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I keep asking my liberal frends how they can continue to support Democrats like Senator Reid when they all lie almost everytime they open their mouths. How can Reid say, with a straight face, that his bill will "save Medicare"? If they cut Medicare by almost $500 billion as his bill intends, it will destroy Medicare. If the Democrats restore the cuts in a slight of hand, it will destroy our economy. When a national politician of the Democratic Party speaks, like Obama, Holder, Reid, Pelosi or Durbin, they are either lying, spinning or distorting the subject so as to...

Former U.S. president Bill Clinton on Sunday said that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict could possibly be solved during President Barack Obama's tenure, and urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Obama to maintain a policy of honesty during their private talks with each other. The visiting former president, who said Saturday that peace could have been achieved had then-prime minister Yitzhak Rabin not been slain, told Israeli journalist Nahum Barnea: "You should not think that President Obama is your enemy."

America's health-care crisis would be worse than it is without non-profit groups providing the health care that government and the private sector do not, former President Bill Clinton said in Chicago today. "Most people do not know the cope of the problem," Clinton said at the Palmer House Hilton in a speech to about 700 supporters of Chicago House, a non-profit that provides housing and care for 1,100 people with AIDS. Clinton just met with Democratic senators in Washington Tuesday, urging them to pass health-care reform this year. Clinton shared some of the arguments he made for urgent action: "We...

The desperate Democrats never cease to amaze me. Let's try to think this through. They want to get government-run health care approved, so for the "big gun" to close the deal, they bring in the last Democrat to fail at getting it passed, Slick Willy, Bill Clinton. Clinton's job is to exert some old-fashioned arm-twisting to get more moderate Democrats in the Senate to pass Obamacare.

Former President Bill Clinton speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009, following the weekly caucus luncheons where he spoke to the Democrats Senators about health care reform.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton gives a lecture in the Andalusian capital of Seville November 5, 2009.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton (L) holds an Albanian traditional hat called Plis alongside Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu during his visit to Pristina, November 1, 2009. Clinton is in Kosovo where he unveiled his statue in Clinton's Boulevard. Former US president Bill Clinton addresses thousands of ethnic Albanians in Pristina, Kosovo, on Sunday, Nov. 1, 2009. Thousands of ethnic Albanians braved low temperatures and a cold wind in Kosovo's capital Pristina to welcome former President Bill Clinton on Sunday as he attended the unveiling of an 11-foot (3.5-meter) statue of himself on a key boulevard that also bears his name....

PRISTINA, Kosovo (Nov. 1) - Thousands of ethnic Albanians braved low temperatures and a cold wind in Kosovo's capital Pristina to welcome former President Bill Clinton on Sunday as he attended the unveiling of an 11-foot (3.5-meter) statue of himself on a key boulevard that also bears his name. Clinton is celebrated as a hero by Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority for launching NATO's bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999 that stopped the brutal Serb forces' crackdown on independence-seeking ethnic Albanians. This is his first visit to Kosovo since it declared independence from Serbia last year. Many waved American, Albanian and...

The North Korean leader may be using look-alikes to hide his poor health. One analyst says that when President Clinton visited in August, he met with an actor, not Kim Jong-il. Seoul, South Korea - Will the real Kim Jong-il please stand up? A number of analysts here are convinced that not all the photos being released of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-il, are really photos of Kim Jong-il. Instead, they say, a look-alike has been standing in for him on some of the 122 trips he's reportedly made this year to the countryside, factories, cultural events, military units, and...

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Barack Obama seriously considered picking former foe Hillary Clinton as his vice presidential running mate last year but rejected her because he was worried about controlling Bill Clinton. In a new book, the US president's 2008 campaign manager David Plouffe reveals the behind-the-scenes calculations as Obama searched for a vice presidential nominee and finally settled on Joe Biden. "If his central criterion measured who could be the best VP, she had to be included in that list," Plouffe wrote in advance excerpts of the book "Audacity to Win" published in Time magazine. "She was competent, could help...

Former President Bill Clinton speaks during a campaign stop for New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009, in Collingswood, N.J New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine, left, listens as former President Bill Clinton speaks during a campaign event in West Orange, N.J., Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009. Corzine will face Republican candidate Chris Christie and Independent Chris Daggett in next week's election. Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Virginia State Sen. Creigh Deeds, left, raises his fist to the crowd during a campaign stop with former President Bill Clinton, in McLean, Va. on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009.

Bill Clinton, accustomed to speaking to cheering thousands at a hundred grand a pop, was dispatched the other night to a Deeds rally to set the throng on fire with one of his late-October stumpwallopers. The rally, such as it was, was held not at an arena or a hotel - not even a Motel 6 - but in a campaign office in the Washington suburbs. The "throng" was counted in the dozens, about the size of a PTA meeting. Not even Bubba could dispel the gloom of a wake.

Former President Bill Clinton is expected to speak to UTPA students and Rio Grande Valley residents on Thursday. Sources told Action 4 News that Clinton is visiting the University of Texas Pan American campus late Thursday afternoon. The former president is expected to speak to speak to UTPA students about his William J. Clinton Foundation. The organization is trying to encourage world leaders and students to develop commitments and take action to address global challenges. Clinton will speak at 6:45 p.m. in the UTPA Fine Arts Auditorium. Students and staff get priority seating but event is FREEand open to the...

In advance of President Obama campaigning for Creigh Deeds next week in Virginia's upcoming gubernatorial contest, Team Deeds has just announced that Bill Clinton -- along with Terry McAuliffe, whom Deeds defeated in the Dem primary -- will stump for Deeds tomorrow in Northern Virginia. Democrats are trying to do everything they can to narrow a race that Republican Bob McDonnell is comfortably leading, according to the polls.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton is applauded after being awarded an honorary degree in law from McGill University Friday, Oct. 16, 2009 in Montreal. Workers install a monument to former U.S. President Bill Clinton on Bill Clinton Boulevard in Pristina, Kosovo October 12, 2009. The government of Kosovo said that Clinton's statue will be unveiled next month, with the former president expected to attend the ceremony. Picture taken October 12, 2009. Former President Bill Clinton, right, makes remarks as filmmaker Steven Spielberg, and Linda E. Johnson, President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Constitution Center look on during the...

The President's coming to Virginia for Democrat Creigh Deeds. Former President Bill Clinton, that is. Clinton will hold a rally with Deeds somewhere inside the Beltway in Northern Virginia on Tuesday, the Deeds campaign confirms. Also in attendance will be Clinton buddy and Deeds's rival during the primary campaign, Terry McAuliffe. Clinton did several appearances for McAuliffe before the June 9 primary. His work for Deeds comes as national Democrats swing into action to try to rev up a party base that polls have shown is unenthusiastic about Deeds's candidacy. This evening, Deeds holds a fundraiser with former vice president...

When he heard the Nobel Peace Prize shocker on Friday, Bill Clinton went into one of his purple rages. He picked up the phone and dialed the one person on earth who would be as steamed as he was.CLINTON: Hey, man, it’s me. This thing is plumb crazy. Can you believe it?W: No way, Jose! CLINTON: First that prig Carter. Then that prig Gore. And now President Paris Hilton. -SNIP-CLINTON: Fine, but you never expected to win this prize. You were the quote-unquote war president and proud of it. I had to put up with a gazillion hours of...

As we try to shake off the financial crisis, here's a bright idea. Take a law that has led to the writing of an enormous amount of bad mortgages and expand it. Then take enforcement away from bank examiners and give it to housing activists. Sound like a poisonous cocktail? Well, it is what the Obama administration and Democrats are currently stirring up on Capitol Hill.

For the record, Obama's Hit List is: 1)Glenn Beck 2)Larry Sinclair 3)Rep. Joe Wilson 4)Sarah Palin 5)Sean Hannity 6)Orly Taitz 7)Pat Boone 8)Jon Voight 9)Rush Limbaugh 10)Ann Coulter 11)Rupert Murdoch 12)Jesse Jackson 13)Dick Cheney 14)Bill O'Reilly 15)Toby Keith 16)Rex Rammell 17)Hank Williams Jr. 18)Steven Anderson 19)Saul Anuzis 20)Bill Cunningham 21)Paul Krugman 22)John Rich 23)Wiley Drake 24)Alex Jones 25)Michelle Malkin This purported list is from Globe Magazine (9/22/09 issue) and refers to "25 Enemies Obama Wants To Silence".

Clinton pictured above with ACORN founder Wade Rathke (found by tina07). The tax-exempt Clinton Foundation had just donated $250,000 to ACORN. The tax-exempt Clinton Foundation provided $275,000 in grants for ACORNS’S "Katrina Benefits Access project" and ACORN'S "Operation Hope Project; Restore Hope." The tax-exempt Clinton Foundation also helped secure private sector commitments for ACORN. =============================================== REFERENCE The IRS has pinpointed tax-exempt "foundations and charities" as the locus classicus for tax evasion and money laundering. The BIGGEST tax-exempt fraud --- a tax-exempt foundation writing checks to a tax-exempt charity (the way crooks look "altruistic" as they siphon off tax-free money...

I am a proud card-carrying, member of the “vast right-wing conspiracy.” The phrase is back with a vengeance. Whenever Democrats start losing the battle of ideas, it has to be because of a conspiracy. It can’t be because the ideas are old, worn and without substance. In the 24/7, talk radio, blogosphere media world, old and worn is just old and worn, which is why conservative talk radio is commercially viable and liberal talk radio isn’t. Even the ombudsman of The New York Times had to admit they were off their mark in completely missing the Van Jones and ACORN...

His wife may be the official ambassador for the U.S., but Bill Clinton sure does get a lot of requests about his opinion on foreign affairs. Clinton is expected to take the stage around 4 p.m. at the Americas Conference, being held at the Biltmore in Coral Gables and he won't be talking about his good times in the Oval Office. The former president is expected to address the recent political upheavel in Honduras, which has become the dominating theme at the conference. Outside of the hotel, about 50 protesters chanting "Elections yes, Zelaya no" greeted guests and speakers. They...

Bill Clinton talks about the vast right wing conspiracy still being active and responds to the possibility of the Republicans crushing the Dems in the mid terms like they did him in 1994...

Former President Bill Clinton says the vast right-wing conspiracy still exists and wants President Obama to fail.

David Letterman is not just wearing his political views on his sleeve, as a one of his shows production executives recently pointed out. Now he's allowing his show to be used as a platform for leading Democrats to advocate action on liberal causes. On Sept. 21, President Barack Obama appeared on CBS's "Late Show with David Letterman" and used his show to promote his health care/health insurance reform initiatives. But the very next night on Sept. 22, he had former President Bill Clinton on to publicize the efforts of the Clinton Global Initiative, one of which is to give aid...

More on the Clintons' house- hunting. I already told you they're looking in Westchester and want more land and a bigger -- a really big big bigger -- place. Something to fit their nowaday finances and someday future. We're talking like his 'n' hers wings. And there are rules for allowing them into a house you still own to determine if they might want it. While mansion owners are rarely nobodies, the rules are they -- whoever they may be -- must vacate the premises when Jack and Jill and Hill and Bill come to look. However, the staff (Like,...

Bill Clinton on Larry King uses the phrase "right wing extremists," describing some that are opposed to Obama, I thought he was gonna keep going and call our side the extra chromosome right wing..., Video from tonight...

Drunken Yeltsin, Monica Lewinsky, fighting with Al Gore all in new tomeBetween a drunk Boris Yeltsin trying to hail a cab in his underwear on Pennsylvania Avenue, angry finger-pointing with Al Gore and the real story behind Monica Lewinsky, it seems we haven't heard all of the juicy details from the Clinton presidency after all. A new book based on eight years of taped interviews with Bill Clinton sheds new light on old scandals and blows open ones that have been kept quiet up until now. "The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling with the President," by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch, is...

WASHINGTON — Set aside the images of lawmakers in hallowed halls of the Capitol yelling about who's lying and why, and picture this: Two Republican heavyweights and the Democratic president they tried to eject from office a decade ago, perched together as elder statesmen in a gilded chamber reserved for events that transcend partisanship. "We were sort of a triangle," former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott recalled Wednesday of then-Speaker Newt Gingrich and President Bill Clinton. They all joined Lott's colleagues, staff and family to unveil the Mississippi Republican's official portrait. "Even though we had our differences, we found a...

No, seriously. At least, that’s how it seems if this excellent piece in Salon is to be believed. The writer, Alex Zaitchick, dives into the fever swamps of the right to uncover the influence of someone named Cleon Skousen on the Glenn Beck crowd. Skousen, who died in 2006 at the age of 92, was a paranoid and racist crank whose screed, The 5,000 Year Leap, is now the subject of a popular revival on the right. Salon describes the book thusly: “Leap,” first published in 1981, is a heavily illustrated and factually challenged attempt to explain American history through...

Here is video of Chris Matthews saying Bill Clinton's voice is "the voice of God" on Health Care, and what the Democrats ought to do. He was referring to a clip of remarks Bill Clinton made to Tennessee Democrats over the weekend in which he said that Democrats must pass some kind of Health Bill and not be seen as losing to Republicans. Matthews is worried the Left of the Democrat Party will be blamed if ObamaCare fails. . . . . (Watch Video)

In a speech delivered under the blazing sun in a half-empty soccer field, former U.S. President Bill Clinton reminded his Canadian audience the developing world still needs our help organizing functioning systems to alleviate poverty. But some of the nearly 12,000 sunglasses-sporting and beer- and water-swilling spectators left the controversial event feeling the Canadian National Exhibition organizers are the ones in need of help with systems. Like hundreds of other hopeful-spectators in the snaking event lines, Sinead Kennedy, 28, of Ireland, waited more than an hour under the hot sun only to be told over loud-speaker that tickets were sold...

During the Season Seven premiere of “24″, the Jack Bauer character is brought before a senate committee to answer for his use of enhanced interrogation techniques. This scene was widely ridiculed by the left as a neocon wet dream. With that, name me one liberal who you'd feel comfortable with dealing with the ticking bomb scenario?

Ticket sales for Bill Clinton's speech Saturday at the CNE have been much slower than expected, forcing organizers to reconfigure the stadium layout and offer fairgoers $5 tickets at the door. About 7,000 advance tickets are sold for the 4 p.m. event, a far cry from the 25,000 people expected when it was announced two weeks ago.“I'm the eternal optimist. I thought we were just going to sell like crazy at the very beginning and it looks like we're going to sell more towards the end of this sales cycle,” said David Bednar, general manager of the Canadian National Exhibition....

- Bedbugs have sent Bill Clinton and his staff fleeing the former President's offices, a source tells us. No word on whether WJC actually has a bed in his Harlem suite, but the infestation is said to have been so bad that exterminators told Clintonistas to take a few days off.

LAST week, I speculated about what "ransom" the Obama administration may have had ex-President Bill Clinton promise to win the release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee from the North Korean regime. It didn't take long to learn at least the first concession. President Obama has broken with past US policy to agree to bilateral talks with North Korea -- a diplomatic plum that Kim Jong Il has sought for years, and a major coup in his attempt to nail down the succession of his 26-year-old son, Kim Jong Un. While the administration maintains that Clinton (in the words of...

Today President Obama has separate meetings at the White House with his former rivals, Bill and Hillary Clinton; and while the topics of discussion may be about diplomacy, one issue not likely to come up is that recent polls show the Clintons are surging in job approval polls, and the president’s are hitting new lows. The numbers represent a striking reversal of fortune for the Clintons, whose were supposed to have been eclipsed by Obama’s historic presidency. Instead, their stature has grown as Obama’s has shrunk Just 53 percent of Americans approve of Obama’s job performance, compared with 66...

I'm in RI right now, and I called my good friend, Jim, down in Punta Gorda, to see how he was doing. I found him still in a state of despair over Obama and his cabal of radicals who have taken over our government. I hope I cheered him somewhat when I asked him if he ever thought, last November, that things would be in the state that they are right now. I asked him if he would ever have thought that they would have imploded as fast as this - with the whole country turning conservative and with even...

WASHINGTON — When former President Bill Clinton landed in Pyongyang on Aug. 4 to win the release of two imprisoned American journalists, senior officials said, he met an unexpectedly spry North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, who feted him over a long dinner that night, even proposing to stay up afterward. Kim was flanked by two longtime aides — a surprise to Americans who had suspected that both men had been pushed aside — and he gave no hint that North Korea was in the throes of a succession struggle, despite the widespread questions over how long he might live....

NEW YORK, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton and ex-astronaut Buzz Aldrin are to attend a memorial service for Walter Cronkite, officials said. Cronkite died July 17. He was 92. His funeral was July 24 in New York. The New York Post said the luminaries are scheduled to speak at the Sept. 9 event at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Also reportedly on the guest list are television personality Nick Clooney, CBS executives and newspeople Les Moonves, Sean McManus and Bob Schieffer, veteran broadcast journalist Tom Brokaw and media mogul Howard Stringer. The Post said Wynton...

Former President Bill Clinton addresses the Netroots Nation Convention at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pa., Thursday Aug. 13, 2009. Clinton says Republicans have turned to terrifying people in the debate over overhauling the health care system because the Republican Party has no political clout to fight it. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton is greeted by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and holds up a cooking fuel made from recycled paper and sawdust in Haiti during the National Clean Energy Summit 2.0 at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, in Las Vegas, Nevada August 10, 2009....

PITTSBURGH - Former President Bill Clinton told an audience of liberal online activists Thursday evening that the nation has “entered a new era of progressive politics” that could last for decades if Democrats can pass ambitious measures such as health care reform and climate change. In a nearly hour-long keynote address to the fourth annual Netroots Nation convention in Pittsburgh, a gathering of roughly 1,500 progressive bloggers and activists, Clinton said the nation—and public opinion—has dramatically changed in the 16 years since he took office. But he noted that President Barack Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress needed the support of...

Here is video of former President Bill Clinton pandering to the "Netroots (Nutroots) Nation" meeting last night where he confessed that his signing his "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Gays in the Military Policy into law was something he did only because he could not get a more radical policy through Congress. He said he regrets how it has been implemented by "middle level" military personnel. He also confessed that he signed the "Defense of Marriage Act" into law, not because he believes in the sanctity of traditional marriage, but because it was a move to keep Congress from sending a...

Bill Clinton: Make college campuses greener August 13, 2009 7:51 PM | No Comments Former President Bill Clinton spoke about the environment today in Chicago, offering his reputation, his folksy wit and his foundation's Rolodex to university and college presidents seeking green technologies to retrofit their campuses. Former President Bill Clinton speaks at the American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment Summit at the Palmer House Hilton today (Tribune / Abel Uribe) Clinton spoke to the American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment, some 250 university presidents and top managers looking to green up their campuses, train students for a...

If you think about it, the relationship between Newt and Clinton is one worthy of books. Here were two political opponents who spent hours publicly demonizing each other and yet privately they made political deals that lead to some of the best legislation in the last twenty years. Here was Newt, the bitter Republican partisan, making deals with Clinton, the Democratic president hated by the opposition. What deals did they make? They balanced the budget. Was this a bad thing? They cut the capital gains tax. Was this so bad? They reformed welfare. Boy, if Clinton didn't have a Democrat...

(English-language translation) Washington - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, who will turn 63 on August 19, celebrated his birthday in advance and to the hilt in an exclusive Las Vegas restaurant where a 225-gram [8-ounce] "wagyu" veal steak costs $240. The one person conspicuously missing was Hillary Clinton, who is touring Africa and who missed the gathering which some Washington heavyweights attended, such as John Podesta who was [White House] Chief of Staff during Clinton's presidency. The former President, who yesterday was one of the main speakers at a renewable-energy conference in Las Vegas, aroused suspicion among the press when...

North Korea's Kim Jong Il awarded his son, Kim Jong Un, a special commendation for his direct handling of the 2 captured Americans and Pres. Clinton recently. Internal speech was made by the Domestic Security Bureau, which said "Comrade Kim Jong En in his brilliance is to be awarded for excellent work. He dealt skillfully with the (2 US journalist) spy incident, and even was able to force a former US President to come all the way over the Pacific Ocean to apologize to us."

After former President Bill Clinton returned from North Korea -- with the two journalists who had been taken prisoner while near the North Korean border while on assignment for Al Gore’s tv company -- the feel-good moment was tinged with doubt. Did Mr. Clinton promise anything to North Korean strongman Kim Jong-il and the rulers of the “Hermit Kingdom” in return for the release of the two Americans? Although no one wants to dampen the joy over their homecoming, it is a fair question. Certainly my colleagues in the White House Press Corps speculated about it during the week the...

Ever since former President Bill Clinton came back from North Korea with two freed American journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, there has been some debate as to whether or not the trip was wise. The most prominent critic of the trip was John Bolton. The symbolism of a former president going to meet with Kim Jong Il I think is something that benefits Kim Jong Il a lot more than the United States, and it only encourages others to do the same thing," John Bolton, now a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, tells Madeleine Brand.