Davos!
ShareSafe to say: The Hotline was not invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this year. But we think we could have made the case to our bosses that the rufflings of snow in Europe can produce a mighty wind across the pond.
Davos was where a CNN President blundered and later resigned. Where Al Gore first gave his famous power-point presentation on global warming. Where Bill Clinton raised millions for his AIDS projects. Where. John Kerry managed to impress Bill Safire with his sober mien and "earnest demeanor."
This year, the star American politicians include Ex-Gov. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).
Warner might use the Davos experience to convince the global business/political intelligencia -- there really is no better way to describe the participants --that he can grasp the finer points of foreign policy.
Dems know that John Edwards' boffo performance at another major global meet in '04 valued to the top of Kerry's vice presidential list. Before the Bilderberg Society conclave in June of 04, Edwards needed major party poo-bahs to bless his newly-acquired foreign policy credentials.
After, he had a feather in his cap. Al Hunt, the doyenne of Washington Democratic establishment jouranlists, a Carvillian, a very smart observer, wrote in his Wall Street Journal column that he had been told about Edwards's smashing peformance.
(Quote: "...two of the biggest figures in the Democratic establishment, neither big Edwards fans earlier, came back raving about his performance.")Edwards had debated Ralph Reed; at the end, the sober Bilderbergers broke out in applause. And word reached Kerry.
May the conspiracy theorists have it right....
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