Acehole
From the Los Angeles Times:
Sitting on the sunny patio of a coffee shop last weekend, Averell “Ace” Smith hardly seemed the kind of guy to strike fear into a politician’s heart.
The 49-year-old California political operative—who helped Hillary Rodham Clinton to victories in the California and Texas Democratic presidential primaries and is now running her North Carolina operation—was a study in bland: beige polo shirt, beige slacks, bright blue eyes framed by wire-rimmed glasses, a fringe of gray hair around a pink scalp.
Yet people—many of them fellow Democrats—frequently use melodramatic imagery to describe him.
“I believe that every life lesson in politics can be extrapolated from ‘The Godfather,’ “ said Chris Lehane, a Democratic strategist and friend of Smith’s who has worked for the Clintons.
“Some people are Fredos; at game time they disappear. There are Sonnys, who yell and scream. . . . The most effective ones are the Michael Corleones. Very quiet, they know under which rib to insert the knife. . . . Ace is a Michael Corleone.”
And Chris Lehane is something that didn’t make it into The Godfather ... the horse’s ass.
Posted by Kevin K. on 05/03/08 at 12:34 PM • Permalink
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