Bill Clinton News

Clinton 2008 Campaign Still Hasn’t Paid Off Debt

1:18 pm EST May 11th, 2010 | Politics | 7 Comments

I just got this in email. Wow.

Bush Vs. Clinton On The Economy

9:58 am EST April 27th, 2010 | Politics | 11 Comments

One of the two grew median income. One didn’t.

Topic: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush

Clinton – And All Of Us – Shoulder Some Of The Derivative Blame

3:39 pm EST April 19th, 2010 | Business | 18 Comments

bill clinton In his interview with Jake Tapper, President Clinton said that he was wrong in his decisions on regulating derivatives and that he received wrong advice. That’s a good start, but President Clinton’s decisions are a prime example of why when the economy does well in the future we must resist the urge to give businesses free reign.

I was one of those people in the past who favored a lot of deregulation, especially in telecom – an industry I sort of worked in as a dotcom web developer. Why not? In 1999-2001 we were all going to be insanely rich via our dotcoms and whatnot.

We will have booms and busts again and again, and what the dotcom and real estate booms should show us are that it’s never as good a time as we think it is, even when times are actually good. Similarly I don’t think that things are going to get as bad as people currently say.

Topic: Bill Clinton, Economic Crisis, Economy

Bill Clinton Hospitalized In New York With Chest Pains

4:43 pm EST February 11th, 2010 | News | 7 Comments

Bill Clinton

UPDATE2: Clinton office says following visit to cardiologist, he underwent procedure to put 2 stents in.

UPDATE: President Clinton is at Columbia Campus of NY Presbyterian Hospital

NBC is reporting that President Clinton received a stent.

CNN’s John King says hospitalization for chest pains.

CBS’ Mark Knoller: “Clinton is said to be undergoing examination by his heart surgeon Dr. Craig Smith.”

Flashback:

On September 2, 2004, while campaigning for Kerry, Clinton had an episode of angina and was evaluated at Northern Westchester Hospital. It was determined he did not suffer a coronary infarction, and he was sent home, returning the following day for angiography, which disclosed multiple vessel coronary artery disease. He was transferred to Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, where he underwent a successful on-pump quadruple coronary artery bypass surgery on September 6, 2004. The medical team stated, had he not had surgery, he would have likely suffered a massive heart attack within a few months. As a complication of his heart surgery, Clinton underwent a follow-up surgery on March 10, 2005 for a left pleural effusion, removing scar tissue and fluid from his left chest cavity. He has since recovered.

Topic: Bill Clinton

VIDEO: Clinton-Bush Haiti Relief Ad

9:24 pm EST January 16th, 2010 | News | 19 Comments

At President Obama’s request, President Clinton and President Bush are working together to raise money for Haiti relief. For something this important, we can put differences aside for a moment.

Topic: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Haiti, World

Time’s Michael Scherer needs to define “hiding”

4:08 pm EST January 14th, 2010 | Media | 13 Comments

Bill Clinton in “hiding” as defined by Time Magazine

Sometimes journalists have what they believe to be such a juicy, gossipy pre-written narrative for their story that despite the actual facts they go ahead and publish it anyway. Today’s example is Time Magazine’s Michael Scherer, who writes:

Bill Clinton has been in hiding. Not literally, of course. But in practice–totally. Since his dispiriting turn in the 2008 elections–offending Ted Kennedy, calling Obama a “fairy tale,” bumbling in South Carolina–the former president made the hard call: He volunteered to leave the public spotlight so that his wife could become Secretary of State. And even that earned him no brownie points, just more concern.

If he has been “hiding” since the 2008 election, as Scherer puts it, President Clinton has done so in a way no politician has ever done before: Being involved in international events in the full view of thousands of journalists armed with television cameras, sound equipment, and notepads.

In May of 2009, the United Nations appointed President Clinton special envoy to Haiti, after a high profile trip there in March with the UN Secretary General and singer Wyclef Jean.

In August of 2009, President Clinton traveled to North Korea in order to negotiate with Kim Jong-il for the succesful release of journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee. At the time, the NY Times reported:

Mr. Clinton’s mission to Pyongyang was the most visible by an American in nearly a decade. It came at a time when the United States’ relationship with North Korea had become especially chilled, after North Korea’s test of its second nuclear device in May and a series of missile launchings.

A month later, President Clinton held the latest meeting of his Clinton Global Initiative in New York. The event was attended by such obscure figures as Brad Pitt, Kofi Annan, Al Gore, and President Obama. Generally when one is in hiding, he or she doesn’t do so in the company of celebrities, former vice presidents, former secretary generals of the United Nations, and the current President of the United States.

In October of 2009, President Clinton rallied with Virginia gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds and New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Jon Corzine. Neither rally was held in secret.

As recently as November of 2009, in an event reported on by Scherer’s own Time magazine, President Clinton met with Senate Democrats to discuss health care reform. You can even listen to the audio of the event on Time.com!

If Clinton has been in “hiding”, as Scherer claims, he’s doing it wrong.

Topic: Bill Clinton, Michael Scherer, Time Magazine

Big Dog In The Fight

3:01 am EST November 10th, 2009 | News | 7 Comments

President Clinton will be talking to senate Dems about health care reform. I’m pretty sure there will be lip biting and thumb pointing involved.

A notice obtained by CNN went out to Senate Democrats saying, ‘All Senators should be aware that former President Clinton will be making a presentation on Health Care at tomorrow’s caucus lunch. Senator Reid has requested that all Democratic Senators attend.’

We need a bill on the president’s desk by Christmas, at the very latest, New Years Eve.

Topic: Bill Clinton, Democratic Senate, Harry Reid, Health Care

“Bill Clinton to the Rescue”

3:32 pm EST August 6th, 2009 | News | 2 Comments

Read the rest.

Moses: Let my people go.

Pharaoh: No.

Moses: If you don’t, you will have to face the wrath of G–

Bill Clinton: Hey, hey! Moses, Pharaoh, listen; I think we can work this out.

Moses: We can?

Pharaoh: You’re right! Bill, you’re so right. I’ll let the Isrealites go.

Moses: That’s great! I mean, I had this whole thing about turning a stick into a snake and some plagues, but I guess I don’t need that. Thanks, Bill!

Bill Clinton: Anytime, guys.

Topic: Bill Clinton, Humor

Bill Clinton To North Korea To Negotiate For Journalists

10:33 pm EST August 3rd, 2009 | News | 4 Comments

CNN is reporting that President Clinton is going to North Korea to try and negotiate the release of the journalists they’re holding, Laura Ling and Euna Lee of Current TV…

Topic: Bill Clinton, North Korea

Oh Memories

2:00 am EST January 29th, 2009 | News | 1 Comment

Republican response to the Democratic president’s budget proposal.

Now, Republicans and some Democrats in Congress heard the message you sent us last November. You wanted us to cut spending first — and we had a plan to do just that. It was a good plan. We tried to eliminate the President’s requested tax increases. We tried to make real cuts in Government spending. But, unfortunately, the President and the liberal Democrats in Congress defeated all of these proposals.

The third question you should ask is, does the President’s plan help put Americans back to work? And the answer is, no — N.O. — No.

That was the Republican response… in 1993. The bill later passed without any Republican support, just like how President Obama’s economic stimulus passed without Republican support in the House (my guess is a few Senate Republicans might peel off, though we’ve got the votes for passage anyhow).

Under President Clinton we had one of the largest and longest peacetime expansions of the U.S. economy in history. So, theres that precedent.

I don’t have a crystal ball to say where the economy will be, though I think under President Obama’s leadership we’ll find our way out of the hole dug by the previous occupant, but one thing I know for sure is that the right is peddling the same bull they’re always peddling.