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WASHINGTON -- Say this much for Bill Clinton. He doesn't walk quietly. Wherever the former president goes, he can still command a large public megaphone. And, as with all things Clinton, that can be both good and bad, depending upon the view. His white-hot, finger-wagging interview on "Fox News Sunday"--filled with accusations about conservative bias and Bush administration blunders--has thrust Clinton into the midterm election campaign just as the Republicans appeared to be erasing some healthy Democratic advantages. For some Democrats, that's just what they would like to see: debate on a big stage between Clinton and his successor, President...

<p>FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON ON NOT CAPTURING BIN LADEN: 'At least I tried. That's the difference between me and some, including all the right wingers. They ridicule me for trying. They had eight months to try, they did not try. I tried. So I tried and failed'...</p>

On June 25, 1996, a powerful truck bomb exploded outside the Khobar Towers barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, tearing the front from the building, blasting a crater 35 feet deep, and killing 19 American soldiers. Hundreds more were injured. When news reached Washington, President Bill Clinton vowed to bring the killers to justice. "The cowards who committed this murderous act must not go unpunished," he said angrily. "Let me say again: We will pursue this. America takes care of our own. Those who did it must not go unpunished." The next day, leaving the White House to attend an economic...

Just wondering what people thought of Clintons speach?

<p>CHELSEA Clinton and Ian Klaus spent Valentine's weekend in Montreal keeping each other warm in the deluxe Hotel Gault. After checking in last Friday, they weren't seen emerging until Saturday night, when they braved the icy wind and made it to Buona Notte, where Chelsea sipped a Champagne cocktail and ordered seared halibut. "They wanted a romantic table. They were completely humble, obviously in love, and so incredibly polite," said a restaurant source. When asked how she knew about their restaurant, Chelsea replied: "A friend of my father's told me." Hmmmm. Maybe that was Bill's blonde friend from Canada, Belinda Stronach.</p>

Alexa is 15 now, but she first heard about it when she was 10. She remembers thinking, "Ewww." Disgusting. The next time the subject came up, she was 13, an eighth grader at an affluent private school in Toronto, making out with her boyfriend in his bedroom. He asked if she was willing. "He told me, 'You don't have to if you don't want to. It's up to you.' But I really liked him and this was my first, like, obsessive thing with a guy." He was a year older, 14. "I wanted to impress him. And we'd been hooking...

One of the biggest political events of 2004 may have nothing to do with the presidential election. It's the arrival of Bill Clinton's memoirs. The ex president is trying to finish his book in the next four months so it can be published at midyear. The book, to be published by Random House, will be the story of his life through his tumultuous presidency. Insiders say that it will have plenty of score settling with what his wife called the "vast right-wing conspiracy" but that it will also have quite a bit about his Arkansas boyhood. To hone his memories,...

The Clinton spin machine drones on. The media are reporting today that in her new book, Living History, Hillary Clinton claims she believed Bill's denials of an affair with Monica Lewinsky for some six months. Not until the weekend before his August 17, 1998, grand-jury testimony, when he confessed to her, did she accept the truth. Hillary writes: I could hardly breathe. Gulping for air, I started crying and yelling at him, 'What do you mean? What are you saying? Why did you lie to me? I was furious and getting more so by the second. He just stood there...

ICONOCLAST DAILY NOTEBOOK.... Bend It Like Clinton: Further Adventures With America's Washed-Up ex-President.... May 22, 2003: Bill Clinton is back bigger than ever, it seems, wandering the world and liberal college campuses pontificating on his superior legacy and the supposed infamy of the Bush administration. Commentator Norm Liebmann isn't happy: One can hardly begin better than by saying Bill Clinton is, in every particular, a villainous sonofabitch. Repeating it should only be inhibited by the limitations of one's fundamental energy. The responses to that assertion are not terribly significant. Liberals will shake their heads negatively, conservatives will nod their heads...

"There's something really odd about all of this," top conservative talker Rush Limbaugh told his audience on Tuesday, after reporting that Boston's John F. Kennedy Library would be hosting intern-lusting ex-President Bill Clinton a week after an appearance by Kennedy intern scoopster, author Robert Dallek. "Don't for a minute think that all this isn't being done to make Clinton look good," talk radio's number one opinionmaker contended. "The Kennedy family is helping to revive and resuscitate the legacy of Bill Clinton at the expense of JFK." As reported last week by the Boston Herald, the JFK Library was scheduled...

Last night I went to Willie Nelson's 70th b-day celebration at the Beacon Theatre. The show was really great - Norah Jones, Eric Clapton, Ray Charles, Kris Kristofferson, etc. performed. There were also announcers/presenters such as Robert DeNiro, Ethan Hawke, Whoopi Goldberg and Ali McGraw. However, the showstopper was when the MC announced the name William Jefferson Clinton.........OHHHH my.... the crowd went wild with a mixture of applause and boo-ings(is that a word). It was really bad, almost too much. He could hardly get a word in above the jeers from the crowd. I was going to call you just...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Ex-Clinton political aide Bob Weiner is slamming the D.C. downtown Renaissance Hotel's new presidential photo sports bar as a ''deification of Bush, anti-Clinton, and thereby partisan.''    Weiner, who served as Public Affairs Director for the White House Drug Czar and was a White House Athletic Center board member while Clinton was President, visited the new bar yesterday in advance of today's (Friday) opening to see how the presidential sports pictures looked and to offer a photo of Clinton leading a group of runners, including DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton. ''I expected to...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - With nary a Hells Angels member or flying pool cue in sight, the Rolling Stones played their first free concert in 33 years on Thursday, as a celebrity crowd headed by former U.S. President Bill Clinton looked on. The event at the Staples Center was a considerably more sedate affair than their last free show, at the Altamont Speedway near San Francisco in 1969. Then, security was handled by the local Hells Angels chapter, who clubbed fans with pool cues while the band looked on helplessly. A teenager was stabbed to death as he appeared to...

It appears that former U.S. presidents don't just leave office and fade away. Rather, they brood over their dwindling influence and compulsively seek public attention with ever more ridiculous public pronouncement and publicity stunts. Enter America's biggest walking, talking political joke, William Jefferson Clinton. As popular Big Apple columnist Mugger recently opined: Clinton is a national embarrassment, a bored and bitter politician whose weekly routine is a mixture of lucrative (and usually incoherent) speeches around the world, socializing with celebrities and criticizing Bush with an unprecedented zeal, demolishing the tradition of an ex-president keeping mum, at least for several years,...

Anyone have a link to the cover photo on this week's National Enquirer of Billy Boy? He looks like a WOMAN (not that that is a bad thing) and REALLY BAAAAAD. It is a must see.