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For the past painful year, the Republican presidential contenders have been bombarding Americans with empty propaganda slogans and competing, bizarrely, to present themselves as the least experienced person for the most important elected job in the world. Democratic primary voters, on the other hand, after a substantive debate over real issues, have the chance to nominate one of the most broadly and deeply qualified presidential candidates in modern history. Hillary Clinton would be the first woman nominated by a major party. She served as a senator from a major state (New York) and as secretary of state — not to...

18 Mar 2008 12:24 pm CBS News is reporting that eight years worth of Hillary Clinton's schedule as First Lady will be released tomorrow by the National Archives.

Bill Clinton: "If You Elect Me" (I'm Speaking as Her)Jake Tapper, ABC Blog.com For a natural-born politician such as former President Bill Clinton, it may be tough to spend so much time talking about someone else. In Portsmouth, Ohio, he said, " If you elect me, I'll repeal those subsidies. And put them into a strategic energy fund that will create American jobs for America's future with clean energy." Watch Video HERE. If you coughed and missed the "Hillary says" in that sentence you might be surprised when he reaches the "if you elect me" part of the pitch more than 60 words later....

This is pretty darn funny!

VINTON, Iowa - Ever since Barack Obama suggested Hillary Clinton's eight years as first lady were a glorified tea party a few days back, she's looked for an opening to strike back. On Saturday night in Dubuque she pounced, arguing she risked her life on White House missions in the 1990s, including a hair-raising flight into Bosnia that ended in a "corkscrew" landing and a sprint off the tarmac to dodge snipers. "I don't remember anyone offering me tea," she quipped. The dictum around the Oval Office in the '90s, she added, was: "If a place was too dangerous, too...

As first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton jaw-boned the authoritarian president of Uzbekistan to leave his car and shake hands with people. She argued with the Czech prime minister about democracy. She cajoled Roman Catholic and Protestant women to talk to one another in Northern Ireland. She traveled to 79 countries in total, little of it leisure; one meeting with mutilated Rwandan refugees so unsettled her that she threw up afterward. But during those two terms in the White House, Mrs. Clinton did not hold a security clearance. She did not attend National Security Council meetings. She was not given a...

(AP) SAN FRANCISCO -- Elizabeth Edwards told a prominent gay rights group Saturday night that her husband—presidential candidate John Edwards—would help repeal more than a thousand laws that discriminate against same-sex couples. As she campaigns for her husband in California, Elizabeth Edwards has staked out an independent position on gay rights by announcing her support for gay marriage. John Edwards said her position surprised even him. The former North Carolina Senator opposes gay marriage but supports civil unions. Elizabeth Edwards also called for tougher federal hate crimes legislation, and cited the story of 26-year-old Satendar Singh—who died recently after being...

WASHINGTON - Love him or hate him, anybody who's followed Bill Clinton's career knows it's always been about him — as in No. 1 or "me," "my" and "I." Now it's about her. Considered by friends to be as self-absorbed as he is brilliant, the former president checks his ego at the curb this week to fly to Iowa and take a surrogate's role in the presidential campaign of his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York. Her advisers privately fret that the former president will overshadow Sen. Clinton with his unparalleled campaign skills and career-long habit of drawing...

Former President May Still Be Ultimate Power Broker (CBS) HARLEM -- At about 12:45 p.m. on Thursday, 13 floors above 125th Street off Fifth in Harlem, the former President of the United States walks into a packed double conference-sized room with not enough room on the riser in the back for all the TV cameras. And only two or three of the cameras are from local news or the usual networks. Many are from business outlets, and half are from international news agencies, particularly outfits that cover Latin America. Because standing there with Mr. Clinton are Frank Giustra, one of...

"Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., listens during a discussion on stem cell research at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH." "Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast in Washington." "Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., center, meets with wounded soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan after speaking at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast in Washington."

What Hillary will not do to manage the news in her favor? How to keep her fans from reading anything negative about Queen Hillary - why, she will just create a news source that is nothing but positive news about Hillary! Read about Hillary Hub here

The consistent lead that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York has maintained over Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois and others in the race for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination is due largely to one factor: her support from women. In the most recent Washington Post-ABC News poll, Clinton led Obama by a 2 to 1 margin among female voters. Her 15-point lead in the poll is entirely attributable to that margin. Clinton drew support from 51 percent of the women surveyed, compared with 24 percent who said they supported Obama and 11 percent who said they backed former senator...

CITY OF UPLAND WEBSITE BARBARA BOXER COMMENTS ON 100TH BIRTHDAY HISTORIC DOWNTOWN DATELINE: Upland, CA June 4, 2007 Doug from Upland Quiet and picturesque Upland, California, the "City of Gracious Living," was rocked this morning when a small private plane purportedly lost control on the approach to Cable Airport and crashed into three houses. Fortunately, none of the three in the twin-engine plane and no one on the ground was killed. The plane is currently sitting on a roof and awaiting an extraction effort. Behind the scenes, however, is the real story. Rumors are flying throughout the community about...

"Former President Bill Clinton, center, shakes hands with the crowd as he walks in the ceremonial procession during Middlebury College Commencement, Sunday, May 27, 2007, in Middlebury, Vt., where he delivered the commencement speech and received an honorary degree."

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton has a new pastime far from fund raising for worthy causes -- designing a crossword puzzle for The New York Times. Clinton wrote the clues for an online crossword puzzle published this weekend by the Times, filled with puns, pop culture references and plays on words. The theme of the puzzle is "Twistin' the Oldies," with clues seeking updated versions for baby boomers of musical hits by artists such as Neil Sedaka and Carly Simon. In an editor's note, Times' puzzle editor Will Shortz wrote: "The clues in this puzzle are a little more playful...

Dozens of reporters, historians and others have filed requests for documents from the archive of the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock. But 16 months after the library began accepting applications for material, no major requests for sensitive documents related to Hillary Clinton’s years as first lady have been honored, a Newsday investigation found. "I haven’t received any documents or even a note indicating that they’re searching the records,” said Jeff Gerth, a former New York Times reporter who filed a request for documents in January 2006 for a Clinton biography. With Hillary Clinton seeking the Democratic nomination...

Calling the 2004 presidential election the beginning of a fresh start for America, Teresa Heinz Kerry asked supporters at a Monday Rally at Scranton High School to "vote often" today. "Do you know how to vote often?" the wife of Democratic candidate Sen. John Kerry asked a crowd of just over 1,000 in the school's auditorium. "You vote once, and then you take one, two, three, four, five people to vote with you. That's voting often, so vote often." Citing the loss of thousands of jobs, rising health care costs, a soaring federal budget deficit and the high number of...

If she becomes first lady, Teresa Heinz Kerry intends to champion the cause of health care reform, much the same way Hillary Clinton did in 1994. And just like Hillary, Teresa has her husband's backing. In Jan. 2003, Heinz Kerry told the Boston Herald that she expects to be an "activist first lady." And her first priority would be to create a "Department of Wellness" that would stress preventive health reforms. Until recently, Teresa's Department of Wellness had been consigned to the dustbin of wacky campaign ideas. Or so it seemed. Then In September, John Kerry told a North Carolina...

Giggles and titters for Hillary in '04. Senator Hillary Clinton made herself available to ABC, CBS and NBC for Sunday interview show appearances and all three networks jumped at the chance and on all three the hosts pressed her about any possibility she’d run for President next year or join the ticket. On the Face the Nation, guest host John Roberts asked the question and moved on. But ABC’s George Stephanopoulos and NBC’s Tim Russert grew excited and repeatedly tried to entice her into the presidential derby, eliciting giggles and laughter from Clinton for their pleading efforts. On This Week,...

WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Clinton launched a triple-network attack on President Bush yesterday while at the same time insisting she doesn't want his job. For now. "No, no. I've said no. I've said no, no, no, no," the New York Democrat told NBC's "Meet the Press," when asked if she would accept her party's nomination in 2004. But no matter how many times she said no, the questions kept landing as Clinton made the rounds to ABC and CBS. Clinton and her aides have publicly denied for months that she will make a bid for 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in 2004...