“I made some big mistakes and I know I let a lot of people down. But I’ve also learned some tough lessons. I’m running for mayor because I’ve been fighting for the middle class and those struggling to make it my entire life. I hope I get a second chance to work for you.” – [...]
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Black List “Rodham” Biopic Script Snippets
IF YOU haven’t heard, the Hollywood biopic “Rodham,” by South Korean screenwriter Young Il Kim, has raised a lot of interest in movie land. As people look to the potential 2016 candidacy of Hillary Rodham Clinton, her life as one of the many young lawyers involved in Nixon impeachment is the stuff of presidential biography. [...]
Bill Clinton on Hillary: Stop Obsessing
PERHAPS Bill Clinton should call Rush Limbaugh and Darrel Issa, as well as all the Republicans turning their sights on her over Benghazi. From Politico: The former president hasn’t shied away from encouraging his wife to seek the White House but in an appearance at a fiscal policy summit today, he derided the obsession over [...]
Bush Legacy and Library in Torture’s Shadow
But there is another building, far from Dallas on land leased from Cuba, that symbolizes Mr. Bush’s legacy in a darker, truer way: the military penal complex at Guantánamo Bay where Mr. Bush imprisoned hundreds of men after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a vast majority guilty of no crime. [New York Times] A LIBRARY [...]
Barbara Bush’s Truth, and the George W. Bush Library
“He’s by far the best qualified man,” Mrs. Bush said, “but no.” “We’ve had enough Bushes,” she said, saying “it’s not just four families, or whatever.” [Associated Press] THE LIBRARY of George W. Bush was dedicated today, with the voice of the former president’s mother Barbara Bush speaking truth to whatever Republican power still exists [...]
Why is Politico Citing Jeff Gerth on Hillary Clinton?
DISGRACED after his Whitewater conspiracy theories, Maggie Haberman chooses none other than Jeff Gerth to analyze Clinton’s launch onto the public speaking circuit. Jeff Gerth also appeared in David Bossie’s hit piece “Hillary the Movie.” It gives you an idea of the coverage Politico intends to offer if Clinton decides to run in 2016. Jeff [...]
Queer Talk: Bill Clinton at GLAAD Awards
At the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) annual Media Awards event on Saturday night, Bill Clinton received the Advocate for Change Award, and spoke to the gathering. See the speech in its entirety (about 15 minutes) in the video below. Bill Clinton gives much credit to daughter Chelsea, and her husband, for his [...]
Manchin-Toomey Gun Safety Bill Still Needs More Senate Support to Pass [Clinton Video]
To pass Manchin-Toomey, at least five Republicans must back it. Fifty-five senators caucus with the Democrats, but not all are sure bets to embrace the background check legislation. Sens. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) and Mark Begich (D-Alaska) last week voted against the motion to proceed to the gun control debate. Both are up for reelection next [...]
Tweet WJC @PresBillJeff
“There is nothing worse than a friendless tweeter.” – President Bill Clinton. LEAVE IT to Stephen Colbert… Talking to President Bill Clinton at CGIU..
Maureen Dowd’s “Hillsteria” Derangement
The real question about Hillary is this: When people take a new look at her in the coming years, will they see the past or the future — Mrs. Clinton or Madam President? – Maureen Dowd IT’S A classic front page from Huffington Post, coupled with a post by Jason Linkins, which details what’s been [...]
Hillary’s Mark Penn Question Answers Itself
The question for someone considering whether or not to support Clinton in 2016 is, will a Clinton 2016 campaign pass the Mark Penn Test? The Mark Penn Test, which I just invented, determines whether or not a person should be trusted with the presidency, based solely on one criterion: Whether or not they pay Mark [...]
April Fool’s from David Frum: Hillary Clinton a “Mistake for 2016″
Obviously, past performance is no guarantee of future results. Democrats chose the next guy in line in 2000 — Vice President Al Gore — and they may well do so again. But speaking from across the aisle, it’s just this one observer’s opinion that Democrats would be poorly served by following the Republican example when [...]
Don’t Rush Barbara Walters, She’s Not Done Yet
Her 1999 conversation with Monica Lewinsky remains the highest-rated news interview in television history. [Daily Beast] WHEN WALTERS arrived to sit next to Harry Reasoner his salary had to be raised, because as the first female news anchor in television history, Barbara Walters was getting paid more than the man. However, Walters’ $1-million-a-year contract also [...]
Justice Scalia Versus Ted Olson
“When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage?” Scalia asked Olson. “When did it become unconstitutional to prohibit interracial marriages?” Olson retorted. – Same-sex marriage can’t be stopped by the courts, by Dana Milbank IT WOULD take going through Justice Antonin Scalia’s history of homophobic bigotry to appreciate the gravity of the [...]
Top Story — Queer Talk: Hillary Clinton Supports Marriage Equality [VIDEO] *UPDATED*
UPDATE BELOW Via the Human Rights Campaign: The Human Rights Campaign is honored to have Secretary Clinton’s moving statement as part of our Americans for Marriage Equality series. Now that she has left office and can speak publicly about the issue that is so important to all of us, Hillary shares her experience as Secretary [...]
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