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At the Lincoln Memorial today, with Pres. Obama – The First Gay President – sitting nearby, former President – The First Black President – Bill Clinton: “A great democracy does not make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.” ROFL!US Federal law requires people who want to purchase a firearm, hand gun or longer-barreled, not only to show government issued photo identification, but also to undergo a background check!Is that more demanding than what is required simply to vote? How many of you routinely undergo a criminal background check when you go to the polls?Here is a...

Clinton campaigns; Hillary wants to create a path to citizenship By TRICIA CORTEZ, LAREDO MORNING TIMES 09/15/2007 Email to a friendPost a CommentPrinter-friendlyStumping for his wife, who is leading the pack in most polls, former President Bill Clinton spoke to several hundred Laredoans and Nuevo Laredoans on Friday evening and explained why Hillary is "best suited" for the White House."This next president is going to have to undo a lot of damage," Clinton said at the private fundraiser held at Palenque Grill. He made references to an economy "on the brink of recession," growing inequality between the haves and the...

Hillary Clinton, a leading opponent of DP World's takeover of some US port operations, was this week forced to admit that she did not know her husband had advised Dubai leaders on how to handle the growing dispute. But former President Bill Clinton's ties to Dubai and the United Arab Emirates should not have come as a surprise to his New York senator wife. Mrs Clinton's own senatorial financial disclosure forms reveal that her husband earned $450,000 giving speeches in Dubai in 2002.

Readers who aren't fussed about distinguishing between biography and voyeurism may be attracted to the tabloid tone of this account, the first of two promised volumes, covering Bill Clinton's first 46 years. Admittedly, it is nigh on impossible to understand the man's public service without repeated reference to unsavoury peccadilloes and their political consequences. But Nigel Hamilton's focus on all things salacious seems excessive and suggests, particularly given the book's cinematic storyboard structure, that scholarship has been sacrificed to commercial exploitation. Whilst academics will be disappointed that there's nothing new here, a broader audience may appreciate the convenience of being...

AP -- The president of the foundation building the Clinton Presidential Library is reaching out to tour bus operators by showing that the former president knows a thing or two about buses himself. Skip Rutherford, head of the Clinton Presidential Foundation, is to attend a motorcoach convention in Charlotte, N.C., with the Clinton-Gore campaign bus that covered 30,000 miles and 20 states in 1992 and 1996. "Then-Gov. Clinton introduced himself to America through the bus trips, and now we're appealing to the motorcoach industry to include the Clinton Library, Little Rock and Arkansas on their bus tours," Rutherford said. He'll...

President Roh Moo-hyun met former U.S. President Bill Clinton at Cheong Wa Dae yesterday to discuss major issues concerning the Korean Peninsula, including North Korea's nuclear threat. During the meeting, Roh and Clinton talk about the U.S.-brokered 1994 accord that covered the construction of two light water nuclear reactors in North Korea, a project that was suspended recently. They also agreed that North Korea's nuclear dispute must be defused peacefully through dialogue, said a presidential spokesman. Clinton arrived in South Korea Thursday for his four-day visit at the invitation of Kim Seung-youn, chairman of the Korea-United States Exchange Council and...

London (ots) - On Thursday, former U.S. President Bill Clinton announced a remarkable new program designed to help developing countries clear two major obstacles to Aids treatment: the high cost of antiretroviral drugs, and the low quality of the countries' health-care systems. Clinton spoke with Time Europe editor Eric Pooley in an exclusive interview featured in this week's magazine - on newsstands across Europe from Monday October 28th. The Clinton Foundation has so far signed up four generic-drug companies and helped them cut production costs, reducing by one-third the price of aids-fighting drugs. The firms-three in India and one...

Former President Clinton seriously considered issuing a pre-emptive pardon for his wife, Hillary, after he was re-elected in 1996, just a few months after the former first couple's two Whitewater business partners, Jim and Susan McDougal, were convicted for bank fraud. "[Clinton] had asked my opinion of a blanket Whitewater pardon including all those involved in any aspect of the scandal," Clinton's top political adviser Dick Morris tells NewsMax.com exclusively. Morris says that Clinton wanted to start his second term with a clean slate and was thinking out loud. "He speculated that Hillary might be part of such a blanket...