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Former President Bill Clinton campaigns for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., Monday, Oct. 20, 2008 at Kirkwood high school in St. Louis. US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (right) introduces former president Bill Clinton during a rally for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama in Las Vegas, Nevada. Obama profited from the coveted backing of former secretary of state Colin Powell and a jaw-dropping cash haul entering into the final fortnight of the epic White House race Former president Bill Clinton listens to a speech by Democratic senatorial candidate Rick Noriega during a rally, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008, in...

I'd be happy to be wrong. For a variety of reasons, I'd prefer Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic presidential nominee. But it's not going to happen. She'll be clobbered in Wisconsin tomorrow. She might run ahead, even win, the popular vote in Texas, but the delegate count will be close, probably pro-Obama. The media talk, the popular mood, the times -- they all work for Obama. Finally, there's been the Clinton campaign. Fighting, seriously, today about Obama's borrowing of rhetoric from a friend is a sign of desperation. Obama is derivative. So is everyone. And Bill Clinton --...

One Jerusalem today organized a blogger conference call with noted political strategist Dick Morris. Mr. Morris is best known as a central strategist in Bill Clinton's re-election campaign for President of the United States. Last week, Mr. Morris and Eileen McGann published a critical article about the Clinton's that the Main Stream Media largely ignored. Entitled "Emir's A Gusher for Bill and Hillary" the op-ed charges that Bill Clinton and those in the inner circle of both Clintons have enjoyed large financial benefits from Clinton's relationship with Sheik Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum. This story involves the controversial Dubai ports...

I had to laugh. Watching Clinton scold, and wag that bony finger again on television, brought back fond memories of The Big Lie. Every time he lies, he gets self-righteous, angry, red-faced and in-your-face as he was with Chris Wallace of FoxNews, who merely asked Himself a standard interview question that’s been asked of President Bush, oh, about a thousand times. Wallace asked Clinton why he didn't do more to put bin Laden and al-Qaida out of business when he was president. When Clinton went ballistic on this query, I thought, “So….…what’s this second Big Lie?” and I also thought...

Received this morning in my throw away email address. From: "Bill Clinton" {dccc@dccc.org} Subject: The Difference Between Us and Them Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:42:43 -0400 Contribute NOW before September 30th to take advantage of the DCCC's 3-to-1 match. Dear Lewis, The stakes have never been higher. The opportunity has never been greater. In fewer than 40 days, we have the opportunity to send America in a new direction and elect leaders who will bring the change this nation desperately needs. The governing philosophy of the Republicans leading America today could be described as divide and conquer. Time after...

Byron York exposes the pathetic nature of former president Clinton's defense of his failure to take out Osama bin Laden. Clinton rests his defense on Richard Clarke's book: "All I’m asking is if anybody wants to say I didn’t do enough, you read Richard Clarke’s book." But even in Clarke's pro-Clinton account, the former president comes across as hopelessly unserious. Here's how Clarke sums things up: Because of the intensity of the political opposition that Clinton engendered, he had been heavily criticized for bombing al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, for engaging in ‘Wag the Dog’ tactics to divert attention from...

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...

<p>An hour with Larry, a night with Mick — even moments with Mikhail and Sergei: Former President Clinton has had a full dance card this week.</p> <p>Thursday night, Mr. Clinton spent an hour with CNN's Larry King, talking over terrorism, the Space Shuttle Columbia, an encounter with former Vice President Al Gore, his daughter's new boyfriend, tax cuts, his memoirs, his charitable work, his tendency to be a "pack rat" and the recent travails of former Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott.</p>

Ex-President Bill Clinton, who collected FBI files on political opponents, targeted witnesses against him with IRS audits and hired private detectives to intimidate his ex-girlfriends, complained Tuesday that the Republican Party had a political "destruction machine." "They have a destruction machine. We don't have a destruction machine," Clinton told the Democratic Leadership Council in an address at New York University. The ex-president charged that "extreme right-wing elements in the media" were responsible for smearing Democrats on national security issues, saying he was particularly dismayed by attacks on Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle. "What was done to Tom Daschle was...