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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...

Bill Clinton Unloads on Press By Anne E. Kornblut Former president Bill Clinton lashed out in response to criticism on Wednesday from a prominent Democrat in South Carolina, accusing the Obama campaign of running a political smear campaign against him through the media. "You live for this," Clinton snapped at CNN reporter Jessica Yellin when she asked him to comment on statements by Dick Harpootlian, the former South Carolina Democratic party chairman, who said recent distortions by the Clintons are "reprehensible." Harpootlian, who backed the Clintons in the 1990s and now supports Sen. Barack Obama, had compared Clinton's distortions to...

Bill Clinton: Wife's record not covered By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer 15 minutes ago Bill Clinton said Tuesday that if reporters covered the candidates' public records better, his wife's presidential bid would be far ahead of her rivals. During a campaign stop on behalf of his wife, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former president said he can't understand why so much of the media coverage of the campaign ignores her experience — and, without naming him, the relative lack of experience of her closest Democratic rival, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama. "One percent of the press coverage was...

LAS VEGAS - Former President Clinton on Monday compared Republican criticism of his wife's position on driver's license for illegal immigrants to the ads that helped sink John Kerry's White House hopes in 2004. "I had the feeling that at the end of that last debate we were about to get into cutesy land again," Clinton told some 3,000 members of the American Postal Worker's Union at a convention. At the end of a televised Democratic presidential debate last week, Hillary Rodham Clinton hedged on whether she supported a plan by her home state governor, New York's Eliot Spitzer, to...

"If Hillary Clinton wins the US presidency, Bill Clinton will be given the job of repairing America's damaged international reputation, the former president tells the Guardian in an interview today." Well I guess that is only appropriate, since HE did more to tarnish the image of the US than any other human living. The rest of the world never liked us, but thanks to Billy Boy and his tuna, now they don't even respect us.

Bill Clinton Says He's Ready to Be 'First Laddie' Tuesday , September 04, 2007 AP CHICAGO, Ill. — He's on the golf course. She's on the presidential campaign trail. If that wasn't hard enough, when Democratic frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton points out to her spouse that she's 15 years older than he was when he first ran for president, all she gets is tough love. "And I say, 'Well, nobody made you run, girl,"' former President Clinton joked during an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show that aired Tuesday. Clinton also suggested tongue-in-cheek what his title might be if the...

Contoocook, N.H - Former President Bill Clinton said he was "shocked" by revelations that a top fundraiser for his wife is a fugitive from justice and claimed he didn't even know what "HillRaiser" Norman Hsu did for a living. "You could have knocked me over with a straw, especially when I heard the L.A. people had been allegedly looking for him for 15 years when he was in Plainview," he told Newsday while touring a county fair in rural New Hampshire Sunday.

NEW YORK (AP) - Former President Clinton will appear on Oprah Winfrey's TV talk show next Tuesday, Sept. 4, his first interview to promote "Giving," a book on philanthropy and civic action coming out the same day. Clinton's appearance was announced Monday in an e-mail - "The first interview about his new passion!" - sent to members of Winfrey's book club. Winfrey, who interviewed Clinton in 2004 for his memoir "My Life," has good reason to think highly of the new book. "Giving" praises Winfrey's "Angel Network," which has donated millions of dollars around the world, from money for schools...

When former President Bill Clinton began appearing beside Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail early this summer, the effect was electrifying. What memories he brought back! That bustling economy, that low unemployment rate, that knack for international diplomacy … No wonder both men and women were screaming for more. "I am thrilled to see Bill Clinton back in the spotlight," says Dawn Glossa, a 36-year-old Democrat from Chicago. "He brings back feelings of better days in the U.S., when the working class could afford a home, interest rates were reasonable and the rest of the world liked us!"

Bill Clinton is back. After leaving office under a dark cloud, the gifted campaigner is on the stump trying to help Democrats regain a majority in Congress -- and pave the way for Hillary to move into the White House.

SAN FRANCISCO—President Clinton said last night that Democrats are on the verge of taking control of Congress because Republican leaders in Washington have abandoned the core principles once associated with their party. "The reason we are at this moment is that they do not represent faithfully the Republicans and the more conservative independents in the country. Otherwise, we wouldn't be here tonight," Mr. Clinton told donors at a fund-raiser for Democratic congressional candidates. "This is a sweeping, deep, big thing….If you're a conservative on the budget, on law enforcement, on the rule of law, when it comes to the environment,...

This year alone Mr. Clinton has raised $7.3 billion for his various social causes. Mrs. Clinton’s Senate re-election campaign has cashed in more than $49 million. Now, some of their friends say they are starting to feel “Clintoned out.” The New York Times spoke with one of their donors, who would not be named, who said he was bowing out of extravagant fundraising events hosted by the Clintons this weekend because he was “Clintoned out.” The source said their financial solicitations were ''absolutely endless.'' The Clintons show no signs of easing up... Although Bill’s birthday was August 19th, weekend events...

5 major food companies agree to snack guidelines that would ban Snickers Snacks sold in schools will have less fat, sugar and salt under the latest crackdown on junk food won by former President Clinton. Just five months after a similar agreement targeting the sale of sodas in schools, Clinton and the American Heart Association announced a deal Friday with several major food companies to make school snacks healthier — the latest assault on the nation’s childhood obesity epidemic. “This is voluntary,” Clinton said. “They don’t have to do it. But they recognize the challenge we face, and they are...

All you need is ubuntu You and me, me and you, lots and lots, for us to do By Sean Coughlan BBC News Magazine Bill Clinton told the Labour conference to get into ubuntu. Eh? Ubuntu. That was what Bill Clinton told the Labour party conference it needed to remember this week. "Society is important because of Ubuntu." But what is it? Left-leaning sudoku? U2's latest album? Fish-friendly sushi? No, it's a word describing an African worldview, which translates as "I am because you are," and which means that individuals need other people to be fulfilled. The former president, husky-voiced...

<p>FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON ON NOT CAPTURING BIN LADEN: 'At least I tried. That's the difference between me and some, including all the right wingers. They ridicule me for trying. They had eight months to try, they did not try. I tried. So I tried and failed'...</p>

The Note: 9/11/2006 One Nation BY MARK HALPERIN, DAVID CHALIAN, TEDDY DAVIS, MATT STUART, and EMILY O'DONNELL with KARUNA SESHASAI, CATRIN JONES, MONA RAPHAEL, and ERICA ANDERSON — - WASHINGTON, Sep. 11 In this week's New Yorker, David Remnick turns in an excellent and truly must-read behind-the-scenes look at Clinton's post-presidential life and travels. For those interested in all things Clinton, it has Bill Clinton on the record saying things he normally won't say on those terms ("I am sick of Karl Rove's bullshit." and attacking the Washington Post's Sue Schmidt), and talking about presidential politics, including saying John Edwards...

Clinton pins voting woes on Blackwell Strickland gets ex-president's help Sunday, September 17, 2006 Mark Naymik Plain Dealer Politics Writer Former President Bill Clinton, in a brief stop Saturday in Cleveland, blamed Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Blackwell for Ohio's voting problems during the state's close 2004 presidential election. Campaigning for Democrat Ted Strickland, Clinton referred to Blackwell, the state's chief election officer, as a "fellow whose main credential as a Republican is that he tried to disempower so many people." Cheered on by nearly a thousand people in a ballroom at the Intercontinental Hotel just east of downtown, he displayed...

The ex-President's attack on TV's 9/11 drama signals his re-emergence on to the world stage and a bid to protect his legacy It was the week he came out fighting. Bill Clinton's extraordinary assault on the makers of a dramatised 9/11 documentary which portrayed his administration as failing to prevent the terror attacks, was the most public example of a three-pronged effort - to protect his own presidential legacy, to relaunch himself as a world statesman and to make himself a viable First Gentleman should his wife Hillary achieve her own ambitions on the White House. The publicity onslaught was...

Ex-president Bill Clinton defended his wife Hillary on Friday for claiming last month that the GOP-led Congress was being run like a "plantation," adding that he thought House Democrats were being treated like "sharecroppers." Asked if he agreed with Mrs. Clinton's comment, the ex-president told WCBS Radio's Peter Maer: "Oh, absolutely I do. And it had no racial overtones." "It was more about the arbitrary and complete exercise of power and control," he contended." Clinton cited an unnamed farmer-turned-congressman from East Arkansas who told him he agreed with Hillary as well. "I wouldn't say we were slaves," Clinton quoted the...