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Bill Clinton Vows to Do `Everything’ He Can for Obama
By Kristin Jensen and Catherine Dodge BLOOMBERG - Former President Bill Clinton said Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is “ready to lead'' and vowed to do everything he could to make sure Obama wins the White House in Novembe...
It’s All About Me
By Kathy Shaidle FRONTPAGE MAG - How can a self-congratulation double as a paean to someone else? That was the question observers asked of Hillary Clinton’s bout of rhetorical self-preoccupation last night. Her speech, bumped out of prim...
Clinton Supporters Say ‘Speech Didn’t Heal’
By Eli Saslow WASHINGTON POST - Hillary Rodham Clinton's most loyal delegates came to the Pepsi Center on Tuesday night looking for direction. They listened, rapt, to a 20-minute speech that many proclaimed the best she had ever delivered, hoping...
Crazy to invite Hillary and Bill
By Katy Burns How many reasons are there for Barack Obama not to choose Hillary Clinton as his running mate? How many ways are there to say "Bill Clinton"? The larger-than-life ex-president has always had a problem with, ah, self-control. D...
Half of House Dems may vote Hillary at DNC, Says Rep.
By Ben Smith POLITICO - Rep. Loretta Sanchez says she’s happy for the chance to vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Democratic National Convention — and she predicts that as many as half of the Democrats in the House could join h...
Hillary Clinton’s Name WILL Be Placed in Nomination at Dems Convention
ABC NEWS - A deal has been brokered between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that will allow Clinton's name to be placed in nomination at next week's Democratic nominating convention, sources close to the Clinton camp told ABC News. ...
Hillary Clinton advised to portray Obama as foreign
By MIKE ALLEN POLITICO - Mark Penn, the top campaign strategist for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), advised her to portray Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) as having a “limited” connection “to basic American values and culture,̶...
Will Hillary Clinton Take The Nomination From Obama At The Last Minute?
By Denis Keohane AMERICAN THINKER - Will Hillary outsmart Obama and take the nomination at the last minute? Many of us familiar with Hillary Clinton's approach to achieving her goals refused to believe that she ever gave up all hope of winning th...
Have Bill and Hillary Clinton Gotten Over It?
The July 31 cocktail reception outside Palo Alto, Calif., had been billed as an evening for letting bygones be bygones, a coming together of Hillary Clinton's Silicon Valley backers with Barack Obama's to help the New York Senator retire her ...
Sen. Hillary Clinton Seeks Democratic Convention Voice
By RICK KLEIN and DAVID CHALIAN Sen. Hillary Clinton told a gathering of supporters last week that she's looking for a "strategy" for her delegates to have their voices heard and "respected" at the Democratic National Convention &...
Top Clinton Donors Meet With McCain Campaign
By Mark Impomeni The Wall Street Journal reports that Carly Fiorina, former Hewlett-Packard CEO and senior adviser to Sen. John McCain, met with a group of 25 prominent supporters and fundraisers for Sen. Hillary Clinton at a private home in We...
Why Didn’t More Women Vote for Hillary?
By Amy Sullivan Amy Klobuchar was a swing voter this year. At the outset of the 2008 race, the 48-year-old Senator from Minnesota was exactly the kind of voter Hillary Clinton's campaign was counting on. Women a generation older would be safely i...
Hillary Clinton faces the final curtain, Carter To Endorse Obama
By Tom Baldwin One by one, members of the Democratic party elite lined up to kill off Hillary Clinton’s presidential ambitions today. They climbed off the fence where so many of them have stubbornly, even pompously, been sitting for the past 16...
Bill & Hillary Clinton Have Officially Lost Their Minds
By John Baer IT IS NOW crystal-clear: The Clintons have jumped the shark, left the building, gone over the edge. And it's time to say buh-bye. Within the last week, Bill said that the media won't report Hillary's "winning," and Hi...
Hillary Clinton Hits Rock Bottom At Mount Rushmore
Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday visited Mount Rushmore for a photo op beneath the stony visages of four legendary presidents - as the national Democratic Party dealt a blow to her hopes of ever joining them. Clinton, who's stumping hard in advan...
Sorry Hillary, 2000 was a long time ago.
By Rich Lowry During the 2000 election controversy, Democrats brayed "count every vote" in Florida and discounted George Bush's eventual victory in the Electoral College because he lost the national popular vote to Al Gore. Hillary Clinto...
Bill Clinton: Puerto Rico key to wife’s popular vote claim
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton took to rural Puerto Rico on Tuesday, urging islanders to turn out in large numbers in a weekend presidential primary to give his wife Hillary a majority of the popular vote cast in all Democratic contests. Speaking...
Bill Clinton Pushing ‘Real Hard’ For Hillary as VP
A graceful exit is never easy in a business as fraught with ego and ambition as presidential politics. Which is why in recent days, quiet calls have started going out to key supporters of Hillary Clinton who are showing signs of wanting to jump ship....
Hillary Clinton: The Al Gore of 2008
By Byron York There have been four quarters in the Democratic presidential nomination battle. We’re late in the fourth quarter now, and when it’s over, Hillary Clinton will likely have won three of the quarters — and won the most vo...
Can Clinton muscle to a VP nod?
By Roger Simon It is possible to muscle your way into a vice presidential nod: You have something the nominee wants, and he has to give it to you. The question is: Does Hillary Clinton have that kind of muscle? Her victories in states such as Ohio, ...
Hillary’s Attempt To Steal The Nomination
–Jonathan Chait Hillary Clinton's rhetoric today about counting the results in Florida and Michigan is simply incredible. Her speech compares discounting the Florida and Michigan primaries to vote suppression and slavery: She said &...
Obama Shouldn’t Let Hillary Clinton on Ticket
By Fred Barnes The last person Barack Obama wants as his vice presidential running mate is Hillary Clinton. But could she, with key assistance from her husband, former President Bill Clinton, force her way onto an Obama ticket? The answer: don't ...
Clinton Vs. Obama: Next Stop, Supreme Court?
By James Andrew Miller As the primary season nears a merciful end, the Clinton-Obama conflict is giving way to Obama-Clinton conjecture. Many in the Democratic Party support a so-called dream ticket of both, with Barack Obama at the top. They believe...
Hillary Clinton Frozen Out
By Martin Sieff John Edwards' endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama won't help the Democrats' front-runner with the white working class, but it marks a major step in the coalescing of the party's establishment elite around Obama, further i...
Clinton Campaign Offends WV Voter, Then Apologizes
After a landslide victory in West Virginia on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton’s Campaign is sending its apologies to a resident within the Mountain State. Julie Corvo of Shepherdstown, WV, was shocked to find an offending message left on her answering...
Florida, Michigan Are “Embarrassing” For Democrats, Says Bill Clinton
By Sarah Amos ABC NEWS - Former President Bill Clinton continued to make a case for seating the delegates in Florida and Michigan Wednesday, saying that it's "shocking and embarrassing" to see the Republican party dealing with this situat...
Hillary Clinton is Looking Like A Sore Loser
By Marsha Mercer What will it take to get Hillary Rodham Clinton to quit? Oh, that’s right, “quit” isn’t in the Clintons’ vocabulary, and she insists she’s staying on the trail “until there’s a nominee....
Clinton Campaign Paid ‘Street Money’ For Votes
By MIKE McINTIRE and MICHAEL LUO In the threadbare border towns of South Texas, one of the country’s poorest regions, enterprising locals like Candelaria Espinoza have long been paid to round up votes for candidates on Election Day. There is ev...
Clinton Campaign Acknowledges $20 Million Debt
Anne E. Kornblut With her campaign falling ever deeper into debt, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton spent a rainy Mother's Day seeking votes ahead of Tuesday's primary here, turning a deaf ear to calls for her to leave a Democratic presidential con...
Hillary Clinton Close To Conceding
By David Nason Not so long ago, the race for the Democratic presidential nomination was dominated by talk of Hillary Clinton's mental toughness and fighting qualities. One critic even referred to the former first lady's "testicular fortit...
