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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:...

Bill Clinton Causes Protestors To Be Ejected At Hillary Rally Over Peter Paul Question The First American Citizens to Publicly Challenge the Clintons About Hillary’s Refusal To Admit Soliciting and Hiding More than $2 million in Illegal Contributions from Peter Paul To Win Her Senate Seat ===================================================================== Bill Clinton Stumps Murray; Protestors Ousted Saturday, May 17, 2008 Murray, KY (WKYX) – Former President Bill Clinton’s visit to Murray was the first presidential visit to the area since Harry Truman, says the Murray Ledger. Murray was just one of his many stops ahead of Tuesday’s primary, stumping for his wife at...

ROSEBURG - Former President Bill Clinton comes to Roseburg Tuesday morning in one of the rare visits of a president in this area. Roseburg High School is gearing up for a visit from the former president, and a rally Tuesday morning at 9:00 o'clock. The former president is trying to rally democrats to vote for Hillary Clinton in the Oregon primary. Roseburg High Vice-Principal Larry Rich said it's a historical event for Roseburg to have a president visit. "We found out this morning that he is coming to R.H.S. so he will be speaking in our gym. Every since we...

Bill Clinton Promises No Matter the Outcome, His Family Will Stand Behind the Nominee May 11, 2008 10:54 AM ABC News' Sarah Amos reports: Speaking on behalf of his wife at the annual Truman Dinner in Billings, Mont., Saturday, former President Bill Clinton assured the crowd that no matter the outcome of the Democratic nomination, his family and Hillary's supporters would firmly stand behind the party's nominee. "I also wanna say, on instructions, I've been a Democrat all my life," he said. "And I've been working in these campaigns since I was a young man. I remember what it was...

UNTIL a few months ago Bill Clinton was the golden boy of American politics. As the most successful Democratic president of recent times, he opened doors across the world. His Clinton Foundation and its Clinton Initiative offshoot led the way in global philanthropy, bringing industrialists, rock stars and world leaders together to promise action on poverty, Aids and global warming. He had every expectation of followingADVERTISEMENThis former vice president, Al Gore, by collecting a Nobel Peace prize. Hillary's expected coronation as the next president seemed assured, anchoring the couple's place as Washington's supreme power couple and also as a multi-billion-dollar...

Hillary Clinton's decision to lend her presidential campaign $6.4 million from assets she holds jointly with her husband is rekindling questions about millions of dollars that Bill Clinton has been paid for speeches and other work since he left the White House. In tapping some of that cash, ''the Clintons have effectively bypassed campaign finance reform in a manner that's ingenious -- using Bill Clinton effectively as a front for the fundraising,'' said Lawrence Jacobs, a University of Minnesota political science professor. Beginning days after he left the White House in 2001, the ex-president has been crisscrossing the globe, speaking...

So Tuesday we've got two Democratic primaries — Indiana and North Carolina. My prediction: I will be drunk. Because this really isn't a battle between two candidates, but a war over two souls: One that belongs to the Democratic Party and the other to Bill Clinton. First, the election will come down to a war between the moonbats (the 'netroot' nut-cakes and body-odored bloggers afflicted with matted hair and cystic acne) and mainstream Democrats. While it's true Hilary and Obama are both chronic lefties, both candidates still must move right — because that's the only way you can win an...

Former president Bill Clinton told Time magazine that his wife Hillary's presidential campaign has committed “political malpractice.” “She burned through the campaign cash and didn't plan for races past Super Tuesday,” Bill said. “If she treated our own money this way we’d be broke.” “And, voters think she’s unlikable,” he continued. “That’s understandable. She’s got some prickly parts. There were days I’d just have to stay out of sight. I practically had to lead a secret life for much of our marriage.” “The best thing the girl has going for her is Obama’s unsavory associations with kooks like Reverend Wright...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Hillary Clinton excluded nearly $24 million of her husband's earnings from Senate financial statements from 2004 through 2006, capitalizing on rules that permit senators to limit disclosures of some of their spouses' income. Her decision, while fully consistent with Senate rules and norms, delayed the release of financial information about former President Clinton's soaring income until the couple released their tax returns in early April, under pressure from Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama. By then, about 40 states had completed their Democratic primaries and caucuses, meaning that those voters didn't get a clear look at Bill Clinton's...

LENOIR, N.C. (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton is cracking wise about his ability to make people faint, telling voters in North Carolina he didn't think he still had it in him. Clinton was campaigning Sunday for his wife's presidential bid on a hot and sunny day in western North Carolina. The state's primary is Tuesday. After one person fell during an event in Lenoir, Clinton joked: "Somebody faints at nearly every one of these things now. At my age, I didn't think I could make anybody faint anymore." A young girl walked away from an earlier event in Marion...

Bill Clinton: "It'd be a shame to do all this work and not win." May 02, 2008 6:55 PM ABC News’ Sarah Amos reports: As Bill Clinton continues on what will be his final primary tour of Indiana, he is connecting with small towns across the state, making the argument that his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), is the best Democratic candidate come November. "She can win this thing,” Clinton told a gymnasium full of Hoosiers in Greenfield late this afternoon. “The last national poll had her running nine points ahead of senator McCain, seven points better than her opponent...

One above-board factor the campaign can claim credit for is turning Bill Clinton loose to do his Bubba routine among small towns of displaced blue-collar workers. The former president remains popular with the NASCAR crowd and he never fails to skewer the Bush administration, noting, for example, that he left office with a federal budget surplus. Much less important—indeed, bordering on the insignificant, despite the spin given it by consultants with the ear of gullible reporters—is Clinton's endorsement by North Carolina Governor Mike Easley. On paper Easley is a four-time statewide winner, including two wins as attorney general before his...

Apex, N.C. (AP) -- People who suggest Bill Clinton might be hurting his wife's presidential bid more than helping it haven't spent much time in the small towns where he draws adoring crowds of Democrats who wish he could serve a third term. While the former president has angered some blacks with his comments about race, many voters in North Carolina, Indiana and elsewhere express deep affection for him, the last Democrat to occupy the White House in nearly three decades. They often cite him as the main reason for supporting Hillary Rodham Clinton over Barack Obama. Surely in the...

The former president has privately told people that his wife's campaign has committed "political malpractice," according to Time magazine. He is "appalled" that the Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign burned through cash and didn't plan for races past the Super Tuesday states on Feb. 5, the magazine said.

Sen. Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton will return to the region at least twice to campaign before next week's primary. The senator will be speaking at a "Solutions for America" event in Kinston today. The event is to be held at the John Deere facility at 1291 N.C. 258 North. Doors open at 8 a.m. and the event begins at 9 a.m.Bill Clinton will return to New Bern to campaign for his wife on Monday. Location and time details had not been announced Thursday night."He's traveling throughout North Carolina reaching out to voters in the days leading up...

Former President Bill Clinton says momentum is changing in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, telling voters in western North Carolina not to count his wife out. During a stop Tuesday in Boone, Clinton alluded to Appalachian State University's 34-32 upset last year against fifth-ranked Michigan. Like the Mountaineers, he said Hillary Rodham Clinton can pull off an unexpected victory in the state's May 6 primary.Polls have shown Clinton trailing rival Barack Obama in North Carolina. But Clinton said, "Whenever someone tells you you can't win, it's because they're afraid you will. "About 2,000 people packed a gym at...

April 27, 2008 Contrary to reports that former President Clinton may be viewed as a liability to his wife, he is not only one of two public faces in the campaign but a major policy player. A front-page story in The Wall Street Journal this past weekend headlined "He's Back" said the former, sometimes finger-wagging president was a key reason for his wife's re-emergence from the political junkyard. Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign insiders are not all happy -- some have called Bill's growing influence in the campaign as the "Billification" of their effort. The paper described him as the campaign's...

Excerpt - HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. -- Bill Clinton, who called himself the "comeback kid" during his first presidential run, is pulling out all the stops for Hillary Clinton's comeback. His relentless approach to battling Barack Obama -- on the trail and inside the campaign -- is becoming key to Sen. Clinton's newfound success, as she has won four of the last six primaries. She still faces long odds in her quest to overtake Sen. Obama on the road to the Democratic Party's nomination. Dubbed the "Billification" of Sen. Clinton's campaign by some insiders, Mr. Clinton has become something of a strategist-in-chief...

He's just not the same Bubba. Hillary Clinton's husband is still brilliant, still passionate and still a magnificent campaigner. But people who have known him and observers who have watched Bill Clinton for decades say he's lost at least half a step. Think of him like Michael Jordan - only the past-his-prime version, playing for the Washington Wizards. More than one acquaintance used the same words: "He's just not the same." Colleagues point to a slew of potential reasons for Bubba stepping in it so often, including psychological and medical.

Clinton hits Obama over friendship with 60’s radicalby Bill Sammon, The Examiner Apr 18, 2008 3:00 AM WASHINGTON - Encouraged by the fallout over Barack Obama’s ex-pastor, Hillary Clinton’s campaign on Thursday attacked Obama for befriending a radical who once bragged of bombing the Pentagon. Clinton seemed to be trying to turn William Ayers, a former member of the Weather Underground, into the next Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s controversial spiritual mentor. In a New York Times article published on Sept. 11, 2001, Ayers boasted of bombing the Pentagon and other government buildings, adding: “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel...

Hillary Clinton quit? You'd have a better chance getting Bill Clinton to shut up. But the argument for Clinton to pull the plug on her campaign is not hard to make. She trails Barack Obama in all categories. There are only 10 contests left, and most look to be tough for Clinton. In fact, many Democrats think her odds of winning are so slim that all she's doing is helping John McCain. Some Democratic elders, including party Chairman Howard Dean, are getting edgy about the beating Obama and Clinton are inflicting on each other. Even Clinton stalwarts such as Rep....