Paul Begala

Paul Begala was a chief strategist for the 1992
Clinton-Gore campaign, which carried thirty-three states
and made Bill
Clinton the first Democrat to win the White House in
sixteen years. He
served as counselor to the president in the Clinton White
House, where
he coordinated policy, politics, and communications. He is
the author
of four books, including Is Our Children Learning?: The
Case Against George W. Bush; It's Still the Economy,
Stupid; and Buck Up, Suck Up...and Come Back When
You Foul Up
(with James Carville). Begala is a CNN political
commentator and a
research professor of public policy at Georgetown
University's Public
Policy Institute. Paul earned both his undergraduate and
law degrees
from the University of Texas, where he was student body
president. He
and his wife live quietly in Virginia with their four boys
and a German
shepherd. (Okay, so they don't live too quietly.)