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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: This is Walter in Modesto, California. Hey, Walter, I'm glad you called. Hi. CALLER: Yes, I want to say I agree with the Democrats that not everyone would have pulled the trigger on Bin Laden. How many chances did Bill Clinton have to do it? RUSH: That's true. That's true. Clinton was handed Bin Laden on a silver platter two or three times and rejected it. CALLER: We still have him. RUSH: That's right. See, what Walter's point here is while Obama is out there trying to say Romney wouldn't have pulled the trigger (laughing), it's Bill...

Inviting Bill Clinton on campaign trail carries risk, reward for ObamaBy Josh Lederman - 04/09/12 05:25 AM ET President Clinton is willing to do whatever he can to get President Obama reelected, according to his former aides. It’s just a matter of whether Obama wants the help. Bringing Clinton on the campaign trail could do wonders for Obama’s appeal among disenfranchised blue-collar voters and reluctant donors, strategists say. But it could also pose risks for Obama, who could be overshadowed by the effusive former president. “President Obama would be wise [to use him], and I’m sure he would welcome President...

"He said, 'Ever since I got here to the White House I've had to shut my body down sexually I mean, but I screwed up with this girl. I didn't do what they said I did, but I may have done so much that I can't prove my innocence,'" Morris recalls in the film "Clinton," which was written and directed by Barak Goodman.

Say what you will about Mitt Romney, but here are two words you’ll never hear him utter: “Open marriage.” I raise this only because I’ve noticed something lately about another of the Republican candidates, namely Newt Gingrich. Women don’t like him. I mean, they really detest him. This problem predates last night’s “Nightline” interview with his second wife, Marianne, who proved once again that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Good luck avoiding those ABC sound bites today, now that they’re all in the public domain. Whether or not either of his first two wives was on her...

Say what you will about Mitt Romney, but here are two words you’ll never hear him utter: “Open marriage.” I raise this only because I’ve noticed something lately about another of the Republican candidates, namely Newt Gingrich. Women don’t like him. I mean, they really detest him. This problem predates last night’s “Nightline” interview with his second wife, Marianne, who proved once again that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Good luck avoiding those ABC sound bites today, now that they’re all in the public domain. Whether or not either of his first two wives was on her...

Together again with Obama, Clinton has last wordBy Matt Spetalnick | Reuters – 20 hrs ago WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton, known for sometimes upstaging the current occupant of the White House, managed to get the last word again in a joint appearance with President Barack Obama on Friday. The White House enlisted the popular ex-president to join in a tour of a renovated Washington office building to help promote a $4 billion nationwide effort aimed at improving energy efficiency in construction and boosting job creation. The unusual pairing served as further evidence the two have moved beyond...

Former President Bill Clinton acknowledges that Mitt Romney and Rick Perry are the clear front-runners for the Republican presidential nomination, but he says it’s too early to count out former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. In an exclusive Newsmax interview, Clinton asserts: “If you ask who has the power to get back into the mix, assuming no new people enter — I think Mitch Daniels would have been very competitive, I think Haley Barbour would have appeal, I think the governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, would have appeal. But if you assume nobody else gets in, then of those that...

The latest refugee is State Rep. Bubba Chaney of Rayville, who made his switch official today. With Chaney’s move, there are now 53 Republicans, 47 Democrats and four independents in the House, with one seat open (the one formerly held by Democrat-turned Republican Fred Mills, who just won a special election for the Senate) and set for a special election next month. Chaney, who is serving his first term in the Louisiana Legislature, changed his party affiliation at the Richland Parish Courthouse late Monday afternoon. “I just didn’t feel that my philosophy as a traditional conservative Blue Dog Democrat has...

December 20th 1998 Although the impeachment votes Saturday were unquestionably partisan, there were members on both sides who crossed party lines. Five Democrats voted to impeach the president on the first three articles, although only one supported the abuse of power charge. Four Republicans voted against all four articles of impeachment: Christopher Shays of Connecticut, Constance Morella of Maryland, Peter King of New York and Amo Houghton of New York. Among the Republicans, five opposed the grand jury perjury charge, 28 opposed the civil perjury charge, 12 opposed obstruction of justice, and 81 rejected the abuse of power charge. The...

Clinton: GOP banking on 'yesterday's America' showing up Election DayBy Sean J. Miller - 10/21/10 06:39 PM ET BALTIMORE – Former President Bill Clinton singled out Karl Rove and the "secret committees" for causing a "crazy food fight" that’s confusing voters during a rally for Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D). "They're banking on you not thinking," the former president said at the event on Federal Hill. "They're banking on some people being so mad that facts don’t matter." The Republicans' "only hope," Clinton said, "is that on Election Day in 12 days, tomorrow's America, the America that showed up in...

Touting education and job creation through green technology, former President Bill Clinton on Sunday night told San Jose State students they will bear some of the responsibility if Democrats lose their control of the House and the Senate on Election Day. "There's a reason people think that the Democrats are going to lose these houses," Clinton said. "The reason is you." So Clinton urged the enthusiastic crowd of 5,000 -- most of them students -- to tweet, text and e-mail their networks of friends to vote Democratic on Nov. 2. Clinton came to San Jose to campaign for gubernatorial candidate...

Fear and loathing in the American body politic is not confined to the anti-tax Tea Party. Across the spectrum of the Democratic party, every hue is feeling it too. With a fortnight to go to the midterms, moderate "Blue Dog" Democrats are in big trouble. The party's left-wing "Yellow Dogs" are up in arms about being taken for granted by the White House "hippy bashers". Even black bloggers are warning President Barack Obama they won't be "pimped" for him. Gone was the red-faced, finger-wagging Bill... More at Telegraph.co.UK

Former President Bill Clinton begins pitching for Brown and Newsom as "proven leaders" in green tech job creationFormer President Bill Clinton will begin reaching California voters today with a strong enviromental-based election pitch on behalf of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown and Lt. Gov. candidate Gavin Newsom, whom he says represent "the kind of leadership California needs" on green tech and alterntive energy to boost jobs and the economy.Clinton's email fundraising message to voters going out today calls them "two candidates whose creative ideas, proven ability to make progress and passionate commitment to our children's future will bring back the...

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Former President Bill Clinton, who endorsed then-gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom during the Democratic primary season, will be in California to campaign for Jerry Brown -- and Newsom -- on Oct. 15 and 17, the CA Democratic Party says. The announcement comes in the same week gubernatorial candidate Brown's off-the-cuff comments about Clinton's veracity created headlines -- and a distraction for his campaign. The State Attorney General's public apology to Clinton came on the heels of an ad by Republican candidate Meg Whitman's team which highlighted Clinton's past criticism of Brown as a tax-raiser -- comments which Clinton himself has now...

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown said this morning that he and former President Bill Clinton had moved on from their often nasty 1992 presidential primary battle and that "Bill Clinton and I share very similar ideas on how to build up the California economy, how to treat working people fairly." In his weekly call into San Francisco radio station KGO, Brown also estimated that 95 percent of rival Meg Whitman's recent ads were negative and said "she is so unpopular now that the only way she can win is to tear me down, not build her up. So you'll hear...

It began with a television ad by Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for governor, hammering Democratic rival Jerry Brown with a video clip from Brown's 1992 presidential nomination duel with Bill Clinton.In the video, Clinton hits Brown, to wit: "CNN. Not me, CNN says his assertion about his tax record was, quote, just plain wrong. He raised taxes as governor of California. … He doesn't tell the people the truth."It's effective because it's not Whitman whomping on Brown but Clinton, a popular political figure, and CNN, a reputable news organization. . . . But Brown, a motormouth who at age...

Former President Bill Clinton had a very simple - and personal - reason Tuesday to forgive and endorse his longtime Democratic adversary Jerry Brown. It was in both their interests. According to interviews with Democratic insiders, when the video of gubernatorial candidate Brown's jab at Clinton's lying about Monica Lewinsky went viral, cable news shows besieged Democratic officeholders from here to Washington, D.C., fishing for comment on what looked like the best food fight of the season. One CNN memo framed the story this way: "Jerry Brown vs. Bill Clinton ... Meg Whitman reignites the decades-old battle between Bill Clinton...

Clinton: New-look GOP makes Bush look liberalThe former president spoke at a fundraiser for DFL gubernatorial candidate Mark Dayton in Minneapolis. ASSOCIATED PRESS Last update: September 14, 2010 - 11:41 PM Former President Bill Clinton said Tuesday that the Republican Party is embracing "ideology over evidence" and pushing out pragmatic voices that would make even his White House successor seem like a liberal. Clinton, speaking at a DFL Party fundraiser in Minneapolis, said there was no mistaking that Republicans have tacked hard right and questioned whether former President George W. Bush would fit in among the party's candidates this year....

The ghosts of the 1992 presidential race are haunting the current gubernatorial campaign as Republican candidate Meg Whitman unveiled a TV ad this morning featuring a clip of Bill Clinton criticizing Democratic candidate Jerry Brown, who was running against Clinton in the 1992 primary. In the spot, Clinton lambastes Brown's record in what appears to be a debate with the former California governor, using some of the same charges Whitman has aimed at Brown this year. "CNN, not me, CNN says his assertion about his tax record was, quote, just plain wrong," Clinton says in the clip. "Jerry Brown went...