The oldest person-in-the-world-named-"Cindy" gleans RELIABLE tidbits from all channels of the cocktail circuit. As far fetched as this sounds, it would be ONE way to get ALITO off the SCOTUS. Whatever he's "on" to think he has a chance, it might also serve to get him out of public life altogether.
And to the poster who complained that I (no less, "I") am running a picture of Cindy that is 30 years old, uh, it's the one SHE runs with her column.
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http://www.nypost.com/seven/12242007/gossip/cindy/leaping_off_bench_for_the_oval_office_700665.htm?page=0LEAPING OFF BENCH FOR THE OVAL OFFICE
December 24, 2007 -- CHRISTMAS Eve. I know what the nation's 110th Supreme Court justice, Samuel Alito, might like in his stocking. That is, not for this Christmas but possibly hopefully fancifully for a future one. He can't get it now, but Associate Justice Alito, 57, is sort of thinking, wishing or hoping to maybe get it down the road. He's somehow somewhere someday actually wanting to be president of the United States. With a job for life, why a job that could end in four years? Who knows? But that's what friends who don't want their names mentioned are telling other friends who are telling me the man wants.
Historically, this country only had one other such situation. William Howard Taft, who did the thing in reverse. Preceded by Theodore Roosevelt, succeeded by Woodrow Wilson, in 1909 Willy became 27th president of the United States and appointed to the Supreme Court Charles Evans Hughes and Edward Douglass White. And in 1921, nominated by Warren Harding, he himself joined the Supremes and became the 10th chief justice.
So maybe in our future they'll reissue the book "What Makes Sammy Run?"
LOOKS maybe like everyone has an itch to be president. Or maybe it's just that they figure if Dubya can be one they sure can, too. This week's fun rumor has Will Smith supposedly saying he'd maybe like to take a shot at it. But, since he has sufficient employment at the moment, he says he'll let Obama go first.
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