The Starr Report: The Nature of President Clinton's Relationship with Monica Lewinsky, vol. 2 [ABRIDGED]
Open Left (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
In January of 1998, the news about Monica Lewinsky exploded in the Washington media world. It was 24-7, and red hot intense. Within 72 hours, Republicans were calling for Clinton's resignation or impeachment, and some Democrats- even some liberal ones like Paul Wellstone- were on the verge of doing the same. Clinton survived the first barrage of calls for him to step down, but as that long year wore...
BooMan Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
I wonder if anyone can pinpoint the moment when David Broder became a Republican hack. That was definitely not my original impression of him. He ways always somewhat reserved in his advocacy, but he tended to advocate for things like greater health care access. I think most people were under the impression that he had liberal leanings, if he had leanings at all. Then, around the time that we started...
M E N O R A H (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Can you believe this? Bill Clinton claims that not a week goes by that he doesn't think of Monica Lewinsky Yitzchak Rabin?" In the last 14 years, not a single week has gone by that I did not think of...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Obama's trip comes at a time when the US needs China as much as China needs it – and neither nation can afford to let go When President Obama arrives in Shanghai tomorrow he will be carrying the baggage of a relationship between communist China and capitalist America that dates back more than 60 years. "There is no such thing as America not intervening in China," Mao Zedong told a...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Frank Rich, today : It would also be nice to think that the “balloon boy” viewers were the innocent victims of a dazzling Houdini-class feat of wizardry — a “massive fraud,” as Bill O’Reilly thundered. But even slightly jaundiced onlookers might have questioned how a balloon could waft buoyantly through the skies for hours with a 6-year-old boy hidden within its...
illinoisreview (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
by Human Events 1. President Bill Clinton - Impeached for his lies under oath about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. 2. John Edwards - Cheated on cancer-stricken wife and fathered illegitimate child, all while running for President. 3. Wilbur Mills...
Stingray: a blog for salty Christi (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Nancy Pelosi explains why eliminating the Bush tax cuts really isn’t the same thing as raising taxes. For her next performance, Nancy will explain why Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky wasn’t really cheating, because he was just reverting back to the state where he was before he married Hillary....
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Multiple sources have said former HillPac lawyer Reshma Saujani is considering a primary challenge to Representative Carolyn Maloney, the Manhattan Democrat who threatened to run for Senate earlier this year. Saujani has a compelling biography for a candidate. She’s the daughter of immigrants who fled from violence in Uganda, and has degrees from Harvard and Yale. Saujani reportedly interned...
Pine River World News (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
The following commentary is reprinted with permission from Pravda, Moscow. (Bold font appears in original article.) Kosovo Needs To Put up Monument to Bill Clinton Hugging Madeleine Albright © Pravda By Sergey Balmasov October 15, 2009 A monument to former U.S. President Bill Clinton is to appear in Kosovo. The monument, erected by the Kosovo-America Friendship Association, will cost 45,000 EUR....
Eschaton (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Looked forward to Krugman winning his inevitable-assuming-he-didn't-die-young Nobel, just to annoy the wingnuts, but otherwise... Despite the beliefs of said wingnuts, the econ prize for good or for ill never really has had any political slant, except to the extent that it reflects the general prevailing slant of the economics profession. Meaning, I don't deny that general political orientation impacts...
Political Wire (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
In a speech in Kansas City, former Sen. Bob Dole (R-KS) -- the 1996 GOP nominee for president -- spoke about Monica Lewinsky, who was briefly Dole's neighbor in the Watergate complex in the 1990s, the Kansas City Star reports. Said Dole: "If I'd had little wiretap there, I could've been president... I never had a conversation with that lady."
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
On Tuesday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith painted a glowing portrait of the Clinton administration while previewing a new book on the former president: "During Bill Clinton’s presidency, the nation prospered, he worked to broker peace in the Middle East and in the Balkans, championed welfare reform, and signed the NAFTA free trade agreement." The book, entitled The Clinton...
JammieWearingFool (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
You can already hear the excuses coming from Bill Clinton in reaction to this book.Monica Lewinsky may not always have been the intern most likely to succeed when it came to catching Bubba's wandering eye in the White House. So says former political staffer Stacy Parker Aab, who claims she had her own close call, sexually, with the President in the new HarperCollins book "Government Girl: Young...
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
In a recent Fox News segment, right wing pundit Ann Coulter, well known for her acerbic, often shocking commentary on U.S. politics, unloaded on former President Bill Clinton, accusing him of “molesting” ex-White House intern Monica Lewinsky and leaving “semen stained Kleenex” behind for staff to dispose of. During an interview on Meet the Press Sunday, [...]
Another Pundit (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Bill Clinton Revives 'Vast, Right-Wing Conspiracy' - Political News - FOXNews.com WASHINGTON -- Bill Clinton said a vast, right-wing conspiracy that once targeted him is now focusing on President Obama. The ex-president made the comment in a television interview when he was asked about one of the signature moments of the Monica Lewinsky affair over a decade ago. Back then, first lady Hillary Rodham...
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