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The Other Clinton

"We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership" - Bill Clinton

The former president and First Husband-hopeful keeps busy stumping for Hillary and raising funds for the Clinton Global Initiative.

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  • March 2008
    • Superdelegate Wants Some Peace and Quiet

      Superdelegate Wants Some Peace and Quiet

      With superdelegates like this, who needs Republicans? The Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton campaigns may be pondering that question after getting Leana Medley's voicemail again, but she doesn't care. "I'm more likely to take a call from a reporter," the director of Missouri’s National Education Association tells the New York Observer. More »

    • Another Pol's Wife Stands by Her Man

      Another Pol's Wife Stands by Her Man

      Silda Wall Spitzer, the Harvard-educated lawyer who stood grimly alongside her husband during his somewhat perplexing apology yesterday, joins the ranks of political wives who suffer publicly the sex scandals of their disgraced mates, ABC writes. She follows in the footsteps of Larry Craig's wife, Suzanne; Jim McGreevey's then-wife, Dana: and, of course, Hillary Clinton, an exception in that she didn't share the podium with Bill at his nadir. More »

    • Clintons Push 'Dream Ticket' —With Obama as Veep

      Clintons Push 'Dream Ticket' —With Obama as Veep

      Both Clintons are hinting that Hillary's camp wants to unite the nation's Democrats by joining forces with Barack Obama—with him as No. 2, Reuters reports. This dream ticket would be an "unstoppable force," Bill has said on the stump, attempting to position his wife as winner and uniter, and Obama as VP material. Obama himself says he's not running for vice president, and remains focused on the top job. More »

    • Superdelegates Waiting to Pick Sides

      Superdelegates Waiting to Pick Sides

      Hillary Clinton lost Wyoming yesterday, but today the Washington Post has some welcome news for the Democratic underdog: Many superdelegates say they’ll wait until the end of the primaries to chose a candidate. “You’re going to see a lot of delegates remaining uncommitted,” said one neutral Democratic congressman. “There’s a sense that this is going to Denver not resolved.” More »

    • Would-Be First Spouse Thrives Out of Spotlight

      Would-Be First Spouse Thrives Out of Spotlight

      Six weeks after Bill Clinton’s aggressive role in his wife’s campaign jeopardized her African-American support and helped drive Ted Kennedy to endorse Barack Obama, the potential First Gentleman is taking a more subdued tack, working far from the media eye to shore up rural voters, bring in the money, and woo superdelegates, the AP reports. More »

    • Chelsea Shows Best of Both Clintons

      Chelsea Shows Best of Both Clintons

      Chelsea Clinton has come into her own on the campaign trail, “self-assured, soothing … at once affable and urbane,” even “the ideal amalgam of her parents’ political talents,” glows Lloyd Grove in a New York profile. Bill and Hillary have adroitly managed their daughter's public persona, obsessively keeping the press away from her—even making comedians sorry for Chelsea jokes—but she is now orchestrating her own political coming-out, Grove says. More »

    • NAFTA Casts Wide Shadow on Ohio Vote

      NAFTA Casts Wide Shadow on Ohio Vote

      As Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama battle for votes in Ohio, each pushes a simple theme: NAFTA is bad. Ohio has been hit hard by free trade, which is why Obama reminds voters that Bill Clinton backed NAFTA. And both hopefuls have mined each other's comments for anything that favors global trade, the Christian Science Monitor reports. More »

  • February 2008
    • Bill's Critics Wrong About His Legacy

      Bill's Critics Wrong About His Legacy

      Hillary Clinton’s hold on poorer Democratic voters can be attributed to “unquestionable” leftward progress on the economy during her husband’s presidency, David Greenberg writes in Slate. Her campaign may downplay the first Clinton years, but that era produced a progressive budget that included “the most significant anti-poverty measure” since LBJ. That's contrary to revisionist spin, especially from Obama supporters, that calls Clintonism “a betrayal of liberalism." More »

    • 'Bossy? Aloof?' Index of Hillary Bio Is Way Off

      'Bossy? Aloof?' Index of Hillary Bio Is Way Off

      Readers looking for a crash course in everything Hillary can try the index of Carl Bernstein's A Woman in Charge, and find a laundry list of moody traits: "bossiness," "aloofness," "anger, temper and hurt" are only the A's and B's. But New York Times blogger David Kelly uncovers just one problem: the bio doesn't live up to its index. More »

    • Bill Admits He Is Unlike 'Any Other Spouse'

      Bill Admits He Is Unlike 'Any Other Spouse'

      Bill Clinton said yesterday he took the wrong approach in defending his wife before the South Carolina primary. “The mistake that I made is to think that I was a spouse like any other spouse," he said in an interview with a TV reporter in Maine. "I can promote Hillary but not defend her, because I was president." More »

  • January 2008
    • Clinton Helped Crony Land Mining Deal

      Clinton Helped Crony Land Mining Deal

      Two days after former president Bill Clinton took pal and mining mogul Frank Giustra to meet Kazakhstan's de facto dictator, Giustra landed a monster contract to mine uranium with state-run mining company Kazatomprom, the New York Times reports—despite his firm’s lack of relevant experience. Shortly thereafter, Clinton’s charitable foundation got a $31.3 million check from Giustra. More »

    • Sniping Heats Up as Obama Calls Clinton a 'Step Back'

      Sniping Heats Up as Obama Calls Clinton a 'Step Back'

      He claims he didn't snub her at the State of the Union, but Barack Obama was definitely on offense against Hillary Clinton yesterday, arguing that another Clinton in the White House would be a step backward, AP reports. "I know it is tempting, after another presidency by a man named George Bush, to simply turn back the clock, and build a bridge back to the 20th century," said Obama, speaking to a crowd of 10,000 in Denver. More »

    • Carter Backs Obama, Almost

      Carter Backs Obama, Almost

      Jimmy Carter came tantalizingly close to endorsing Barack Obama in an interview with the Wall Street Journal , calling the Illinois senator's campaign "extraordinary and titillating for me and my family." While he's officially neutral, the former president and Nobel Prize winner heaped praise on Obama, predicting that he could win southern states that Democrats have written off in the past. More »

    • Clinton Still Leads in the Big States

      Clinton Still Leads in the Big States

      Barack Obama's landslide win in South Carolina gave the Illinois senator a hefty boost in the lead-up to Super Tuesday, but the big states are voting on Feb. 5, and Clinton holds the lead in most of them. The sheer diversity will prevent candidates from doing the whistle-stop campaigning that's gone into the races so far, and the demographic seem to play to her strengths, with large numbers of Latinos and white women. But many Democratic voters remain undecided, polls are often inaccurate, and Obama has the Kennedys on his side. More »

    • Hillary to Sideline Attack Dog Bill

      Hillary to Sideline Attack Dog Bill

      As Hillary Clinton reels from her blowout defeat in South Carolina, Democrats worry that her husband's attacks on Barack Obama may have done irreparable harm to her candidacy—and her aides are preparing to push Bill toward the wings. Step 1 will be returning Bill Clinton to the sunnier presence on display before the Iowa caucuses, reports the New York Times. More »

    • GOP Will Lose, Unless Hillary Faces McCain

      GOP Will Lose, Unless Hillary Faces McCain

      Despite a crippled GOP, the Dems could still lose the White House in '08, Frank Rich writes in the New York Times : All they need is for Clinton to face McCain. 'Billary' alone would provide "two fat targets" to unite Republican rage. Plus a vetting of donors to Bill's presidential library may turn up ugly surprises—not to mention any bad news that may lurk in Hillary's health care documents, millions of which remain under wraps. More »

    • GOP Hopefuls Can Agree on Something

      GOP Hopefuls Can Agree on Something

      A Hillary Clinton presidency is the only thing that makes fractious Republicans “forget their differences and join hands in common purpose,” ex-Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson writes in the Washington Post . It’s not her policies but the specter of a partisan past that means the senator is “the closest there is to an incumbent” in 2008—and thus the object of GOP hatred. More »

    • Clintons, Obama Play Nice

      Clintons, Obama Play Nice

      Hostilities in the Clinton-Obama feud appear to have ceased for now, reports the Washington Post .  Attack ads were pulled from South Carolina local radio, starting with one from Hillary Clinton's campaign calling Barack Obama a closet Republican and a Ronald Reagan fan. The Obama response ad, saying Hillary will "say anything and change nothing," was yanked soon after. More »

    • $20M Payday May Await Bill Clinton

      $20M Payday May Await Bill Clinton

      Hoping to insulate his wife’s presidential campaign from potential conflicts of interest, Bill Clinton is negotiating to untangle himself from a business relationship with billionaire Ron Burkle that includes a potentially sensitive link to Dubai, the Wall Street Journal reports. In the process, Clinton could earn a $20 million payout. More »

    • Obama Parries 2 Clintons in Harsh, Personal Debate

      Obama Parries 2 Clintons in Harsh, Personal Debate

      Last night's acrimonious Democratic presidential debate saw Barack Obama confront an increasingly aggressive Hillary Clinton, reports the Washington Post , but the Illinois senator was really countering two Clintons at once. Over the past two weeks Bill has led the charge against Obama's credibility and record, most notoriously with his "fairy tale" remark, and last night Obama retorted, "I can't tell who I'm running against sometimes." More »

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This image from video released by Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign shows Hillary and Bill Clinton on a Web video that spoofs the final scene of the popular HBO mobster series "The Sopranos". The...   (Associated Press)
This image from video released by Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign shows former president Bill Clinton and wife Hillary (not shown) on a Web video that spoofs the final scene of the popular HBO...   (Associated Press)
State Fairgrounds Monday, July 2, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)   (Associated Press)
Former President Bill Clinton and his wife Democratic presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., during a rally, Monday, July 2, 2007, at the Iowa state fairgrounds in Des Moines,...   (Associated Press)
Former South African president Nelson Mandela, left, is escorted by former U.S. president Bill Clinton into the auditorium at the Mandela Foundation in Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday July 19, 2007....   (Associated Press)
Former President Bill Clinton, right, answers a reporter's question during a meeting with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, left, at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2007...   (Associated Press)
U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., gives her husband, former President Bill Clinton, a hug as Little Rock Nine member Minnijean Brown Trickey, left, applauds after the former president spoke to...   (Associated Press)
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton shakes hands with awaiting fans as he leaves a central London bookstore, after he signed copies of his new book 'Giving   (Associated Press)
Former President Bill Clinton speaks in Dublin on Sept. 29, 2006, after Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern signed an agreement to commit millions to the global foundation run by Clinton, for its program...   (Associated Press)
Former President Clinton sits on a set of steps as he listens to his wife, presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., as she speaks during a fundraiser in Washington, Tuesday, March 20, 2007....   (Associated Press)
Former President Bill Clinton pauses during an address to an audience at Stevens High School in Claremont, N.H., Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2007. Clinton said Tuesday that if reporters covered the candidates' public...   (Associated Press)
Former President Bill Clinton looks on as his wife Democratic presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks during a rally, Monday, July 2, 2007, at the Iowa state fairgrounds...   (Associated Press)
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton waves to awaiting fans as he leaves a central London bookstore, after he signed copies of his new book 'Giving   (Associated Press)
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Background

Hillary Rodham Clinton
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Hillary Rodham Clinton , 1947-, American lawyer and political figure, wife of U.S. President Bill Clinton , b. Chicago, grad. Wellesley College (B.A. 1969), Yale Law School (L.L.B., 1973). After law school she served on the House panel that investigated the Watergate affair . She was in private ...

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Bill Clinton
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Bill Clinton (William Jefferson Clinton), 1946-, 42d President of the United States (1993-2001), b. Hope, Ark. His father died before he was born, and he was originally named William Jefferson Blythe 4th, but after his mother remarried, he assumed the surname of his stepfather. After graduating ...

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