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Sarah Palin is known to say that America is governed by a “permanent political class,” and recent comments by former first lady Barbara Bush about how she views former President Bill Clinton lends credence to that point of view. Before Bush’s recent health issues, she sat down for an interview with C-SPAN, part of a series of profiles on America’s first ladies, Investor’s Business Daily reported. In a candid conversation, Mrs. Bush reveals the bond of friendship that has formed between former President George H.W. Bush, herself and Clinton, whom she said visits “every summer.” While noting that they do...

First Democrat elected as mayor for 12 years vows to 'take aim at the Tale of Two Cities' De Blasio vows to reform 'stop and frisk' policy and tax the wealthy to improve education 'They are they real modern family' former president Clinton says as he introduces the de Blasios Former mayor Michael Bloomberg prepares to jet off to Hawaii on vacation after 12 years in office

Gennifer Flowers, the first of Bill Clinton’s “bimbo eruptions,” is threatening legal action to prevent the sale of documents that question the authenticity of the audio tapes of her phone conversations with the former president. Paul Barresi, a porn actor-turned-private detective, inherited the documents from his friend Jim Mitteager, a freelance reporter. Mitteager died of cancer in 1997. The tapes were first heard in 1992 when Clinton was first running for president and denying his affair with Flowers. The blond singer held a press conference and played some snippets. Barresi was a wingman at the time for Anthony Pellicano, the...

Nearly five years after George W. Bush left office, half the public still blames the former president for the nation’s economic woes, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll released this week.

Former President Bill Clinton shared an anecdote regarding Nelson Mandela and the aftermath of his impeachment Friday on CNN. Clinton revealed shortly after the “impeachment business” finished on Capitol Hill, Rep. Henry Hyde (R., Ill.) who managed the impeachment trial requested a meeting at the White House. The former president granted the meeting out of lessons of humility and forgiveness he learned from Mandela, he said: BILL CLINTON: I remember one day, oh, about a month after the whole impeachment business was over...

Former President Bill Clinton, who prodded President Obama last month to keep his promises on Obamacare, said Tuesday that the political damage for Democrats from the flawed law will be “minimal.” “I believe that if the computer problems are all fixed, and it’s up and running by — and healthy in the next several weeks, I think that the damage will be minimal,” Mr. Clinton told interviewer Jorge Ramos of Fusion. “It’s getting better. I think it’ll be fixed by — in the next few weeks. If it’s worked through, I think within four or five months people will be...

Who would think the president who proposed HillaryCare would help kill ObamaCare. Bill Clinton just gave congressional Democrats cover to oppose their party's president — and try salvaging their political skins. When New Coke failed back in the 1980s, the Coca-Cola Co. didn't "fix" it; the company swiftly brought back the real Coke, calling it "Coca-Cola Classic." In the end, New Coke was scrapped and the fiasco made consumers appreciate "The Real Thing" that they had taken for granted. ObamaCare can't be "fixed" any more than New Coke could. But the pressure's on for Democrats to get rid of it,...

November 12, 2013, 03:25 pm Palin: Clinton was right, Obama 'not qualified' By Rebecca Shabad Sarah Palin says former President Bill Clinton’s statements from 2008 about President Obama not being ready for the White House were on the mark. In an interview to air Tuesday on CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper," Palin recalled statements Bill Clinton made when Hillary Clinton was campaigning against Obama during the 2008 primary season. "I'll never forget Bill Clinton saying about Barack Obama and his story, his agenda, that it was the biggest fairy tale he'd ever seen," Palin said during the CNN interview....

Bill Clinton, in an unusually blunt critique of the sitting president, said President Obama should live up to his promise to Americans that if they like their health plans, they can keep them. The former president weighed in on the roiling controversy about health plan cancellations during an interview with the site Ozy.com. The current president recently apologized to the public for the millions of cancellation notices that are going out -- despite him assuring Americans that, under ObamaCare, they could keep their coverage if they want. For Clinton, the apology doesn't cut it. "So I personally believe, even if...

Bill Clinton joined fellow Democrat Terry McAuliffe in downtown Roanoke on Wednesday afternoon to add the former president’s clout as McAuliffe’s campaign to be Virginia’s next governor approaches Tuesday’s election. Clinton emphasized that the state, the nation and the world need leaders who will embrace cooperation instead of inciting ideology-driven conflict. He and McAuliffe spoke to a crowd of about 450 people gathered in Charter Hall in the City Market Building. Both men were clearly preaching to the choir. The McAuliffe campaign had handed out about 300 tickets to the event. Clinton said extremism provokes fanaticism, anger and anxiety. “If...

From: "Terry McAuliffe" To: Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 1:46:25 PM Subject: Re: Join me and President Bill Clinton in Richmond? Fred, I'm excited Bill Clinton is coming to Richmond this week to ask people to commit to vote. Will you join President Clinton, me, and hundreds of your neighbors on Sunday? Tickets are free, but are required for admission. Here are all the details: What: Virginia Votes! Richmond Tickets: http://action.terrymcauliffe.com/join-president-clinton-in-richmond Where: Richmond Community High School, 201 E Brookland Park Blvd., Richmond, VA 23222 When: Sunday, October 27, at 4:45 (doors open at 3:30) Note: Tickets are required for admission,...

Former President Bill Clinton will stop in Roanoke next week to campaign with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe. Clinton and McAuliffe will appear at Charter Hall in the Roanoke City Market Building at 2:15 p.m. Wednesday, according to a news release from McAuliffe’s campaign. The Roanoke stop has been added to a multi-day, statewide McAuliffe campaign swing with the former president. Their itinerary includes a Monday campaign stop at Virginia Tech. Tickets for the Roanoke event are available on a first-come, first-served basis at the Democratic Party’s office at 813 Franklin Road.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton will campaign this month for his longtime friend, Terry McAuliffe, who is running for governor of Virginia. McAuliffe's campaign on Sunday said Clinton will join the Democratic gubernatorial candidate on October 27 for a three-day tour around Virginia. .. ... McAuliffe, a former Democratic National Committee chairman, is a close ally of the Clintons and was the co-chairman of Bill Clinton's 1996 presidential re-election campaign and Hillary Clinton's failed 2008 presidential campaign.

Hillary Clinton will campaign with Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe (D) this weekend. It will be Clinton's her first public campaign event since she left the Obama administration in February.

Hillary Clinton will campaign with Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe (D) this weekend. It will be Clinton's her first public campaign event since she left the Obama administration in February. Clinton will officially endorse McAuliffe at a "Women for Terry" event in Northern Virginia on Saturday afternoon, McAuliffe's campaign announced. This will be the former secretary of State's third event for McAuliffe, after hosting two fundraisers, and her first public campaign stop in years. The Clintons have long been close with McAuliffe. He headed the Democratic National Committee while President Clinton was in office and was a top fundraiser for...

Former President Bill Clinton, who sat in the Oval Office during the last government shutdown, supports President Barack Obama's refusal to negotiate with congressional Republicans and argues he should call their "bluff" as the government nears a possible shutdown and default. "He could stop it, but the price of - the current price of stopping it is higher than the price of letting the Republicans do it and taking their medicine," he said in an interview that aired Sunday on ABC's "This Week." Clinton went on to say that House Republicans, having realized they have little chance of pushing through...

It take a gun to stop a crazy with a gun and until someone gets there and locates the killer, the madman will continue to kill. The FBI is now saying yesterday's shootings were caused by a lone gunman armed with a single shotgun. The murderer armed himself with the handgun from an armed security guard had shot but there was no AR-15 used as incorrectly reported.he s

Just because Bob Filner — accused by numerous women of sexual harassment — resigned as mayor of San Diego on Friday doesn’t mean the city doesn’t have another potential sticky wicket on its hands.A California news outlet is reporting that Carl DeMaio, a Republican who once ran against Filner for mayor but is now running for Congress, is now being accused by his former colleagues on the city council of, well, masturbating while on the job.Two Democratic members of the San Diego City Council were quoted on the record at VoiceofOc.org making the allegation that DeMaio often polished his family jewels...

Bill Clinton's foundation reportedly has racked up more than $50 million in travel costs over the past decade, in the latest detail to emerge about the high-flying former president's operation. The New York Post reports that, based on internal tax documents covering the period since 2003, the foundation logged a $4.2 million travel bill in 2011 alone (together, all the foundations Clinton runs spent $12.1 million on travel that year).