Bill Clinton
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Down the pub with the Labour leadership contenders Labour Uncut
labour-uncut.co.uk via @LabourUncut &bull YesterdayOn Monday the Mirror's James Lyons had a brilliant interview with the leadership candidates. If you haven't read it, you should. It's here. If you are a Labour member, please, please read it before you vote. We inferred from the attempts at ridiculous clever answers to almost every question that this was a set of questions emailed to the candidates rather than done on the spot. We asked, and it was a mix. See the… Full Story »
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Vacation cont'd
Washington Post-Ezra Klein &bull Yesterday
It's true that American[s] have fewer paid vacations and paid holidays," writes Reihan Salam. "But the top 80 to 90 percent of U.S. households have more disposable income than their counterparts in the vast majority of OECD [Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development]… Full Story »
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Best of the Web Today: James Lee's Awakening
Wall Street-Opinion &bull Yesterday
Best of the tube tonight: We'll be on "Hannity" as part of the "Great American Panel. Tune in at 9 p.m. ET on Fox News Channel, with a repeat showing at midnight ET. It is wrong, we hear, to regard the proposed [Ground Zero] mosque or community center as an ordinary exercise of free enterprise and freedom of religion by the private owners of a piece of property. It is, rather, a thumb in the eye or a slap in the face of the 9/11 victims and their families, a potential clearinghouse for international terrorist activities, a "victory mosque" memorializing… Full Story »
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Sarah Palin: The Sound and the Fury
is.gd via @tlw3 &bull YesterdayEven as Sarah Palin's public voice grows louder, she has become increasingly secretive, walling herself off from old friends and associates, and attempting to enforce silence from those around her. Following the former Alaska governor's road show, the author delves into the surreal new world Palin now inhabits-a place of fear, anger, and illusion, which has swallowed up the engaging, small-town hockey mom and her family-and the sadness she has left in her wake.Related: "Sarah Palin's Shopping Spree: Yes, There's More...," by Michael Joseph Gross. PALIN'S PALADINS Erratic behavior and a pattern of lying matter little: "Such falsehoods never damage… Full Story »
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Hope grows, realism prevails in talks
CNN - Politics &bull Yesterday
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is hosting direct talks Thursday between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. I am hopeful -- cautiously hopeful, but hopeful -- that we can achieve the goal that all four of these leaders articulated," Obama said before the dinner. Direct talks between Israel and the Palestinians broke down in December 2008, shortly before Israel launched an offensive against Hamas in Gaza. Israel said it was responding to shelling from Hamas militants in Gaza. The offensive killed between 1,100 and 1,400 Palestinians, according to various… Full Story »
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Spoiling to shut down government
Arkansas Blog &bull Yesterday
Right-wingers are salivating that congressional takeovers will allow Republicans to shut down governmen t if Democrats stand in the way of repeal of health care reform . That didn't work so well when Bill Clinton was president. Times, and the… Full Story »
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Three for the Senate
Politico Top 10 Blogs &bull Yesterday
Control of the U.S. Senate increasingly appears to hang on the fate of an unlikely trio of Democratic incumbents who were elected along with Bill Clinton in 1992, hail from liberal-leaning states and have lived mostly charmed political lives. At… Full Story »
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Kim Jong-Il's Surprise Return to China
The Weekly Standard &bull Yesterday
The question everyone here is asking is why-having been to China just this past May-the reclusive Great Leader and dictator of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Kim Jong-Il, would return last week. More than four years had elapsed between his 2006 trip to China and his "unofficial" visit this past spring. So why was he back again after only three months? Kim is often looked upon by… Full Story »
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Bill Clinton Heading Out On Campaign Trail For Democratic Candidates
The American Prospect Election Central &bull Yesterday
Fire up the Bubba-is-more-popular-than-Obama meme machine! Former President Bill Clinton has announced three political events for southern candidates, and a spokesman hints there are more to come. Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) was the first on Wednesday to announce Clinton would… Full Story »
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Beebe: Things looking up
Arkansas Blog &bull Yesterday
Sen. Blanche Lincoln's campaign says former President Bill Clinton will come to Little Rock Sept. Josh Fox, director of the documentary film Gasland, which was shown at the Clinton School not long ago and caused some considerable hubbub, is one… Full Story »
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That's Loyalty
The Corner &bull Yesterday
Blanche Lincoln isn't likely to win her reelection fight 60 days from now. But Bill Clinton is campaigning for her anyway. Kathryn Jean Lopez Full Story »
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Peacemakers say the dumbest things
New York Post - Capitol Punishment &bull Yesterday
It goes without saying that when politicians get together for the purposes of doing "great things," their rhetoric gets mushy, with banalities and cliches flowing like water. When the great thing in question is making peace, however, you can wonder… Full Story »
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POLITICAL INSIDER: Bill Clinton comes to aid of endangered Democrat Lincoln in Arkansas
Star Tribune Politics &bull YesterdayClinton, who served as Arkansas governor, will headline an event celebrating Lincoln's one-year anniversary as chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. Lincoln's campaign announced Wednesday that Clinton will join her in Little Rock on Sept. 8. Lincoln is seeking a… Full Story »
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Book Review: 'A Journey: My Political Life'
LA Times-National Politics &bull Yesterday
Former British prime minister Tony Blair's memoirs. Former British prime minister Tony Blair's memoir "A Journey: My Political Life" is a political biography of unusual interest. As a book, it's unusual because he wrote it himself, which makes this volume unique among the English-speaking world's recent political autobiographies. It also gives "A Journey" a disarming frankness that a professional collaborator almost certainly would have manicured away, along with anecdotes that are unintentionally self-revealing. There are also the extraordinary circumstances surrounding its publication. Blair reportedly received an estimated $7.5-million advance for his memoirs, but advance interest appeared slight. Then came the… Full Story »
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Foe slams Perkins on charters
New York Post &bull Yesterday
The upstart challenger running against state Sen. Bill Perkins last night blasted the Harlem Democrat during a televised debate for his opposition to charter schools, calling him a "polarizing figure" whose knee-jerk support of public schools over charters left the… Full Story »
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McWherter in line, students please Conte, a Corker video
Examiner Politics Channel Articles &bull Yesterday
Former President Bill Clinton is in obvious campaign mode now that his daughter Chelsea is hitched, and Democratic gubernatorial nominee Mike McWherter is just one of the folks Clinton will help. Clinton's visit to Nashville Sept. 9 to support McWherter will come one day after he campaigns in Arkansas for Sen. Blanche Lincoln in Little Rock. Clinton will also be supporting Arkansas congressional candidate Chad Causey, who is running for… Full Story »
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Facebook page leads search for loved ones in Haiti
Bismarck Tribune &bull Yesterday
The desperate quest to find loved ones started just minutes after the quake, as cell phones rang unanswered from beneath the rubble of Haiti's best hotel. A few hours later, the search went online with a Facebook page dedicated to the Hotel Montana, created by three siblings in Long Island looking for their missing uncle. Strangers immediately began to post the names and photographs of their relatives. By the next morning, the site had received more than 50 messages from frantic families. As the days passed and the death toll climbed, the number of members on the page grew until… Full Story »
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My Iraq mistake
Washington Post-Op-Eds &bull Yesterday
Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. Finally, we will… Full Story »
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Barbour accentuates his roots
Politico Top Stories &bull Yesterday
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, who has insisted that he won't consider a White House bid until after November's elections, offered the first sketch of how he'd respond to questions about his lobbying past and Deep South roots in a in a little-noticed interview last month. If I run for president, what you… Full Story »
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Afternoon Fix: RGA up with new ads in Hawaii; Bill Clinton to Arkansas for Lincoln
Washington Post-Chris Cillizza Blog &bull Yesterday
Daily Fix Poll: Could Sarah Palin win Iowa?Mitch Daniels Inner CircleCan Social Security save Democrats this fall?Lisa Murkowski loses, do Democrats sense opportunity? Connecticut Attorney General Dick Blumenthal (D) is up with a new TV ad in his Senate race… Full Story »
