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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (1788)	9/27/2005 2:10:15 PM
From: paret	Respond to of 71588

THIS is pretty crafty: ...................................................................... 'Commander in Chief' lead writer is longtime Hillary Clinton employee .............................................................. newsmax.com Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2005 ABC insiders deny there's any connection between real-life presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and their new TV show "Commander in Chief" - where Geena Davis makes her debut tonight as America's first woman president. But it turns out the show's lead writer is a longtime Clinton campaign insider who held a top job in Hillary's press office. "Writer Steve Cohen used to work for her in the 1990s, serving as the then-first lady's deputy communications director," reports the Village Voice. "I have no doubt she is capable, qualified, and ready to be the president of the United States should she choose to run," Hillary's scriptwriter tells the paper. In fact, Mr. Cohen goes all the way back with the Clintons to their very first presidential campaign. "I was Governor Clinton's first campaign volunteer in 1991, fresh out of college, took that journey to the White House and spent two years working for President Clinton in his press office," he told National Public Radio last year. The "Commander in Chief" writer followed that gig with a three-and-a-half-year stint as Mrs. Clinton's deputy communications director. In fact, Cohen is so tight with Hillary's top brass that he once shared an apartment with the top Democrat's chief fundraising coordinator, Patti Solis Doyle. In an interview with Newsweek in 1992, Cohen marveled at the exalted positions he and Doyle had achieved. "You're doing the scheduling for Hillary Clinton and I'm flying around the country with a person who could be the next president of the United States," he recalled telling her. "Give me a break!" Despite Cohen's deep Clinton ties, "Commander in Chief" creator Rod Lurie tells the Voice that he modeled his female president not on Hillary, but on Susan Lyne, the former head of ABC who now runs the Martha Stewart empire. As for Cohen, he insists, "We support the notion of a female president from either side of the aisle."