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WASHINGTON (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton predicts that Democrats won't suffer the kind of political meltdown that hobbled his administration after the 1994 elections. Democrats lost control of the House for the first time in 40 years after those elections. Republicans are forecasting that kind of backlash next year against the Democrats. Clinton suggests that's wishful thinking by the GOP.

It seems to be an open secret that Hillary is looking in the mirror every morning and asking herself just what the hell she was thinking that day when she accepted the SOS job from this charlatan. In her position, I'd be royally pissed-off too. I mean, when her last around the world trip to meet and greet heads of state consisted of stops from Reykyevik to Terra del Fuego, I think snogging Bill in public like that is an open declaration war for '12. Stay tuned for episode #315, next week.

Here is video of Geraldo Rivera tonight talking with GOP former Rep. J.C. Watts about President Obama's drop in the polls. In fact, a new poll shows that former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton are now more popular than Obama! Watts thinks all of what Obama has done during his first six months is now beginning to take a toll on his numbers. Geraldo said the protesters at Town Hall Meetings were a "bunch of crazies" at first, but not any longer. No, Geraldo. They never were a bunch of crazies. Only American citizens doing the nation a tremendous...

Looks like the country's top diplomat and her headline-grabbing hubby have reached a détente while on a romantic Bermuda vacation yesterday. The laid-back Clintons looked like any other happily married couple outside the Cambridge Beaches resort, where they are staying for a brief vacation. The getaway comes less than two weeks after a feisty Secretary of State Hillary, during a visit to the Congo, lashed out at a university student who she thought had asked her Bill's opinion on an international issue. And on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton raised eyebrows when she skipped a meeting between President Obama and Bill Clinton...

Today President Obama has separate meetings at the White House with his former rivals, Bill and Hillary Clinton; and while the topics of discussion may be about diplomacy, one issue not likely to come up is that recent polls show the Clintons are surging in job approval polls, and the president’s are hitting new lows. The numbers represent a striking reversal of fortune for the Clintons, whose were supposed to have been eclipsed by Obama’s historic presidency. Instead, their stature has grown as Obama’s has shrunk Just 53 percent of Americans approve of Obama’s job performance, compared with 66...

After losing to Barack Obama last year -- and then having to go work for him -- one would have thought that some of Hillary Clinton's fabled anger would have come to the surface before now. But, of course, the lady usually can hold all these things back -- except when it involves Bill Clinton. That truism was on display Monday when the usually unflappable secretary of state just lost it in response to a Congolese student's rather innocent question -- which was actually mistranslated to Secretary Clinton:

ABC News' Kirit Radia reports: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost her cool Monday after a Congolese student, speaking through a translator, asked her what "Mr. Clinton" thought about a Chinese trade deal with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. "You want me to tell you what my husband thinks?" Clinton replied, clearly irked by the thought of being her husband Bill's spokeswoman.

ABC News' Kirit Radia reports: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost her cool Monday after a Congolese student, speaking through a translator, asked her what "Mr. Clinton" thought about a Chinese trade deal with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. "You want me to tell you what my husband thinks?" Clinton replied, clearly irked by the thought of being her husband Bill's spokeswoman.

MIDI - I'M NOT LISA I'm not Willie...my name is Rodham I'm the Sec-re-tary of State I rode on his coattails to get where I now am In his shadow, is that my fate? I put up with his crap...I felt like such a sap Philandering and such humiliation I would be president...it was so evident That porky girl...caused such trouble plenty...plenty It's name was Arturo Fuente...one fine cigar I'm not Willie...my name is Rodham I'm the Sec-re-tary of State I rode on his coattails to get where I now am In his shadow, is that my fate? I'm...

<p>KINSHASA, Congo -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's temper flared on Monday when a Congolese university student asked her for her husband's thinking on an international financial matter.</p> <p>A week after former President Bill Clinton traveled to North Korea to secure the release of two detained American journalists and stole the limelight from the start of his wife's first trip to Africa, Clinton was clearly displeased by the question at town hall forum in Kinshasa.</p>

A week after former President Bill Clinton traveled to North Korea to secure the release of two detained American journalists and stole the limelight from the start of his wife's first trip to Africa, Clinton was clearly displeased by the question at town hall forum in Kinshasa. "You want me to tell you what my husband thinks?" she replied incredulously when the male student asked her what "Mr. Clinton" thought of World Bank concerns about a multi-billion-dollar Chinese loan offer to the Congo. "My husband is not secretary of state, I am," an obviously annoyed Clinton said sharply.

Both Clintons are suddenly back on the world stage - but this time the third person in their marriage isn't an intern, it's a president. From New York, Philip Sherwell dissects the ultimate in power couples.It was vintage Bill Clinton. The former US president had been lying low and licking his wounds after being slammed for some intemperate outbursts during his wife's failed run for the White House. But that semi-seclusion ended in headline-grabbing fashion last week as he burst back on to the world stage with a foray to North Korea to collect two jailed US journalists sentenced to...

The bitter rift that developed between Barack Obama when he was running for president last year and Bill and Hillary Clinton was one mean fight. In the new book, "Renegade, The Making of a President," by former Newsweek reporter Richard Wolffe, President Obama -- then in the midst of a tight Democratic primary battle with Hillary -- accused the former president of being a "bald-faced liar" and a "loose canon." Obama also said Bill Clinton was potentially "too much of a liability" when he was trying to decide whether to add Hillary to his White House team once he won...

This is truly priceless. Watch how she goes in for a kiss with Bill, turns away leaving Bill to kiss the wind and smooches Barack. I can't even...

The secretary of state's long-shuttered presidential campaign is still trying to pay off a steep debt, and has launched a new fundraising pitch urging donors to give money and compete for the chance to win one of three "exclusive prizes." One of those is a day with Bill Clinton. Hillary Clinton is so eager to pay off her campaign debt, she's resorted to selling her husband -- for a day, anyway. The most exclusive prize? A day of "adventure" in the Big Apple with former President Bill Clinton. The other prizes are nothing to sneeze at either. One lucky winner...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in a sideshow to diplomacy, lamented on Saturday her fashion sense, divulged when she fell in love and shared how she dealt with personal struggles. Appearing on a popular Turkish television chat show, Hadi Gel Bizimle (Come and Join Us), Clinton tackled a few diplomatic questions but the main focus was on her personal life, such as when she "last" fell in love. "It was so long ago, with my husband," she told the studio audience, adding that she first met former President Bill Clinton in the spring of 1971 when they were at...

"No country has yet achieved full equality for women. There is still a lot ahead for us to make sure that gender equality becomes reality," Clinton said in her speech. "Part of my mission as the secretary of state is (making sure) the United States is committed to enhancing the rights of women."

Hillary brushes off Bill to kiss Barack.

WASHINGTON – It's still all about Bubba. Amid all the laudatory comments about Hillary Clinton at Tuesday morning's Secretary of State confirmation hearings, the only slightly sour note so far has been about Bill Clinton, and the fear that his foreign entanglements might snare Hillary — and U.S. foreign policy. It fell to GOP Sen. Dick Lugar to deliver the cautionary lines, but Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. John Kerry made sure to note that the whole committee had those worries. "The work of the Clinton Foundation is a unique complication that will have to be managed with great care...

Secretary of State nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton intervened at least six times in government issues directly affecting companies and others that later contributed to her husband's foundation, an Associated Press review of her official correspondence found. The overlap of names on former President Bill Clinton's foundation donor list and business interests whose issues she championed raise new questions about potential ethics conflicts between her official actions and her husband's fundraising.

Did the Times Square New Year's Eve ball drop malfunction?? We didn't see it drop! Hill/Billary were supposed to push the button to release it. If so, it only proves that the Dems can't even drop the ball right!!

Bill and Hillary Clinton will push the ceremonial button to signal the lowering of the giant illuminated ball in New York's Times Square this New Year. The former president and his wife -- a U.S. senator from New York and President-elect Barack Obama's choice for Secretary of State -- will join New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in this year's festivities, event organizers said in a statement Tuesday.

IN a recent Satur day Night Live skit, a lip-biting Bill Clinton (Darrell Hammond) told the audience, "I'm here to make a very important announcement. After the holiday, Barack Obama will officially appoint me the husband to the secretary of state." And, in fact, when the president-elect announces his national-security team today, he's widely expected to put the former first couple squarely on the international stage by bestowing upon his rival, Hillary Clinton, that plum position - secretary of state. Is there any doubt we'll again be getting "two for the price of one?" Billary is back.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton D-N.Y. speaks to the media upon her arrival at the 17th Annual Salute to Freedom Gala on the Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2008, in New York.

Hillary Clinton, once a front-runner herself, warned Barack Obama's supporters Sunday that, though he leads John McCain in the homestretch of the presidential campaign, it's not over. "Sure, the polls show Barack and Joe [Biden] ahead now, and that's good news," said Clinton during her first joint appearance with her husband, former President Bill Clinton, to tout the Obama ticket. "But I don't pay much attention to polls - nobody should be lulled into any false sense of security."

WASHINGTON - When Bill and Hillary Clinton take the stage Sunday at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, it will be the launch of an active campaign for their former nemesis Barack Obama in the home stretch of the 2008 presidential race.

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Bill and Hillary Clinton take the stage Sunday at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, it will be the launch of an active campaign for their former nemesis Barack Obama in the home stretch of the 2008 presidential race. Once the nation's best known and most powerful Democrats, the former first couple is getting used to a new role: cheerleaders for Obama, who vanquished Hillary Clinton last spring in a Democratic primary contest for the ages. Whatever recriminations the Clintons may still harbor from that long battle seem to have been nudged aside as they campaign in...

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ABC News' Russell Goldman Reports: Despite saying she would accept the offer to be vice president, Hillary Clinton never really wanted to be Barack Obama's running mate, her husband former President Bill Clinton told ABC's The View. "Not really, she didn't," Clinton said in response to a question from host Barbara Walters about whether Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. wanted to join her one-time opponent on the Democratic ticket. In June, soon after conceding the primary to Obama, Sen. Clinton told New York lawmakers that she would accept the veep slot if it was offered. "I'm open to it,' she told...

Bill Clinton Says ‘Extreme Philosophy’ of GOP Dates to Reagan Presidency Thursday, August 28, 2008 By Staff (CNSNews.com) - In his speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver last night, former President Bill Clinton said that the Republican Party has been defined by an “extreme philosophy” for more than 25 years. The remark appeared aimed at the foreign and economic policies of President Ronald Reagan, who was sworn into office in 1981 and was in his third year of governing 25 years ago.

BARACK Obama has been officially named as the Democratic presidential candidate at the party's national convention, but today has shown that no-one steals the show like Bill and Hillary Clinton. Senator Obama's historic but carefully orchestrated moment came during a state-by-state roll call, in which convention delegates were announcing the carve-up of the votes cast in the primary contests held throughout the first half of this year. Votes were being cast for Senator Obama and Hillary Clinton, but that was merely symbolic because Senator Obama secured a majority of voting delegates in June. When the moment arrived, Senator Clinton was...

Bill Clinton was front and center for his wife's speech last night, and he's addressing the convention floor himself tonight - but he is expected to be out of Denver before Barack Obama gives his acceptance speech tomorrow. Clinton is expected to leave Denver tomorrow, sources said. The former president has business with his foundation to attend to, the sources said. But given the tenor of the convention so far - the tensions between the Obama and Clinton supporters has overshadowed everything - some were surprised by it. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is scheduled to be at the speech. Bill...

SanFranNan will be starting off with the roll call vote. Speaches for nominating both Clinton and Obama will be made. I have a feeling that the tonight's entertainment will be good, instide and outside. If you have pics or clips of the freak show, please post them!

Bill Clinton just can't seem to say anything to please the DUmmies these days. Well, not the majority of DUmmies, that is. Despite the purging of vocal Hillary supporters that occurred after the June 11 transformation from the "General Discussion - Primaries" forum to the "General Discussion - Presidential" forum, Skinner still has some PUMAs on the prowl. While they cannot overtly express their preference for Her Thighness over The Lightbringer, they will bristle and bare their fangs whenever the mainstream DUmmies (there's an oxymoron for you) post a story about something either Clinton does to undermine Obama's candidacy,...

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...

…in Barack’s back.Yowch. Chicago thug mafia, meet Arkansas thug mafia. Long live Democrat party unity! The soap opera continues: 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...

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...

Here in Denver, it's easy to blame the Clintons. Out on the convention floor, their diehards are there with their Hillary buttons, plotting to run in 2012, whining on about the 18 million cracks in that glass ceiling, secretly wishing John McCain will win in November. Truth is, the Obama people feel, they lost - get over it! And Bill's all upset about being accused of being racist? Well, if the cap fits! And what about Hillary talking about hard-working white people? A favourite badge here for Obama loyalists is "Hard working white person for Hillary." The Clintons feel dissed?...

DENVER, Colorado (AFP) – Hillary Clinton takes center stage Tuesday vowing to unite Democrats after her primary battle with Barack Obama, on the second day of the convention that will crown him as White House nominee. The former first lady will make a closely watched primetime speech, at an event which she had hoped would mark the moment when she made her own piece of history, by becoming the first woman presidential nominee. But instead, as rumors of discord between the two camps still circulate, she will urge her disgruntled followers to back Obama, ... "Let there be no mistake...

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?"[ snip ]The controversial...

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.

DENVER -- Ah, Democrats. There's something about the circular firing squad that just seems to hold endless fascination for them. Why do they even need a Republican opposition when they can just battle themselves? At this convention, the well-reported rift is between the Obamaphiles and the Clintonphiles and it's the continuing narrative. Tonight, Sen. Hillary Clinton herself will speak. From the bad feelings that sprung up during the nasty primary season, to the ire in the Clinton camp over how how they believe she was allegedly mistreated in Sen. Barack Obama's vice presidential selection process, to the dissension from her...

So Bill Clinton is miffed that he won't be allowed to speak about the economy, because it was was so great during his administration. At least, that's the prevailing liberal mythology, which the MSM repeats so often that people have come to accept it as fact. But just for the record: During the election cycle of 1992, Bill Clinton hammered Bush the elder relentlessly for having caused the “worst economy of the last 50 years.” But in fact, as CNN’s Brooke Jackson subsequently reported in 2001: “Three days before Christmas 1992, the National Bureau of Economic Research finally issued its...

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...

The former president has been slow to provide Mr Obama's aides with details of what he will say, raising concerns that he will stop short of the emphatic endorsement they want to see. Allies of Mr Clinton say that he wants to use the bulk of his speech in Denver next Wednesday to attack the record of George W. Bush, accusing the current president of squandering the economic gains of the Clinton years. That will inevitably be seen as a message to those who yearn for a Clinton restoration, rather than a boost for Mr Obama.

THE ISSUE: The Clintons' prominence despite Hillary's loss. ("Monsters in a Box," Aug 16 opinion). **** They are the famous "two for one" - Hillary lies and Bill swears to it. Those who believe in the Clintons also believe in leprechauns.... How nice it would be to close the curtain, once and for all, on the Clintons' endless act. **** The Clintons are a matched pair; both serial liars.....only difference is Bill is also a wartime draft dodger and shamed himself when his country needed him. **** The Clintons have, in essence, begun their 2012 run...... If Obama thinks the...

Get used to it. They are not going away. Anyone who thought that Barack Obama had sent Hillary Clinton back to the Senate to atone for her campaign's sins or banished her husband, baying at the moon, into the wilderness was deluded. Denver shows every sign of being the Clinton show. Hillary has a prime-time convention slot on the Tuesday. Bill speaks on Wednesday, stealing the thunder of Senator Obama's veep pick. And now that Obama has caved into her demand for a roll call vote, Hillary will be center stage again on Thursday. So much for turning the page....

From NBC's Andrea Mitchell NBC News has learned that the Obama campaign, in an effort to quiet talk of the Obama-Clinton drama, has offered Bill Clinton a speaking role on Wednesday night at the Democratic convention -- before the vice presidential running mate speaks. Sources say that Clinton in fact will speak.

The Clintons and their allies may forgive Barack Obama for beating Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primary, but there’s one sore point they’re not quite ready to absolve: leaving the impression that Bill and Hillary Clinton have a race problem.“I am not a racist,” Clinton said Monday in a testy interview with ABC News in Monrovia, Liberia, in response to a question that wasn’t quite related to that subject. "I've never made a racist comment, and I never attacked [Obama] personally."Obama himself never suggested that the Clintons harbored racial animus, though his campaign did at least once make that...