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Bill Clinton calls for Supreme Court to overturn same sex marriage ban he signed
Former President Bill Clinton has called for an end to the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the federal law that called for marriage to be defined as between a man and a woman. In an Op-Ed piece in Thursday’s Washington Post, the 42nd president of the U.S. called on…
Watch live: Bill Clinton delivers eulogy at NYC Mayor Koch’s funeral
Former President Bill Clinton and current New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg remember Ed Koch at a funeral service at Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan. Watch live, broadcast on Feb. 4. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…
Bill Clinton: Gun control opposition ‘is nuts’
Former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday said those who opposed gun control measures like banning the sale of high-capacity magazines were crazy. “I grew up in the hunting culture, but this is nuts,” he said during a speech at the Consumer Electronics Show. “Why does anybody need a 30 round…
Clinton slams Romney: Jeep ad the ‘biggest load of bull in the world’
Former President Bill Clinton on Monday blasted Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney over a misleading advertisement his campaign recently released. “Now it turns out that Jeep is reopening in China because they made so much money here they can afford to do it and they are going on with their…
Clinton: Republican voter suppression targeting African-American churches
Former President Bill Clinton is warning that President Barack Obama’s edge in the polls may not be enough to defeat GOP hopeful Mitt Romney because the Republican Party was using voter suppression techniques to target traditionally Democratic voters like African-American church members and the elderly. “How much will the vote…
Bill Clinton tells Jon Stewart: Romney driven by ideology instead of evidence (full interview)
On his show Thursday night, Daily Show host Jon Stewart interviewed former President Bill Clinton, praising him for using actual facts in his speech at the Democratic National Convention. Clinton explained that he didn’t want to talk down to the American people. He accused Republicans of basing their economic plan…
Former President Clinton to give prime-time Democratic convention speech
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…
Bill Clinton: Romney had a ‘sterling business career’
Former President Bill Clinton has become the latest high-profile Democrat to undermine the Obama campaign’s message that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney would be bad for the economy because he had a record of killing jobs as the CEO of Bain Capital. “I don’t think that we ought to…
Bill Clinton offers to help Irish investment drive
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Former President Bill Clinton Saturday told Ireland’s Prime Minister and the cream of the country’s diaspora that he would host a summit in New York to help boost investment in the euro zone struggler. A veteran of Europe’s financial crisis, Ireland gathered a mixture of corporate leaders,…
Cheney denies he was ‘sowing discord’ by pushing for Clinton 2012 bid
Former President Bill Clinton says that former Vice President Dick Cheney does not have the purest of motives in suggesting that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton mount a primary challenge against President Barack Obama. Cheney told ABC’s Jonathan Karl earlier this month that a Hillary Clinton 2012 presidential bid was…
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