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1) Clinton was dealt a great hand. The economy was entering its eighth quarter of expansion, oil was cheap (around $11 a barrel), inflation was low, there was greater certainty about the global economy because of the end of the Cold War, "and, of course, a tremendous set of new productivity-enhancing technologies involving information technologies and the World Wide Web burst on the scene." Talk about starting on third base. 2) The economy did OK during Clinton's first term. But it wasn't spectacular. From 1993 through 1996, real gross domestic product grew at an average annual rate of 3.2 percent, employment rose by 11.6 million jobs, average hourly wages grew by 0.8 percent, and market capitalization rose by 78 percent in real terms. 3) But then the economy really kicked into gear. In 1997, Congress passed and Clinton signed (despite initial opposition) a modest capital-gains-tax cut, one that would be worth about $30 billion in today's dollars after four years. This was not Reagan 2.0. Yet from 1997 through 2000, a period when the expansion should have shown its age, real GDP growth averaged 4.2 percent a year, 11.5 million more jobs were created, and real wages grew 6.5 percent. Oh, and the stock market doubled. Read More
Delegate math still eludes revived Clinton Hillary Clinton needs a history lesson Clinton hints at sharing ticket with Obama Hillary Refuses to Return Money from Co. Accused of Sexual Harrasment Winning Texas & Ohio Won't Be Enough For Clinton Did media move Clinton from front-runner to underdog? Clinton’s big Pa. backer reached out to Farrakhan YOUNG HILLARY: A case of clashing ideals Another issue both Hillary and Obama are sidestepping In a hearing today with Federa Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, a figure was brought to light that I was not aware of. As of 2006, the total amount of U.S. Dollars in existence was $10.3 Trillion. As of today, only 2 years later, the Federal Reserve has created over $4 Trillion in new credit, creating a total circulation of $14.6 Trillion. Hold the phone, a 40% increase in the total US money supply in only 2 years?! Just what in the hell is going on here?! Congress doesn't know what to do. The dollar is falling so fast merchants can't even keep pace with their pricing mark ups. Every day gold gets stronger against the dollar, today closing at almost $950 an ounce (it was closer to $300 at the beginning of the Bush presidency) Want to know why gasoline has gone from $1.15 a gallon to an average of $3? To hell with all the examples, want to know why your savings and wages are becoming more and more worthless by the day?? Look again at that figure up top. The Federal Reserve decided to create $4 Trillion new dollars in the last 2 years. That means we're more wealthy right? We had 10 trillion, now we have 14! Wrong. The pie doesn't get bigger just because you cut it into more pieces. Here's the catch- when they create more pieces (ie dollars) all that does is make the existing pieces (your money, your savings, your wages) smaller. Wow, mind blowing economics, right?? So if your portion of that pie just shrunk by 10% (ie prices going up by 10% because your dollar lost 10% of its purchasing power) where did that 10% go?? It is now part of those 4 trillion new pieces the Federal Reserve just created, and they are going to loan it out WITH INTEREST to the banks and to our government in exchange for treasury notes. The national debt right now is over 9 trillion dollars. We only owe a little over a third of that to foreigners... So who do we owe that other 5.5 trillion to? The Federal Reserve Bank. The private bank who in 1913 was given the authority by Congress to create your money. Did you know that over a third of your income tax doesn't even fund any form of government, but rather goes in one door and out the other as interest payments to the Fed? And for what? To fund needless wars and bridge the gaps on deficit spending. Every year there is a deficit, they have to either borrow or create that missing money. This year they are expecting to collect 600 billion less than what they intend to spend, and that money has to come from somewhere. Everyone is concerned with the economy. Why is it tanking? Well, it's simple- we don't offer anything to the world! Very few products are being produced here for one simple reason- we've been able to talk countries all over the world into doing all kinds of work and selling it to us in exchange for ink and paper. Totally unbacked dollar bills, which cost virtually nothing to create and have no real value other than the ink and paper it's made of. Now the world is finally starting to say they want real wealth in return. They want goods, products, precious metals, real wealth! And now we have nothing. Nixon spent all of our gold on the vietnam war, which is why he moved to completely disassociate our dollar with gold backing, because we had no gold left! We've been given a free ride for the last 30+ years, and now it is over, and the printing press isn't going to dig us out. Just sit back and watch as the Fed announces another rate cut on "new lines of credit" which isn't even credit, they're not loaning out money they have, they're creating new money. The Federal Reserve has no reserve of any kind- just a machine to create money. Read More
GENNIFER FLOWERS HAWKING CLINTON AFFAIR TAPES Poll: Texas slipping away from Clinton REPORT: PHOTO SHOWING OBAMA IN SOMALI GARB CIRCULATED BY CLINTON CAMPAIGN SOURCE Whitewater Probe Involved Hillary Democrats Equally Adept at Shifting Positions FACTBOX: Clinton and Obama's health plans Truth the Clintons Can't Handle Got Your Superdelegates Added Up? Count Again Media Sees Doom For Clinton After Latest Obama Wins Sen. Barack Obama yesterday easily won the Wisconsin primary and the Hawaii caucuses, and the media is now openly questioning Sen. Hillary Clinton's viability going forward. CNN (2/20) reports that with 99% reporting, Obama topped Clinton 58%-41% in Wisconsin. In Hawaii, with 68% reporting, Obama beat Clinton 76%-24%. The AP reports this morning that Obama "cruised past a fading" Clinton, "gaining the upper hand in a Democratic presidential race for the ages." The wins, says the AP, "left the former first lady in desperate need of a comeback in a race she long commanded as front-runner." The Baltimore Sun reports, "Since Super Tuesday, everything has gone Obama's way, and there have been few, if any, signs that Clinton can stop him." USA Today says on its front page Obama "handily defeated" her, "extending an unbroken streak of victories since Super Tuesday and propelling him toward what could be a final showdown in two weeks." The New York Times says that Clinton's "latest loss narrowed even further Mrs. Clinton's options and leaves her little, if any, room for error. Her road to victory is now a cliff walk." In a separate story, the New York Times adds the Wisconsin results force Clinton "into a must-win scenario on March 4" and "reinforces Mr. Obama's position as the front-runner." In a "News Analysis" piece for the Los Angeles Times titled, "Wisconsin: Beginning Of The End For Clinton?" Michael Finnegan writes, "Obama's win raised new doubts about the Clinton campaign's strategy of casting the Illinois senator as a candidate whose soaring rhetoric masks a lack of preparation for the presidency." NPR's Juan Williams, on Fox News, said the margin for Clinton is "very slim" and "she has to run the board, and she has to do it in execution-style. She has to win by strong margins." In an analysis, Thomas M. DeFrank writes in the New York Daily News, "For a candidate whose message and attack lines aren't resonating, Clinton must now run the table or hope for a blockbuster Obama misstep. At the moment, prospects for either seem as slim as her margin for error." Read More
Wisconsin Loss Highlights Problems For Clinton Campaign Clinton issues Obama skeletons warning How Far Are the Clintons Willing to Go? By Robert Parry, Consortium News. Hillary has shown she'll do whatever it takes to win, even if that means overriding the majority of voters and skirting campaign finance laws. Hillary Clinton, who has built her case for the presidency on her superior "ready on Day One" management skills, burned through almost $130 million of campaign money, had to kick in $5 million from her own murky family funds, and is now pressing her chief financial backers to find creative ways to raise more money. Some of those financial schemes appear to skirt the law -- as some backers consider putting money into "independent" entities that can spend unlimited sums but aren't supposed to coordinate with the campaign -- while other ideas are more traditional, like appealing to wealthy donors involved with the pro-Israel AIPAC lobby. Sen. Clinton's new scramble for money -- as well as her campaign's declaration that it is prepared to override the will of the elected Democratic delegates if necessary to secure the nomination -- raise the question of just how far Bill and Hillary Clinton are willing to go to achieve their presidential restoration. Read More
Unofficial election tally might have overstated Clinton victory Republicans root for Clinton to win Democrat nomination Clinton’s campaign in disarray as staff squabble over ‘attack adverts’ By Leonard Doyle in Washington Hillary Clinton is filling the airwaves with negative ads attacking Barack Obama as the race for the Democratic nomination enters a decisive three-week period. But her strategy of going on the offensive against a likeable candidate is causing disarray inside her campaign team. Spats between her senior staff have leaked to the press and are causing embarrassment for Mrs Clinton as she struggles to find a message that resonates with voters and blocks Mr Obama's progress in the crucial states of Ohio and Texas. Mrs Clinton badly needs to come up with a successful advertising strategy if she is to win the 4 March primaries. This week she launched her first negative ad in Wisconsin – which votes on Tuesday – saying that Mr Obama was refusing to debate with her. But as fast as it went on air, the Obama campaign fought back saying there had already been 18 debates. Mrs Clinton seems to be staking everything on a strategy of launching expensive attack ads in Texas and Ohio, where she still leads in the polls. Read More
Hillary Clinton's Past Is Not Through Haunting Her By Roger Simon One of Hillary Clinton's last lines of defense against the onslaught that is Barack Obama is the notion that she has been "vetted" and he has not. All the bad stuff that can be thrown at her already has been, she argues, and that gives her an advantage over Obama. Hillary Clinton's Past Is Not Through Haunting Her (Image: Wenn) As Clinton said this week in a televised Politico-WJLA interview: "One thing you know about me is that I have been vetted. I've been through this. I understand exactly what is coming at me, and there isn't any new information. I mean, it's just more of the same. It's been recycled over and over again. I don't think we can say that about my opponent." And, indeed, on Monday, Mark Penn, her chief strategist, released a memo saying that Clinton's having "withstood the full brunt" of the Republican attack machine is "one of the key arguments for Hillary's candidacy." I think that may be wishful thinking. First, even if one assumes all the old accusations about Clinton have been put to rest -- a dubious point -- she keeps raising new questions about herself. Take the matter of her tax returns. Obama has released his, and Clinton won't release hers, she says, until after she is the Democratic nominee. Why? She gives no reason. She says she files an ethics statement with the Senate, which is true, but so does Obama, and yet he also has released his tax returns. Clinton refuses to do so until after the Democratic convention. Read More
Clinton doesn't look like a winning candidate Obama sweep of Potomac states pierces Clinton base He rolls through Virginia, Maryland and D.C attracting a greater share of female voters WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama steamrolled through the Potomac primaries last night, adding Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia to his recent sweep of states by eating into the very heart of Senator Hillary Clinton's base of support. With eight wins over four days, and with two more - Wisconsin and Hawaii - expected to follow next Tuesday, the Illinois senator's momentum would be considered unstoppable, were his opponent anyone other than Ms. Clinton. The New York senator's campaign organization and deep ties to the Democratic Party establishment once made her victory seem inevitable. Now it is anything but. Ms. Clinton flew to Texas yesterday, where she must halt the Obama surge by winning there and in Ohio on Mini Super Tuesday, March 4. Read More
Hillary Clinton struggles to rally support Hillary Clinton Faces a Tough Question About Her Husband and His Behavior Amy Chozick reports on the presidential race from Washington, D.C. Hillary Clinton has endured decades of Republican attacks. That may not sound like a good thing, but the Clinton campaign says “oh yes it is.” A new poll suggests that Barack Obama may be the stronger Democrat to beat Republican John McCain. But don’t tell Clinton that. She argues that years of withstanding criticism from Republicans makes her the strongest candidate. “I am battle scarred and I’m proud of those scars,” Clinton told reporters today after touring a General Motors plant outside Baltimore. “I believe I can make the most convincing argument that I am the person best able to be president from day one and best able to beat Sen. McCain.” Clinton is arguing that because her past — both personal and professional — has been so thoroughly vetted by Republican opponents, she’ll be better prepared to withstand anything the GOP may throw at her in a general election. Obama, she says, hasn’t gone through that same process. And this, she says, could make him more vulnerable to a smear campaign like the Swift Boat issue that hurt Sen. John Kerry’s bid for the presidency in 2004. Read More Washington - Hillary Clinton on Monday assured American voters there would be no new scandals surrounding her husband ex-president Bill Clinton, as she hit out at rival Barack Obama's soaring rhetorical style. As she battled to get her stalling White House quest back on track, Clinton was asked whether there were any hidden business or personal scandals about her husband which Republicans could use to derail her administration. "That is not going to happen. You know, none of us can predict the future, no matter who we are and what we're running for, but I'm very confident that that will not happen," she told ABC television's local affiliate here. The question, sent by a voter to the Politico website co-sponsoring Clinton's appearance, was one of the few occasions when the turmoil that wracked the Clinton White House has been directly raised in the 2008 campaign. Read More
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RICHARD LOWRY & KATE O’BEIRNE At a town-hall meeting in Derry, N.H., in January, Mitt Romney tried to stir the crowd in the immediate aftermath of Barack Obama’s upset victory in Iowa: “We cannot afford Barack Obama as the next president!” About two people applauded. The next day, in Nashua, he mentioned Obama, but added, “I can’t wait to meet Hillary Clinton face to face.” Sustained applause. Taken together, those two very different reactions provide a reliable barometer of conservative sentiment toward the Democratic candidates. Conservatives have long experience loathing Hillary Clinton. It has become second nature. If they ever do come to feel the same way about Barack Obama — and they may not — it will take time. Hillary Clinton will long hold pride of place as an object of scorn and a source of motivation for conservatives. Read More
Clinton shakes up campaign, reeling from losses Clinton playing underdog to outwit Obama Hillary Clinton's advisers 'in a state of panic' Hillary Clinton's most senior advisers are in a state of "panic" about her presidential prospects and are plotting to enlist Democrat leaders in Congress to thwart her rival Barack Obama's ambitions. Clinton Turns Tables, Calls Obama the "Establishment" Candidate Questions over Hillary Clinton's family wealth Welcome To The Hillary Clinton Pity Party Next up for the Democrats: Civil war Clinton Ready For a Long Campaign Clinton says MSNBC anchor’s remark deeply offensive Clinton may skip debate after reporter's remark Clinton, Obama in fresh White House scrum Clinton says 'not yet' to releasing tax returns Bill Clinton says he made mistakes while campaigning for wife Why the Clintons shouldn't be president Combative and restless, Bill Clinton would have inordinate influence behind the scenes — but with no accountability. Read More When you Google the phrase "unconstitutional third term," you get references to a rogue's gallery of strongman leaders -- Vladimir Putin, Alberto Fujimori, Olusegun Obasanjo, Islam Karimov, Hugo Chavez -- who in recent years at least have flirted with the idea of holding on to power beyond statutory limits. Now the name Bill Clinton pops up, too. It may be unfair to Hillary Clinton, but the prospect of her husband's return to the White House -- albeit not as president, but as prince consort, which would not actually violate the Constitution -- has inevitably become a campaign issue, and it's beginning to work against her. Has The Clinton Campaign Collapsed? Five Reasons Clinton Should Be Worried TIME Poll: Clinton More Beatable than Obama Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama agree on most policy issues, but that makes their rare differences all the more revealing. To wit, their running scrap over Mrs. Clinton's "individual mandate" for health care, which Mr. Obama has now had the nerve to expose for its inevitable government coercion. Mrs. Clinton's proposal requires everyone to buy health insurance, along with more insurance regulation, a government insurance option for everyone and tax hikes. Mr. Obama likes all that but his mandate would only apply to children. He argues that the reason many people aren't insured is because it's too expensive, not because they don't want it. Mrs. Clinton counters that coverage can't be "universal" without a mandate. Read More Hillary Clinton’s unexpected (and inconvenient) money troubles Clinton lent $5 million to her campaign before Super Tuesday Media Downplay Widespread Support for Hillary Clinton Still Not Clear On Stance On Health Care Obama, Clinton all tied up after Super Tuesday WASHINGTON (AFP) — Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama dug in for a protracted slog for the Democratic White House nomination after battling to a brutal draw in their coast-to-coast Super Tuesday showdown. The Resignation of Hillary Clinton
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Ann Coulter Goes Nuts: Promises Hillary Clinton That She'll Campaign for Her By Jim Roberts Right wing author and blonde screamer Ann Coulter said she'd support Democrat Hillary Clinton over Republican John McCain in a potential general election match-up, if the race develops that way. In a typical Coulter "look at me" moment she even went nuts enough to promise to campaign for the former First Lady. "She's more conservative than he is," Coulter said on Fox News.
(Image: Wenn) "She lies less than John McCain. She's smarter than John McCain. "I will campaign for her if it's McCain," she said. Coulter's comments are the latest in the Republican's conservative movement's refusal to support McCain, whose campaign is gaining strength heading into next week's Super Tuesday. Read More
Clinton says income could be garnisheed if workers refuse to buy health insurance A Double Dose of Clinton Is Not What the World Needs Clintons playing plantation politics Hillary Clinton is running for President based in large part on her experience, especially her eight years as first lady. So it is revealing that she and her husband don't want the media and others to have ready access to the records that might tell us a good deal more about that 1990s "experience." We're referring to the controversy over records at the William J. Clinton Presidential Library, which opened in 2004. At the time, Mrs. Clinton promised that "everything's going to be available." More than three years later, the library that is partly funded by taxpayers has released less than 1% of its records, and the withheld documents include two million pages covering Mrs. Clinton's White House tenure. As usual with the Clintons, they've managed to make the controversy seem so complicated that everyone has lost interest Read More Archives Challenges Clinton Papers Case LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The National Archives wants a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit seeking quick access to records about a health care task force Hillary Rodham Clinton headed as first lady, or delay the release for about a year.
Les Payne: Clinton plays the race-gender card With Sen. John Edwards no longer splitting the vote, the Democratic primary is staging a historic showdown in 22 states, pitting a black man against a white woman, with each candidate serving as the other's key asset for victory. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, let's be honest, has gender mojo working for her. Women constitute the commanding majority in every state that votes on Super Tuesday. As the lone man left standing, Sen. Barack Obama is blessed, however, that the woman he's running against happens to be Clinton. White menfolk tend to hate her. Instead of obsessing over black and Hispanic votes, minuscule by comparison to whites nationally, the media should concentrate on the underlying rationale for Caucasian voting patterns. Clinton and her former president-husband will not allow it to escape voters' active consciousness that Obama is indeed - wink, wink - black. Read More HILLARY RESPONDS ON KAZAKH ISSUE Bill Clinton Campaigns... Against Ted Kennedy Obama's Mailer is Like Nazis in Skokie? Shuster column: Critics, take a look at facts about Clinton Bill Clinton: Rogue Co-President in Waiting LATEST SCANDAL! After Mining Deal, Financier Donated to Clinton By JO BECKER and DON VAN NATTA Jr. Unlike more established competitors, Mr. Giustra was a newcomer to uranium mining in Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic. But what his fledgling company lacked in experience, it made up for in connections. Accompanying Mr. Giustra on his luxuriously appointed MD-87 jet that day was a former president of the United States, Bill Clinton. Read More Bill Clinton back at centre of ethics debate Archives Challenges Clinton Papers Case Washington Prowler The Fall of the House of Clinton Ann Coulter Endorses Hillary over McCain Obama and Clinton, liberal and growing more so Hillary Remained Silent as Wal-Mart Fought Unions Clinton and Obama Work Against Christians Hillary Clinton's Ruthless Campaign In Hillary Clinton's hometown, no sure victory By Michael Conlon PARK RIDGE, Illinois (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton is about to face voters for the first time in the town where she grew up, but the winter air in this Chicago suburb is hardly crackling with excitement. "She's been gone a long time," remarked one businessman a week before Tuesday's Illinois presidential primary. Gone more than 40 years, unlike top rival Barack Obama, Hawaii-born but sent to the U.S. Senate by Illinois voters less than four years ago. Read More
Obama: Clinton Represents Step Toward Past (AP) Democratic Sen. Barack Obama said Wednesday a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidency would be a step back to the past, turning her husband's image of a bridge to the future against her. The former first lady decried the tenor of his comments in an interview with The Associated Press. "I know it is tempting - after another presidency by a man named George Bush - to simply turn back the clock, and to build a bridge back to the 20th century," the Illinois senator said in Denver. "... It's not enough to say you'll be ready from Day One - you have to be right from Day One," he added in unmistakable criticisms of Clinton, who often claims she's better prepared to govern, and her husband, who pledged during his own presidency to build a bridge to the 21st century. Read More Suicide Liberals: How The Far Left Keeps Killing The Democratic Party Hillary Clinton: The New Nixon? Sleaze factor turns Clinton support on its head JONATHAN CHAIT, The Los Angeles Times Voters Might Want More Than Clinton II Offers Clintons could be their own worst enemies Clinton booed at Obama rally; Obama compared to JFK Clinton blow as Kennedy clan gives blessing to Obama Dems want Hillary to put a leash on "Big Dog" Bill Some Leading Liberals Turn Against the Clintons Analysis: Bill Clinton's Lost Legacy This analysis was written by CBSNews.com senior political editor Vaughn Ververs. The man crowned as America's first black president for his unprecedented personal connection to the African-American community has abdicated the throne. By injecting himself into the Democratic primary campaign with a series of inflammatory and negative statements, Bill Clinton may have helped his wife's presidential hopes in the long term but at the cost of his reputation with a group of voters that have long been one of his strongest bases of political support. Illinois Senator Barack Obama won an overwhelming victory in South Carolina with the support of African American voters who made up 53 percent of the vote, according to CBS News exit polls. Eighty percent of those voters chose Obama. The rout came after weeks of racial polarization, much of it involving the former president, who thrust himself into the fray in a manner more reminiscent of backwoods Arkansas politicking than conduct befitting a former commander in chief. Read More Race card stings Hillary, who limps into Super Tuesday Bill Clinton should bake cookies Bill Clinton Says Hillary and McCain Are Close Friends The Clinton Insult to All Americans Obama: Hillary Could Lose Elections Due To Lies
KERRY: BILL CLINTON IS ABUSING THE TRUTH Sen. John Kerry defended Barack Obama in a radio interview Friday, saying Bill Clinton has been abusing the truth in his bid to trumpet his wife’s candidacy. The Massachusetts senator and 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, who has endorsed Obama, was asked about the campaign-trail bickering between Hillary Clinton and her husband and Obama on National Journal radio. “I think you had an abuse of the truth, is what happened,” Kerry said. “I mean, being an ex-president does not give you license to abuse the truth, and I think that over the last days it’s been over the top. Things have been said about Barack Obama’s positions that are just plain untrue. Read More
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Hillaryland Is Hell, Staffers Say Bill Clinton Contradicts Hillary on Running "The Bureaucracy" Obama Slams Clinton's War Vote Hillary Clinton's Campaign: The Making of a Machine Bill Clinton Clashes With Media Over Race Niall Stanage- The comment came in an exchange with Hillary Clinton but it referred to attacks launched by her husband. The offensive against Obama has hummed with such intensity that even Dan Balz of the Washington Post - one of the least hyperbolic of campaign trail reporters - was moved to remark on the "methodically aggressive campaign" run by Team Clinton since the former First Lady came third in the January 3 Iowa caucus. Hillary Clinton pointed out during the CNN debate that her rivals' spouses have also made their presence felt this election season: "Michelle [Obama] and Elizabeth [Edwards] are strong and staunch advocates for their husbands, and I respect that," she said. Read More
Is the 2008 Election Rigged for Hillary Clinton? How Hillary Clinton Betrayed the Children's Defense Fund for Political Gain 5 yr-old Girl Stifles Bill Clinton Liberal Radio Host Calls Bill Clinton a Liar and an Embarrassment By Noel Sheppard Unless you've been out of the country without access to a television or a newspaper the past couple of weeks, you are infinitely aware that the media have surprisingly been coming down strongly on some of former President Bill Clinton's recent antics on the campaign trail. A shocking line in the sand was crossed on Wednesday's "Hardball" when liberal talk radio host Ed Schultz actually called Bill Clinton a liar, and Chris Matthews seemed to agree. Matthews began Wednesday's program: Big fish -- Bill Clinton is campaigning for his wife today in South Carolina, playing the role of big fish, beating up her opponent, Barack Obama, at every stop. Is Bill Clinton helping Hillary or hurting her? Is he being effective or is he dividing the Democrats? Or is he doing both, helping Hillary and dividing the Democrats?... Let me go to Ed Schultz. Is Bill Clinton a plus or a minus for the Democrats? Let`s start with is he a plus or a minus for Hillary? Read More
Bill Clinton's Campaigning for Wife May Boomerang Personal and political divisions add up for Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama The Bill Clinton Factor: Boon or Liability? As Former President Takes on Bigger role in Campaign, Some Wonder if He Can Be Contained As an enormous asset to Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign, former President Clinton is skilled and popular, but his recent outbursts have raised questions about how far is too far. It has led some observers to believe that has become more of a liability. His recent comments have angered the black community, a point that was made very clear by Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin. "Yes, this is reality, not fantasy or fairy tales," Franklin said, just a few feet away from Clinton, while discussing the likelihood of a black man becoming president. It was a direct attack to a comment Clinton had made earlier: "This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen," he said. Clinton has criticized the record of the black candidate running for president, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., calling into question whether Obama has flip-flopped on his position on the Iraq War. Read More Hillary Clinton's Biggest Obstacle: Sexism Or That Vague 'Likability' Factor? NBC's Chris Matthews Wimps Out By Apologizing To Hillary Clinton
Bill Clinton wrapping up business to help wife's campaign: report NEW YORK (AFP) — Former US president Bill Clinton is bowing out of a billionaire friend's investment firm to shield his wife's presidential campaign from potential conflicts of interest, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Primary colour is red as Obama and Clinton lunge for the jugular Hillary On The Debate: Obama Is "Very Frustrated" Bill Clinton sleeps through King tribute EXTRA: Obama wants to see 'black' Bill Clinton dance Obama blasts ex-president Bill Clinton ahead of debate COLUMBIA, United States (AFP) — Barack Obama lashed out at rival Hillary Clinton's husband Bill Monday, calling the former president's role in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination "pretty troubling." Hillary: Why get into issues when you can cry instead? On the campaign trail in New Hampshire, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., became teary-eyed when asked how she copes with the stress of running for president. Predictably, in the run-up to the Granite State's primary and after her victory there, the tracks of her tears were the subject of many headlines and TV news segments. Commenting on the tears and the talk, Clinton -- lawyer, first lady, senator and international superstar -- said: "Maybe I have liberated us to actually let women be human beings in public life." Read More
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Obama delivers blistering attack on Clinton RENO, Nev. -- In one of his fiercest attacks yet on his leading challenger, Barack Obama today accused Hillary Clinton of stealing his ideas, frequently being wrong on policy decisions and lacking honesty with voters. Read More Clinton losing support among blacks, poll says Clinton criticizes Obama's praise of Reagan Hillary Clinton speaks of her pain and shame at the Monica Lewinsky scandal Michelle Obama launches attack on Clinton Clinton has spent her life redefining herself By Erin McClam | Associated Press Years later, a group of her old Park Ridge teachers and classmates got together with her to reminisce, with a historian to moderate. During the round of introductions, Clinton's second-grade teacher turned to her and deadpanned: "And who are you?" "Oh yes," said the first lady of the United States. "This is the question we're all trying to answer." Clinton has charted a decade and a half now on the national stage. And yet she remains somehow paradoxical, impenetrable, unknowable. Read More
Campaigning for His Wife, Shadowed by Past Battles By Peter Baker The question was about a campaign polling memo in 2008, but somehow the answer drifted back to the political wars of 1998. Bill Clinton was holding forth to a group of college students in New Hampshire too young to remember much about the investigations and battles of his presidency. But Clinton remembered. Read More
Chris Matthews Backs Off 'Nasty' Remark on Clinton Clinton knocks Obama plan she'd consider Martin Luther King III slams Clinton
Clinton tactics reflect struggling campaign Washington — Hillary Clinton’s campaign, useful at last, has in recent days added to the nation’s stock of harmless merriment. It has done so by floundering around, like a dinosaur drowning in a tar pit, with the sticky problem of being as “sensitive” as good liberals, our multicultural role models, are supposed to be. For decades, liberals, believing that “self-esteem” is a universal entitlement that is endangered by nearly universal insensitivity, have strived to make everybody exquisitely sensitive to slights. Liberals have become industrialists as an indignation industry has burgeoned. It writes campus speech codes, infests corporations with “sensitivity training” workshops and “consciousness-raising” retreats, and generally enforces the new right to pass through this vale of tears without tears or even being peeved. Read More
Bill Clinton Bashes Unions; Calls Obama the “Establishment" Hillary Clinton: Barack Obama no leader Feud's so vicious because Obama, Clinton are so alike
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The Nation -- It's fascinating to see Hillary Clinton attack Barack Obama for things that she herself voted for, like funding for the war in Iraq. Clinton Drifts Away From Center Hillary Clinton promised solidarity with the labor movement at a rally Monday in New York City, in an appearance that highlighted the perils that ostensibly centrist candidates face in vying for the support of unions. Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards are all in a battle to win union endorsements, and the Service Employees International Union is one of the most important of the unions. It left the ailing AFL-CIO in 2004, and unlike many unions (and the union movement in general), it is growing. The SEIU is diverse (today's rally audience appeared to be at least 90% black), and it counts among its membership many of the hospitality employees who will wield influence in the upcoming Nevada caucus. Although Nevada's local SEIU organization has endorsed Obama, Clinton could still benefit from labor credentials in that contest. Read More
Drugs, race raised in Clinton-Obama fight COLUMBIA, South Carolina (CNN) -- Black Entertainment Television founder Bob Johnson has waded into the Democratic presidential race on behalf of Sen. Hillary Clinton, leveling what appeared to be a criticism of Sen. Barack Obama's admitted past drug use. By WILLIAM KRISTOL Now in fact, Obama has been pretty consistent in his opposition to the war. But Bill Clinton is right in this respect: Obama’s view of the current situation in Iraq is out of touch with reality. In this, however, Obama is at one with Hillary Clinton and the entire leadership of the Democratic Party. Read More
Hillary Takes Credit For Surge She Opposed Drunken Driving Charge for Clinton Aide Clinton, Obama Lead Top Republicans in 2008 Race, Poll Finds Kucinich: Surprise Hillary Victory A "Mystery That Needs To Be Solved" Did Hillary Clinton Steal the NH Vote? Hillary Clinton wins with manly tears The thing about most crying is that it is usually born of self-pity. Some people are empathetic enough to weep on others’ behalf - starving people in Darfur, say, or (more commonly in Britain) broken old donkeys that people have been mean to. Some people cry because their heart is broken, which seems fair enough. But the majority of tears are shed selfishly: they’re shed because you think, a terrible thing has happened to me and it is making me very sad, whether the terrible thing is bad news, or someone’s death, or being passed over for promotion. We don’t cry because someone has died: we cry because we’ll miss them and it’s going to be very miserable for us. We know this, which is why we view crying with suspicion: the person weeping is, more often than not, unable to control self-pity, and is putting it on display in quite a demanding way (because it forces us to react, whether we feel like it or not). You feel sorry for them, but it can also be slightly repulsive if the occasion doesn’t warrant a torrent of tears – if someone is hysterical, for instance, because X hasn’t phoned. Read More New Hampshire Duped by the Clintons Clinton Win Leads To Dynasty Talk Women trivialize politics by rushing to Clinton in the tracks of her tears Clinton campaign finally learns to keep Bill backstage Clinton's words are hard to understand through the sour grapes Clinton slams Obama on racial issue
Feminism Stabs itself in the Back I find it positively terrifying to witness the damage women are doing to the cause of feminism. If Hillary Clinton were to be elected president, it would set the tone for decades to come that women can only do it if they have marriage to lean on. If Hillary really cared about the plight of women, she would have found a woman who achieved greatness independent of her marriage and backed her for president. Did Condi Rice become the first female national security adviser, or Madeline Albright the first female secretary of state, or Sandra O'Connor the first female supreme court justice, because their husband did the job first and let them watch? Read More
Anti-Hillary Movie Smacks of Campaign Ad, Judges Say A panel of federal judges heard arguments today over whether the Federal Election Commission can regulate promotional ads calling Sen. Hillary Clinton a “European Socialist” for a movie that sets fire to her record as First Lady and a New York senator. The judges appeared to agree that the 90-minute movie, produced by the conservative group Citizens United, was thinly veiled campaign advertisement, not an issue-oriented documentary, as attorney James Bopp argued. Read More
John Kerry's endorsement of Barack Obama can be traced to a "botched joke" he made just before the 2006 US mid-term elections that was strongly condemned by Hillary Clinton, writes Edward Luce. In a line that infuriated fellow Democrats, Mr Kerry said: "You know, if you make the most of education . . . you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." Although it backfired, the joke had no impact on the outcome of the elections five days later, which the Democratic Party won. But Mr Kerry's decision to abandon his own 2008 presidential hopes a few weeks later is thought to have stemmed from the derision it provoked. He has not forgotten Mrs Clinton's condemnation, say Democratic Party officials Read More Woman who made Hillary Clinton tearful ended up voting for Obama The freelance photographer whose 'girlie question' helped Hillary Clinton win the New Hampshire presidential primary has admitted that she ended up voting for Barack Obama. Marianne Pernold Young, 64, was one of a group of 15 undecided female voters invited to a Portsmouth coffee shop on Monday for an 'intimate' chat with Hillary Clinton - with a posse of reporters and television crews in attendance. Read More Primary Win Gives Clinton a Cash Infusion By CHRISTOPHER COOPER - WSJ.Com The New York senator, who topped rival Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois in New Hampshire's primary contest Tuesday, made sure to reel off the address to her campaign Web site during her victory speech. The result, according to senior adviser Terry McAuliffe: a fund-raising boost of $1.1 million in cash and $5 million in commitments over the next 12 hours or so, and Web site hits from about 500 potential donors an hour over the same period. The cash infusion couldn't have come at a better time for Mrs. Clinton. She had whittled her $100 million money pot down to about $27 million last week, and fund-raising after her loss in Iowa on Jan. 3 but before her New Hampshire victory had fallen to $1.7 million -- below that of Democratic long-shot John Edwards. Read More Can Hillary Cry Her Way Back to the White House? By Maureen Dowd Hillary Clinton struggles to reinvent herself Hillary Clinton, facing another defeat, was greeted with chants of "status quo has got to go" at a polling station as she struggled to reinvent herself as an underdog fighting the male Establishment. Sarah Sands: To win, Hillary Clinton needs to kill Bill Obama was the 'change' candidate in Iowa, and won. As the 'experience' candidate, the former First Lady needs to distance herself from the very thing that has helped create her. Strategists for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign have come to dread the rustle of conversation among the back rows of audiences during the final lap of her speeches. I feared that her husband, standing behind her as she took to the podium in Iowa, might be stifling a yawn as he thrust out his jaw. Hillary's voice has been so decontaminated of tell-tale feeling that it flatlines. Read More Clinton's last stand on road to oblivion HILLARY CLINTON is now fighting to save her presidential tilt after new polls showed she trails her rival for the Democratic nomination, Barack Obama, by as much as 13 percentage points on the eve of polling in the crucial early state of New Hampshire. Her strategy of blasting all rivals for the nomination out of contention in the early primary races is in tatters, and as soon as today's New Hampshire election is over she will need to focus on California and New York, where before Christmas she enjoyed solid leads, to avoid being overtaken by the wave of support that Senator Obama seems to be gathering. Read More Bill Clinton says president perks too good to forget FREE housing, an airplane so amazing movies are made about it and no travel time to the most famous office in the world. Clinton to Matthews: "I Don't Know What To Do With Men Who Are Obsessed With Me During a press availability on the campaign trail in New Hampshire this weekend, MSNBC's Chris Matthews was pressing Sen. Hillary Clinton about how her plan to bring U.S troops home from Iraq differs from her competitors. Then it got weird(er): Matthews: "please come on the show." Clinton: "yeah, right." Matthews: "is that an answer?" Clinton: "you know, I don't know what to do with men who are obsessed with me. Honestly, I've never understood it." Read More
Clinton snarls back to question Obama's accomplishments NASHUA, N.H. - Hillary Clinton likes to say that, during 30 years as a public figure, she has learned to take a political punch. On Sunday, the New York senator showed she can also throw one. Obama shoots ahead of Hillary in opinion polls Washington: Iowa victor Barack Obama has shot far ahead of Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination, according to new polls before Tuesday's New Hampshire primary.
BEST EVENT of the week bar none: Hillary Clinton's loss to Barack Obama in the Iowa primary. One of the great mysteries of the 21st century politics is why she and her awful husband are revered amongst progressive opinion-formers in the US and beyond. Speak to normally sane Labour types in the UK or leftish academics in America and they say the same thing: Bill Clinton is the "best politician of his generation". Such hyperbole can't be based on his record as president, which was marked by few achievements and a great many failures. Read More
Iowa Voters Repudiated Clinton 'Dynasty' The vaunted Clinton machine is sure to rev up its operations to salvage Hillary Clinton’s political future -- and the Bush Family’s Republican Establishment likely will settle on an acceptable GOP representative to protect the status quo, possibly John McCain. But the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 3 dealt a stunning blow to the Bush-Clinton duopoly, with Sen. Barack Obama thrashing Sen. Clinton on the Democratic side and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee trouncing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who had the backing of some elements of the Bush Family. Though the presidential selection process has a long way to go, the inevitability of another election between representatives of the Democratic/Republican establishments was thrown into severe doubt by the victories of Obama and Huckabee. Read More History repeating itself: Clinton, the favourite, in a crisis It was a late afternoon in February 1992, at a shopping mall in New Hampshire, a day or two before the state's vital primary, and Bill Clinton was desperately trying to rescue a candidacy that seemed doomed by scandal. In the atrium, Hillary Clinton was sitting at a table. A few yards away, her husband was inside a McDonald's, going from person to person in the restaurant, pleading for their votes and promising to stay in the contest "until the last dog dies". Now, 16 years on, the roles are reversed. This time she, not he, is seeking the White House – and she, not he, is the former front-runner who is suddenly facing a crisis. Back in 1992, by dint of campaigning literally around the clock, Bill Clinton salvaged a second-place finish that allowed him to stay in the race, and ultimately prevail. The central question of US politics in this early January of 2008 is, can Hillary do the same? Read More Clinton Camp's Challenge: How Hard to Hit Obama? MANCHESTER, N.H. -- With little time to recover from Iowa's presidential caucuses before Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, a bruised Hillary Clinton faces her nightmare scenario: Barack Obama could unite anti-Clinton Democrats to seal the party's nomination in coming weeks. Seven in 10 Iowa Democrats in Thursday night's caucuses supported someone other than New York's Sen. Clinton. Among those who showed up supporting the second-tier candidates, very few listed her as their second choice. In the end, she finished third, losing not just to Sen. Obama but, by a sliver, to John Edwards, the former North Carolina senator who had made the state the linchpin of his populist candidacy. Read More You've Unequivocally Lost the Youth Vote, Hillary Less than 24 hours after Barack Obama's middle-America drubbing of John Edwards and Hillary Clinton, everyone's finally able to talk with some modicum of finality and assuredness about that elusive youth vote we've heard so much about. The general consensus in the weeks leading up to Iowa was on an absolute necessity for Obama to galvanize the youth vote and get new voters - particularly students - to caucus. The real question in everyone's mind was whether the kids in the "Hope" T-shirts would actually show up and sit around for two hours in support of the senator. Read More Clinton aides hint now things'll get nasty Clinton aides hint now things'll get nasty At her concession speech in Des Moines Thursday night Hillary Clinton was all gracious and determined and smiling. But hours later on that flight someone named Mark Penn, who happens to be her chief political strategist, ominously told a gaggle of reporters, including The Times' Peter Nicholas, that the campaign's focus needs to shift now onto, you might have guessed, someone named Barack Obama. Read More
The Last Days of the Clinton Dynasty DES MOINES -- During one of the 1996 presidential debates, Bill Clinton delivered a skillful rejoinder to Bob Dole when the Republican candidate accused him of running "a very liberal administration." "It's sort of their golden oldie, you know," Clinton said. "It's a record they think they can play that everybody loves to hear. And I just don't think that dog will hunt this time." Clinton could have just as well been speaking about his wife's presidential campaign. With few tangible accomplishments of her own, Hillary Clinton launched her White House bid almost a year ago based largely on her husband's record, and on the promise of a return to the 1990s. Read More Opening triumph for Obama a setback for Hillary AMERICA has taken a historic step towards electing its first black president, after Democrat senator Barack Obama seized victory in the opening presidential nominating race of the 2008 US elections in Iowa. Promising a new style of politics that would unite the nation, end the Iraq war and restore America's reputation, Senator Obama convinced young people, first-time voters and independents to attend the Democratic caucuses and vote resoundingly for him.Read More
Divisive Hillary Clinton finds it hard to be second best Susie McCauley will brave a Midwest freeze today, so cold that it stings the skin, and head to the Democratic caucuses knowing who she wants to be the next president. Before the night is out, however, she will probably face disappointment and a dilemma. Her candidate is Bill Richardson, whose vote in many precincts tonight is expected to fall short of the 15 per cent threshold. Under caucus rules, his supporters are then encouraged to “realign” behind more popular contenders. So who is her second choice? “Definitely not Hillary Clinton,” Mrs McCauley, 59, says. “She can’t bring the country together – it’s just because of who she is.” Read More By Karen Breslau Democratic Presidential contender plans a “campaign-wide house cleaning” if she loses the opening primary season races in Iowa and New Hampshire,” sources within here beleaguered organization tell Capitol Hill Blue. “Heads will roll,” says one campaign operative. “The word is out.” Read More Rocky, Nader call on Demos to stop Clinton
Hillary says she risked life on White House trips Glenn Thrush - Newsday 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. Read More
Chelsea Clinton Guards Her Words Chelsea Clinton Guards Her Words While on the Campaign Trail It's one thing for Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign to turn down interview requests for the candidate's daughter, Chelsea. But can't a 9-year-old reporter catch a break? Sydney Rieckhoff, a Cedar Rapids fourth grader and "kid reporter" for Scholastic News, has posed questions to seven Republican and Democratic presidential hopefuls as they've campaigned across Iowa this year. But when she approached the 27-year-old Chelsea after a campaign event Sunday, she got a different response. "Do you think your dad would be a good 'first man' in the White House?" Sydney asked, but Chelsea brushed her question aside. Read More
Military Might Have Been Behind Bhutto's Death - Hillary Paul Icamina - AHN News Writer "There are those saying that al-Qaida did it. Others are saying it looked like it was an inside job - remember Rawalpindi is a garrison city," she said during a question-and-answer session at an elementary school in Clinton, Iowa, according to Newsday reports. Read More Warning of Threats, Clinton Sells Clinton Ex-President Emphasizes Wife's Experience NASHUA, N.H. -- Former president Bill Clinton yesterday delivered in stark terms a version of his wife's central campaign message: that her experience in Washington better prepares her to "deal with the unexpected." Addressing more than 100 supporters at a VFW hall here Saturday, Clinton used the strongest language he has so far in the campaign to describe the threats facing the nation, making an oblique reference to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and saying that the "most important thing of all" in selecting a nominee is the question of who could best manage unforeseen catastrophes. Read More
Hillary Clinton faults President Bush's policy in Bhutto's death, calls for probe NewYorkDailyNews - STORY CITY, Iowa - Hillary Clinton blamed years of President Bush's failings for instability in Pakistan Friday, and demanded he seek an international probe of Benazir Bhutto's assassination. |
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