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Somber Clinton Soldiers On as the Horizon DarkensTo her longtime friends, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton sounds unusually philosophical on the phone these days. She rarely uses phrases like “when I’m president” anymore. Somber at times, determined at others, she talks to aides and confidants about the importance of focusing on a good day’s work. No drapes are being measured in her mind’s eye, they say.And Mrs. Clinton has begun thanking some of her major supporters for helping her run for the Democratic presidential nomination.
“When this is all over, I’m really looking forward to seeing you,” she told one of those supporters by phone the other day.
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Bill Clinton stays out of the headlinesAs the vote was counted in last month's South Carolina primary, Bill Clinton's outsize personality and controversial statements were looking more and more like a liability.Permalink [Category: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Hillary Clinton]The former president is still working hard on the campaign but -- at least for a spell -- he has slipped out of the news.
According to the Project for Excellence in Journalism, Hillary Rodham Clinton's hubby "registered as a significant or dominant newsmaker" in only 2% of stories Feb. 4 to Feb. 10, compared with 18% when South Carolina was in play in late January.
Clinton 'triumphs' in Florida, sort ofDAVIE, FLA. -- She won big in the Florida primary, but whether Hillary Rodham Clinton won anything that counts in the fierce competition for the Democratic presidential nomination is much less certain.Permalink [Category: Clinton, Hillary Clinton Archive]No delegates were at stake here Tuesday, meaning Clinton's double-digit victory over Barack Obama gets her no closer to the magic number of 2,025 delegates needed to clinch the nomination.
Still, she did all she could to play up the outcome. Clinton jetted down to Florida from Washington for a celebration, savoring the win and casting it as genuine. Delegates or not, it was a better day than Saturday, when she lost the South Carolina primary to Obama by 28 percentage points.
The Clinton Race GambitAsked by a reporter why it took "two" Clintons to beat Mr. Obama, Mr. Clinton replied that "Jesse Jackson won South Carolina" in 1984 and 1988. And he added that both Rev. Jackson and Mr. Obama had run "a good campaign here." Hmmm. The reporter hadn't mentioned Jesse Jackson, but Mr. Clinton somehow felt it apposite to refer to him anyway. He thus associated Mr. Obama's landslide victory with that of a black candidate who never did win the Democratic nomination, much less the Presidency, and who had run overtly as an African-American candidate in contrast to Mr. Obama's explicit campaign theme of transcending race.Permalink [Category: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Hillary Clinton Archive, Race, South Carolina Primary]
Anyone who thinks this was accidental has spent too much time with Sid Blumenthal. While Mr. Obama won a respectable 24% of white voters, according to Saturday's exit polls, Mrs. Clinton still won 36% and John Edwards 39% of the white vote. Mr. Obama won 78% of the black vote.The Clintons are now eager to make Mr. Obama into a Rev. Jackson-style "black candidate" as they contest primaries with a larger share of white and Hispanic voters than there were in South Carolina. The Clintons want to portray Mr. Obama as a candidate with a narrowly racial appeal, both to undermine his larger and inspirational message of "unity," and also to play to whatever doubts still exist about an African-American candidate among Democratic voters.
Slick Willie Rides AgainThe Clintons play dirty when they feel threatened. But we knew that, didn't we?Permalink [Category: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Hillary Clinton Archive]The recent roughing-up of Barack Obama was in the trademark style of the Clinton years in the White House. High-minded and self-important on the surface, smarmily duplicitous underneath, meanwhile jabbing hard to the groin area. They are a slippery pair and come as a package. The nation is at fair risk of getting them back in the White House for four more years. The thought makes me queasy.
Clinton’s Campaign Sees Value in Keeping Former President in Attack ModeANDERSON, S.C. — Advisers to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton say they have concluded that Bill Clinton’s aggressive politicking against Senator Barack Obama is resonating with voters, and they intend to keep him on the campaign trail in a major role after the South Carolina primary.Permalink [Category: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Hillary Clinton Archive]The benefits of having Mr. Clinton challenge Mr. Obama so forcefully, over Iraq and Mr. Obama’s record and statements, they say, are worth the trade-offs of potentially overshadowing Mrs. Clinton at times, undermining his reputation as a statesman and raising the question among voters about whether they are putting him in the White House as much as her.
After three weeks of nearly nonstop campaigning, set off by Mrs. Clinton’s third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses, Mr. Clinton has shown as much ability as his wife — or even more — to stir public and news media skepticism about Mr. Obama’s position on Iraq and his message of nonpartisan leadership, Clinton advisers say.
Is Former President Clinton Stealing the Spotlight?The former president has been tirelessly campaigning on behalf of his wife since he arrived in South Carolina yesterday. He attended three different events, ending the last one around 11:30 p.m., almost 12 hours after he landed in the state.Permalink [Category: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Hillary Clinton Archive]After little sleep (rumor has it that he was playing cards until 3:30 a.m.) he started again this morning at 8:30 a.m. Though he looked tired, he didn't miss a beat.
At a campaign event this morning, Clinton defended his wife's six-year tenure on Wal-Mart's board of directors, saying that she advocated for more environmentally friendly practices, as well as more American-based production
The Clintons Double-Team ObamaAt one point in Monday evening's contentious Democratic debate, Barack Obama complained, "I can't tell who I'm running against sometimes" — Hillary or Bill Clinton. The Illinois senator may have simply been trying to make a rhetorical point about the former President's role in recent weeks as his wife's attack dog, but his criticism soon seemed much more valid. Later that night Hillary Clinton announced plans to spend the next few days campaigning in Super Tuesday delegate-rich states such as California and Arizona, leaving South Carolina — which holds its Democratic primary Saturday — in her husband's hands.Permalink [Category: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Hillary Clinton Archive, Obama Archive]
Clinton’s No. 1 Surrogate Clashes With No. 1 RivalGREENVILLE, S.C. — With Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton campaigning more than 2,500 miles away, her fight against Senator Barack Obama in South Carolina’s Democratic presidential primary emerged here Tuesday as a head-to-head match between him and her husband.Former President Bill Clinton, reprising his role of campaigner in a state he won in the 1992 primary, sought to tone down the feuding that exploded between the two candidates in a televised debate Monday night. Mr. Clinton said he was not standing in the way of Mr. Obama’s becoming the first black president, adding that he hoped he could vote for him one day, just not this year.
“No one has a right to be president,” Mr. Clinton said, “including Hillary.”
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Bill Clinton, Stumping and SimmeringHillary Rodham Clinton may be the spouse running for office, but it is more Bill Clinton who appears to be feeling the heat.Permalink [Category: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Hillary Clinton Archive]After weeks of complaining publicly about Barack Obama’s record, the news media’s coverage of the Democratic presidential race, or both, Mr. Clinton on Wednesday ripped into a television reporter who had asked him about a Nevada lawsuit concerning participation in the state’s caucuses this Saturday. Mr. Clinton believed the question had seemed sympathetic to Mr. Obama’s stakes in the suit, Clinton campaign officials said.
Jewish Voters Lean Toward ClintonEight years ago, in her first campaign for the Senate, Hillary Rodham Clinton was scrambling to put out fires with a troublesome local minority: Jewish voters.Now, she’s emerged as the candidate with the bulk of establishment Jewish support as the presidential campaign moves to Nevada, home to Las Vegas and the fastest-growing Jewish community in the country.
Clinton, whose embrace of the wife of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in 1999 made the front pages of the New York Post, won her Senate seat despite receiving fewer votes from Jewish voters than the norm for a Democrat, her aides say.
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Protesters Ask Clinton to Iron ShirtsSALEM, N.H. (AP) -- Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign stop was interrupted Monday when two men stood in the crowd and began screaming, ''Iron my shirt!'' during one of her final appearances before the New Hampshire primary.Permalink [Category: Clinton, Gender]Clinton, a former first lady running to become the nation's first female president, laughed at the seemingly sexist protest that suggested a woman's place is doing the laundry and not running the country.
''Ah, the remnants of sexism -- alive and well,'' Clinton said to applause in a school auditorium.
Both Clintons' legacies may rest on N.H.People always state the obvious: That Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) is not the politician her husband is.Permalink [Category: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Hillary Clinton Archive, New Hampshire Primary]They tend to overlook the less obvious: She has never been forced to be that kind of politician.
Until now.
The essence of Bill Clinton’s political skill was a fearsome — and usually fear-driven — instinct for survival. Time and again, he summoned an almost mystical ability to connect with voters at the very moment he was confronting disaster. And the first place that astonishing talent sprang to national notice was the very place the 2008 campaign has arrived at now: New Hampshire.
Romney Takes Swipe at Clinton WH YearsWASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Mitt Romney said Wednesday that if elected president he and his wife will not embarrass the nation by their conduct in the White House as happened in ''the Clinton years.''Permalink [Category: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Hillary Clinton Archive, Romney Archive]In an interview on CNN, Romney was asked about comments he made at recent house parties in Iowa that he and his wife, Ann, would not embarrass the nation in the White House. He is campaigning for Thursday's Republican presidential caucuses in Iowa, while Hillary Rodham Clinton is campaigning on the Democratic side.
''We'll try and represent ourselves and our nation well also to our kids because I think, I think kids watch the White House and there have been failures in the past in the White House -- if you go back to the Clinton years and recognize that -- that I think had an enormous impact on the culture of our country,'' Romney said. ''And we'll do our very best, our whole family will to -- well, if we can't be perfect, we'll do our best to uphold and to be a good example for the kinds of values I think people expect from our leaders.''
The Magic & Bill Show, Providing The Charisma AssistWATERLOO, Iowa -- Moments before Bill Clinton and Magic Johnson, the former president and the former point guard, are supposed to take the stage here in the small, no-frills gymnasium of the local Boys & Girls Club, you see it from behind a purple curtain. It's a pouf of white hair bouncing up and down, up and down. Whether it's a hop or a jump is beside the point. What it is, is this: Bill Clinton getting revved up to stump for his wife. It's Bill Clinton . . . getting pumped.Permalink [Category: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Hillary Clinton Archive, Media]"Oh yeah, he was getting ready," Johnson, who led the Los Angeles Lakers to five NBA championships, explains later. "He was just getting fired up. We both got fired up. He was just jumping, getting ready."
In the frantic rush to the Jan. 3 caucuses in Iowa, the Surrogate-in-Chief has not been making headlines for being psyched up. No, the buzz is that he's meddling, annoyed and angry as the sheen of inevitability has worn off Hillary Clinton's campaign, with everyone bracing for a bare-knuckles contest whose fate might not be decided until the final hours. There have been reports of Bill Clinton, who once joked easily with "The Daily Show's" Jon Stewart about a limited role in the campaign and presidency, seizing control from top campaign advisers and aides. During a recent appearance on "Charlie Rose," he lashed out at the media for not examining Barack Obama's campaign with the same attention to detail they've given his wife's. Sitting in the darkness of the set, Clinton seemed, well, bitter.
In ’08 Race, the Other Clinton Steps Up PubliclyDUNLAP, Iowa — When Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign advisers laid out their new political strategy in a private conference call with allies last Tuesday, Bill Clinton was not on the line. He did not need to be. The message being delivered was his.A day earlier, Mr. Clinton had unveiled the campaign’s new talking points at rallies in Iowa. His wife was “a change agent,” “a proven agent of positive change” and “a lifetime advocate of a change agenda.”
The “change, change, change” phrase, as some advisers call it, was coined by Mr. Clinton after he told campaign officials that the old strategy of running like an incumbent front-runner was not enough, advisers said. The Clintons had to wrest the message of change from Senator Barack Obama.
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Clinton Invites Voters to 'Inspect' HerDUNLAP, Iowa (AP) -- Standing atop a stage in a livestock auction barn, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton likened the experience to her quest to woo undecided voters in the closing days before Iowa's pivotal caucuses.Permalink [Category: Clinton, Hillary Clinton Archive]''I've been to cattle barns before and sales before, in Arkansas, but I've never felt like I was the one that was being bid on,'' Clinton told a crowd in western Iowa. ''I know you're going to inspect me. You can look inside my mouth if you want. I hope by the end of my time with you I can make the case for my candidacy and to ask you to consider caucusing for me.''
The former first lady made her comments during the launch of a five-day campaign blitz across Iowa less than three weeks before the state's January 3 caucuses. Buoyed by the endorsement of the state's largest newspaper, Clinton said she ''could not be more pumped up'' and that her campaign had regained its momentum after several shaky weeks.
Obama, Clinton Tied in New HampshireAfter months of leading the Democratic field in New Hampshire, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is effectively tied with Illinois Sen. Barack Obama. Clinton had a 14-point lead in the same poll last month. Television talk show star Oprah Winfrey held big campaign events for Obama while the poll was being conducted, including one in New Hampshire Dec. 9. Among Republicans, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has been surging in Iowa and nationally, but remains in single digits in New Hampshire. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has a 13-point lead over his nearest rivals, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Arizona Sen. John McCain.Permalink [Category: Clinton, New Hampshire Primary, Obama Archive, Polls]
Bill Sweats It Out for Hil in New Web AdWASHINGTON (AP) -- Get that man an Actors' Equity card. Bill Clinton is developing a side line as top performer on his wife's comic Web videos.First was ''The Sopranos'' send-up with the former president lamenting the lack of onion rings at the hometown diner. Now comes a video for new Iowa caucus-goers reassuring them that participating on behalf of Hillary Rodham Clinton on Jan. 3 is simple.
It opens with Clinton huffing on a treadmill envisioning a double cheeseburger. Can you say typecasting?
Clinton rebukes rivals for 'gang up' on HillaryNORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Former President Bill Clinton told voters in South Carolina yesterday that the "boys" have been ganging up on his wife in recent weeks but that she can take it.Permalink [Category: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Hillary Clinton Archive]"She's been doing this on her own for a long time now," said Mr. Clinton during a visit to a hair salon and day spa on a daylong trip through this decidedly red state on behalf of the presidential campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York Democrat.
"She knows that personal attacks are a part of politics," Mr. Clinton told reporters as he greeted the women getting their hair relaxed and curled at Anjea's Hair Studio and Spa. In recent weeks, other Democratic candidates, particularly Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois and former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, have sharpened their criticism of the former first lady, the front-runner for the nomination.
Clinton: Blame Me for Health FailureGLENWOOD, Iowa (AP) -- Former President Clinton said Thursday that he is to blame for his administration's failed health care plan, not his wife, who spearheaded the effort.Permalink [Category: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Health Care, Hillary Clinton Archive]Clinton was asked about the plan during a campaign event, where he spoke to about 600 people crowded into a YMCA gymnasium. The health care effort was led by then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, now a New York senator and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.
''She has taken the rap for some of the problems we had with health care the last time that were far more my fault than hers,'' the former president said.
He said part of the problem was a lack of money to finance the health care expansion. Money could be available this time to pay for expanded health care, such as the universal health care plan Hillary Clinton has proposed.
Clinton Says Debate Made Dems VulnerableCHICAGO (AP) -- Former President Clinton said Wednesday that all the Democratic presidential candidates could be open to a ''swift boat kind of ad'' if they try to give quick responses to complicated issues like driver's licenses for illegal immigrants.Permalink [Category: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Debates, Hillary Clinton Archive]A day after being criticized for defending his wife, the former president tried to explain his comments linking criticism of Hillary Rodham Clinton to the swift boat campaign against John Kerry's military record in the 2004 campaign. Bill Clinton made the comparison Monday during a speech in Las Vegas.
Sen. Chris Dodd said it was ''way over the top.'' Sen. Barack Obama said he was stunned to hear the former president make such a comparison.
At the end of a Democratic presidential debate last week, Hillary Clinton hedged when asked whether she supported a plan by her home state governor to issue licenses to illegal immigrants. Dodd, Obama and others have accused her of trying to have it both ways on the issue.
Hillary Clinton Rivals Take on BillWASHINGTON (AP) -- Bill Clinton was hit with caustic criticism Tuesday from his wife's Democratic rivals, who accused the popular former president of falsely comparing questions about her candor to smears of past campaigns.Permalink [Category: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Hillary Clinton Archive]In a presidential nomination fight growing more intense by the day, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama also criticized the former first lady for having voted in the Senate against incentives for ethanol production and higher fuel efficiency standards. And 2004 vice presidential nominee John Edwards challenged her to spell out what she would do about Iraq.
The week after Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign accused her rivals of ''piling on,'' those foes showed no sign of easing up. They even went so far as to criticize the former president, a strategy that comes with risks in a party filled with voters who admire him for resurrecting the party in the 1990s.
On Monday, in defense of his wife against political critics, Bill Clinton cited the ''swift boat'' television ads of the 2004 presidential campaign that questioned John Kerry's patriotism and the campaign commercials in 2002 that suggested Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia was soft on terrorism.
Giuliani Impersonates Hillary, Says Bill Clinton Had Head in the SandSpeaking at a town hall in Berlin, New Hampshire, Giuliani first set his sights on Hillary Clinton and used humor to answer a question about Clinton's much analyzed debate response on whether she supported a plan to grant driver's licenses to illegal aliens in New York state.Permalink [Category: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Giuliani Archive, Hillary Clinton Archive]"Oh gee I can't figure out what to think," said Giuliani satirizing Clinton.
"Don't pick on me by asking that question. That's a gotcha question. Do not pick on me for asking that question. Now let me see what I think…. Let me see… First put up your hands and tell me what you think. Then I'll tell you what I think. Are you for it or against it? Ok, you're not gonna tell me. So I'm for it, for it. I am against it. I'm for it and against it. And I wanna be your president."
Clinton Calls Clinton Best SuccessorNEW YORK (AP) -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton was hailed by her husband Saturday as the best Democratic choice for the White House at a rally just uptown from his Harlem office where they were greeted by the sweet sounds of the Abyssinian Baptist Church choir and the handclaps of its congregation.Permalink [Category: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Hillary Clinton Archive]''I would be campaigning for Hillary even if I was not married to her,'' former President Clinton said from the altar of the historic church on West 138th Street. ''I believe she is the best qualified, best suited non-incumbent ever.''
The Clintons appeared before the near-capacity crowd with the senator walking out first, followed by her husband. The church echoed with cheers as Bill Clinton saluted the crowd, which responded with chants of ''Hillary! Hillary!''
A Second Stint as First Daughter?Asked which parent Chelsea Clinton most resembles, friends tick through the mother-daughter similarities. There is the habit of pre-empting questions by asking lots of them. The passionate interest in health care. The tendency to sound a bit scripted when talking about policy, even in private. The way both borrowed on family contacts to establish post-White House careers, but won over skeptical colleagues with their diligence and enthusiasm.And if her mother, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, manages to become the first female president of the United States, Chelsea Clinton could be in a historic, head-spinning position of her own: the first first child twice over.
She certainly brings experience to the job. At age 12, she appeared in Bill Clinton’s “Man From Hope” video, testifying to his fatherly virtues. (Mr. Clinton also told viewers of his daughter’s forgiving reaction to his admissions about marital transgressions.) During the Monica Lewinsky scandal six years later, she was photographed hand in hand with her parents, seemingly holding them together.
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This time, it's Hillary & BillDES MOINES -- It was a given that Sen. Hillary Clinton would exploit her most powerful weapon -- the nation's 42nd president -- but perhaps not quite this visibly so early in the campaign season.After working behind the scenes for months to raise money and woo supporters, former President Bill Clinton is back on stage this week for three days of campaigning at his wife's side in the crucial early voting state of Iowa, where her campaign has been lagging.
Their joint appearance Monday in front of several thousand people at the Iowa State Fairgrounds marked the first time the senator from New York and her ex-president husband have actively campaigned together since she announced her presidential bid early this year.
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Brownback writes of 'hatred' of ClintonsWASHINGTON --Sam Brownback says he harbored a "hatred" of Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton until he experienced a religious awakening in the mid-1990s.Permalink [Category: Brownback, Clinton]Brownback, a Republican presidential hopeful, details in a new book how the change in outlook led him to make a stunning apology to Hillary Clinton a few years later during a Senate prayer breakfast.
"I was considering what I should say when I confronted all the anger that I held for the Clintons," the Kansas senator writes in the book, "From Power to Purpose: A Remarkable Journey of Faith and Compassion."
Giuliani Slams Bill Clinton on TerrorismVIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday accused former President Clinton of not responding forcefully enough to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing or later terrorist attacks.Permalink [Category: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Giuliani Archive, Hillary Clinton Archive, Security]The former New York mayor criticized Democrats, accusing them of weakness and naivete in dealing with terrorism. Giuliani made the comments to about 650 business, corporate and political leaders at Regent University, the conservative Christian college founded by religious broadcaster Pat Robertson.
''Islamic terrorists killed more than 500 Americans before Sept. 11. Many people think the first attack on America was on Sept. 11, 2001. It was not. It was in 1993,'' said the former New York mayor.
Clinton Booed Again by Hard Left at Progressive ConferenceDemocratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton was booed this morning by some attendees at the liberal Take Back America conference for blaming failure in Iraq on the Iraqi government.Permalink [Category: Clinton, Liberals]"The American military has succeeded. It is the Iraqi government, which has failed to make the tough decisions that are important for their own people," the New York senator said from the podium, earning jeers from some members of the audience.
In New Video, Clinton Channels the SopranosShot at a Mt. Kisco diner, the Clinton video traces the finale and the show so overtly that the character everyone knows as Johnny Sack, played by the actor Vincent Curatola, makes a cameo appearance to the double-eyebrow raising of the couple.Permalink [Category: Ads, Bill Clinton, Clinton, Hillary Clinton Archive, Internet]It’s a great spoof off the ending of the HBO series - even though so many people were disappointed with the abrupt closing shot, when the music and the filming just cuts on Tony’s face with “Don’t Stop” - from the refrain of the Journey song.
The other two videos in her series have been widely viewed on YouTube, where she seemed to have a lot of fun kicking this game off. Peter Daou, her Internet director, recently deemed the contest quite a success. The campaign release counted up more than 1 million views of the two song videos before this one, 200,000 votes for a song, and more than 25,000 song suggestions.
Former President Clinton to Campaign With WifeDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Former President Clinton will campaign with his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in Iowa next month, seeking to boost her bid for the Democratic nomination in a state where she trails in the polls. The former president will spend three days in Iowa with Sen. Clinton from July 2-4.Permalink [Category: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Hillary Clinton Archive]''The schedule is still being worked out, but it is the first time he's joined the campaign,'' said spokesman Mark Daley. The Clintons have appeared together at campaign fundraisers.
Bill Clinton's decision to join the campaign comes at a time when Sen. Clinton is struggling in Iowa, which opens the nomination process with caucuses in January. Although she leads national polls of Democrats seeking the nomination, recent Iowa polls show her trailing John Edwards in the state. Illinois Sen. Barack Obama also is polling strongly in Iowa.
Clintons Sell Possibly Troublesome StockWASHINGTON (AP) -- Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton liquidated the contents of their blind trust upon learning it contained investments of $5 million to $25 million that could pose conflicts of interest or prove to be embarrassing to her presidential campaign.Permalink [Category: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Hillary Clinton Archive, Money]Aides said the Clintons sold the assets in April after they were informed that her Senate approved blind trust would not meet requirements set by the Office of Government Ethics and would have to be opened. Until then, the Clintons, who have had a blind trust since Bill Clinton became president in 1993, were not aware of the contents of the fund and had no control over its transactions.
Once they peered inside it, they discovered it included investments in oil and drug companies, military contractors and Wal-Mart, campaign spokesman Phil Singer said.
Team Clinton looks stronger than everWASHINGTON -- Sitting in a living room like the one where Hillary Clinton made her video announcement of her presidential campaign, Bill Clinton faces the camera and says, with his trademark squint, "I'm really proud of the way Hillary's campaign is going."That's the start of a five-minute video sent to donors two weeks ago, the first ready-for-YouTube statement from the former president on his wife's campaign. Coming at a moment when the would-be first gentleman is testing the boundaries of his new role, the video is a notable step -- and perhaps cause for some relief in the Clinton camp.
It shows Bill Clinton doing exactly what spouses of presidential candidates have been doing in recent decades: attesting to the personal virtues of a would-be president. It's what Teresa Heinz Kerry seemingly forgot to do at her speech at the Boston convention in 2004, when she talked about her own immigrant journey and her determination to make women's voices heard.
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Carl Bernstein Paints an Unflattering Picture of Clinton MarriageBook Claims Hillary Had Many Romantic Rivals and Considered Running for Governor in Reaction to One Affair
It took Hillary Clinton more than two years to decide to marry Bill Clinton, according to a new book written by Carl Bernstein, in part because she worried that he would be unfaithful to her. And she entered the marriage knowing that, in Bernstein's words, "he was beyond her control when it came to other women."Permalink [Category: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Hillary Clinton Archive]Bernstein writes that Bill Clinton's extramarital affairs began in their courtship. But perhaps none was more potent, according to Bernstein, than the former president's relationship with a wealthy Arkansas divorcee -- Marilyn Jo Jenkins.
Suit Cites Plane Trips for Clintons[..]Permalink [Category: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Hillary Clinton Archive]Since 2002, Gupta spent $900,000 flying the former president to international locations on presidential foundation business and flying Hillary Clinton, a Democratic senator from New York, to political events.
The suit, filed by infoUSA shareholders last year, claims those expenses as well as millions of others unrelated to the Clintons were a ''serial misuse of corporate assets and resources.'' The Clintons are not a party to the suit.
Details of the suit were first reported in February by The Deal, a business publication. Accounts also appeared in Saturday's New York Times and Washington Post.
Clinton Backer's Firm Alleged to Aid ScammersA Nebraska entrepreneur facing allegations that his firm does business with scam artists targeting the elderly, Vinod Gupta, has directed more than $3 million in the past decade to political campaigns and projects connected with President Clinton and Senator Clinton.Permalink [Category: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Hillary Clinton Archive]Mr. Gupta's company, infoUSA, Inc., repeatedly rented marketing databases to unscrupulous individuals who used the lists to engage in fraud, according to the New York Times. A front-page article in the Sunday paper said the company promoted a list called "Suffering Seniors," which featured ailing older people, and other lists of "Elderly Opportunity Seekers" and those deemed to be "gullible."
Chelsea Weighs Role in Hillary's Bid...Chelsea Clinton now is a 27-year-old single woman working in the financial sector in New York City. With her mother's trailblazing quest to win the presidency in 2008, the nation could see Chelsea Clinton return to the White House in a very different role, as an occasional visitor or perhaps even a bride at a White House wedding.Permalink [Category: Bill Clinton, Clinton, Hillary Clinton Archive]Chelsea Clinton has kept a low profile since her mother joined the presidential field in January. She has yet to speak publicly about the prospect of becoming ''first kid'' a second time.
Poll: Clinton, Giuliani Lead in FloridaTHE RACE: The presidential race for Democrats, Republicans in Florida.Permalink [Category: Clinton, Giuliani Archive, Polls]
Clinton Can Shift Big Chunk of Senate Campaign Cash to Presidential BidSenators and House members who decide to run for president can transfer over any leftover amounts in their congressional campaign treasuries as earnest money for their White House campaigns.Permalink [Category: Clinton, Hillary Clinton Archive, Money]And it’s now official that the biggest beneficiary of that provision in federal campaign finance law is the Democratic Party’s fundraising juggernaut: New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the wife of former President Bill Clinton, who on Jan. 20 launched an exploratory committee to start raising money for her long-expected 2008 presidential run.
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