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Sidney Blumenthal's "The Clinton Wars" has been serialized by Salon. Here are ten reasons why you should watch Salon's "commercial" and then read the installments. All of them (one, two, three, four, five). 1. He related a conversation he had had with Senator Alan Simpson, the Republican from Wyoming, who was retiring. "You know there's nothing wrong that Hillary and I did in Whitewater," Clinton told him. "Of course," Simpson replied. "We all know there's nothing there. It was just politics. And it just got out of hand." 2. Chief Justice Rehnquist...had been chilly and inexpressive toward the president throughout...

I received the strangest letter the other day from James Carville, Bill Clinton's old attack dog and political strategist. Here's what it said: "Dear Friend, [t]hroughout the eight years of his presidency, you've been one of President Clinton's most loyal supporters. And I had the honor of helping to elect the man twice. So we have much to be proud of." The letter goes on to ask me to affirm the following statement: "I'm proud to have supported Bill Clinton during the eight years of his presidency and deeply appreciate what he accomplished for America and the world. Now, I...

William Jefferson Clinton will fetch a handsome $10 million plus to write his memoirs, but that's only if he completes the manuscript. Already, we have inside information that he's struggling with the first sentence: 1st DRAFT: Once upon a time, on a girl called Hope ... (crumple, crumple) 2nd DRAFT: Once upon a time, in a town called Hope, I was looking for a place to dispose of Vince Foster's body when ... (crumple, crumple) 3rd DRAFT: Be honest. You know why you purchased this book. You want juicy details about the defining episode of my presidency. Well, you've come...

There is a full page advertisement in the March 31st edition of the Gainesville Sun. Student Government is bringing The "Honorable" Former President Bill Clinton to Gainesville, FL. April 3 at the Stephen C. OConnell Center. The gates open at 3 pm and admission is FREE. Easy access via I-75.

Book Bombshell: Iraq Attack Scrubbed for Clinton Golf Game Ex-President Bill Clinton kept a squadron of F-117 stealth fighter-bombers and B-52s waiting to launch a critical 1996 air strike on Iraq while he finished watching a golf tournament - dithering so long that U.S. pilots lost the cover of darkness and the mission had to be scrubbed. That's the explosive charge leveled in a brand new book by Lt. Col. Robert Patterson, a key Clinton military aide from 1996 through 1998 whose primary mission was to carry the president's copy of America's nuclear launch codes. "We dispatched eight F-117 stealth...

<p>Bill Clinton and Bob Dole turned it up a notch last night.</p> <p>In a far more entertaining exchange on "60 Minutes" than their debut last week, the former rivals from the 1996 presidential race squabbled over whether the United Nations is still relevant in the crisis with Iraq.</p>

Monday, March 10, 2003 MEDIA MATTERS Clinton vs. Rush called CBS 'dream team' But ex-president rejected most debate partners network proposedA CBS News insider said the new debate segment on newsmagazine "60 Minutes" pairing former President Bill Clinton and former Sen. Bob Dole would have been a fairer match-up if radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh had been Clinton's adversary, reports American Prowler. "The dream team would have been Clinton and Rush Limbaugh," the website quotes a network staffer as saying. "I don't know that it was talked about seriously, but we were all aware that that combination would have been...

<p>March 11, 2003 -- IF you were left cold by Sunday night's hotly anticipated "60 Minutes" showdown between Bill Clinton and Bob Dole, you weren't alone.</p> <p>"60 Minutes" chief Don Hewitt wasn't happy, either, and said he thought Dole needs work - and that the feature will have to be juiced up a bit.</p>

New York (AP) - Former President Clinton, in his first televised mini- debate with Republican Bob Dole on Sunday, said that a tax cut at a time that war is looming in Iraq is "bad economics." Dole, Clinton's opponent in the 1996 presidential election, said the Bush administration has launched a global war to protect the American way of life, "which means, among other things, the freedom to save or invest our own money." The retired politicians have agreed to revive the "Point-Counterpoint" segment on "60 Minutes," television's most popular newsmagazine. In the two-minute debate, the two will face off...

<p>March 10, 2003 -- WARNING: If you're still in a coma from watching the boring Clinton/Dole debates of the 1996 election, do not - repeat, do not - wake up now. Their reprised "debates," which debuted last night on "60 Minutes" may bore you completely to death.</p>

RNC RESEARCH BILL CLINTON TO EXPLAIN HIS RECESSION ON CBS’ “60 MINUTES” Months Before Final 60 Minutes Ran Out On Clinton Administration, The Economic Recession Had Already Begun _______________________________________________________ “President Bush’s main economic policy -- the large tax cut of last year was not responsible for any of the current damage [to the economy]. Indeed, given the twin shocks of 9/11 and the post-Enron stock market decline, the short-term stimulus created by the tax cuts has turned out to be fortuitously well timed.” (Editorial, “Negative Al Gore,” The Washington Post, October 5, 2002) ECONOMIC DATA CONFIRMS SLOWDOWN BEGAN UNDER CLINTON...

Former Clinton press secretary Joe Lockhart angrily defended his old boss yesterday against a 1978 rape allegation and charges that he blew a deal for Osama bin Laden's arrest, after talk radio host Rush Limbaugh suggested the ex-president should be asked about the two scandals during upcoming appearances on CBS's "60 Minutes." "Bill Clinton won't talk about the stuff the American people really want to know. He's not going to address Juanita Broaddrick or giving the North Koreans two nuclear reactors to play with or rejecting three offers to take custody of bin Laden," Limbaugh said yesterday. Bristling over...

Ex-president Bill Clinton is claiming that the Bush White House turned to him in April 2001 to help solve the crisis prompted by China's downing of a U.S. surveillance plane over the South China Sea - and that the Bush administration would use him more except for the objections of "right wingers." "The Administration's only asked me to do two things," Clinton tells the Atlantic Monthly for its March issue. "One is to go to East Timor, which I was happy to do. The other was to talk to Jiang Zemin. Both of us happened to be in Hong...

[This is the transcript of an interview between former President Bill Clinton and James Fallows, of The Atlantic Monthly, on October 21, 2002. It occurred at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Clinton was in Fayetteville to deliver a speech on foreign policy honoring his mentor, the late Senator J. William Fulbright. Also present at the interview were two of Clinton's associates from Arkansas, including Rodney Slater, former Secretary of Transportation. Clinton and his group arrived 45 minutes late. Clinton strolled into the interview room and took out a cigar, which he never lit. The transcript that follows, which was prepared...

America's Funniest Videos had a clip a few minutes ago.  It was priceless.About 17 minutes into the program they presented a video of a little girl being promted by her dad.  She looked like she was four or five.Dad started asking the little girl who held these offices.  She anwered flawlessly.President? George BushVice President? Dick CheneySecretary of State? Colin PowellSecretary of Defense? Donald RumsfeldSpeaker of the House? Denny HastertNational Security Advisor? Condolezza RiceThe Chief of Staff?  Andrew CardThat's very good sweetie.  And who's Bill Clinton?  He's a jerk!LMAO, couldn't believe they'd air this.Now, the question is, "Was this a Freeper?"

The Atlantic Monthly shocks readers with its cover this month: A sculpted Bill Clinton with the headline "Post-President for Life." Two lengthy articles follow: a far too deferential account of what he's been up to and what he might try to accomplish by James Fallows, and a devastatingly accurate assessment of the vulgar appeal and carnival-like progress of the man George Will aptly branded the "worst man ever to be president," by P.J. O'Rourke. Clinton is of course again running for the White House, and Fallows' refusal to analyze his every move in light of Hillary's expected run in 2008...

It looks like ex-President Bill Clinton has his own Axis of Evil, although the threats he warned about yesterday have nothing to do with terrorism. "(The Republicans) have a much better media machine than we do," Clinton insisted to "Today" show host Katie Couric, before naming, "Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity," who he said "are very outspoken, and are on the right wing of the Republican Party." Other cogs in the GOP's "media machine," according to the ex-president, include the Heritage Foundation and "sympathetic newspapers and sympathetic cable programs that are heavily weighted in their favor." "There...