http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/billclinton/ en-us Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:49:34 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2281950/posts I remember all of the reverberations from the Dems during the Lewinsky affair that "it was only sex," and that "it's his private life" and that "it doesn't affect his job performance." Well, if this is true, then why is it only true for Democrats? THE FREEDOM POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2281950/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:49:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2278651/posts Bill Clinton’s Wild Night In Buenos Aires Oops, he did it again... Former US President Bill Clinton reportedly spent a wild lecherous night in Buenos Aries strip clubs, taking a shine to certain Argentine stripper/porn star there. The report, printed in mainstream newsoutlets The Washington Post and The Daily Mail, is all the talk in South and Latin America. Clinton, in Buenos Aries to raise money for his Clinton Global Initiative, later dined with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her husband, former president Néstor Kirchner. Afterwards, the “randy” and pot-smoking former president decided to go, along with some of... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2278651/posts#comment Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:03:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2278650/posts Bill Clinton’s Wild Night In Buenos Aires Oops, he did it again... Former US President Bill Clinton reportedly spent a wild lecherous night in Buenos Aries strip clubs, taking a shine to certain Argentine stripper/porn star there. The report, printed in mainstream newsoutlets The Washington Post and The Daily Mail, is all the talk in South and Latin America. Clinton, in Buenos Aries to raise money for his Clinton Global Initiative, later dined with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and her husband, former president Néstor Kirchner. Afterwards, the “randy” and pot-smoking former president decided to go, along with some of... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2278650/posts#comment Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:03:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2277046/posts Former President Bill Clinton speaks during the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee gala banquet dinner in Washington Saturday, June 13, 2009. ADC President Mary Rose Oakar, right, and Dr. Jack Shaheen listen. Former President Bill Clinton is seen in the background as the Fisk Jubilee Singers sing 'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot' during a memorial service for John Hope Franklin at Duke Chapel on the Duke University campus in Durham, N.C. Thursday, June 11, 2009. Franklin, a Durham native and the nation's preeminent scholar of black history, died March 25, 2009 US Former President Bill Clinton receives a gift from a group of... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2277046/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:33:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276002/posts CINCINNATI (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton says the need to push for racial equality is far from over. Clinton said Saturday that despite such racial progress as the election of Barack Obama as president, economic, educational and other social divides remain. Clinton spoke at Major League Baseball's Beacon Awards luncheon in Cincinnati. As president, he took part in a 1997 ceremony retiring Jackie Robinson's No. 42 uniform number. KTVN-TV / The Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276002/posts#comment Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:08:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272626/posts U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday officially named former U.S. President Bill Clinton as special envoy to Haiti. The position calls for Clinton to work to create jobs and access to basic services for the people of Haiti. “All I want to do is help the Haitians take over control of their own destiny,” Clinton said. The U.N. Office for the Special Envoy for Haiti said unemployment reaches 70 percent nationally and 78 percent of Haitians live on less than $2 a day. Even though Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, Ban said he believes that it... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272626/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:45:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263180/posts Newsweek reporter Richard Wolffe writes in "Renegade: The Making of a President" that Barack Obama's campaign struggled with figuring out how to respond to former President Clinton's attacks. President Obama accused Bill Clinton of peddling "bald-faced lies" during the presidential campaign, according to a new book on the 2008 race. Newsweek reporter Richard Wolffe writes in "Renegade: The Making of a President" that Obama's campaign struggled to figure out how to respond to former President Clinton, who during the early primaries was a fierce defender of his wife Hillary Clinton's bid for the Democratic nomination. "We had to figure out... Fox http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263180/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jun 2009 20:15:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263033/posts 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... nypost.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263033/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:17:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260957/posts Former President George W. Bush has defended former President Bill Clinton and called him his "brother" in their first ever appearance together on stage. Bush said in their Friday appearance at a Toronto forum that he never liked it when previous administration officials criticized his government but says Clinton was respectful and never did. Bush declined to criticize the Obama administration. Former Vice President Dick Cheney has been a very vocal critic of Obama. KTLA-TV / The Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260957/posts#comment Sat, 30 May 2009 01:04:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260344/posts The Mellowing of William Jefferson Clinton BY PETER BAKER Bill Clinton loves to shop. On a March day in an elegant crafts store in Lima, the Peruvian capital, he hunted for presents for his wife and the women on his staff back home. He had given a speech at a university earlier and just came from a ceremony kicking off a program to help impoverished Peruvians. Now he was eyeing a necklace with a green stone amulet. Standing all by himself, the former president of the United States moved his eyes methodically across shelves of wooden carvings, jewelry and sculptures... NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260344/posts#comment Fri, 29 May 2009 05:29:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259513/posts Here's a fascinating politics/energy/international relations story that's flying below the radar now, but feels as though it could get huge. The news starts with Uranium One (UUU), a Toronto-listed uranium miner, whose shares plunged 38% on news that the Kazakhstan government was probing whether certain Kazakh mines it owns were acquired illegally. Specifically, it's looking at potentially illegal asset sales by Mukhtar Dzhakishev, the former head of state-owned uranium miner Kazatomprom, who later sought favors from the man who sold the assets to, Frank Giustra, and Bill Clinton. Reuters: [O]ne deal in question was the sale of a 30 percent... the business insider http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259513/posts#comment Thu, 28 May 2009 02:37:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254357/posts A massive amount of sensitive, national security-related information from the Clinton administration has gone missing from the national archives. The Inspector General of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) told congressional committee staffers Tuesday that a hard drive containing over a terabyte of information -- the equivalent of millions of books--went missing from the NARA facility in College Park, Md., sometime between October 2008 and March 2009. The Department of Justice and the Secret Service are conducting an investigation, but it's so far unclear whether the drive was lost as the result of a crime or an accident. That... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254357/posts#comment Wed, 20 May 2009 01:29:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2254444/posts Former US president Bill Clinton met Fran Drescher at the Life Ball charity event in Vienna over the past weekend. And he was caught on camera groping the actress. It seems that he likes to keep his fingers on the pulse of the important issues. Former president Bill Clinton met Fran Drescher at the Life Ball charity event in Vienna over the past weekend. What happened was an embarrassing brush between the two. The jury is still out on whether giving a hand in this way can happen accidentally. (pic in link of Bubba grabbing a hand full of Nanny... WZ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2254444/posts#comment Wed, 20 May 2009 03:34:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2254420/posts Somebody somewhere might be surprised: Bill Clinton is still a womanizing cad. Times Of India: Bill Clinton Caught Groping ‘Nanny’ Star (Fran Drescher) May 19, 2009 Former US president Bill Clinton met Fran Drescher at the Life Ball charity event in Vienna over the past weekend. And he was caught on camera groping the actress. It seems that he likes to keep his fingers on the pulse of the important issues. Former president Bill Clinton met Fran Drescher at the Life Ball charity event in Vienna over the past weekend. What happened was an embarrassing brush between the two. The... Start Thinking Right http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2254420/posts#comment Wed, 20 May 2009 02:57:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254236/posts Former US president Bill Clinton met Fran Drescher at the Life Ball charity event in Vienna over the past weekend. And he was caught on camera groping the actress. It seems that he likes to keep his fingers on the pulse of the important issues. Former president Bill Clinton met Fran Drescher at the Life Ball charity event in Vienna over the past weekend. What happened was an embarrassing brush between the two. The jury is still out on whether giving a hand in this way can happen accidentally. Drescher is an Emmy Award and Golden Globe nominated American film... Times of India http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254236/posts#comment Tue, 19 May 2009 22:38:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2253523/posts U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon plans to name former U.S. President Bill Clinton as his special envoy to Haiti, U.N. officials said on Monday, in a move that could attract investment in the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation and help stabilize the country. "The announcement is expected to come soon," one U.N. official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. The official said a formal announcement could come as early as Tuesday. Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2253523/posts#comment Mon, 18 May 2009 23:09:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2253545/posts Former President Bill Clinton, who has committed his philanthropic efforts to helping hurricane ravaged Haiti, has been named a special envoy to the Caribbean nation on behalf of the United Nations. The honor comes two months after Clinton visited Haiti along with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in an effort to raise global attention to the country's effort to rebuild following a year of natural disasters that wreaked havoc on the Haitian economy, its people and its already fragile landscape. The four back-to-back storms left almost 800 dead and created nearly $1 billion in damage. Miami Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2253545/posts#comment Mon, 18 May 2009 23:41:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2252708/posts VIENNA – "Desperate Housewives" star Eva Longoria Parker, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and singer Katy Perry attended a flamboyant Austrian charity gala Saturday dedicated to raising money for people with HIV and AIDS. Other celebrities spotted at the Life Ball were actress Fran Drescher, former Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson and model Amber Valletta. AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2252708/posts#comment Sun, 17 May 2009 16:30:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2252386/posts New York—Not to be outdone by Elizabeth Edwards, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has decided to publish a series of books on her husband’s trysts. The book will detail affair after affair, and all of the excrement she had to eat during her time in Arkansas and Washington. Reportedly, the first two volumes are complete. However, the White House years—a lengthy series of books—won’t be finished until late 2010. Hillary has grown weary of the attention the media paid to Elizabeth Edwards for just one affair, and feels it’s time she got her dues. Elective Decisions http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2252386/posts#comment Sat, 16 May 2009 22:00:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2251245/posts Since I am about to make a sacrilegious statement, I also want to point out that I stand by my earlier thesis that said that history will place Clinton somewhere nearly Calvin Coolidge. Still, I will give Clinton credit in this way. He was the consummate politician, and when that politician happens to be your ideological opposite that isn't so bad. Just think about this. Clinton's best years were from 1995-1999. His best years he worked mostly with Republicans to get things done. Frankly, what are Clinton's signature legislation and actions? NAFTA, a balanced budget, and welfare reform...aren't all of... The Provocateur http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2251245/posts#comment Fri, 15 May 2009 01:19:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2243899/posts From history, we see greatness: * ‘One man with courage makes a majority.’ - Andrew Jackson * ‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.’ - Franklin D. Roosevelt * ‘The buck stops here.’ - Harry S. Truman * ‘Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.’ - John F. Kennedy \ And from today’s Democrats we see… well, you figure it out. * ‘It depends what your definition of ‘IS’ is?” - Bill Clinton * ‘Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac are not in crisis’ - Barney Frank (fall... View From the Bench http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2243899/posts#comment Mon, 4 May 2009 17:08:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/570348/posts Former chief White House political advisor Dick Morris revealed Tuesday that his former boss Bill Clinton cared so little about global terrorism that his own Assistant Secretary of State had trouble getting him to pay attention to a bomb threat against the Khobar Towers Air Force barracks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. "In 1996, I got a phone call from Dick Holbrooke," Morris told WABC Radio's Sean Hannity. "He said, 'We're getting hard intelligence that terrorists are planning another hit on our guys in Riyadh.... They're in the exact same building they were in when it was hit last time.'" In ... Newsmax/ Hannity Show http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/570348/posts#comment Wed, 14 Nov 2001 00:54:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2241098/posts President Obama has made a number of controversial appointments during his first 100 days in office, but perhaps none more so than activist judge and ACLU alumnus David Hamilton. In a nomination that may be voted on as early as this week, the president has chosen Hamilton to sit on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, an important Chicago-based bench whose jurisdiction extends over Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. The appointment serves as an early warning that Obama’s judicial nominees, presented as “moderates,” will be anything but. Born in 1957, Hamilton began his judicial career when he was nominated by President... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2241098/posts#comment Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:06:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233434/posts Slouching Toward Columbine: Darwin's Tree of Death April 20, 2009 David Klinghoffer I've long been fascinated by the image of the Tree of Death, parallel to the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden and cryptically referred to in mystical texts explaining the Hebrew Bible: And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the Tree of Life also in the midst of the garden, and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (Genesis 2:9). Come and behold: as soon as night falls, the... Beliefnet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233434/posts#comment Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:26:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229980/posts A new effort to pay off Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign debt includes a chance to “spend a day with Bill Clinton” as one of the prizes for contributing as little as $5 online. And talking heads stroke their chins about the “American Idol”-ization of American politics, but now it’s literally the case: Another prize is a trip for two to the show’s season finale. Here’s the e-mail, sent by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee: “From James Carville … “I knew it was going to take an extraordinary effort to help pay off Hillary Clinton's campaign debt. But... Politico.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229980/posts#comment Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:08:17 GMT