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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.