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Well, it's no wonder Democrats didn't want former President Bill Clinton to speak on the economy. Some delegates might have had the temerity to wonder: Hey, why did we experience all that prosperity in the '90s? It certainly wasn't due to populism, or isolationism, or more government dependency, or any of the hard-left economic policies being preached nightly by speakers at the Democratic National Convention. No, it was capitalism — more of it, not less of it. Naturally, every political convention features its share of demagoguery. But buried beneath all the idealistic talk in Denver are some ugly details. Those...

<p>But then, in a scene right out of the great rock star movie, “Spinal Tap,” Clinton found himself in a jam. He’d returned to his luxury box, which was conveniently located next to the FOX broadcast booth. He sat through Joe Biden’s speech with Hillary and Chelsea. But when Biden was done, and Obama made his appearance, Clinton left his suite.</p>

To the anguished cries of, “No!,” Hillary Clinton (D-NY) released her delegates before Wednesday afternoon’s roll call vote – deliberately timed to be well out of the prime-time spotlight. When it was NY’s turn to announce its delegate tallies – by alphabetical order 32 other states and territories had already done so – Clinton herself moved to end the roll call and asked that Barack Obama (D-IL) be declared the Dem nominee by acclamation. It’s important to note that 18 percent of Hillary’s delegates did vote for her, even knowing that their votes were symbolic. They meant to send a...

Bill Clinton will skip Barack Obama's acceptance of the Democratic nomination tomorrow night - a move likely to raise tensions the party has worked hard to soothe at its convention in Denver this week. The former's president's anticipated absence, first reported by CNN, comes after Hillary Clinton's well-received address to the convention last night in which she urged her nearly 18 million voters to back Obama as loyally as they did her. Obama will accept the nomination in a speech to a crowd of more than 75,000 at a football stadium. The former president, who campaigned fiercely for his wife,...

Rev. Al is not happy with the Clintons. With the Democratic National Convention abuzz with anticipation over Hillary Clinton’s speech to it tonight, civil rights activist Al Sharpton says she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, cannot afford anything less than an extraordinary effort to help Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy ... Otherwise, Sharpton warned today, their reputations within the party -- once sterling -- could be permanently tarnished. “It can damage their legacy in the long run if they don’t get a grip pretty quick,” Sharpton told The Times.

Bill Clinton appeared to undermine Sen. Barack Obama again Tuesday. The former president, speaking in Denver, posed a hypothetical question in which he seemed to suggest that that the Democratic Party was making a mistake in choosing Obama as its presidential nominee. He said: "Suppose for example you're a voter. And you've got candidate X and candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything, but you don't think that person can deliver on anything. Candidate Y disagrees with you on half the issues, but you believe that on the other half, the candidate will be able to deliver. For...

Carl Cameron is reporting that if you are looking for Hillary to carry any water for Barry, you've got the wrong girl. Here's Ace's take. But the gist is: Yeah, she'll knock the "Bush/McCain" economy, but she won't "lay the wood" to them (not her job), and she'll support Obama, but she's not going to be making the case for Obama (or party unity), because that's also not her job. So she's announcing "Yeah, I'll do the minimum required of me, but gee, if you wanted me to be an attack dog, you should have made me Veep, and if...

Bill Clinton appeared to undermine Sen. Barack Obama again Tuesday. The former president, speaking in Denver, posed a hypothetical question in which he seemed to suggest that that the Democratic Party was making a mistake in choosing Obama as its presidential nominee. He said: "Suppose you're a voter, and you've got candidate X and candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything, but you don't think that candidate can deliver on anything at all. Candidate Y you agree with on about half the issues, but he can deliver. Which candidate are you going to vote for?" Then, perhaps mindful...

Bill Clinton appeared to undermine Sen. Barack Obama again Tuesday. The former president, speaking in Denver, posed a hypothetical question in which he seemed to suggest that that the Democratic Party was making a mistake in choosing Obama as its presidential nominee. He said: "Suppose you're a voter, and you've got candidate X and candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything, but you don't think that candidate can deliver on anything at all. Candidate Y you agree with on about half the issues, but he can deliver. Which candidate are you going to vote for?" Then, perhaps mindful...

Richardson: Bill Clinton ‘still ticked off at me’ By Klaus Marre Posted: 08/26/08 12:42 PM [ET] New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (D) said Tuesday that he has made up with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) after endorsing her rival but that he has not even spoken to Bill Clinton since then. The former president is “probably still ticked off at me,” said Richardson,

Tonight on stage in Denver Hillary Clinton, one of the most accomplished practitioners of the fine art of political deception, will pull off the biggest stunt of her career so far. In her speech to the Democratic convention Mrs Clinton will have warm words for Barack Obama. She will pledge herself to work for his election in November. She will urge her campaign supporters and the millions who voted for her in the primary to bury their differences and throw their support behind the nominee. She will, no doubt, describe herself as humbled. Don’t believe a word of it. There...

DENVER, Colorado (CNN) – Bill Clinton is perplexed and, frankly, not happy that he was asked to speak about national security Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention and not about the economy, the issue that he rode to the White House at another time of economic peril, a source close to the former president said Monday. Some close to Clinton are encouraging him not to stick with the night’s theme of national security and add language about the economy in his remarks, in a way that Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, would frame it, the source...

If the Democratic National Convention in Denver next week was an Olympic event, Barack Obama would win the silver. Bill and Hillary Clinton, the most self-involved, self-aggrandizing couple in American political history, have already made off with the gold. The ex-President and his Senator wife steamrolled the Obama camp, winning a prime time speaking spot for each of them on successive evenings and, incredibly, wringing a roll call vote out of them with Hillary's name in nomination along with Obama's. The Clintons have spent their entire political lives --- actually their entire lives since they've never really been out of...

OK, Freepers...the Dem circus, er..convention is almost upon us, so let's see who is the best political prognosticator on FR. Bubba will address the convention Wednesday evening, and the contest is really quite simple. Guess the number of times in his speech ( without going over the actual number ) that Slick uses the word "I"

DES MOINES — Regan "Draco" Lane-Smith and "Naughty" Nonah Elliston outfitted their six-bedroom rental house with 15 mattresses, bondage crosses and sex swings. They built elaborate sets in their backyard for taking erotic photos. And they promoted the Hardwood Cabin online. Up to 60 guests at a time came to mingle, sunbathe nude by the pool and have sex with fellow swingers and fetishists, Elliston said. Parties were frequent enough that the couple's laundry service was cycling through 50 bedsheets a week. But the couple shut down the sex club last month when they were cited for running a business...

The good news: DNA testing has confirmed that John Edwards is not the father of Rielle Hunter's baby. The bad news: The father is Bill Clinton. Ha ha -- just kidding! It's almost impossible to get pregnant by having the type of sex Bill Clinton prefers. Also, by now, everyone has heard the news that Edwards' mistress, Rielle Hunter, has refused to grant a paternity test. I wonder if Edwards knew that when he was making his chesty offer to take a paternity test? Edwards gushed to ABC's Bob Woodruff: "I would welcome participating in a paternity test, be happy...

The ostensible subject of Maureen Dowd's column of this morning, Yes, She Can, is the way that Hillary, with a big helping hand from Bill, is undercutting Obama and casting a shadow over his upcoming convention. But did Maureen bury the lead? Tucked down as her 12th paragraph comes this [emphasis added]: The Clintons know that a lot of Democrats are muttering that their solipsistic behavior is “disgusting.” But they’re too filled with delicious schadenfreude at the wave of buyer’s remorse that has swept the Democratic Party; many Democrats are questioning whether Obama is fighting back hard enough against McCain,...

The overwhelming coolness of inventive progressive cause campaigns is starting to wear off. Compared to the environmental chic craze even Wal-Mart cannot resist, the green trend has pushed the AIDS campaign red ribbon out of the center of public attention. As a capito-cause, the environment is much more sustainable – we still believe that buying specially marked boxes of cereal can save the polar bears. AIDS has proven to be much less of a self-gratifying cause. Decades later, there is no cure, no feeling we are "making a difference" without reading about sexual violence and poverty, no cute stuffed animals...

<p>LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) - A man claiming to be a police detective tried to get an adult novelty shop to give him free X-rated videos, saying he wanted to make sure the performers weren't underage, authorities said.</p> <p>He made three tries within nine days last month and was turned down each time. The store manager called police after the third try.</p>

Return of the exile: Marc Rich at the party hosted by his ex-wife Denise (second from left)   That's RichKeith Dovkants, Evening Standard 11.08.08     Few recognised the avuncular American chuckling with Naomi Campbell at one of the summer's most spectacular parties in St Tropez. Tanned, sporting an unbuttoned cerise silk shirt, he seemed perfectly at ease among the guests aboard the motor yacht Lady Joy where Ivana Trump, Joan Collins and 500 or so others partied to a Moulin Rouge theme. Some may have wondered why certain guests seemed to hold the affable American in such awe....

Former president Bill Clinton has accepted a prime-time slot at the Democratic National Convention and will speak before Barack Obama's vice-presidential choice, US media reported Friday. The move follows days of speculation over tense relations between Obama and the ex-president, still seen as simmering over the defeat of his wife, Senator Hillary Clinton, for the party's nomination. News media, including the New York Times, CNN and NBC, say that Bill Clinton was offered to speak on August 27, the second to last night of the party's convention in Denver, Colorado. Hillary Clinton is scheduled to speak the night before, on...

Bill Clinton made a plea yesterday for a new emphasis on monogamy as a key element in the battle against Aids. The former US president, not noted for his ability to keep his own marriage vows, said it was very important to change people's attitudes to sex. In an interview with the BBC recorded in Africa, Mr Clinton said that increasing support for monogamy was not just a problem for the continent worst hit by Aids but for the world. "To pretend we can ever get hold of this without dealing with that – the idea of unprotected sexual relations...

Huh? Hillary Clinton is actually working to undermine Barack Obama? But how can that be? We thought the Democrats were all one united family now happily singing Kumbaya together. Yes, the DUmmies are finally waking up to harsh political reality as you can see in this THREAD titled "ABC - Hillary still telling friends in private that she doubts that Obama can win." And now they are mad that Hillary has cast aspersions upon the electibility of their Obamassiah. So let us join the DUmmies screeching in outrage at Hillary in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble...

Despite saying that he believed Mr Obama would defeat Senator John McCain, his Republican rival, in the election in November, the former president refused to say that the presumptive Democratic nominee was ready for high office. "You can argue that nobody is ready to be president," Mr Clinton told ABC News. "You can argue that even if you've been vice-president for eight years, that no one can be fully ready for the pressures of the office." Asked the question again, he responded: "I never said he wasn't qualified. The constitution sets qualification for the president. And then the people decide...

August 5, 2008 Clinton on AIDS: ‘We Should Do More At Home’ Posted by Jacob Goldstein Bill Clinton, who has made fighting AIDS in the developing world a central theme of his post-presidency, called for more effort to fight the disease in the U.S. He spoke yesterday at the big international AIDS conference on now in Mexico City. Earlier at the conference, the CDC said it had been radically undercounting the number of new HIV infections per year in the U.S. — raising its estimate to more than 56,000 per year, from 40,000 per year. (Click on the video at...

By TODD PITMAN – 19 hours ago DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Former President Clinton said Sunday that keeping HIV-infected children in the developing world well-fed amid the pressures of skyrocketing global food and fuel prices will be crucial to fending off the deadly virus. Speaking on the final day of a four-nation Africa tour that began last week, Clinton said he saw children in Ethiopia who "cannot live" because they were so malnourished they could not absorb lifesaving antiretroviral drugs...

Former President Bill Clinton, in an interview with ABC News from Liberia, has bolstered John McCain's assertion that Barack Obama is trying to play the race card. Clinton states in the short clip below, "I am not a racist," and that he did not attack Obama personally during the primary campaign. Clinton was attacked and smeared by Obama and the media during the primary campaign with Hillary Clinton as having made racist remarks to hurt Barack Obama. Clinton has clearly not "gotten over it." Take a look at the clip below, and then read part of Ed Morrissey's excellent synopsis...

In his first broadcast interview since his wife dropped out of the Democratic presidential race, former President Bill Clinton said he still has regrets, and insisted he's "not a racist," despite controversies surrounding his comments about Sen. Barack Obama's win in the South Carolina Democratic primary. -snip- When asked, "Do you personally have any regrets about what you did, campaigning for your wife?" Clinton, at first, answered, "Yes, but not the ones you think. And it would be counterproductive for me to talk about." But then he added, "There are things that I wish I'd urged her to do. Things...

In a session that lasted more than 45 minutes, Clinton described his role in the 2008 campaign as "a privilege, an honor," and said, "I loved it," but he declined to discuss any of his own possible mistakes, describing them as a distraction. "Next year, you and I and everybody else will be freer and have more space to say what we believe to be the truth" about the primaries, he said. Clinton volunteered very little praise of Obama, beyond describing him as "smart" and "a good politician" when asked about him toward the end of the interview. He did,...

THE streets were bright with promise on the sunny July day in 2001 when former President Bill Clinton arrived in Harlem, the historic capital of black America, to celebrate the opening of his office on 125th Street. A chant of “We love Bill!” rose from the adoring crowd of 2,000 well-wishers, some of whom wore buttons and waved fans decorated with Mr. Clinton’s face. After a violin rendition of “We Shall Overcome,” Mr. Clinton and the crowd sang along to a vibrant saxophone version of the soul song “Stand by Me.” “You were always there for me,” the ebullient former...

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — In his seventh of month of U.S. captivity, Osama bin Laden's driver told a pair of FBI agents that it was America's fault that the al Qaida leader was alive. The message was, ''You had these opportunities, America. You didn't do anything,'' FBI agent George Crouch Jr. testified Friday at Salim Hamdan's war crimes trial. The United States could have killed bin Laden in Khartoum, Sudan, before he moved to Afghanistan in 1996, Hamdan told his interrogators. They could have killed him after al Qaida's 1998 twin bombings at the U.S. Embassy bombings in...

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks during a news conference, at the Clinton Foundation headquarters in New York, July 17 2008. The Former President unveiled a deal with six Chinese and Indian companies to cut a key malaria drug price by a third and slash the price volatility of a vital ingredient by 70 percent. Artemisinin-based combination therapies, or ACT drugs, are recommended by the World Health Organization because of growing resistance to older treatments such as chloroquine. In this March 27, 1998 file photo, South African President Nelson Mandela, foreground, and U.S. President Bill Clinton peer out from Section...

Former President Bill Clinton called for Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe to step down immediately or form a power-sharing arrangement with his chief opponent. The former presidentcalled Mugabe "a puppet of the military establishment" and singled out a Washington Post story that exposed coercion, intimidation, beatings and profession killings by the ruling-party s militias. The crisis in Zimbabwe was the main focus of a public one-on-one interview tonight with Jane Wales, a former Clinton advisor and current Aspen Institute vice president of philanthropy and society, at the annual Aspen Ideas Festival.

It now has been four years since Dr. William Graham, Science Advisor to President Ronald W. Reagan and Chairman of the General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament, and a distinguished panel completed a study of High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) and its potential effects upon this country. The conclusions of this study are the most frightening I have seen concerning modern-day threats. Few have heard of it because the report has yet to be made public. The reason it has not been made public is simple: if EMP were understood by the American people, the next logical question...

Bill Clinton is so bitter about Barack Obama's victory over his wife Hillary that he has told friends the Democratic nominee will have to beg for his wholehearted support.

District police are warning people in the Grover Park and Cleveland Park neighborhoods to make sure their doors and windows at night after investigators linked three sexual assaults in the past two months. Police say women were attacked May 16, May 25 and June 26 in Northwest. Investigators say in each incident, a woman was awakened early in the morning by a man who got into their homes by unknown methods. The first incident happened in the 2400 block of Huidekoper Place, the second in the 3000 block of Newark Street and the third happened in the 2400 block of...

Ex President Bill Clinton missing for some time since skipping on a lecture in Scotland has been found. A Canadian newspaper found Bubba holding hands with a new friend. (Picture Included)

President Bill Clinton frowns as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-NY, addresses supporters at the National Building Museum in Washington Saturday, June 7, 2008.

Bill Clinton will be a no show for a speech in Scotland this week. The Aberdeen officials have their panties in a bind over a solution for Bubba’s no show.

In selling his economic plan, President Clinton is gambling that voters never took seriously his campaign promise to lower the tax burden of the middle class and will respond favorably to an aggressive pitch based on equal measures of hope, fear and class revenge.

HAVANA (CBS4) ― Eight years after a headline making international custody fight which ended with his return to his father in Cuba, Elian Gonzalez has joined Cuba's Young Communist Union. In an article in Cuba's communist youth newspaper, Juventud Rebelde, the 14-year old Gonzalez said he would never let ex-President Fidel Castro and his brother Raul Castro down. He joined more than 18-thousand others who joined the group on Saturday. In 2000, Gonzalez' mother was killed when a boat carrying them to the U.S. capsized in the Florida Straits. Elian, who was 6 years old at the time..........."

Excerpt - Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones are teaming up on a Web site to remind Bill Clinton they're still around. They met recently while appearing together on Geraldo Rivera's Fox show "and really hit it off 'cause we had so much in common," Flowers, Clinton's former mistress, said in an e-mail on Friday. Both have been "vilified" over the years, Flowers said, and "we have both agreed that it's a shame that more of the 'Clinton Women' didn't get together long ago. There could have been strength in numbers! For now, it's me and Paula." The Web site address...

No matter what November brings, Barack Obama has managed to accomplish something no Republican has done since 1980: He has wrung a concession speech out of the Clintons. Clintonite dead-enders may never forgive him for it. As Hillary Rodham Clinton suspended her presidential campaign and pledged to back the man who defeated her in the Democratic delegate race, there was a smattering of boos the first time Obama's name was mentioned. Nevertheless, Hillary intoned, "I endorse him, and throw my full support behind him. And I ask all of you to join me in working as hard for Barack Obama...

Check out Jennifer Flowers and Paula Jones chatting to one another. I'm not affiliated with the site and haven't paid them their money but others at FR might be interested to hear what these ladies have to say. The link is TWO CHICKS CHATTING

CNN) -- Actress Gina Gershon is demanding a retraction from Vanity Fair after the magazine reported "high-end Hollywood dinner-party gossip" that former President Clinton "has been seen visiting" her in California. The lengthy article by the magazine's national editor, Todd Purdum, mentioned the actress along with several other women rumored to be associated with Clinton, all anonymously sourced. "Todd Purdum's insinuation is a lie, and it is irresponsible journalism," said Gershon's publicist, Mara Buxbaum. "We are demanding a retraction." A letter sent by Gershon's attorneys to Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter, obtained by CNN, demanded a published correction and retraction...

NEW YORK: In an embarrassment to presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton’s despondent campaign, an article has claimed that the aides of her husband, former President Bill Clinton, believe his 2004 heart surgery fundamentally altered his state of mind and that he is constantly in rage. The article to be published in Vanity Fair, and already posted on the magazine’s website also questions some of Clinton’s business dealings and behaviour since leaving the White House. “Old friends and longtime aides are wringing their hands over Bill Clinton’s postWhite House escapades, from the dubious (and secretive ) business associations to the media blowups...

<p>Latest From Behind The Scenes At TV Networks…. “What The F___”</p> <p>Just off the phones with old friends and fiends at the networks. Here is the latest as they see it, although as show producers and assignment editors wrap up morning meetings at this hour, there are still many unanswered questions about the direction of the Dem nominating process, ie: What will Hillary do?</p>

There's a great moment at the beginning of the video clip here in which WaPo editorial writer Jonathan Capehart dithers, then palpably decides to bite the bullet and tell the truth: yeah, the media's in the tank for Obama. His admission against interest came in response to a question from Pat Buchanan on today's Morning Joe. --snip-- JONATHAN CAPEHART: Well, you know, Pat, I think, um, that, eh, yeah. I think there is some truth to [Bill Clinton's] bitterness. Um, you know, it's hard to, let's remember: reporters are human. And reporters are covering both these campaigns. And it's hard...

Can't link or post any excerpts. Google "The Comeback Id"....somebody's sandbagging the Toons! From what I've read so far, it's only appropriate this comes out at the same time as "Sex and the City"!