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ONCE A CLINTON . . . September 15, 2007 -- For Hillary Clinton, it must seem like déjà vu all over again (as Yogi Berra might put it). But for voters, Camp Clinton's panicky move to refund $850,000 (temporarily, anyway) in donations linked to former fugitive con artist Norman Hsu hearkens back to hubby Bill's sordid fund-raising during his 1996 re-election campaign. And the funny money isn't the only ghost from the Clintons' past. Newsweek reports that the senator is relying for foreign-policy advice on a triumverate of her husband's top advisers - including Sandy "Sticky Fingers" Berger. **SNIP** Last...

One year after the first World Trade Center bombing, in 1994, Bill Clinton hushed up a federal report that warned of possible terrorist strikes, including how hijackers could use airliners to hit landmarks such as the Pentagon or White House. The Clinton administration never released "Terror 2000" to the public, purportedly because of concerns in the State Department it would cause panic. The Sept. 17, 2001 story by UPI Pentagon correspondent Pam Hess said the report, not only outlined the changing face of terrorism but also seemed to predict the scope and timing of the attacks carried out against the...

Chicago (AP) -- He's on the golf course. She's on the presidential campaign trail. If that wasn't hard enough, when Democratic frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton points out to her spouse that she's 15 years older than he was when he first ran for president, all she gets is tough love. "And I say, 'Well, nobody made you run, girl,'" former President Clinton joked during an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show that aired Tuesday. Clinton also suggested tongue-in-cheek what his title might be if the former first lady wins the election and he moves back into the White House. "My...

California authorities have sought businessman Norman Hsu for 15 years. Since 2004, he has carved out a place of honor raising cash for such candidates as Hillary Rodham Clinton. For the last 15 years, California authorities have been trying to figure out what happened to a businessman named Norman Hsu, who pleaded no contest to grand theft, agreed to serve up to three years in prison and then seemed to vanish. "He is a fugitive," Ronald Smetana, who handled the case for the state attorney general, said in an interview. "Do you know where he is?" Hsu, it seems, has...

Her critics can finally pin her down. Hillary haters have something beside their votes to express displeasure with the New York senator and presidential wannabe - the Hillary Clinton voodoo doll, complete with a book of hexes, pins and a battle cry to "stick it to her, before she sticks it to you!" The voodoo doll spell book advises using black magic to inspire "Hillary's chubby hubby to take some embarrassing missteps" by shacking up with a woman who'll "go public when the dirty deed is done." You can also form her platform by having her promise "gay divorce" and...

Some pundits say former President Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary Clinton operate like a unified political animal. But a study of their TV and radio interviews reveals that gender separates the speech of the power couple, such that he "talks like a man" and she is "ladylike." Well-known interviewers also treated each of the Clintons differently, possibly due to gender stereotypes and expectations. Camelia Suleiman of Florida International University and Daniel C. O'Connell of Georgetown University recently examined three TV interviews and two radio interviews with the former president in June 2004 and three TV interviews and two radio interviews...

Cambridge, Mass. (AP) -- Former President Bill Clinton said Friday that disasters such as worldwide famine and an obesity epidemic could destroy the U.S. health care system unless politicians begin to look ahead and cooperate. Clinton, speaking at a forum sponsored by Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, said losses of natural resources such as oil and farmable soil, coupled with rising population and climate change is a "combustible mix." "This is coming," Clinton said. "And I know there is no great political constituency for these things, but we can avert these disasters for not very much money...

Many adults in the United States long for the mandate of a previous head of state, according to a poll by Opinion Research Corporation released by CNN. 53 per cent of respondents miss former U.S. president Bill Clinton now that he has left the White House. In the survey, 96 per cent of African-American respondents say they miss Clinton, while 50 per cent of White Americans say they are glad he has left. Clinton—a Democrat and former governor of Arkansas—won the 1992 U.S. presidential election. His campaign was largely based on a condemnation of the economic recession of the early...

Latest Headlines Full Story Photos RSS Clinton Says Husband Would Be Ambassador Saturday, April 21st, 2007 at 4:56pm EST AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday that if she is elected president, she would make her husband a roaming ambassador to the world, using his skills to repair the nation's tattered image abroad. "I can't think of a better cheerleader for America than Bill Clinton, can you?" the Democratic senator from New York asked a crowd jammed into a junior high school gymnasium. "He has said he would do anything I asked him to do. I would...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The country's health care system is broken and in dire need of a fix, former president Bill Clinton told a receptive crowd today in San Francisco. "Our health care system is immoral

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton came in first -- barely -- in the 2007 first-quarter fundraising race on the Democratic side, but she's leaving nothing to chance in California: former President Bill Clinton -- hugely popular with Democrats -- will hit the state next week for what's being described as an exclusive campaign breakfast fundraiser for his wife, which will cost $1,000 a person for bacon and eggs April 15 at the San Francisco Fairmont Hotel.The letter that has gone out to deep-pocketed donors notes that, thanks to the competitive race and the early primaries -- sigh -- candidates must raise...

Don't feel too bad for Al Gore: He's leaving Washington with a congressional pension of $94,800 a year. The National Taxpayers Union estimates Gore's pension based on his 24 years in the House, Senate and vice presidency. Assuming he lives to 82, Gore's lifetime government retirement benefits, including a "spousal annuity" for Tipper Gore, could total nearly $6 million. Bill Clinton's presidential pension will start at $161,200 a year.

"Clinton Fights to Keep Impeachment Taboo" headlined the Washington Post, with the following subheadline: "After Spat, Campaigns Know to Expect Swift Reprisal for any Hint of the Scandal." And the Post reported: "Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has a new commandment for the 2008 presidential field: Thou shalt not mention anything related to the impeachment of her husband." Can you believe this? The American people are now expected through all members of the media – and all election crowd questioners – to observe censorship. There are to be no questions regarding impeachment, trial and conviction for perjury and obstruction of justice...

Sources say the diminutive movie mogul is motivated by jealousy because his old friend Bill Clinton now prefers the company of supermarket billionaire Ron Burkle. Geffen's animosity is also fueled by Burkle's attempt to buy the Los Angeles Times, which Geffen had wanted to purchase for himself.

FEMA Auctions Trailers at Hope AirportLast Update: Feb 23, 2007 10:35 AM Posted By: Jessica Sahene HOPE, Ark. (AP) - The number of FEMA trailers in this southwestern Arkansas town is nearly double the number of people who live in Hope, essentially turning the birthplace of former President Bill Clinton into one big trailer lot. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency signed a $25,000-per-month lease with the city to use 453-acres at the Hope Municipal Airport as a staging area for trailers. But 16 months later, about 12,000 travel trailers and 8,300 mobile homes still...

We can only imagine the possibilities should Hillary Clinton take the White House. Hillary Clinton is running for president. You know what that means, don't you? If she wins, Bill Clinton will be, dare we say, first gentleman. It's a delicious notion, the idea of Mr. Clinton as the president's steadfast companion, her closest confidante, the guy who picks the White House china. It'll be his job, just like it's been every first lady's since Martha Washington, to smile adoringly and be supportive even when something more fun comes along. Like drinks with the incoming class of interns. There will...

<p>Hillary's first conversation will be begin tonight at 7 PM. You need to register at the linked site to participate.</p> <p>Hillary's website asks people to "help make these webcasts a true national conversation by spreading the word."</p> <p>I'm doing my part.</p>

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The Clintonesque challengeBetween his charisma and past indiscretions, ex-president risks upstaging wife’s likely run By Lynne Duke Washington Post Posted on Fri, Dec. 29, 2006 NEW YORK – **SNIP** That Bill is the ex-president known for his outsize appetites and indiscipline, the Bill who still revels in the limelight, who runs with global jet-setters. He is prone to pop up in the press for even the smallest of curiosities, like being spotted at dinner with another woman – bad news for an ex-president already infamous for marital infidelity. **SNIP** From now until Election Day 2008, the national fascination with the...