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Bill Clinton Gala the 'Worst Party Ever'

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 24 May 2012 09:31:11 CDT

Bill Clinton threw a very expensive fundraiser Tuesday, but the non-celebrity guests were not impressed, with at least one calling it the "worst party ever." The Telegraph recounts tweets and interviews with attendees who stood in line outside for hours after paying anywhere from $200 to nearly $1,600 for...

Bill Wants Hillary to Take On 'Amateur' Obama: Book

Kevin Spak — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:16:05 CDT

Bill Clinton considers Barack Obama such an "incompetent" president that he begged Hillary last summer to quit the State Department and run against him in 2012—or at least, that's the story a new, unauthorized Obama biography is telling. "Barack Obama is an amateur," Clinton is quoted as telling his...

Bill Clinton: Hillary Didn't Tell Me About bin Laden

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 03 May 2012 09:45:40 CDT

So much for spousal privilege. On the first anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death, Hillary Clinton yesterday revealed that her husband had no idea the raid was going on. Today on the Ellen DeGeneres Show the former president himself backs that up in a discussion about how he found out,...

Top 5 Political Apologies of All Time

Neal Colgrass — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:42:48 CDT

Freshman Democratic Rep. David Cicilline swallowed hard a couple of weeks ago and apologized for his financial blunders back when he was mayor of Providence, Rhode Island—which inspired Politico to recall their favorite all-time political apologies. Among them: Former Florida Rep. Tom Feeney : His 2003 golfing trip to Scotland...

Obama Ad: Mitt Wouldn't Have Killed bin Laden

Kevin Spak — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:30:59 CDT

The Obama campaign turned heads today with a new video that strongly implies Mitt Romney wouldn't have ordered the raid killing Osama bin Laden. The video starts off innocuously enough, with Bill Clinton praising Obama's decision to go after bin Laden. "He took the harder and the more honorable path...

Bill Clinton: Smear Romney as a Dirty ... Conservative?

Matt Cantor — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:56:29 CDT

Forget branding Mitt Romney as the father of ObamaCare, a flip-flopper, or a champion Etch-a-Sketcher—just call him a conservative, says Bill Clinton. The former president is pushing the current one to adjust his campaign strategy against the likely Republican nominee: Where the Obama team has long knocked Romney for...

Little Rock Renames Airport for Clintons

John Johnson — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:13:08 CDT

Little Rock is paying tribute to the Clintons by renaming the city airport in their honor, reports the Arkansas News . Once the FAA signs off on the switch, the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport will be in business. Airport receptionists already have begun using the new name, notes the...

Bill Clinton to Join Obama Fundraisers

Rob Quinn — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 06:00:00 CST

Bill Clinton has agreed to help President Obama grow his 2012 war chest. The 42nd president will be joining the 44th at a series of fundraisers in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, aimed mainly at the financial services industry, insiders tell Bloomberg. Considering how much Republican super PACs are...

Only Santorum 'Drubbing' Can Save GOP

Mark Russell — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 06:54:01 CST

The Republicans need to nominate Rick Santorum, and not just because he would ensure President Obama's re-election. No, an even more important reason is that Santorum represents the most extreme wing of today's GOP, and only his nomination and "drubbing" will force the party to return to a moderate center,...