughout time, and Mr. Obama said, made him feel “gurgly inside.”

“This is Obama’s band; he gets to call the tunes,” said Charlie Cook, publisher of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.

“Obama picked Clinton because, after standing next to her in countless debates and having competed against her, he saw her as a very strong, tough, formidable person and wanted her on his team,” Cook said.Bloomberg.com: Politics

Obama ,Hill,Renaissance and Bill

drawing by marguerita
Hillary Rodham Clinton, a first lady turned senator turned almost-president, is now transforming herself again, this time into the nation’s top diplomat. But she is also back to a role she cannot seem to shake: a canvas for women’s highest hopes and deepest fears about the workplace
.WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton has decided to give up her Senate seat to become secretary of state in the Obama administration, making her the public face to the world for the man who dashed her own hopes for the presidency, confidants of Mrs. Clinton said Friday.Clinton Is Said to Accept Offer of Secretary of State Position - NYTimes.com

Billy Kimball: Obamas Expected to Have Sex in White House, Insiders Say

The Secret Service has already begun preparing for the possibility that the president's tight schedule might be interrupted on occasion by a brief sexual interlude. The code phrase to indicate that the president (code name "Renegade") and First Lady (code name "Renaissance") are having sex will be "discussing the Bosnian problem" as in "Renegade can't be disturbed right now. He and Renaissance are discussing the Bosnian problem." In the event that president and Mrs. Obama are, in fact, discussing the Bosnian problem and not having sex, Secret Service agents have been instructed to say that they are "reviewing the Bosnian situation." A spokesman for the Bosnian government could not be reached for comment.