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Bill Clinton Says ‘Extreme Philosophy’ of GOP Dates to Reagan Presidency Thursday, August 28, 2008 By Staff (CNSNews.com) - In his speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver last night, former President Bill Clinton said that the Republican Party has been defined by an “extreme philosophy” for more than 25 years. The remark appeared aimed at the foreign and economic policies of President Ronald Reagan, who was sworn into office in 1981 and was in his third year of governing 25 years ago.

BARACK Obama has been officially named as the Democratic presidential candidate at the party's national convention, but today has shown that no-one steals the show like Bill and Hillary Clinton. Senator Obama's historic but carefully orchestrated moment came during a state-by-state roll call, in which convention delegates were announcing the carve-up of the votes cast in the primary contests held throughout the first half of this year. Votes were being cast for Senator Obama and Hillary Clinton, but that was merely symbolic because Senator Obama secured a majority of voting delegates in June. When the moment arrived, Senator Clinton was...

Bill Clinton was front and center for his wife's speech last night, and he's addressing the convention floor himself tonight - but he is expected to be out of Denver before Barack Obama gives his acceptance speech tomorrow. Clinton is expected to leave Denver tomorrow, sources said. The former president has business with his foundation to attend to, the sources said. But given the tenor of the convention so far - the tensions between the Obama and Clinton supporters has overshadowed everything - some were surprised by it. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is scheduled to be at the speech. Bill...

SanFranNan will be starting off with the roll call vote. Speaches for nominating both Clinton and Obama will be made. I have a feeling that the tonight's entertainment will be good, instide and outside. If you have pics or clips of the freak show, please post them!

Bill Clinton just can't seem to say anything to please the DUmmies these days. Well, not the majority of DUmmies, that is. Despite the purging of vocal Hillary supporters that occurred after the June 11 transformation from the "General Discussion - Primaries" forum to the "General Discussion - Presidential" forum, Skinner still has some PUMAs on the prowl. While they cannot overtly express their preference for Her Thighness over The Lightbringer, they will bristle and bare their fangs whenever the mainstream DUmmies (there's an oxymoron for you) post a story about something either Clinton does to undermine Obama's candidacy,...

Carl Cameron is reporting that if you are looking for Hillary to carry any water for Barry, you've got the wrong girl. Here's Ace's take. But the gist is: Yeah, she'll knock the "Bush/McCain" economy, but she won't "lay the wood" to them (not her job), and she'll support Obama, but she's not going to be making the case for Obama (or party unity), because that's also not her job. So she's announcing "Yeah, I'll do the minimum required of me, but gee, if you wanted me to be an attack dog, you should have made me Veep, and if...

…in Barack’s back.Yowch. Chicago thug mafia, meet Arkansas thug mafia. Long live Democrat party unity! The soap opera continues: Bill Clinton appeared to undermine Sen. Barack Obama again Tuesday.The former president, speaking in Denver, posed a hypothetical question in which he seemed to suggest that that the Democratic Party was making a mistake in choosing Obama as its presidential nominee.He said: “Suppose you’re a voter, and you’ve got candidate X and candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything, but you don’t think that candidate can deliver on anything at all. Candidate Y you agree with on about half...

Bill Clinton appeared to undermine Sen. Barack Obama again Tuesday. The former president, speaking in Denver, posed a hypothetical question in which he seemed to suggest that that the Democratic Party was making a mistake in choosing Obama as its presidential nominee. He said: "Suppose you're a voter, and you've got candidate X and candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything, but you don't think that candidate can deliver on anything at all. Candidate Y you agree with on about half the issues, but he can deliver. Which candidate are you going to vote for?" Then, perhaps mindful...

Here in Denver, it's easy to blame the Clintons. Out on the convention floor, their diehards are there with their Hillary buttons, plotting to run in 2012, whining on about the 18 million cracks in that glass ceiling, secretly wishing John McCain will win in November. Truth is, the Obama people feel, they lost - get over it! And Bill's all upset about being accused of being racist? Well, if the cap fits! And what about Hillary talking about hard-working white people? A favourite badge here for Obama loyalists is "Hard working white person for Hillary." The Clintons feel dissed?...

DENVER, Colorado (AFP) – Hillary Clinton takes center stage Tuesday vowing to unite Democrats after her primary battle with Barack Obama, on the second day of the convention that will crown him as White House nominee. The former first lady will make a closely watched primetime speech, at an event which she had hoped would mark the moment when she made her own piece of history, by becoming the first woman presidential nominee. But instead, as rumors of discord between the two camps still circulate, she will urge her disgruntled followers to back Obama, ... "Let there be no mistake...

Bill Clinton appeared to undermine Sen. Barack Obama again Tuesday. The former president, speaking in Denver, posed a hypothetical question in which he seemed to suggest that that the Democratic Party was making a mistake in choosing Obama as its presidential nominee. He said: "Suppose you're a voter, and you've got candidate X and candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything, but you don't think that candidate can deliver on anything at all. Candidate Y you agree with on about half the issues, but he can deliver. Which candidate are you going to vote for?"[ snip ]The controversial...

Bill Clinton appeared to undermine Sen. Barack Obama again Tuesday. The former president, speaking in Denver, posed a hypothetical question in which he seemed to suggest that that the Democratic Party was making a mistake in choosing Obama as its presidential nominee.

DENVER -- Ah, Democrats. There's something about the circular firing squad that just seems to hold endless fascination for them. Why do they even need a Republican opposition when they can just battle themselves? At this convention, the well-reported rift is between the Obamaphiles and the Clintonphiles and it's the continuing narrative. Tonight, Sen. Hillary Clinton herself will speak. From the bad feelings that sprung up during the nasty primary season, to the ire in the Clinton camp over how how they believe she was allegedly mistreated in Sen. Barack Obama's vice presidential selection process, to the dissension from her...

So Bill Clinton is miffed that he won't be allowed to speak about the economy, because it was was so great during his administration. At least, that's the prevailing liberal mythology, which the MSM repeats so often that people have come to accept it as fact. But just for the record: During the election cycle of 1992, Bill Clinton hammered Bush the elder relentlessly for having caused the “worst economy of the last 50 years.” But in fact, as CNN’s Brooke Jackson subsequently reported in 2001: “Three days before Christmas 1992, the National Bureau of Economic Research finally issued its...

DENVER, Colorado (CNN) – Bill Clinton is perplexed and, frankly, not happy that he was asked to speak about national security Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention and not about the economy, the issue that he rode to the White House at another time of economic peril, a source close to the former president said Monday. Some close to Clinton are encouraging him not to stick with the night’s theme of national security and add language about the economy in his remarks, in a way that Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, would frame it, the source...

The former president has been slow to provide Mr Obama's aides with details of what he will say, raising concerns that he will stop short of the emphatic endorsement they want to see. Allies of Mr Clinton say that he wants to use the bulk of his speech in Denver next Wednesday to attack the record of George W. Bush, accusing the current president of squandering the economic gains of the Clinton years. That will inevitably be seen as a message to those who yearn for a Clinton restoration, rather than a boost for Mr Obama.

THE ISSUE: The Clintons' prominence despite Hillary's loss. ("Monsters in a Box," Aug 16 opinion). **** They are the famous "two for one" - Hillary lies and Bill swears to it. Those who believe in the Clintons also believe in leprechauns.... How nice it would be to close the curtain, once and for all, on the Clintons' endless act. **** The Clintons are a matched pair; both serial liars.....only difference is Bill is also a wartime draft dodger and shamed himself when his country needed him. **** The Clintons have, in essence, begun their 2012 run...... If Obama thinks the...

Get used to it. They are not going away. Anyone who thought that Barack Obama had sent Hillary Clinton back to the Senate to atone for her campaign's sins or banished her husband, baying at the moon, into the wilderness was deluded. Denver shows every sign of being the Clinton show. Hillary has a prime-time convention slot on the Tuesday. Bill speaks on Wednesday, stealing the thunder of Senator Obama's veep pick. And now that Obama has caved into her demand for a roll call vote, Hillary will be center stage again on Thursday. So much for turning the page....

From NBC's Andrea Mitchell NBC News has learned that the Obama campaign, in an effort to quiet talk of the Obama-Clinton drama, has offered Bill Clinton a speaking role on Wednesday night at the Democratic convention -- before the vice presidential running mate speaks. Sources say that Clinton in fact will speak.

The Clintons and their allies may forgive Barack Obama for beating Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primary, but there’s one sore point they’re not quite ready to absolve: leaving the impression that Bill and Hillary Clinton have a race problem.“I am not a racist,” Clinton said Monday in a testy interview with ABC News in Monrovia, Liberia, in response to a question that wasn’t quite related to that subject. "I've never made a racist comment, and I never attacked [Obama] personally."Obama himself never suggested that the Clintons harbored racial animus, though his campaign did at least once make that...

Bill Clinton, given golden opportunity, fails to endorse Barack ObamaBY MICHAEL McAULIFF DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU Updated Monday, August 4th 2008, 1:58 PM WASHINGTON - Bill Clinton regrets some things he said - and didn't say - on the campaign trail. But one thing he still can't bring himself to utter: Barack Obama is ready to be President. "You can argue that nobody is ready to be President, the former President told ABC. "I certainly learned a lot about the job in the first year," Clinton said from Rwanda. "You can argue that even if you've been vice president for...

WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Former President Clinton acknowledges there are some things "I wish I hadn't said" during the Democratic presidential nomination fight, but denies he made racist statements about Barack Obama.

Bill Clinton Has Regrets on Campaign for Wife Insists, 'I Am Not a Racist,' Despite Anger Over His S.C. Comments By KATE SNOW and MICHAEL S. JAMES Aug. 3, 2008 — In his first broadcast interview since his wife dropped out of the Democratic presidential race, former President Bill Clinton said he still has regrets, and insisted he's "not a racist," despite controversies surrounding his comments about Sen. Barack Obama's win in the South Carolina Democratic primary. Clinton reflected on his wife's campaign and other subjects to ABC News in Monrovia, Liberia, as he toured Africa to support the work...

KIGALI, Rwanda, Aug. 2 - There will be no Clinton restoration -- not this year, at least. But the rehabilitation of Bill Clinton has begun. The former president in many ways ended the Democratic primary campaign more isolated than his wife, with his own friends and allies unhappy with his flashes of anger and ill-chosen words and blaming him in part for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's defeat. With a negligible relationship with Sen. Barack Obama -- he has spoken to him just once since the primaries -- Clinton has been shut out of the Obama campaign almost entirely and does...

Former President Bill Clinton (D) warned voters against electing former prisoner-of-war Senator McCain president. “POWs are not like us,” Clinton observed. “They’ve been held captive in barbaric conditions, tortured and humiliated by this country’s enemies. How can they ever be objective enough to deal with our country’s enemies as president?” Clinton argued that his evasion of military service saved him “from building up the prejudices against and hatreds for different cultures and political systems that could have compromised my ability to govern effectively. My judgment was untainted by any suffering and privation that could have biased my views. The same...

Bill Clinton says Barack Obama must 'kiss my ass' for his support By Tim Shipman in Washington and Philip Sherwell in New York Last Updated: 5:02PM BST 28/06/2008 Bill Clinton is so bitter about Barack Obama's victory ...that he has told friends the Democratic nominee will have to beg for his wholehearted support. Bill Clinton is still very bitter that Barack Obama beat his wife Hillary Mr Obama is expected to speak to Mr Clinton for the first time since he won the nomination....campaign insiders say that the former president's future campaign role is a "sticking point" .... The Telegraph...

Bill Clinton is so bitter about Barack Obama's victory over his wife Hillary that he has told friends the Democratic nominee will have to beg for his wholehearted support. Mr Obama is expected to speak to Mr Clinton for the first time since he won the nomination in the next few days, but campaign insiders say that the former president's future campaign role is a "sticking point" in peace talks with Mrs Clinton's aides. The Telegraph has learned that the former president's rage is still so great that even loyal allies are shocked by his patronising attitude to Mr Obama,...

Barack Obama, after receiving a tepid endorsement from Bill Clinton, said he has no concerns that bad blood between them will undermine his bid for the presidency. Speaking at a press conference in Chicago ion Wednesday, the presumptive Democratic nominee praised the former president as a brilliant political tactician who is welcome on his campaign team and in his administration. Obama also talked up his upcoming Friday campaign stop with former rival Hillary Clinton and suggested her husband’s hesitancy to give a full-throated endorsement stemmed from a desire not to steal the show.

Former president Bill Clinton gave terse backing to Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama Tuesday, as his wife returned to politics for the first time since her agonizing primary defeat.

WASHINGTON: Bill Clinton has given terse backing to Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama, as his wife returned to politics for the first time since her agonising primary defeat. Timed to coincide with Hillary Clinton's reappearance in the Senate, Bill Clinton issued a one-sentence statement through his spokesman to put a lid on months of fireworks on the party's nominating campaign trail. “President Clinton is obviously committed to doing whatever he can and is asked to do to ensure Senator Obama is the next president of the United States,” spokesman Matt McKenna said. Hillary Clinton said the Democrats must unite...

Rumours have been rife that the Clintons' marriage may be on the rocks. From Washington, Tim Shipman dissects the dynamics of the power-hungry duo's complex relationship. Hillary Clinton is licking her wounds, relaxing at an undisclosed location with her husband, Bill, and daughter, Chelsea, doubtless pondering the causes of her failure to win the Democratic presidential nomination. Yet as the New York senator considers her future in American public life, there are new claims that she is also considering the future of her marriage. The First Post, an irreverent online news magazine, last week alleged that some of those around...

This is not the end of the Clinton story. If we know anything about Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton it is that there is always another chapter, and it will not fail to be interesting. But her departure from the presidential race Saturday almost certainly does mark the end of the longest and most important thread of the Clinton story. For nearly 40 years, the presidency has been the organizing principle of their lives together. Her appearance at the National Building Museum to thank supporters and endorse Barack Obama represents the final, fading light of a shared dream. Both Clintons...

Campaign May Leave Blot on Clinton Legacy By JOHN M. BRODER and ROBIN TONER WASHINGTON — Bill and Hillary Clinton have stirred virulent passions in their nearly two decades in the national spotlight. They have been known as many things, good and bad — brilliant policy analysts, manipulators of facts and friends, tireless campaigners, skillful political tacticians, monumentally self-absorbed baby boomers. But most of all they were known as winners. Until now. While the Clintons will almost certainly play a continuing role in the nation’s political life, and Mrs. Clinton could yet emerge as this year’s vice presidential nominee, a...

Chelsea Clinton (L) and former US President Bill Clinton watch as US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) speaks at the National Building Museum in Washington June 7, 2008. Clinton endorsed presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) to be the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate on Saturday and suspended her own White House bid less than a week after the Illinois senator secured enough support to win the nomination. Clinton's endorsement of Obama in a speech at the National Building Museum marked the beginning of efforts to reunite the Democratic Party after a long and divisive campaign battle...

THE ISSUE: Vanity Fair's profile of Bill Clinton since his departure from office. ****When he was president, Bill Clinton was known as an impeached, adulterous womanizer. After he left office, he was recognized as a disbarred, indictable perjurer. Now Clinton has simply become an embarrassment. Even liberals have grown weary of this selfish, deceitful, self-absorbed, finger-pointing narcissus who always portrays himself as a victim. NAMES REDACTED Fort Lauderdale, Fla. **** Clinton's an egomaniac who many are now shunning because they've found out just how classless and valueless he and his wife are. With no ethics, integrity or morals, they are...

OPE. CHANGE. Hope and change. Hope 'n' change. Say the words often enough and they begin to take hold, attaching themselves lichen-like to the psyche. Soon they take on a life of their own and assume human form. He is the one Democrats have been waiting for -- the agent, the beacon, the Everyman who can change the culture of Washington and restore hope to the disenfranchised. He even comes from Hope. Arkansas, that is. Or was. How quickly time passes, how urgently things stay the same. Not so long ago, Bill Clinton was the man of the moment, the...

“There seems to be an abiding anger in him,” one of his senior aides told Todd Purdum. Good lord, does there ever. Not to begrudge the man a little righteous outrage at being the target of a hit piece, but the detail here about him refusing to let go of Mayhill Fowler’s hand is the creepy final act to a campaign performance that passed “bizarre” a long time ago. He’s like Orson Welles here tearing apart the bedroom at the end of Citizen Kane in frustration that no one’s left to admire his greatness. Which isn’t to suggest that what...

New York,June 3: In an embarrassment to Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton's despondent campaign, an article has claimed that the aides of her husband, former President Bill Clinton, believe his 2004 heart surgery fundamentally altered his state of mind and that he is constantly in rage. The article to be published in Vanity Fair, and already posted on the magazine's website also questions some of Clinton's business dealings and behaviour since leaving the White House. "Old friends and long time aides are wringing their hands over Bill Clinton's post White House escapades, from the dubious (and secretive) business associations to the...

(CNN) -- Hillary Clinton's campaign has apologized for "inappropriate" language used by her husband in response to what it called an "outrageously unfair" article about the former president. Bill and Hillary Clinton campaign in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on Monday. The article, by Vanity Fair magazine's national editor Todd Purdum, suggested that Bill Clinton's personality had changed since his 2004 heart bypass surgery and said that there were reports of Clinton "seeing a lot of women on the road." Purdum quoted four anonymous former Clinton aides saying that another of his former assistants had conducted "what one of these aides...

Bill Clinton told reporters in Montana today that this was his last political campaign, that he thought he was done with political campaigning until the Hildabeast decided to run. Perhaps this is yet another reason he has been so lukewarm/ineffectual as a Hillary!™ champion? Although I do find it a little hard to believe that he would turn down any future opportunity to hog a TV camera... Nothing on the FoxNews web site yet.

A part of modern political Americana says he's gone Pittsburgh Tribune-Review By Salena Zito Former President William Jefferson Clinton told supporters in South Dakota that this many be his last day that he is ever involved in a campaign of this kind.

I heard a story on Fox News that members of Clinton inner circle had planned an 'intervention' with Bill Clinton and he was not happy with it. It was supposed to have been taken place because of his lifestyle on the road and the many 'encounters' with women. Allegedly, the situation was becoming dangerous. I think we should all remember that a story like this never gets out unless the Clinton machine wants it out. In my opinion, the Clinton machine is going for the ultimate 'pity party' for Hillary to boost her chances for nomination. They are so desperate...

The “Comeback Kid” has transformed to the Fade-away Fool. Bill Clinton has lost his luster with the MSM and Liberals. The “First Black President” is experiencing a scathing tell-all article written by Dee Dee Myers’ husband Todd Purdum. Dee Dee was Bill Clinton’s first Press Secretary when Bill could do no wrong. Now the Liberal Media has a new “fair haired boy” with Barack Obama. The Clintons will be thrown off to the side of the road with no fear of retribution. Bill and Hillary have lost their power in the Democrat Party with her waning candidacy for President.

Bill Clinton’s enemies list? By: Kenneth P. Vogel May 30, 2008 07:26 PM EST Listen to audio of Bill Clinton's conference call below. With Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign on the verge of defeat, Bill Clinton has been placing blame on enemies including a brazenly biased media that tried to suppress blue-collar votes, a deep-pocketed anti-war group that endorsed rival Barack Obama and weak-willed party leaders unable to stand up to either of these nefarious forces. Pieced together from the former president’s public remarks at his wife’s campaign events and a private conversation last week with top donors to her campaign,...

WASHINGTON (AP) - There's been a Clinton running for the White House or living in it for approximately forever. Bill, it could be said, was born to run. Running became Hillary's destiny, too. One quarter of Americans have never known life without a Clinton trying for or having the presidency. Millions have gone from diapers to diplomas in the time of the Clintons. When Hillary Rodham Clinton finally exits the 2008 Democratic presidential race, she will end a decades-long, power-couple streak of unique political energy, savvy ideas, colossal policy flops and raw ambition dressed in pants suits and briefs, not...

Bill Clinton: Once Fla. and Mich. Are Counted, Neither Candidate Able to Get Majority From Pledged Delegates May 24, 2008 5:21 PM ABC News’ Sarah Amos reports: Former President Bill Clinton today continued to reiterate the importance of counting the votes in Florida and Michigan, saying that once they do "neither candidate can get a majority just from pledged delegates.” Speaking to a crowd of more than 1,000 at Montana State University, Clinton enthusiastically took to the stage and began by asking the crowd, "Aren't you glad Montana matters?" While the former president has been off the campaign trail for...

BARACK OBAMA, the probable Democratic presidential nominee, wants Bill Clinton to help him heal the deep party rifts created by his wife Hillary’s divisive campaign – culminating in her dramatic claim this weekend that the 1968 assassination of Robert F Kennedy was a reason not to be pushed out of the race. The tension between Hillary Clinton and Obama intensified after she told the Sioux Falls Argus Leader in South Dakota, which holds the last primary contest in 10 days’ time: “We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June.” She quickly apologised, ashen-faced, for a comment which appeared dangerously...

Bill Clinton: Florida, Michigan Penalty "Appropriate" May 22, 2008 11:30 AM ABC News' Rick Klein and Sarah Amos Report: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday flatly rejected a proposal by Sen. Barack Obama to penalize Florida by seating only half of its convention delegates -- despite the fact that former President Bill Clinton and other top Clinton campaign officials have floated that idea as a possible compromise. In an interview with the St. Petersburg Times, Obama, D-Ill., called the idea of cutting Florida's delegation in half "a very reasonable solution" to the party's stand-off over how to treat a primary...

ABC News' Ed O'Keefe Reports: Perhaps there will be a Madame President Clinton after all. No, not Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. How about former first daughter and active campaigner Chelsea Clinton? "If you asked me (if Chelsea would run for office) before Iowa, I would have said, 'No way. She is too allergic to anything we do.' But she is really good at it," former President Bill Clinton tells PEOPLE magazine in their latest issue, hitting newsstands Friday. In the PEOPLE exclusive, Clinton called his daughter's "emergence" the "second best thing" of the campaign, after his wife's "ability to endure...

Say what you want about Bill Clinton...the guy doesn't hold back. That was the case again during his recent interview with People magazine. Yeas & Nays has obtained an advanced copy of the June 2 issue (on stands this Friday) and here's what the former prez has to say: -Hillary Clinton's been "outspent, dismissed, denigrated, declared dead." -"I think most of the press people are in Obama's demographic. ... There have been times when I thought I was literally lost in a fun house." -On how he and Hillary will unite the party once a Democratic nominee has been chosen:...