By Nick Mockiavelli Political Playhouse
I AM PLEASED TO BRING YOU TWO political reports. As always, these stories were only broken because of my relentless pursuit of the truth.
In January, The Detroit Free Press reported on a series of racy text messages exchanged between Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his chief of staff. The messages strongly suggest that the mayor lied under oath about their relationship during a whistle-blower trial last summer. This week, Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff were arraigned on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.
While the salacious nature of the text messages have made the story an item of national interest, Political Playhouse has learned that a similar series of text messages exist between Bill and Hillary Clinton. While Kilpatrick and his girlfriend use their communications to express a sincere desire to ravage each other’s brains out, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton chirp back and forth like two lovebirds addicted to a different type of emotion: ■Hillary, November 2007: “Got endorsement from Ironworkers Union. Drunk on POWER!” ■Bill (in response): “Me too! The Big P! One day we’ll control country again, just you and me!” ■Hillary, December 2007: “I’m madly in love with telling people what to do. Imagine being the boss of 300 million people?! LOL. Crazy!” ■Bill (in response): “If you get elected prez, let’s secretly call each other King and Queen (flip to see who’s what)!” ■Hillary, December 2007: “Do you miss me? Miss having another assertive, headline-making, smartest-kid-in-the-class, wonky wonk in your orbit!” ■Bill (in response): “Heck yeah! Eating a rib sandwich right now, next best thing to having a room hang on your every word, but HECK YEAH!” ■Hillary, January 2008: “Dreaming about three days holed up with policy binders, issue briefings and legislation that awaits my Hancock. CSPAN on TV 24/7 and VIPs ringing on the celly to get my blessing. Cap it off with a live address from the oval office. HEAVEN!” ■Bill (in response): “Power Power Power!” ■Hillary “I adore your 60 percent favorable rating among moderate Pennsylvanian’s between the ages of 35 and 47.” ■Bill (response) “Don’t you know it.”
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 3, 2008. Read the original PDF.