I think this was another home run. Vdeo soon.

“The rest of the world is more impressed by the power of our example rather than our example of power.”

This line is one for the history books.

Bill Clinton speech at the Democratic National Convention

Exactly how does this help Obama?

Bill Clinton Offers Support to Obama

WASHINGTON (June 24) - Former President Clinton on Tuesday offered to help Barack Obama win the White House, although what work he’ll do for his wife’s former rival remained uncertain. The Obama campaign is still smarting over some of Bill Clinton’s criticism in the primary race, while the last Democratic president remains a popular political draw. But before the two can work together, they have to speak.

Good Lord these two are so desperate it’s not even amusing anymore. Bill Clinton running around stating if Hillary isn’t the nominee the Democrats will lose is just disgusting to me.

Former President Bill Clinton said that Democrats were more likely to lose in November if his wife Hillary Clinton is not the party’s presidential nominee, and suggested some people were trying to “cover this up” and “push and pressure and bully” superdelegates to make up their minds prematurely.

“I can-t believe it. It is just frantic the way they are trying to push and pressure and bully all these superdelegates to come out,” he said at a South Dakota campaign stop Sunday, in remarks first reported by ABC News. “‘Oh, this is so terrible: The people they want her. Oh, this is so terrible: She is winning the general election, and he is not. Oh my goodness, we have to cover this up.’”

More from CNN (with video)

Marc Ambinder, of The Atlantic.com, states of the following Bill Clinton interview:

Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) (L) and her husband former U.S. President Bill Clinton look over the menu in Des Moines on the day of the Iowa Caucuses. (Reuters.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehl_VQuKRTc

Roughly eight years at $109 million… not too shabby!

Clintons Release Tax Returns

Bill and Hillary Clinton earned a combined $109 million between 2000 and 2007, with the former president and first lady parlaying their White House years into hefty publishing paydays, and with his oratorical gifts bringing in more than $51 million from paid speaking engagements.

The figures came with the release this afternoon of the Clintons’ joint tax returns, a move Sen. Clinton made after promising during a televised presidential debate to comply with requests from journalists and her Democratic rivals to share details of her family’s financial dealings.

The returns reveal how the Clintons turned global fame into a successful commercial brand, particularly through the former president’s speaking fees. The two also collected more than $30 million from book deals, the returns show.

A possibility? According to Douglas Kmiec, of Pepperdine Law School, “The former president would be intrigued by court service and many would cheer him on.”

Would President Hillary name Bill to the Supreme Court?

“That provocative possibility has long been whispered in legal and political circles ever since Sen. Hillary Clinton became a viable candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.”

Bill Clinton would make a great anything, in my book. He certainly has as much, if not more, integrity than the “we promise not to challenge precedent” Bush appointees. But I can’t imagine this would be something Bill would like to do. As am matter of fact, I see it more as a political ploy to get more folks out to vote… republican! CNN commenter to this article, “Son of Frank”, writes:

(typos ignored)

Pretty much sums it all up.

KEENE, N.H. — Bill Clinton accused President George W. Bush on Friday of having “forgotten about our hunt for bin Laden,” and told Newsday the president’s Iraq policy had spawned swarms of new terror recruits.

Speaking during his first New Hampshire appearance with his wife, Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former president agreed with a recent intelligence report indicating the al-Qaida terror organization has regrouped to pre-Sept. 11 levels.

“Our defenses are better, but we may have more people trying to pierce them,” Clinton said as he signed autographs outside Keene High School, the first of three campaign stops in the Granite State.

“I agree with what Hillary said — that the homeland is not safe enough but that it’s safer from attack than it was pre-9/11 because there are so many people out there around the world are cooperating with us,” he added. “That’s the good news … the bad news is that there’s no question that our policy in Iraq and the fact that we pursued it virtually alone has generated a lot more recruiting from the people who don’t like us or the British.”

By KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK - Former President Bill Clinton announced agreements with drug companies Tuesday to lower the price in the developing world of AIDS drugs resistant to initial treatments and to make a once-a-day AIDS pill available for less than $1 a day.

The drugs to battle so-called “second-line” anti-retrovirals are needed by patients who develop a resistance to first-line treatment and currently cost 10 times as much, Clinton said. Nearly half a million patients will require these drugs by 2010.

Clinton’s foundation negotiated agreements with generic drug makers Cipla Ltd. and Matrix Laboratories Ltd. that he said would generate an average savings of 25 percent in low-income countries and 50 percent in middle-income countries.

Clinton also announced a reduced price for a once-daily first-line AIDS pill that combines the drugs tenofovir, lamivudine and efavirenz.

He said the new price of $339 per patient per year would be 45 percent lower than the current rate available to low-income countries and 67 percent less than the price available to many middle-income countries

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“Origins traced to the Spanish Inquisition“

The current policy traces its roots to the administration of former President Bill Clinton.

Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, however, what had been a limited program expanded dramatically, with some experts estimating that 150 foreign nationals have been victims of rendition in the last few years alone. Foreign nationals suspected of terrorism have been transported to detention and interrogation facilities in Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, Diego Garcia, Afghanistan, Guantánamo, and elsewhere. In the words of former CIA agent Robert Baer: “If you want a serious interrogation, you send a prisoner to Jordan. If you want them to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear — never to see them again — you send them to Egypt.”

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The inside story of criminal investigators who tried to stop abuse.

Speaking publicly for the first time, senior U.S. law enforcement investigators say they waged a long but futile battle inside the Pentagon to stop coercive and degrading treatment of detainees by intelligence interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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The C.I.A.’s Travel Agent

On the official Web site of Boeing, the world’s largest aerospace company, there is a section devoted to a subsidiary called Jeppesen International Trip Planning, based in San Jose, California. The write-up mentions that the division “offers everything needed for efficient, hassle-free, international flight operations,” spanning the globe “from Aachen to Zhengzhou.” The paragraph concludes, “Jeppesen has done it all.”

Boeing does not mention, either on its Web site or in its annual report, that Jeppesen’s clients include the C.I.A., and that among the international trips that the company plans for the agency are secret “extraordinary rendition” flights for terrorism suspects.

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Cheney confirms that detainees were subjected to water-boarding

Vice President Dick Cheney has confirmed that U.S. interrogators subjected captured senior al-Qaida suspects to a controversial interrogation technique called “water-boarding,” which creates a sensation of drowning.

Cheney indicated that the Bush administration doesn’t regard water-boarding as torture and allows the CIA to use it. “It’s a no-brainer for me,” Cheney said at one point in an interview.

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Bill Clinton in Iowa.