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According to Braverman, who held a number of positions at the World Bank, Israel needs to adopt the social democratic outlook of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, the American concepts of the Constitution and free enterprise, and the socio-economic policies of Sweden and Finland.

I remember as if it was yesterday that Bill Clinton told us all how he remembered in his teenage years of black church burnings in Arkansas.

Keep in mind, this is the time when William Jefferson Clinton was in office. The entire western world watched and did nothing while over 800,000 people died. With this and Black Hawk Down, its easy to see why I do not like Bill Clinton. The only question left is why?

Ex-president Bill Clinton is predicting that the U.S. will lose the war in Iraq, saying “the odds are not great of our prevailing there.”

Saturday morning, my friend Kim called me and asked if I wanted a ticket to see Bill Clinton speak at the U, but I declined saying that given the choice between Clinton and reviewing some educational materials, I would prefer the latter (which I really planned on doing). Kim then asked me if I wanted to go for a drive to Stillwater (about .5 hour from Minneapolis), so I responded that given the choice between reviewing some educational materials and hanging out with her…well, you can imagine that I got ready in no time to leave the apartment. Kim picked me and Rosalie up, and on the way a fried of Kim’s invited us to a puppet show held by an organization called “In the Heart of the Beast (www.hobt.org)” which focuses on using puppets to illustrate stories related to social justice. This show focused on forced internment of Japanese during WWII, and incorporated live music, puppets, and shadow puppets pretty effectively and successfully. The seats were packed with adults and children alike, which was very impressive to me for a Saturday afternoon.

From the above referenced article: “With the White House shrouded in scandal, the biggest obstacle to George W. Bush’s political comeback is that he’s no Bill Clinton.” I find this amusing in light of the fact that part of his campaign presentation in 2000 was that he wasn’t Bill Clinton.

Newsmax reports on former President Bill Clinton's thought's on immigration and America.

Bill Clinton was impeached for that lie, or at least, that's what the campaign to impeach him was based upon. If lying about a sex act in a civil trial is an IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE for Republicans, then how can they argue that lying about possible treason in a criminal investigation should be ignored?

I’m not going to lecture you about not taking drugs. Hey, I smoked dope in high school. Unlike Bill Clinton, I inhaled. Also unlike Bill Clinton, I exhaled.

With three conservatives for every two liberals, the sheer arithmetic truth is that in a polarized electorate effectively mobilized by both major parties, Democratic candidates must capture upwards of 60 percent of the moderate vote — a target only Bill Clinton has reached in recent times — to win a national election.

Given the prospect of both protracted criminal cases and then civil lawsuits, it now seems possible the issue will bedevil the final years of Bush's presidency, much as the Iran- contra affair burdened President Ronald Reagan's second term and the Monica Lewinsky scandal plagued President Bill Clinton's.

since the apocalypse didn’t happen in the first century (at least not in the way predicted in the Revelation), people have been eagerly looking forward to the end of the world, seeking out individuals they don’t like and trying to make their names add up to 666. Likely candidates have been Martin Luther, Henry VIII, Robespierre, Napoleon Bonaparte, George Washington (and his alleged Illuminati double, Adam Weishaupt), Lenin, Adolf Hitler, Stalin, Chairman Mao, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman, Prince Charles, King Juan Carlos of Spain, Mikhail Gorbachev, Bill Clinton, Osama Bin Laden, and both George Bushes - and, oh, I almost forgot, all the Popes.

There is really no need to do more than point out some rather randomly selected examples of freedom lost in the past four years under this administration. Of course, under Clinton freedom sank. In fact, during Clinton’s term I looked forward to seeing him out. Little did I know! This is why I know enough to say that Bush is the worst enemy of freedom "so far." I thought Clinton was rock bottom, but he was far from that.

I've been to that beach, folks. There are no rocks; there are no stones on that beach. But Bill Clinton with cameras up on the hill overlooking the beach decided to take a stroll as a lone man; out there on the horizon, a lone battleship. Bill Clinton strolling along in pensive, sensitive, deep-caring thought. All of a sudden Clinton stops. He looks down; he notices something. Why, it's a pile of rocks, on a beach where there are none! Bill Clinton, with tear now beginning to stream from his eye, kneels down and arranges, with the photographers and TV cameras all focused from atop the hill, overlooking the beach. Bill Clinton kneels down and places those stones, which had to be put there by somebody, into the shape of a cross. The battleship is in the background. He knew exactly where to stop. The battleship was told where to be, stones were placed so that he would be right in the line of fire for those cameras shooting the beach and the Clinton leaned down and placed those stones. This is the man who wrote once of having "loathing the military." It was an entirely, purely staged event. But did the press see it as such? Heck, no, the press themselves started crying. "What a man. What a president. Look at how he cares!" They marveled at this miracle of the stones on the beach. But then, it was but two days later, Clinton found himself at an American war dead cemetery in Italy, and each grave had planted a little, tiny American flag.

fashioned hater. But Bill Clinton has endorsed this march--is he accepting the homophobia of Farrakhan?

Chris Matthews says Fitzgerald needs to indict someone. Why? Because he’s spent two years investigating. So if the longivity of an investigation equals an indictment, then why is Bill Clinton not in jail?

Finding the right politicians to vote for next year has become increasingly difficult this year, especially when the zeitgeist of the early 2000s seems to be one of higher-profile politicians trying to pander to the extreme ends of the left- and right-wing spectrum rather than to the centre, as Bill Clinton and other politicians have tried to do back in 1994. On the Republican side, socially-liberal but economic conservatives are jettisoned in favour of the ‘family-values’ crowd, and for the Democrats, little to no attention is paid to centrists or populists. I’ve mentioned my politics before, and it’s rather difficult to find candidates for any position that seem to resonate with me. The Democrats are too protectionist for me economically, and the Republican party line seems to emphasise ‘traditional family values’ that seem to just malign social minorities and promote social regressivism. There isn’t a strong party that supports -mostly- free economics (with some regulation to protect work abuses and ‘bootstrap’ social programmes) and social liberalism right now.

On Tuesday’s Hardball on MSNBC, Warren admired how the fictional drama’s Alan Alda character “confronts a top Christian Right official who insists on a public pledge that Alan Alda, if elected President, will only pick anti-abortion judges to the federal court. And Alan Alda, seeing the world as much more complicated, declines to do that.” Warren asked and answered his own question: “Why is that relevant? I think it’s relevant because just like Bill Clinton could never satisfy his left, it seems that Bush can never satisfy a group for whom he has cut taxes, delivered Saddam Hussein on a platter, done what they want on late term abortion and stem cell research, come out against gay marriage and picked a whole lot of conservative judges.”

Under strong pressure from former President Bill Clinton’s advisers, CBS’s ‘’60 Minutes'’ has agreed to read a statement denying an explosive charge being made on Sunday nght’s program by former FBI director Louis Freeh, the WASHINGTON POST reports.

Thoughts to ponder, Bill Clinton invaded some country, (get it from the book) and said he did it because it was the right thing to do. George Bush invaded Iraq because he claimed they possessed or were close to possessing weapons of mass distruction. This is the honesty factor.

We agree it’s high time it finished, but this isn’t possible until somebody puts a stop to delaying tactics by lawyers for those named in the report. (Mr. Cisneros himself long ago pleaded guilty, and was pardoned by Bill Clinton in 2001.)

It is no surprise, really, when the Bush administration screws up. These are people who do not believe in government anyway. Although it was Bill Clinton who declared that the days of big government had come to an end, it is the Bushies who have tried to kill it off completely.

The series charts the attempts to bring peace to the Middle East, from Bill Clinton’s peace talks in 1999/2000 to Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza last August.

I haven’t seen this much hyperventilating in the conservative blogosphere about an issue in a long time. I think it’s good that conservatives are voicing their differences about it - it obviously shows that we’re not just obedient little slaves to the President (WE knew that already, of course) and there are some great arguments for and against the nomination - but some of it is just so over the top you’d think the President had either just nominated Bill Clinton for USSC Justice or the mother of all conservatives. Time to take a deep breath.

Looks like Bill Clinton has another bit of infamy to add to his legacy. While Katrina was blowing Bill back into the headlines his campaign contributors were naming a condom after him.

For a life-long conservative Republican and Bush voter in 2000 and 2004 like yours truly, that last question is especially galling. It was bad enough early in Bush's first term when he signed an executive order keeping the truth about Bill Clinton's midnight pardon spree behind closed doors. I swallowed hard and accepted the White House's executive privilege claim on that one.

Bill Clinton is among many eminent Americans who wonder whether Katrina’s biggest impact might be psychological, political.

This country has only one president at a time. That president, right now President Bush, is tasked with naming judges. The Senate has the role of providing advice and consent on the president’s choices, which is a significant constitutional task. But if the presidential election means anything in this arena, it must mean that the president’s choice has a heavy presumption of confirmation. That is the way the system works. Why else would Justices Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia, Stephen G. Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg have received only a handful of no-votes among them? During the Clinton administration, we deplored the way that the Senate treated the president’s judicial nominees during six years of Republican control over the Senate. Yet during those six years, the Senate confirmed 245 of President Bill Clinton’s judges. If Republicans had been applying Mr. Reid’s standard, they would have been within their rights to reject them all.

Sky News - Bill Clinton may have been a smoothie as a politician but he’s now proving to be the ultimate contraceptive in China.

The person who runs THIS blog — Hillary Now: Republican Lies and Hillary Clinton — left me a comment below explaining that I’d sooner “hate on the UN and bill clinton than to even consider stopping nuclear proliferation and poverty and disease.”

Onstage with former president Bill Clinton at a midtown Manhattan hotel ballroom, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he was going to speak with "brutal honesty" about Kyoto and global warming, and he did....

Meanwhile in New York, as the UN celebrates its 60th anniversary with its largest international summit of thugs, thieves, tyrants and dictators, another meeting is taking place across town headed by former President Bill Clinton and John Kerry financier George Soros. The purpose of this meeting is to advance Clinton’s global initiative of a One World Order with a One World Governing body, the UN. As you know, Clinton publicly aspires to be the next Secretary General. This activity is also at odds with American sovereignty and all American principles as a free, autonomous self-governed nation.

Defying anyone to continue calling him a conservative after tonight, Bush promised a thoroughly federal response to the Katrina crisis, complete with some $200 billion in big government spending. In an interesting twist, he essentially proposed to turn over that cash to state and local officials to spend as they wish, beneath the moonlight glow of some sort of accountability commission... (feel free to laugh, it really is pretty funny.) He lifted Bill Clinton's enterprise zones and renamed them opportunity zones. He promised homesteading opportunities and special mortgages and rebuilding projects and more. And while he threw his base a few bones about entrepreneurship and tax credits, even the analysts at Fox said he sounded more like LBJ than Ronald Reagan.

The gondola ride up the mountain was loads of fun and in fact, the gondola we took had stickers on it that said British Prime Minister John Major took this gondola up the mountain in 1991. Whopeefucking doooo! I wanted to be in the one Bill Clinton took, dammit! Oh well, I guess we’ll settle for the gondola of a PM I know basically nothing about.

Ohhhh, Lordy! The president pees! Giggle! Snort! What a moron! Bill Clinton never had to pee! Hillary never has to find a bathroom! Ted Kennedy never had to pee! He mighta gone around without pants, but he never had to pee! If Al Gore was president, Al Gore would never have to pee!

Do I exagerate? I think not. Consider gun control. Liberals have just about given up on persuading legislatures, whether they be state or congress, from enacting serious gun control legislation. In fact, the trend across the country is in the other direction. State after state has been passing "right to carry" laws, which relieve the citizen of having to go before a temperamental judge who may or may not grant a license depending on personal whim. Congress let provisions of the Brady Bill die (which reminds me that I need to get a flash suppressor for my AR-15. They had been banned by that stupid law). Bill Clinton himself gave credit to the NRA for Democrat losses in the congress during his term in office.

[I]t is true that the president gave slightly more [to New Orleans flood-control projects] than Bill Clinton. But what is also true is Bill Clinton was running the largest deficit created by the Reagan administration before him.

This is something that Bill Clinton knew and Bush has never figured out.

Even more troubling, he proposed a scheme that would deny money to landowners whose property is taken, using the sort of rhetoric that reminds us of Bill Clinton's prevarications over the meaning of the word "is." Roberts wrote:

That emphasised portion of the quote brings up the lack of seriousness of nearly all right-wing commentators and pundits during the Bush administration. While a great many left wing people were (and are) more than happy to criticize Bill Clinton for his own shortcomings, the sound of crickets chirping from the right during the past 5 years is deafening. The only area for which Bush is ever taken to task by most wingers is the froth of the office - presentation and image. No one ever holds Bush accountable for the many and varied failings of his managment and implementation.

Remember, Bill Clinton was impeached, yet he lasted the full eight years of his two terms in office.

Many blogs tell people not to be angry or to cast blame. Republicans have been casting blame since the day Bill Clinton was first elected president.

Gerald Ford was about to become ex-President Ford when that rain came. Since then we’ve gone through Jimmy Carter, Ronald Regan, George Bush I, Bill Clinton and finally W the first.

I am tired of politicians lying. I am tired of food distribution centers set up for George W. Bush's photo op and then taken down once he leaves. I am tired of George W. Bush saying "We could never have known" when I have been watching documentries this week from the 1980s and 90s that said this was going to happen. I am tired of Bill Clinton saying "We could never have known" when I have been watching documentries this week from the 1980s and 90s that said this was going to happen. I am tired of George H. Bush saying "We could never have known" when I have been watching documentries this week from the 1980s and 90s that said this was going to happen. I am tired of reading how much of a challenge this will be to Republican congressional races and what this will do to the White House congressional agenda. I am tired of reading how Democratic leaders can use Katrina. I am tired of reading how Republican leaders can use Katrina. I am tired of German politicians bashing the United States with Katrina to help them win elections. I am tired of decisions being made solely on winning the next election.

In an earlier response to calls by former US president Bill Clinton for an inquiry into how the federal government responded to Hurricane Katrina, Linda Saccia of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said it was too early to criticise the relief effort.

Chances to radically shift the national debate, alter the nation's perspective, and rearrange our priorities don't come along very often. President Bush squandered the teachable moment provided by 9/11, calling us not to national service but to shopping. Bill Clinton is now making it harder to use the current disaster as a wake-up call about the pent-up anger bubbling just beneath the surface of our country, about the Other America largely hidden from view, and about the urgent need to redefine national security.

Among other things N.O residents got themselves wild snipers shooting around in gangs, sound like their own insurgents rose, almost as the rebels in Bush’s war-zones! And now President Bush is so confused he's getting help from his dad -- how pathetic but nevertheless astute… he's not totally clueless after all, since he's also getting a good ol'Democrat on board as well. None other than Bill Clinton. Most probably Bush daddy told him, call Bill Clinton, because we're drowning in our own sewage since we haven't listened to the Global warming alerts for years...

For comparison’s sake, consider Bill Clinton’s response to Hurricane Floyd: he cut his trip to New Zealand early to be in DC before the storm even struck. Bush has returned to DC today—a much shorter flight—after the strike, after the levees broke, and still had time to clown around while one of the most beloved cities in the nation was getting donkey punched. This is offensive.

No matter how marriage looks great from the outside, there's always a problem in the inside of the household... here's an example and facts. Bill Clinton betrayed his wife, although they seemed happy!

By the 1990's they were in full-fledged 13-year-old kid mode, symbolized by Bill Clinton's obssession with sex, and their unthinking adherence to whatever they were told. It was peer-pressure at it's worst. This was the time when they really started doing nothing but parroting the party line. To do otherwise would get you kicked out of their clique. It was also the time that they really got going with their strict doctrine of non-disagreement with the leaders of that clique (see campus "speech codes").

Says one wag, “About the only state where Bill Clinton couldn’t be elected governor right now is Arkansas … where he was governor.” …

Rumor has it that she also believes that her son is "allegedly" dead, her husband is "allegedly" leaving her moonbat ass, London was "allegedly" attacked on 7/7, and the Patriots "allegedly" won the last Super Bowl. Anyone want to bet that the press buries this story like Bill Clinton buries Cuban stogies in Monica's...uh, blue dress?

Now, follow along as another blogger delivers a history lesson. The American Legion today vs 1999. When Bill Clinton was President. And they didn't like him. Or "Operation Allied Force".

Political strategist James Carville said it, candidate Bill Clinton believed it and loyal Democrats have chanted this mantra ever since.

Compare Australia to a developing nation, China. Everyone has an opinion on China (the CCP anyway), most people have a bad opinion, I haven't personally met anyone with a good opinion. This is because they lack transparency. In China, you can know how Bill Clinton's daughter is doing, but you don't even know if your own president has any children. In Australia, we have a budget for every state, and the whole Country and this is published in every paper in the country just about. In China nobody knows where the state money goes or the country money. But this is beggining to happen in Australia as well. In everything, we are slipping. Both out major political parties are crap, thats not democracy!

Sure, we know American presidents lie all the time. Look at Richard Nixon’s lies about Watergate or Bill Clinton’s lies about Monica Lewinski. But lying a country into war is the most grievous act an American president can commit. It transcends other lies.

When Bill Clinton admitted he had an affair with an intern, they were calling for impeachment. They wanted him replaced as President.

While it's far from a scientific conclusion, it does point to a trend among LGBTs (and the *s) to generally avoid political labels. It's little wonder that growing numbers refuse to identify themselves by their politics. Leaning right is associated with the Republicans and the rabidly anti-gay sentiments of a large part of its constituency. To lean left is to be associated with the Democrats, a slightly more gay-friendly bunch, but after watching John Kerry flip-flop on the marriage issue in the 2004 campaign (not to mention Bill Clinton's wooing and then abandoning LGBTs during his presidency) it's little wonder LGBTs and *s feel like the girl brought to the dance by the dashing captain of the football team only to be ditched for a prettier girl. This is especially true for the *s who often lack the historical perspective of their older counterparts and haven't seen the progress made since the Stonewall riots.

What is clear is that the Hispanic vote is more up for grabs than ever. Last year, about 60% of Hispanics voted for John Kerry. Sergio Bendixen, a pollster with the New Democrat Network, notes that Mr. Kerry won 65% of native-born Hispanics, even more than the 64% who voted for Bill Clinton in 1996. But support for Mr. Kerry among Hispanics who have immigrated to the U.S. dropped from Mr. Clinton’s 82% to only 52% last year. “Hispanics who chose to come to this country and become citizens often embody the values of hard work, independence and freedom more than many native Americans,” says Ms. Montelongo, the California talk-show hostess.

For Tina Wyles, it was the “Bill Clinton” factor. “He had charisma, he could communicate in a way that reached all people and he had the X-factor,” she says.

This is for real. Former President Bill Clinton will be adding a compilation of jazz tunes for his Library and Museum store. Despite the opportunity for humorous names:

Every time I watched Bill Clinton deliver a speech I was just blown away how he would go on and on and never stutter, never search for words and there was no jumping from one topic to another...in other words he just flowed like a river, endlessly and smoothly. (Right now I wish I would be a genius so that I could really explain what I am trying to say.) But I'll try. Obviously there has to be thinking involved in order for us to talk and clearly explain what we are trying to say. As a matter of fact, very systematic thinking... or we couldn't for example tell a story. We have to see the entire scenario in order to describe it to others.... But how can we possible "THINK" so quickly that it won't interfere with our speach? Well, I have never in my life read about this, not that I assume I'm the first human ever to try to analyse thoughts, but anyhow, these are my own thoughts and my own perception and I believe it to be correct. Back to thoughts and speaking. The reason we can think that quick (speed of light) is because we don't think in words (more about it in my previous post) but we think in images. Our mind is focused on the image that we want to talk about and that image is what feeds us all the words necessary to tell our soty. And for as long as we focus on a specific image, we can talk about it endlessly because the image is as easy to follow as reading from a book. And that's why so many people need to read their speeches (which is almost silly at times) because they are nervous and when you are nervous it's hard to follow this image and trust it to be there, when your part of your mind is paralyzed with fear (of public speaking.)

let me explain yesterdays some shiz. i was at home alone, as robyn has gone to mangawai for 4 days, gets back tomorrow so ive had to fight and fend for myself. i cooked a leg of lamb on friday night, have no idea how i done it but it tasted good? went into town yesterday looking for some clothes but only came across hundreds of scantily clad woman with their large cleavages and tanned toned legs on display for the world and its perverts such as me and Bill Clinton. ohh gosh and this one girl, i wouldnt really call her a girl, more of a creation or experiment, shit god damn she was beautiful, If Barbie and Ken fornicated and barbie got pregnant and had a mortal human daughter then this girl would have been it, i was considering approaching her and asking if her parents were actually barbie and ken, but then i realized im shy and i dont even approach ugly things unless im shitfaced let alone barbies offspring. so i continued on my way with a hole torn in my jeans due the my nuclear misslie erection. but yeh anyway, herees what happened on sunday, i was doing some vaccuming n cleaning stuff (yet another new thing ive had to learn). i had just finished the vaccuming and was taking the bag from the vaccuumer and i was picking my nose when there was a knock on the french doors and i turn round to see the fucking cops there, me with a finger up my nose and a look on my face that says ‘i just shat my pants but why the fuck are you here?’ so i remove my finger and wipe it on my jersey and open the door, they ask if its my house and im thinking i should be a smart ass but im too scared and tell them its my aunties, etc, they explain that an old person next door saw me in the house and had never seen me before so thought i was a Robber McVillan and called the 55 on my ass (ghetto talk), I explained if i was a burglar the last thing i would be doing is breaking into a house just so i could do some fucking illegal vaccuuming as if i was addicted to cleaning like some people are heroin. they giggled and said i cant be a burglar because my explanation and the fact that i didnt do a runner (i should have just to give the fucks a workout, made them earn their wages). so this little incident taught me two good lessons

In my mind, she should have received 5 years, not one. Then again, so should have Little Bill Clinton for his perjury. All he lost was his law license. That forced him to write a book for $10 million and speak at up to $250,000 a pop.

Newspapers are squarely in the hands of the Republicans. Some have tried to claim a statistic that the majority of journalists voted for Gore in 2000, and thus newspapers have a liberal bent. This is like saying that television is liberal because Ray Romano and Brad Garrett voted Democrat. Ray and Brad have no say in what makes it to the air. Just like the journalists have no say in what makes it to print. According to “Editor & Publisher”, the leading trade magazine for the newspaper industry, the vast majority of newspapers endorsed Bush, by a much greater percentage of what the actual popular vote turned out to be. He was supported by a 2 to 1 majority. In terms of actual readership, 58 percent of all newspaper copies in the United States endorsed Bush. Bob Dole won more endorsements than Bill Clinton in 1996.

Think about it: You have a conservative Republican challenging the Lt. Governor who joined the popular Democratic Governor in balancing the budget. Eerily reminiscent of the 2000 Presidential election isn’t it? Just picture November of 2000. After nearly 8 years of peacetime, and a sustained economic boom, the economy stopped growing at the same lightning pace and conservatives, who had spent 8 years forcing the hand of Bill Clinton to compromise with them, now had some ammo to take down Al Gore in the 2000 election. For 8 years they had done whatever they could to protect people from the machinations of “liberal America” – or in other words, they had done whatever they could to protect their wealthy campaign contributors from any discomfort.

Another thing they seem to be proud of there, and I wouldn’t brag about it or even mention it if it was my town, is that Bill Clinton grew up and went to high school there. There’s a sign upon entering the town that says “Boyhood home of Bill Clinton.” This sign has many bullet holes in it. One of them belongs to me. My husband and I were passing through Hot Springs in the middle of the night a week after Clinton was elected the first time, and since I always carry a gun when travelling by car and I didn’t like ole Bill, I made my husband stop so I could leave my mark.

I can’t tell you how much it’s going to chap my hide to see Karl Rove and his buddies skate because Judith Miller is covering for them. After watching them willfully and credulously print every smear that scumbags like David Bossie could dream up about Bill Clinton, the NY Times makes a fetish of protecting the Bush administration. Our paper of record has seriously lost its way. It is now little more than a Republican plaything; its reputation is being used as a vehicle to mislead the public; its ethics and standards are being manipulated to cover up corruption. Something is very rotten at the Grey Lady.

What’s the difference between the nomination of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by President Bill Clinton and the nomination of Judge Roberts by President Bush? Answer: nothing. Ginsburg appeared as liberal as Roberts does conservative, yet she was approved 96 to 3. The GOP decided it would not be a party of useless litmus tests or panderers to special interests. And in the next election, Republicans made it clear she would not have been their choice. That is, after all, what elections are about.

Democrats would do well to heed this advice. I have already noticed that coverage of the election results is far from widespread or extensive in the MSM. It is certain, that following a brief bold declaration that this loss is actually a victory, this story will disappear as fast as one of Bill Clinton’s doxies. The truth about this entire election has more to do with Hillary than it does Hackett. This was a test run to determine if Hillary’s new found “moderate” label could be made to fly in the 2008 Presidential Election. Hillary has made a concerted effort, since being elected as the Junior Senator from New York, to remold her image from the rabid Socialist activist of her career since graduating from Wellesley to a mild mannered loving caring mom who is really concerned about family and national security. She is now portrayed as a supporter of the President’s efforts to bring democracy to Iraq. Hillary is now “a voice for moderation” within the Democrat party.

Let’s ask why the media, run by Jewish people, lied to America regarding the Iraq War. Let’s ask why Judith Miller, who is Jewish, promoted on a weekly basis all of her claims of WMDs in Iraq in the New York Times. Let’s ask why this Iraq War plan, which was introduced to Bill Clinton in 1998 by various Neocons who are mostly Jewish never appears as one of the reasons for the War in our Jewish media. Let us as why certain members of the left supported this war. The most powerful lobby in Washington regarding foreign policy is AIPAC, a Jewish/Israel group in Washington. Jewish people are also overrepresented in the Federal government and state governments.

It was a gradual process. When he took over Americans for Tax Reform, in 1985, he was only twenty-nine. He’s almost fifty now, and his political influence has grown steadily over the years. The thing that made his career was the tax pledge, which he wrote himself. George H.W. Bush signed the pledge in 1988, but two years later he increased taxes in a deficit-reduction deal with the Democrats. Norquist and other conservatives were furious. In 1992, when Bush was defeated, a number of people said it was because he had broken his promise on taxes. Suddenly, Norquist was a serious player in Washington. Then, when Bill Clinton was in the White House, Norquist was close to Newt Gingrich, and he helped to promote the Contract with America. That’s when Norquist started his Wednesday meetings. After Gingrich fell, in 1998, Norquist got lucky again. Karl Rove, George W.Bush’s campaign manager, invited him down to Texas to meet with the putative presidential candidate. Bush, Jr., was running as a tax cutter, and he wanted Norquist’s endorsement to prove that he wasn’t like his father. That’s what Norquist thinks, anyway, and he’s probably right. He started coöperating with Rove, which added to his growing reputation as a power broker, especially when Bush was elected.

It has been 9 years since Bill Clinton sold out poor women and children in return for a little political capital with the Republicans. I haven't forgotten. I haven't forgiven. I still have stories from the aftermath of welfare reform, stories that I collected for years after he signed the welfare reform bill.

And in which heroes Sean Hannity, Oliver North, and G. Gordon Liddy are cyborgs who broadcast from a pirate radio station.

There is also a tendency among those in the left to stereotype women as 'emotionally driven', peace loving & anti-war. The major feminist organization, such as NOW & Feminist Majority, always lobby against any defensive military actions taken by the United States government. One can imagine the shock of the DNC upon the discovery that, the Soccer Moms, who paved the way for both of Bill Clinton's victories, have become Security Moms, in the post 9/11 era. These women ensured the victory of George Bush over John Kerry. The astonished reaction to this shift is indicative of the poor understanding of the true nature of women.

I always wondered whether or not the left really believes that the terror will suddenly end if we would only cut and run? Did that tactic reduce terrorism when Bill Clinton cut and ran out of Somalia? How would cutting out of Iraq be any different?

Clinton routinely dismisses questions about 2008 and says she is focusing on her 2006 Senate re-election bid. "She doesn't know yet" whether she will run, her husband, former president Bill Clinton, said on CNN's Larry King Live last month.

Actually, he’s right. Why, just last week Harry Reid opened his own brothel in the Phillipines. & don’t let Monica Lewinsky & Paula Jones fool you — Bill Clinton is actually a bigger fan of eight-year old boys.

She has played marquee roles in several national legal groups, including the American Bar Association, the U.S. Judicial Conference and the U.S. Sentencing Commission, to which she was appointed by then-President Bill Clinton.

Isn’t that something? And don’t we wish Baby George had paid closer attention to the morals of Daddy George when it comes to having people around who play fast and loose with the truth, and even worse, confidential information. Daddy Bush fired the man. He didn’t need tons of proof, the taint of corruption was enough to make the man move to cut the cancer out of his campaign. Now, I don’t think he liked doing it, but he recognized he would have no moral leg to stand on in all his mudslinging against Bill Clinton if he allowed a sleeze like Rove to remain after something like that.

Me: (reaching the truck with the next box, I put it in the truck and looked at him, breathing hard) You're a Democrat, right? "Progressive," liberal, support Bill Clinton, hated Reagan, right?

My family and I talk about US crap all the time. The conversations tend to be quite negative, but I�d say that�s my fault not theirs.� Their other aunt Vero is Bill Clinton�s #1 fan and I promised her that if I ever meet him I�ll tell him that he has a big fan in Oruro, Bolivia.

I will bother to grind only one more ax. Robbins inevitably makes the point that our soldiers – apparently all of them – are the victims of economic coercion; in one instance he offers the example of a single-mother who had no choice but to join the military after her welfare benefits were revoked (courtesy of Bill Clinton, one presumes, but that’s another story). Jason, Govindini and myself are graduates of Yale University. It takes at least two hands to count our college friends who have served or currently serve in the military. These people are exceedingly smart, exceedingly talented, and exceedingly dedicated, and they chose their path freely and proudly. Tim Robbins insults them – spits on their uniforms – by suggesting otherwise. Let the soldiers speak for themselves; they don’t need Hollywood activists putting words in their mouths.

President Bill Clinton and his family, Hillary Clinton and their daughter Chelsea, arrived in Hanoi for a historic visit. Clinton was the first President to visit Vietnam since President Nixon's visit in 1969. The purpose of Clinton's trip was to discuss relations between the two countries. Clinton said, "I think it is time to write a new chapter here." See President Clinton's Visit to Vietnam.

Nothing will really be settled until Fitzgerald reveals the results of his investigation and the grand jury hands down indictments. Over at the Smirking Chimp, one of the members posted a list of BushCo scandals that have gone nowhere. It’s quite possible that this will end up being added to the list because the mainstream media seem to have no interest in pursuing stories that do not involve Bill Clinton’s penis. Still, they seem finally to have internalized the notion that Bush is not a popular President - perhaps that will give them a little spine.

When most people think of Bill Clinton's legacy, Monica Lewinsky, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman”, “I did not inhale”, impeachment, and other points of ridicule come to mind. However, despite the bad things Clinton did in his personal life, America was arguably safer and more prosperous under his watch. When you hear Clinton talk about terrorism now, most people are shocked and don't believe that he actually did anything about it. This is, in fact, not true at all.

The New York Times had a nice piece today. Though somewhat equivocal, it reluctantly gave President Bush credit where credit is due for doing far more in the fight against AIDs than President Bill Clinton. Bush has so far (with time to spare) committed 2/3 more than Clinton. That’s 2.1 billion more last year alone!

This tax was eliminated once before in 2000. The House passed legislation repealing the tax by 420-2 and both houses of Congress passed the legislation which repealed the tax. The bill was vetoed by then President Bill Clinton.

Still, I worry about where all this is leading my party and my country. Bill Clinton, for all his faults, was a moderate “Third Way” Democrat who managed to do a great deal of good for America. He was also the first Democrat to serve two full terms as President since Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Perhaps Clinton was sui generis, or perhaps times have changed since 9/11. But, before Democrats and Republicans retreat behind their heavily-fortified battle lines into all-out warfare, I would urge that moderation and compromise - dirty words among many partisans and bloggers these days, but a large part of what’s made America great over the years - would be given at least one more try.

The effects of the new anti-choice agenda are also affecting women abroad. On his very first day on the job, the president reimposed the odious global "gag" rule first instituted by President Ronald Reagan, then lifted by President Bill Clinton in January 1993. It bars health providers receiving American family planning assistance from counseling women about abortion, engaging in political speech on abortion or providing abortion services, even with their own money. In resurrecting the gag rule, the new president broadcast a disdain for freedom of speech to emerging democracies, while crippling the international family planning programs that work to prevent hundreds of thousands of infant and maternal deaths worldwide each year.

I seem to remember seeing a news story about a year back about some iniative, in which Bill Clinton was a participant, that would allow the Chinese government to more efficiently block websites. It wasn't being sold to the public that way, but that was the net result. I can't find the story at the moment though.

Did you hear that, beloved? Was that a political endorsement we just heard at a meeting designed for evangelism? But the shocking statement was that Bill Clinton should be an evangelist because ‘he has all the gifts?” What spiritual gifts does a non-believer possess qualifying him to “do the work of an evangelist”, Mr. Graham? This is absolutely preposterous! How dare he slight the work of the ministry (2 Timothy 4:1-5) by showing favor to one that does not know the Lord, has lived unashamedly in gross lasciviousness most of his adult life and presidency, and to this day has never repented of his sins in response to the gospel call? This is inexcusable and could forever taint the BGEA.

I've always been skeptical about the "technological fix" or the claim that technology itself is inherently democratizing (or inherently anything, for that matter). In fact, I found Bill Clinton's "digital divide" stuff to be completely delusional considering the very real problems so much of the world faces. Yet I do find myself drawn to Andrew Rasiej's plan to cover the City with low-cost wireless internet access. Rasiej is running for Public Advocate on a platform centered on building the infrastructure to make New York City a true twenty-first century city wherein internet access is not a tool of the wealthy or powerful.

Is their silence on the real abuse at Gitmo an admission that they really don’t care about our troops? Like Bill Clinton and the real Hillary, liberals in Congress do not support the troops. They do pay lip service and take every opportunity to shake the hand of a veteran for that all powerful "Photo-Op," but where the rubber meets the road, these people are invisible, and they are silent.

Acne Rosacea A Blush You Can Do WithoutWhat do former presidents Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin have in common A condition called acne rosacea a chronic inflammation of the blood vessels in the skin which causes a ruddy complexion and small acnelike eruptions on the cheeks forehead and nose In men it can […]

Stupid people, by their very nature, create dangerous situations. Consider my previous post about risk management. Stupid people don’t look when they change lanes. Stupid people bring more than 20 items in the express lane. Stupid people elected Bill Clinton. I could go on, but after my last point, I’m sure you can begin to see the danger of The Stupid.

I agree with you 100%. Whether is was meant as a joke or not, suggesting that Bill Clinton become an evangelist and letting Hillary run our country constitute TWO blasphemies in one sentence! I had already lost respect for Billy Graham after his coddling Muslims and other religions, saying that some would make it into Heaven. Well, only if they confess their sins and accept Jesus Christ as their Savior. Graham has become quite the universalist lately.

It was Reagan who began the realignment of American politics, making the Republicans into internationalist Jeffersonians with his speech in London at the Palace of Westminster in 1982, which led to the creation of the National Endowment for Democracy and the emergence of democracy promotion as a central goal of United States foreign policy. At the time, many conservative realists argued for detente, risk avoidance and placation of the Soviet bear. Faced with the Republican embrace of Jeffersonian ambitions for America abroad, liberals chose retreat or scorn. Bill Clinton -- who took reluctant risks to defend freedom in Bosnia and Kosovo -- partly arrested this retreat, yet since his administration, the withdrawal of American liberalism from the defense and promotion of freedom overseas has been startling. The Michael Moore-style left conquered the Democratic Party's heart; now the view was that America's only guiding interest overseas was furthering the interests of Halliburton and Exxon. The relentless emphasis on the hidden role of oil makes the promotion of democracy seem like a devious cover or lame excuse. The unseen cost of this pseudo-Marxist realism is that it disconnected the Democratic Party from the patriotic idealism of the very electorate it sought to persuade.

He was a real tough guy when he thought he was cool bashing the troops and their Commander in Chief. Then when the public started to lash out he began the dance. So here was Dick on the floor of the Senate with tears in his eyes, voice cracking telling everyone he now realizes he might have used the wrong words. He did not say he did anything wrong, just that others might have been offended by what he said. He has seen the error of his ways. Or has he? See, I have been in the South and all the talk shows are creaming this guy. They are recommending that people call his office. Evidently they have been and many are reporting that the folks answering the phones are getting a might bit testy. There are many people who are calling for censure and I think they should start turning up the fire some more. Durbin is trying to get out of a jam by faking an apology. Bill Clinton did that with the Lewinsky affair and people bought the act. He, like Durbin, was not sincere. Unfortunately, there are those, like McCain, who will buy it.

"One of the by-products of Dissociative Identity Disorder is a photographic memory and so they can recall their programmed messages much like an audio tape. They are also used to carry drugs for world leaders like George Bush and Bill Clinton who are heavily involved in the trafficking of drugs.

I have written numerous times about how much I hate the media, and the whole incident with the Koran and Newsweek has only made me more pissed off. Newsweek decided to run an article about soldiers flushing a Koran down a toilet, without so much as checking if it was true my belief that liberals hate America could not be anymore confirmed. When a Democrat was in office, Newsweek wouldn’t put an article about an incident involving him an intern without checking every source in the world, letting other outlets get to the story first, in order to make sure they weren’t the ones slandering the great and almighty Bill Clinton. Of course this article also included the more “politically correct spelling of “Quoran”, because we couldn’t possibly offend these poor Islamic terrorists who were being held for actions leading to deaths of Americans.

1) English is his second language? You’re saying someone who was born in America but was raised to speak Spanish cannot be President? Who is being prejudice now? Obviously you really meant it as a joke, but if we can all see brains doesn’t make a good president (see Jimmy Carter) 2. Talks the talk, but can’t walk the walk? He says he will root out evil wherever it may be, and has done that, said he will cut taxes and has. Seems like unlike some previous presidents he has actually stuck to his promises. “Our commander in thief”? So clever, yet somehow your reference to him being in national guard rather then going to join the armed forces makes him a bad commander in chief? How conveniently we forget the Bill Clinton ADMITTED to dodging the draft. At least Bush signed up, and a deserter? It’s nice to see that you don’t read the papers because they have debunked that false rumor3. “He is an unrepentant liar”? How so? WMD? Can’t we ever give our President the benefit of the doubt maybe HE was the one lied to? 4. Pretends he can speak “Mexican”? He was showing his support for the Spanish speaking members of our country. And I’m sure “Ich Bein Ien Berliner” (I am a jelly donut) doesn’t rink as one of the most prominent things JFK ever said.

I want to say something favorable about Bush again. It is this: He seems to me to have completely transcended the biases of gender and race in his appointments. Oh, he has his prejudices: He wants his appointees to be a certain sort of conservative. But no one can deny that he has broken the glass ceiling for women and blacks and Latinos in the executive and judicial branches. This is an embarrassment for Democrats who, like their present chairman, still attribute bigotry wholesale to Republicans. Well, Bush is a Republican who isn't bigoted: He has put his foreign policy in the hands and head of a female African American. This is not without some risk. Imagine the inner challenge to Saudis and other Arabs who encounter Condoleezza Rice as the plenipotentiary of the most powerful country on earth. You get an inkling of what that might feel like from the Arab saying that "a black face begins a black day." And just look at the proliferation of minorities among generals. These aren't presidential appointees, of course. Many of these decencies are the work of the hated Donald Rumsfeld. Bill Clinton was the first black president, or so Toni Morrison ruled. He even put his post-presidential office in Harlem. But he did not appoint one African American to a truly significant office in the executive branch. Of course, Jesse Jackson did a lot of hustling around the Clinton administration, having been named "Special Envoy of the President and Secretary of State for the Promotion of Democracy in Africa." Clinton did appoint a woman to the big post of secretary of state, and Madeleine Albright did literally chase breathlessly after Yasir Arafat at Camp David, begging him to return to the conference table. Well, dignity she did not have. Let's call her excitability diligence.

A break-in cover-up equals impeachment for Richard Nixon, telling a lie about sex with an intern provides Bill Clinton the chance of impeachment. What does knowingly creating instability in the world through war do for Mr. Bush? What is the definition of a war criminal? Are those at the top war criminals?

Previously, we saw the level of anti-terrorism efforts that our nation was going through while Bill Clinton was president. Even though it was clear to those in power at the time that terrorists posed a significant threat, the average American only had a dim understanding that there were fanatics out there who wanted to kill us for reasons we didn't really know about. However, there was a decent amount of success in dealing with al Qaeda and other terrorist groups even though the vast majority of the nation was either indifferent or opposed to the effort. A bipartisan committee had set a good plan on the table, the Clinton administration had set up a plan for dealing with terrorism as well, and once Bush was in office, former Clinton officials were going to hand all of this over to Bush. That's where things broke down.

Now, if liberals like Froomkin throw fits when the president isn’t pummeled enough, how do they feel about ex-presidents? Because on the two nights preceding Cavuto’s interview, FOX’s Greta Van Susteren interviewed Bill Clinton with a series of softballs that made no news whatsoever.

I think of these baby boomers - in truth I am one of them, on the tail end: The children of The Greatest Generation – the children of their sacrifice, as Bill Clinton said. A generation so in love with itself that it was able to turn to the generation before, the one that saved the world from Fascism and Communism and sneer at them, rejecting their traditions as vapid, their faith as naïve and their sense of honor and duty as mere mechanisms triggered by guilt.

“Bush’s war” – If you’re against the war, fine. I’ve never attacked those who were against the war, as longtime readers can attest. That said, if you’re going to spout off about WMDs, memos, “imminent” or whatnot, I’m going to kindly ask where in the hell your opposition was back in December of 1998 when one Bill Clinton was bombing the dogsnot out of Iraq for one reason only: intel pertaining to WMDs that were in breach of UN resolutions. You know, it is so interesting to read or hear those who thought it was fine and dandy to take military action against Saddam when Clinton was the one calling the shots and who couldn’t wait to campaign for his Veep, who also supported the measures (as did I) but who somehow suddenly decided that Iraq was a sovereign entity that had done us no harm and any action would be illegal when someone with an ”(R)” next to their names were in the oval office. Gee, I wonder what made them act so duplicitous?

“I’m going back to my cottage to rape my wife,” Klein quotes Bill Clinton as saying during a Bermuda getaway in 1979.

The US Secret Service were alerted when former President BILL CLINTON received a crank call.

According to Drudge, Edward Klein’s new book The Truth About Hillary makes the claim via an anonymous source that former President Bill Clinton made the incredible claim, "I'm going back to my cottage to rape my wife,” while on a Bermuda vacation in 1979.

Lake Worth, Florida (AHN) – In late May, Jason Martin stumbled across a misplaced cell phone at the back of the restaurant he worked at. Upon scanning the phone book, he was surprised to see a list of names including, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, George Clooney, Harrison Ford, and Bill Gates.

Saying that 9/11 was the fault of gays — that would be hate speech. Saying that the gay-oriented Metropolitan Community Church is filled with “brute beasts” and is “a vile and Satanic system” that will “one day be utterly annihilated and there will be a celebration in heaven” — that too would be hate speech. Calling People for the American Way and NOW “Christ-Haters” isn’t what I’d call “love speech.” Claiming that Bill Clinton was a “bad” President who made the country “turn our backs on the Lord” seems pretty hateful as well.

(9) This section really irritates me. What Butler is explicitly saying is that clarity can be used by liars, which is a true but fairly trivial statement. Implicitly, however, there is a subtext arising from the dragging in of Nixon. If you are an American in 1999, then Nixon is surely not the most obvious candidate to use as an example of lying presidents. But Bill Clinton wouldn’t have the same impact, because what Butler wants to imply is that if you are in favour of clear speech you are siding with right-wing republicans like Richard Nixon. Put as bluntly as that, it’s a stupid statement and one that many left-wing academics would disagree with, so Butler wraps this up to so as to give a vague feeling to the reader that she’s reactionary if she disagrees.

MILLIONS of Americans despise Bill Clinton. They have done so since he became a presence in national politics in the early 1990’s, and they continue to do so today, more than four years after his retirement from public office.

Bush, and President Bill Clinton before him, were right to reject participation in the Kyoto Treaty to curb greenhouse gases. Its stringent protocols, from which China and India, the world’s two largest nations, are exempted, would have put a disproportionate and painful chill on the U.S. economy.

The WaPo today tells us that Bill Clinton would like to be Secretary-General of the UN.

Congress fared no better. The proportion of the public disapproving of the legislative body was at its highest since late 1998, during President Bill Clinton's impeachment. More people said they would look at a candidate other than their sitting representative than at any point in nearly eight years. For the first time since April 2001, Democrats (46 percent) were trusted more than Republicans (41 percent) to cope with the nation's problems. But at the same time, favorability ratings for the Democratic Party, at 51 percent, tied their all-time low.

Congress fared no better. The proportion of the public disapproving of the legislative body was at its highest since late 1998, during President Bill Clinton's impeachment. More people said they would look at a candidate other than their sitting representative than at any point in nearly eight years. For the first time since April 2001, Democrats (46 percent) were trusted more than Republicans (41 percent) to cope with the nation's problems. But at the same time, favorability ratings for the Democratic Party, at 51 percent, tied their all-time low.

What the poster is not is partisan. The campaign is over. Bush won. He’s the only president we’ve got. If you’ve got another incumbent president out there to make light of, I’d sure like to know about it. And the day that Americans can’t make fun of their president is the day that Rush Limbaugh sobs apologies to Bill Clinton, splits his millions between PETA and the Hillary ‘08 campaign and slinks back to Sacramento to take over the “Garden Show” on KFBK.

Dubya's approval rating has fallen to 46%. That's 27 points lower than Bill Clinton's approval rating right after his impeachment.

Of course a Democrat wants a kid to vote. It's easy to sway them on superficial emotional issues. Bill Clinton showed how easy it is to play the sax on MTV and get the country's youth to think you are really cool.

I believe that Bill Clinton is a man of high intelligence, quick wit, able to capture imaginations and hearts - and not an extreme liberal, either.

As James Taranto points out, this is rather odd considering that Howard Dean is 1) white and 2) describes himself as being Christian. Same with other leading Democrats of the present and recent past. Ted Kennedy, anyone? How about Al Gore? Oh, and Bill Clinton? And, yes, Hillary is also "white" and (on paper, it appears) "Christian". And as far I know, they are all heterosexual. Such diversity!

I put it in the same category as many scandals; I don't really want to know. OJ Simpson, Bill Clinton, Barry Bonds, and so many others, I just want to speculate what the truth is. Can you think of others? Leave a comment of the best mystery you can think of you either don't want to know the answer to, or wish you didn't know.

One lesson of her husband’s Presidency is that, if you spray enough semen over everything in sight, the libertine left will be so busy defending you from the uptight right they won’t notice that, for Republicans, Bill Clinton was about as good a Democrat as you could get: he liked to tell friends he governed as an “Eisenhower Republican”. After all, aside from all the pants-dropping, what exactly did the Democrats have to show for the Clinton years? Welfare reform? NAFTA (a North American “common market” but without all the EU hooey)?...

In the 21st century financial illiteracy will kill the hopes and dreams of literally millions of black Americans with the will to make it. That is why Operation HOPE has educated more than 140,000 urban youth in financial literacy across America, and has committed to educating 5 million over the next 5-years, including a bold 5-year partnership between former President Bill Clinton and his William Jefferson Clinton Foundation and Operation HOPE’s Banking on Our Future program to educate every child in Harlem in financial literacy....

Bill Clinton sought, captured, and prosecuted those involved in terrorist acts on his watch.

As we've noted before, Janice Rogers Brown and Priscilla Owen won a far greater proportion of California's and Texas' votes, respectively, than Hillary did in New York, so it's manifestly absurd to call them extremists. As for Social Security, the deteriorating demographics that structurally undergird the program are so inherently weak that it will wreck itself just fine without anyone's help. And with regard to unacceptable concessions, when Bill Clinton sent the hapless Jimmy Carter to North Korea to negotiate an end to its nuclear weapons program,...

Oh HELL no. In fact, we’re in deeper than we were before. Remember: any “miracle cure” that happens during the current reign of the current Authorities only make the current Authorities look better. BushCo will be able to say, “see, we don’t need to worry about running out of oil– we have plenty!” Gas prices will plummet, SUV drivers nationwide will emit putrid sighs of relief from their rotting, cancer-infested innards, and teams of explosive-wielding oil functionaries will make their way to Colorado,...

Not too long ago I went up to Harlem to see Bill Clinton. Our talk was off the record, so I cannot tell you what he said, but I can say – can’t I? – that he was smart and encyclopedic and wise and knowledgeable.

The Congressional losses of 1994 touched Bill Clinton's deepest anxieties, and made him willing to weaken the institution that made him, for personal survival. Dick Morris did it the way a corporate raider would. By showing indifference to any stakeholder but the swing voter, he gladly risked the loyalty of those who had been willing to stick with the institution through thick and thin. "The fact that it would anger Democrats was not a drawback but a bonus," George Stephanopoulos recalls of Morris's strategy � just as angering long-term stakeholders...

There’s only one problem: governing successfully requires influencing how people actually think. Yet when the habits of persuasion have been buried, the possibilities of leadership are interred as well. That’s why Bill Clinton’s case on health care could be bested by savage “Harry and Louise” ads. And why, even if George Bush’s Social Security plan had been well conceived, the odds were always stacked against ambitious reform.

Voters in the District overwhelmingly supported a medical marijuana initiative in 1998 -- 69 percent sided with Initiative 59 -- but the results of the election were impounded for close to a year as members of Congress amended the District's 1999 budget to forbid the use of public funds to count the votes. After a court allowed the results to be published, Congress, spearheaded by then-Rep. Bob Barr (R-Ga.), again amended the District's budget legislation to prohibit the implementation of the medical marijuana initiative. Citing excessive interference...

Another example involves David Schippers, the attorney who prosecuted Bill Clinton and is highly thought of in Republican circles. Schippers says he called up Attorney General John Ashcroft repeatedly to tell him that FBI agents were warning of an attack, that they knew the date and said it was going to be in Lower Manhattan. Schippers couldn’t get the Attorney General’s office to call him back. The New American, a conservative political magazine, interviewed these FBI agents and confirmed their story.

Under Bill Clinton United States Citizens and our military was attacked on multiple occasions. Bill Clinton either did nothing or lobbed a few cruise missiles at empty terrorist training camps. Under Clinton, Al Qaeda went unchecked and came to believe that American troops were paper tigers and would run at the first serious shock.

First, and most importantly, there are two huge disconnects between (and within) the movement’s leadership / intelligentsia, and the base. The most concrete one is over Iraq, but you don’t need me to tell you much about that one. What hasn’t been pointed out is the significant divide over ideas vs. anger that was very apparent at this conference. The activists in the movement are angry, and they used every opportunity at this conference to remind us how angry they were. Just consider some of the keynotes: Labor organizer Cecil Roberts ranted...

"Lost" isn't the word. Something more forceful (pulverized? mutilated?) is in order to describe the, well, fallen condition of a world in which -- just to take a random example -- a new Simon & Schuster teen title, "Rainbow Party," that recounts a tale of an oral group sex party for the "young adult" set. (Thanks, Bill Clinton.) I'm both happy and resentful to report that so-called rainbow parties -- reportedly a real-life trend -- are a new one on me: happy that I've lived multiple decades without an inkling; resentful that I'm now and forever stuck with the knowledge. Who needs it?

Khartoum has often been considered part of an informal anti-American "axis," extending from Tripoli to Tehran, and passing through Khartoum, Sana'a and, until 2003, Baghdad. Washington has explicitly accused Sudan of harboring international terrorists and members of the al-Qaeda network. After the August 7, 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, former U.S. President Bill Clinton ordered a retaliatory strike against Sudan's El Shifa Pharmaceutical Industries factory -- which U.S. officials said was housing chemical weapons.

Robert Marus of the Associated Baptist Press quotes Bill Clinton in his interview with Larry King:

That measure, which Congress adopted over President Bill Clinton's veto, was hailed by business groups, which say it has reduced costly and frivolous cases.

Bill Clinton isn’t a fake for once being pro-life then becoming pro-abortion?

So after, we go on this trek to find this restaurant called KoTo. It basically stands for Know One. Teach One. The concept of this place is that they take in street kids and train them to work in the restaurant and prepare them to work and give them experience so that they can find future employment. There was even a picture of Bill Clinton in the restaurant and his signed photograph of well wishes for the kids. It was really neat place and had pretty good food.

While zipping around the blogosphere I happened on Mustang23's blog Assumption of Command. Great blog by the way. Anyhow, just for fun he'd posted a caption contest with Bill Clinton in the photo....how can one resist? Only rule - 'No use of the term "Sexual Relations"'. So taking my witty self over to the comments section I posted my own caption idea...and by God I won. There....I'm Vindicated! LOL Now I have proof I can occasionally be reasonably funny. I never win anything, so at least when I do finally get picked as a winner it's for my wit....

President Ronald Reagan signed tax bills that benefited the wealthiest Americans and also gave tax breaks to the working poor. President Bill Clinton raised income taxes for the wealthiest, cut taxes on investment gains, and expanded breaks for the working poor. Mr. Bush eliminated income taxes for families making under $40,000, but his tax cuts have also benefited the wealthiest Americans far more than his predecessors’ did.

But he wouldn’t. That’s what separates them from us. The most visible members of the Democratic party are almost apoplectic in their rage and their hatred of all things W. I will grant that John Kerry and Bill Clinton rankle me in ways that I can’t describe, but for very spcific reasons. Kerry lied about his service in Vietnam to give himself an air of legitimacy, and Bill Clinton did a number of things: Lied under oath, sold our military technology to China, pick something. There’s plenty to choose from with him.

The problem for the Dems is that the electorate on the whole tends to lean a bit more to the right than the mainstream of the Democratic party. Not a lot, but enough so that a George McGovern or a Ted Kennedy will never win. But a Bill Clinton or even a Jimmy Carter can win, so long as they can project a more populist image than their opponents (a populist image, mind you - real populism doesn't sell). Republicans start with something of a home advantage, but Dems can get elected if they know how to reach out to the mainstream voter. It's OK to be somewhat liberal, so long as you don't look like a clueless, elite, out-of-touch liberal, and you can relate to regular people (hint: no windsurfing) and demonstrate that you do believe in the ideals of the nation that form the basis of what has been called "the American Civic Religion".

Joe Biden is Not happywith Howard Dean. Neither is John Edwards. While some people are having trouble figuring out why Dean is receiving such criticism, for most it should be obvious. You mean that calling your political opponents "evil" isn't conducive to the necessary compromises of the political world, let alone normal adult behavior? Whoda thunk it? Dean and Harry Reid are beating the drums to continue the onslaught of nonsense we heard during the election, the ridiculous claims of administration cover-up conspiracies and oil investments....

Others who signed the letter include Princeton N. Lyman, ambassador to South Africa and Nigeria under presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton; Monteagle Stearns, ambassador to Greece and Ivory Coast in the Ford, Carter and Reagan administrations; and Spurgeon M. Keeny Jr., deputy director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in the Carter administration.

What is so worrying about the Newsweek story was the cowed reaction of the press. In some cases they scrambled to pay obeisance to the White House's tough line, quite forgetting that the kerfuffle distracted from the worsening situation in Iraq in which scores of lives are lost every day. Marty Peretz, the owner of the New Republic, took space in his own publication to attack the Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff, who by the way was once the hero of conservatives for his hounding of Bill Clinton.

Buchanan is shocked — shocked! — and full of recriminations about media types he claims would do anything to bring down a president. This, after what Republican right wingers, their burgeoning propaganda industry, behind-the scenes lawyers and “operatives” did to Bill and Hillary Clinton from the moment Bill Clinton started running for the Democratic nomination in 1981.

The Congressional losses of 1994 touched Bill Clinton's deepest anxieties, and made him willing to weaken the institution that made him, for personal survival. Dick Morris did it the way a corporate raider would. By showing indifference to any stakeholder but the swing voter, he gladly risked the loyalty of those who had been willing to stick with the institution through thick and thin. "The fact that it would anger Democrats was not a drawback but a bonus," George Stephanopoulos recalls of Morris's strategy � just as angering long-term stakeholders...

Christopher Hitchens (he who publicly disses Mother Teresa, Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, and the late Pope John Paul II) and Peter "The Abolition of Britain" Hitchens are brothers, but not exactly drinking buddies, and that's down to more than just the fact that Peter lives in Britain and Christopher in Washington, DC. More on that, in an actual face-to-face interview with the two Hitchens boys, in The Guardian.

Come to think of it, they don’t hold up pictures of Bill Clinton, or Hillary Clinton, or John Kerry or Ted Kennedy, with that request, either.

Today's liberal press is filled with insolence and arrogance, you need only watch a press conference to see members of the liberal media being completely disrespectful towards our president. When Bill Clinton was elected, I spoke to my mother, a democrat, on the phone and she told me that I didn’t have to like or respect Bill Clinton, but I damned well would respect the office. And so I did, even during the Lewinsky affair, whenever I spoke of Bill Clinton I was courteous and respectful. Now that he is out of office I don't feel required to obey...

Emanuel, a top White House aide under President Bill Clinton, is trying to expand the number of competitive seats for 2006 beyond the three dozen or so that are expected to be close in a nation of increasingly lopsided House districts. That led the Democrats to Pombo.

Found a columnist named Bob Hill at the Louisville Courier-Journal, who suggests that the world would have been a better place if Bill Clinton “had kept his pants zipped” and been able to campaign for Al Gore. Al Gore would have won the 2000 Presidential Election, he says tacitly, and we wouldn’t be dealing with whatever it is which bothers him.

Why did Felt lie? Because Felt knew he had disgraced himself and dishonored everything an FBI agent should stand for. He didn’t want his old comrades to know what a snake he had been. Linda Tripp, savaged by the same press lionizing Felt, at least had the moral courage to go public and take the heat when she blew the whistle on Bill Clinton.

He said his experience as a defendant had helped shape his views about investor lawsuits and led him “to sympathize with people who are victimized in these suits.” The bill Mr. Cox helped to write, the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, was the only legislation to become law over a veto by President Bill Clinton.

Former President Bill Clinton made an apperance on Larry King Live last evening.

King asked Bill Clinton if he was “worried about the religious conservative movement in America and their power”.

Conyers proceeded to berate the current administration. Ironically, Bill Clinton even gave words of praise to Felt.

I'm sure Bill Clinton will be doing the same soon. Unfortunately, the NRSC is outraising the DSCC by serveral million dollars, so we need to start catching up.

In other words, as James Lakely points out, Mark Felt is to Richard Nixon what Linda Tripp is to Bill Clinton.

I had almost finished writing this on the Martin Luther King holiday, the day after which Bill Clinton's own vulgar and exploiting and finally trivial past almost caught up with him. It's in reading Branch's biography of King that one may still lay hold of a worthwhile strand in the narrative. While a succession of insecure and dishonest statesmen committed high crimes and misdemeanours at home and abroad, always justifying themselves by a fear of being thought weak, or by a terror of being undercut by a rival, or by simple fear of the contents...

[I can't help highlighting the places in this where Hitchens' head will have to explode in the life to come.] There's almost a dimension of tragedy in this, of willful self-occlusion: Hitchens praises King's radical public honesty, in the face of a compromised private life, in the same breath as he insists (using the Kennedy precedent to mediate) on the most naive, the flattest possible reading of Bill Clinton's "promiscuity." The passage gets more schoolmarmish, more old-maidish, as it goes on. "The two things [private and public behavior] may bear only an allegorical relationship," Hitchens admits, which at least opens the possibility of falsification: but has he ever reckoned with himself over the undeniable fact that the Clinton prosecution never established any such "serious purpose" as he alleges for it, prospectively, here? On the contrary: as if to foreclose any future revisiting of the case, any confrontation of allegory with evidence, by the last sentence Hitchens has contorted himself into forgetting even the possibility of a distinction between personal and political. (Even his rhetorical command deserts him: one doesn't ordinarily use the word "confused" as a synonym for "disassociated.") As if, having once committed himself to a purely symbolic politics, to allegorizing private presidential sin as world-historical guilt, Hitchens can only forge on by commencing to set fire to his intellectual bridges. A strange, sad performance.

But another question looms, particularly for Democrats who voted for the war and now say they were misled: Why weren't these unprovoked and unauthorized attacks investigated when they were happening, when it might have had a real impact on the Administration's drive to war? Perhaps that's why the growing grassroots campaign to use the Downing Street memo to impeach Bush can't get a hearing on Capitol Hill. A real probing of this "smoking gun" would not be uncomfortable only for Republicans. The truth is that Bush, like President Bill Clinton before...

The Bush administration is power hungry and wants complete control over the all three branches of the government. To do this they plan to pack the courts with radical judges who have a political agenda. Bill Clinton had 60 of his nominations blocked while Bush has only lost 10 of his nominations. It is clear that the Republican leadership have a political agenda in mind that will erode our system of checks and balances and our democracy.

“The Senate has been obscenely obstructionist in blocking President Bill Clinton’s judicial nominations. Former Senator Spencer Abraham did nothing to help shepherd Michigan Court of Appeals Judge Helene White and Detroit attorney Kathleen McCree Lewis through the system.”

where he profiles the members of “the Left"–everyone, in his mind, from convicted members of Al Qaeda to Louis Farrakhan to the Weathermen to Bill Clinton and John Kerry. Reading it is almost comical.

Um, what do Sheik Omar Adbel Rahman and Roger Ebert have in common? Evangelical Lefty Jim Wallis and Barack Obama? Al Qaeda and Bill Clinton and the Weathermen? Jimmy Carter and Mumia? What Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon has taught us is that it’s easy to link people if you’re trying to. Michael Berube has written a much more detailed and useful critique of the Networks site.

And tomorrow, following last year’s address by Bill Clinton, Gen. Wesley Clark will be speaking at Cornell. Tickets are restricted to graduates and their guests, however, so we won’t be attending.

He has broad support from legal scholars, including many prominent liberals, and he has proven to be a consistent conservative rather than a partisan one (for example, he publicly opposed the impeachment of Bill Clinton and spoke out strongly against the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court decision). Given the other potential choices, McConnell is about as good as liberals or libertarians could expect to get as a nominee given the current configuration.

Author of book causing worldwide controversy to visit Bill Clinton and demand that he and Hillary take accountability. “Hillary enabled a rapist.”

New York, NY (PRWEB) June 3, 2005 -- Bill Clinton rose to the White House as a self-professed supporter of women’s rights, and his wife Senator Hillary Clinton promises to deliver a similar message in her campaign to return to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But the Clintons’ commitment to women’s rights have been called into question by a shocking new book garnering worldwide attention that documents a pattern of disturbing attacks -- including rape -- against women.

“The history of Bill Clinton’s relationships with women has been one of physical and sexual harassment often followed by threats and intimidation,” says Jackson. “Over and over he has proven himself to be a ‘liberal misogynist’ -- a man who feels that his professed concern for women’s political rights gives him free rein to treat individual women like chattel.”

Peggy apparently thinks that Bill Clinton, and not Gerald Ford, took Nixon’s job when he resigned.

Limbacher said there's proof that Bill Clinton manipulated the IRS.

The impeachment of President Bill Clinton arose from a series of events following the filing of a lawsuit on May 6, 1994...A motion sponsored by Democrats to adopt a censure resolution as an alternative to the proposed impeachment was defeated on December 8. On December 11 and 12, the Committee approved four articles of impeachment for presentation to the full House, and on December 16 released its full Report supporting its recommendation. After debate, the House approved two of the Articles alleging that the President had provided perjurious, false and misleading testimony to the grand jury regarding the Paula Jones case and his relationship with Monica Lewinsky and that he had obstructed justice through an effort to delay, impede, cover up and conceal the existence of evidence related to the Jones case.

Richard Nixon was impeached for a cover-up of a two-bit break-in. William Cohen, a young Maine Republican, played an important role for the prosecution in those proceedings. Bill Clinton was impeached for lying about sex with an intern. Now we have the irrefutable evidence that George W. Bush lied about the reasons for taking the United States to war. The intelligence wasn't flawed. The weapons weren't hidden. Our elected leaders were lying.

Regardless of Bill Clinton's crimes, it DOES NOT give George W. Bush license to commit them himself.

In 2001, in the opening months of his ex-presidency, Bill Clinton confided to an aide that he had decided on his dream job for the next chapter of his life: secretary general of the

The story starts with an unlikely partnership. Andrew Mantovani was a part-time student at Scottsdale Community College in Arizona. David Appleyard was a onetime mortgage broker who lived in Linwood, N.J., just outside of Atlantic City. This is the duo who led the ShadowCrew from 2002 until they were arrested last fall, according to an indictment filed in U.S. District Court in New Jersey -- the state in which their servers were located. The two are believed to have met online, although the details of their first encounters are unknown. From their...

The French could use a Bill Clinton, whose most powerful theme as president was his 1996 campaign slogan of building "a bridge to the 21st century." Clinton assured American workers that he felt their pain about outsourcing and global competition -- and so would provide the training and other help for people to find jobs in the new economy. He never pretended that workers could opt out of competition. Chirac was never able to sound that positive theme in his "yes" campaign.

Especially since Bush's reelection, Democrats have been divided on electoral strategy. One camp believes the key to revival is courting centrist swing voters (a la Bill Clinton's "third way"). The second says the party must emulate Bush and focus on mobilizing its base by stressing unity.

James Levin, a friend of former President Bill Clinton and a Democratic fundraiser, testified last month that he engaged in a minority contract fraud scheme and bribery.

We like big government, but we don't really want too much more of it. Contrary to what Bill Clinton proclaimed nearly a decade ago the era of big government is not over. Government continues to grow, but slowly and with no particular direction; it grows by inertia as much as anything else. With the "vision thing," in the elder Bush's description, a no go all that is left is old fashioned patronage and regional management, but now raised to a unprecedented scale. The Liberal Party has become corrupt because it manages...

Matt Drudge has a preview of yet another Clintome, "The Survivor - Bill Clinton in the White House" by John F. Harris, national correspondent for the Washington Post and secret right wing conspirator, to fill in the gaps of Bill and Hillary's air-brushed autobios. One is immediately impressed by the excerpts that aides to the Clintons and Gores were treated and mistreated to toxic behavior to the max. This can't bode well for 2006 or 2008 for Senator Clinton's election bids as more books are sure to follow in the...

Survivor - Bill Clinton in the White House" by John F. Harris, national

It's fascinating: 83% of the population considers itself Christian, there are tens of thousands of churches across the land, we have a President who wears his religion like Bill Clinton wore White House interns, and Christians from all walks, be they good folk or evil men like Pat Robertson or Fred Phelps, can practice their religion freely, and idiots like Limbaugh call it oppression.

Unfortunately, Mears is still prone to making the same mistakes as most reporters. Like all national journalists, Mears has an annoying tendency to make blunt statements, the real story he couldn't tell you in the papers, even though he's usually wrong. When it's someone like Humphrey, I have no way to judge for myself, but I do know a fair amount about Bill Clinton's presidency, so there the errors and assumptions became annoying. Further, he has the annoying journalistic habit of focusing more on new material than on importance. Say you're...

What a tool. Honestly. Not only did he say “I haven’t lost a step so I’m not playing safety,” but now he’s pulling a Bill Clinton “how do you define the word IS?” move. Why this guy is still on this team I don’t know. He is not a good player, period. I have never seen him play safety so maybe we’re missing something decent, but he’s just gone into damage control mode now which is sad. Not only is Hunter not needed at CB anymore, but I would go so far as to say this: the Cowboys don’t...

Later on Heartland, John Kasich discussed the recent Gallup Poll which gave Hillary a 53% approval rating. Kasich, trying to make a positive point, suggested that now that Bill Clinton's reputation was "rehabilitated", Hillary had a better chance.At another point he said that he didn't think Clinton has been a very good Senator. Martha Zoller, R. spokesman, agreed that Clinton was popular but didn't think that people would vote for her in the end. Zoller reasoned that voters would not see her as a credible leader of the military adding that it had...

comment:Seems like there's not too much ammunition at the moment. She has worked diligently as a Senator and gained respect on both sides of the aisle.Bill Clinton's recent actions have made him a symbol of harmony and altruism so maybe the gender thing will be a new weapon.

In 2002, in a little-noticed interview that took place in Rome, Santorum told National Catholic Reporter, a U.S.-based weekly, that he considered George W. Bush, a Methodist, to be ''the first Catholic president of the United States.'' (His remark was reminiscent of the novelist Toni Morrison's saying that Bill Clinton was the nation's first black president, although an obvious difference is that there actually has been a Catholic president.) Santorum explained his claim to me: ''What I meant was if you look at the two major issues of the church,...

The article paints a trail of death behind this man reminiscent of Bill Clinton's bloody Arkansas legacy. It isn't known if Patel is practicing in Portland, but he is still licensed in Oregon.

Bill Clinton is tired. Fly around the world go zoom zoom. He needs a nap.

What are the two cases that Yost highlights in order to bolster his argument? Pat Tillman and Bill Clinton. Confused? Read more (free registry required).

Bangor is the hometown of Hannibal Hamlin, who served as Abraham Lincoln's vice president, and of William Cohen, U.S. Senator and Secretary of Defense under Bill Clinton. Also residing there is Stephen King, the prolific and internationally popular author best known for his horror-themed stories, novels, and movies. His wife, Tabitha Spruce-King, is also a well-known writer and lives with him. They donate a substantial amount of money to local libraries and hospitals and have funded a baseball stadium, Mansfield Stadium, and the Beth Pancoe Pool,...

This is the Republican party that shoved an unwanted and unwarranted impeachment of Bill Clinton down our throats. It shoved an unelected Preznit down our throats. It shoved a foolish and unneccessary tax giveaway to millionaires down our throats. It shoved a stupid Medicare Act down our throats. And, if our throats weren't raw enough from all that, well, yeah, they shoved a two hundred billion dollar war that was based on lies down our throats.

3. Only use examples from your own experience that directly illustrate points that will be helpful to audiences. Bill Clinton's detailed description of his early years certainly didn't benefit us out here. And, according to the media, few of us continued reading after those first 50 me-decade pages.

At one time, Ochman owned and operated one of the top 100 independent PR firms in the U.S. Like Israel, the Internet’s advent led her to believe it was time to re-tool. She took 1995 off to study the Internet. When she returned, her first client was Just for Men Hair Color. After a political reporter observed presidential candidates, Bill Clinton and Robert Dole were each appearing at different campaign stops with different hair colors, Ochman built a website where visitors could view them displaying black, brown, red, blond and gray tresses and...

LITTLE ROCK - While saxophones became an informal trademark for America's first rock 'n' roll president, memorabilia going on display this weekend at Bill Clinton's library range from an Eritrean lute to a Czech recorder to a larger-than-life painting of bluesman B.B. King.

Back when the press was investigating Bill Clinton, conservatives were eager to believe every negative report about the incumbent. Some even pushed totally false claims, including the loony allegation that Clinton aide Vince Foster was somehow murdered by Clinton's apparatchiks when, in fact, Foster committed suicide. Every journalist who went after Clinton was "courageous." Anyone who opposed his impeachment or questioned even false allegations was "an apologist."

Ten presidents were governors: (James K. Polk, Rutherford Hayes, Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush)

So what happens to the "rising star" Julian Castro if he loses? Matt left a comment in The Jeffersonian's post stating that he loses that title if he loses this race. That's probably true, but don't equate a little dimming of his luster with being finished. He's still, what, thirty years old? His youth was one of the concerns about his candidacy, after all. If he loses, he can go away for a couple of years and gain some age, wisdom, experience, whatever it is that he's supposed to have lacked by being 30, and run to replace Hardberger in 2009 as...

One of the Tamil Dailies, Dinamalar, says that our former President Bill Clinton is visiting Nagapattinam on 27th of May. We hope that his coming would help alleviate the sufferings of all the poorest of the poor in this tsuanmi devastated region. According to the news, President Clinton will also adopt few villages of Nagapattinam. Hope that will become a reality. Atleast it sounds hopeful as of now.

Given that, some Democrats argue that Bush would be better off compromising on a Supreme Court nominee. “I hope the president will really rise up above this debate that’s been going on the last couple of months and send up to the Senate someone who won’t just get five or six or seven Democratic votes but will get 35 Democratic votes,” said Jack Quinn, who was White House counsel under President Bill Clinton.

As of this posting - the former NATO chief, and Arkansas native who's not Mike Huckabee or Bill Clinton, is running at 47:1 in The IJWFTRI Odds - without a lot of upward movement.

On a visit to India, former US President, Bill Clinton, has praised the country for its efforts and success in stemming the spread of AIDS... click link for more info.

Former President Bill Clinton visiting New Delhi, India to launch the Physician Training Initiative, a program to train 150,000 private sector Indian physicians in HIV/AIDS care and treatment over the next year... click link for more info.

Bill Clinton hailed him as "a gift to humanity!" When awarding him the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom (America's highest civilian award) in 2002, President Bush hailed Nelson Mandela as "the most revered statesman of our time."

James Steinberg, a former National Security Council official under President Bill Clinton, said, “China and Russia are counting on the Europeans not to go for sanctions. They want the Europeans to hide. If they’re put on the spot, though, they won’t defend Iran.”

"When East Timor celebrates its first day of independence Monday after more than 400 years of Portuguese colonial rule and 24 years of Indonesian occupation, a group of envoys from the United States led by former President Bill Clinton and including several serving and retired senior U.S. officials will be prominent among dozens of foreign delegations offering support to the new government.

Frist, Bush, and the Republican propaganda machine have been expressing outrage that Bush has been denied a handful of court nominees. The fact is that Republicans denied Bill Clinton far more court nominees, not by filibustering, but by refusing to let nominations out of committee. And Clinton tended to appoint moderates in an effort to appease Republicans, while Bush's nominees are mostly far-right conservatives. Frist needed 50 votes plus Vice President Cheney as tie-breaker to sustain his threatened parliamentary coup. In the end, seven of the...

Davenport theorizes that a knee injury suffered by President Bill Clinton the same night as the Phoenix incident at the Orlando, Fla., home of pro golfer Greg Norman had nothing to do with Clinton accidentally twisting his knee. Instead, it had everything to do with him injuring it when Secret Servicemen rushed him to some undisclosed location to guide the nation in its defense of a possible alien attack.

I remember not too long ago many philosophically inclined right-wing conservative types accusing (correctly, I might add) President Bill Clinton of being a post-modernist when he would make statements like:

Bill Clinton was in Copenhagen on Wednesday for a book signing and a meeting with Danish leaders. The next day he joined Richard Gere in Jordan for a meeting on global poverty. It made for quite a photograph, the American Gigolo and an actor.

UNC political scientist Jim Stimson is the most distinguished analyst of public opinion in the country, and he's written a wonderful new book for a general audience called Tides of Consent. The stereotype is that public opinion is transient and easily manipulated, but Stimson shows that its movements over time are systematic responses to the actions of government. For instance, public opinion trends against the administration in office; thus, during the Reagan/Bush era the public became more liberal, but after Bill Clinton took office, it turned...

Bill Clinton said in one of his many trips to the middle in order to get elected said, "Abortion should be safe, legal and rare." This is the great hero of the Democratic Party talking. So all you liberals follow along closely and answer this quiz. See how many prezels you need to turn yourself into in order to answer it.

When Lieberman stood up on the Senate floor to denounce Bill Clinton back during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, he wasn't speaking as a moral man outraged at the President's bad behavior.

If you believe Bill Clinton should have done more to protect this nation by strengthening the military and our intelligence community rather than destroying them while he focused his attention on using the White House as a personal play-pen, you are right again. But if you believe America was weakened by Larry Flint Lite living in the White House, you are a right-wing radical.

Larry King is celebrating 20 years on CNN — and has a string of huge interviews on deck for the week of the 30th — including Bill Clinton, George HW & Barbara Bush, VP Dick Cheney — and Barbara Walters will interview Larry.

And, finally, on Bill Clinton. I largely agree with you Woody but if you noticed my vote in the earlier post was for Calvin Coolidge. If the best that you can say about Clinton is that he stayed out of the way, well, that is pretty damn good in my book. I would like to see more Presidents (and Legislators) do the same.

Bill Clinton lies about getting a hummer and gets hauled through impeachment hearings. George Bush lies about weapons of mass destruction to justify going to war and the media yawn, even when a smoking gun documenting the deception surfaces.

Firstly, the principal reporter on the Gitmo story was Michael Isikoff � �Spikey� in a different lifetime; Linda Tripp�s favorite journalist, and one of the ten people most responsible (intentionally or otherwise) for the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Spikey isn�t just a hero to the Right � the Right owes him.

Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Ca, actually told Hannity & Colmes that it's not Geo W Bush that should get any credit for the successes in Iraq, but rather Bill Clinton. Huh? Yep.

Now, explain to me how we're going to gather information about shady characters without getting involved with shady characters. Why are we relying on British Intel about Saddam's dealings with Niger? Because Bill Clinton handcuffed the CIA for eight years.

I'd be the first to congratulate Bill Clinton on the military successes of Bosnia, Kosovo, Haiti, etc if I thought that we had any national interest in the success of those missions. (see: Nixon Doctrine.)

The reader comes away from Drudge Manifesto with the impression that Mr. Drudge is an individual --- not unlike his nemesis Bill Clinton --- too aware of his own place in history. The extent of Drudge’s own self-awareness is to such a radical degree that it has led him to use a number of McCluhanesque literary devices bordering on the bizarre and that, ultimately, detract from the text.

I came to see that news is what people want to keep hidden, and everything else is publicity. In my documentaries, whether on the Watergate scandal thirty years ago, or the Iran-Contra conspiracy twenty years ago, or Bill Clinton's fundraising scandals ten years ago, or five years ago the chemical industry's long and despicable cover up of its cynical and unspeakable withholding of critical data about its toxic products, I realized that investigative journalism could not be a collaboration between the journalist and the subject. Objectivity was not satisfied by two opposing people offering competing opinions, leaving the viewer to split the difference. I came to believe that objective journalism means describing the object being reported on, including the little fibs and fantasies, as well as the big lie of people in power.

While Churchill has remained silent on his ethnicity in the last several weeks, he has stated as recently as February 2, 2005, in a Denver Post article, that he is three-sixteenths Cherokee. In this same article, he also conceded that his membership in the Keetoowah Cherokee Band was not tied to his ethnicity, but was actually an “associate” membership granted to several non-Keetoowahs, including former President Bill Clinton.

Ward Churchill has been masquerading as an Indian for years behind his dark glasses and beaded headband. He waves around an honorary membership card that at one time was issued to anyone by the Keetoowah Tribe of Oklahoma. Former President Bill Clinton and many others received these cards, but these cards do not qualify the holder a member of any tribe. He has deceitfully and treacherously fooled innocent and naive Indian community members in Denver, Colo., as well as many other people worldwide. Churchill does not represent, nor does he speak on...

John McCain talking about reasonableness is like Bill Clinton talking about chastity. McCain would pimp his wife if it embarrassed Republicans and got him a favourable write-up in The Washington Post.

Firstly, the principal reporter on the Gitmo story was Michael Isikoff - “Spikey” in a different lifetime; Linda Tripp’s favorite journalist, and one of the ten people most responsible (intentionally or otherwise) for the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Spikey isn’t just a hero to the Right - the Right owes him. And larger still, in terms of politics, this isn't well-defined, is it? I mean Conservatives might parrot McClellan and say ‘Newsweek put this country in a bad light.’ But they could just as easily thump their chests and say ‘See,...

That’s a rather odd query from someone in the authoring business, given the centuries-long tradition of influential figures writing anonymously, from “Publius” (the pen name of Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison for the Federalist Papers) to “Atrios” (a popular liberal blogger whose identity was unknown for awhile) and Primary Colors’ “Anonymous” (Joe Klein turned out to be the author of that “fictional account” of a Bill Clinton-like presidential campaign). It’s even stranger today, considering how easy it is for someone to mask their public identity when posting online someplace like Blogspot. For that matter, how many people know who “CmdrTaco” is at the popular geek site Slashdot?

En este sentido, creo de gran interés hablar acerca de la Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), una ley dictada en Estados Unidos en 1998 durante la administración del presidente Bill Clinton, cuyo propósito es reforzar en el ámbito digital las leyes que protegen los derechos de autor, limitando y penalizando tanto a quienes publican material protegido por estos derechos como a aquellos que enlazan desde sus sitios web las obras protegidas. Y Lawrence Lessig es un activo oponente de esta ley.

Rep. Robert Wexler, the Florida Democrat, received media accolades yesterday for his alleged courage in breaking with his party and offering a rescue plan for Social Security. A little background: Mr. Wexler is an accomplished sound-bite artist and veteran of TV screaming shows — both a ubiquitous defender of Bill Clinton during his impeachment hearings and no less vociferous in his attacks on candidate George Bush during the Florida election squabbles of 2000. Then he disappeared from the airwaves after his own mini-scandal, involving peculiar...

Is it surprising that CBS has twisted another story to fit its agenda? No. We will never forget Dan Rather "standing by" the fabricated story on President Bush's National Guard Service nicknamed "memogate". They have now taken excerpts from an interview with Ken Starr (remember his procesution of Bill Clinton)to make it sound as if he denounced the GOP's plan to end the judicial filibuster. Reporter Gloria Borger had set up that bite: "Many conservatives consider the fight over judges their political Armageddon. But conservative...

Between 1968 and 2001, both parties used filibusters to oppose judicial nominees. In 2000, the last year of Bill Clinton's presidency, Republican senators filibustered two of his nominees to be circuit judges. They also prevented Senate votes on more than 60 of Mr. Clinton's judicial nominees by other means.

For the life of me I can't see why this is controversial. Regime change was the official policy of the United States, as enacted under Bill Clinton. Iraq violated the terms of the ceasefire one month after hostilities paused in the first Gulf War. Saddam had thereafter violated every single resolution that came from the United Nations. Iraq was actively firing on our (and Britain's) armed forces. As to the WMD 'falsification' theories - this urban myth will never die, but the fact remains that nearly everyone (including Saddam Hussein himself, as...

For one, it will have been eight years since Bill Clinton left office, and his participation in any policy initiatives isn’t necessarily an issue, especially if they are domestic policy issues. Also, looking at possible Democratic and Republican candidates for ‘08, she’s not facing very stiff competition. John McCain has severely hamstrung himself in regards to support from his party with his “Maverick” ways. Bill Frist isn’t photogenic, telegenic, or very politically astute. John Kerry? Be serious.

There's no screaming Howard Dean, there are no hanging chads and there is no stained-yet-well-preserved blue dress. There also is no room for Bill Clinton to ponder the definition of "is."

President Bush's first term was not marked by an overeagerness to confront Russia, either on its failings at home or on its foreign policy. Especially after September 11, Bush turned a blind eye to Chechnya, Russian meddling (including armed meddling) in other former Soviet republics, corruption, violations of the rule of law, and the slow-motion destruction of the (partial) independence of Russia's press, courts, parliament, and provinces. Bush curried favor with Vladimir Putin--just as Bill Clinton had curried favor with Boris Yeltsin and Bush's...

The retreat was led by the Reverend Canon Ed Wills, Jr., rector of St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Little Rock (that's in Arkansas, the home of former President Bill Clinton, a person of the other political persuasion, but that has nothing to do with this posting). Amazingly, I have known Father Ed's father and younger brother for many years at my home parish (church). Ed was just old enough to be "gone" when I arrived in Memphis in 1975, after a few years with Uncle Sam.

The cause of the sinking was covered up at the time in an act of diplomacy between then US presidents Bill Clinton and Russian President Vladimir Putin - a deal that included the cancellation of $US10 billion ($12.5 billion) of Russian debt, the film states.

was Bill Clinton, who had "attacked his own country" while in Uganda. "Going

Can all of these people assist Tim Kaine? Probably not. However, several of these folks jump out at me as potentially very helpful. Let’s start with Bill “Big Dog” Clinton. Can this guy fire up the Democratic base or what? In particular, African Americans love Bill Clinton. For that reas