Yes, yes, I realize that the DNC is on and Bill Clinton is a good speaker, but I’ve been live-tweeting and blogging and otherwise covering it, and I’m afraid another important bit of news is going to get lost. Which is that Naomi Wolf, who continues to be called a…
Even many Republican had to admit on Wednesday that former President Bill Clinton knocked it out the park with his rousing endorsement of Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention, but conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer clearly wasn’t feeling the love. “I think it was a giant swing and a miss,”…
WASHINGTON — Bill Clinton is to sprinkle political stardust on President Barack Obama’s re-election bid by giving the nominating address at the Democratic Party convention, the campaign said Monday. The 65-year-old former president, a hugely popular figure more than 11 years after leaving office, will outline the economic arguments for…
How Bill Clinton's prime-time convention speech could hurt Obama (via The Christian Science Monitor) Let’s first get something straight: Bill Clinton’s prime-time speech at the Democratic convention the night before President Obama’s isn’t going to decide the election. Yes, the charismatic former president remains extremely popular – 66 percent…
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was taunted by chants of “Monica, Monica” by tomato-throwing demonstrators as she visited the Egyptian port city of Alexandria on Sunday. The chants, referring to the Monica Lewinsky scandal when her husband, Bill Clinton, was president, were heard outside the US…
A controversial author, who once insinuated that Hillary Clinton was a lesbian, on Tuesday said that the current secretary of state wasn’t fit for another White House run because she was “looking overweight.” “At this very moment that we’re speaking right now, Brian, [the Clintons] are already thinking seriously about…
When former President Bill Clinton told told CNN on Thursday that presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney “had a sterling business career,” his words were quickly taken as undermining the Obama campaign’s attacks on Romney’s “job-killing” record at Bain Capital. On Friday, however, Clinton used an appearance at a rally…
Bill Clinton will travel to Wisconsin on Friday to campaign in the state’s recall election amid accusations from local activists that the Obama administration has failed to get behind their bid to oust Republican governor Scott Walker. The Democratic National Committee announced the former president’s trip on Thursday in the hope that a…