Posts Tagged ‘Bill Clinton’

In December 1992, as Bill Clinton was assembling his cabinet, he took a moment to respond to feminist complaints about a supposed lack of high-level female appointments:
In an unusually candid discussion yesterday, Clinton said he was particularly unhappy that two of his appointees - Laura D’Andrea Tyson as chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisors and Carol [...]

The final national polls are in.  Obama is winning every single one of them by margins of between five and 13 points. 
McCain trails Obama in every recent poll in Pennsylvania, Nevada, Virginia, Colorado, Ohio, and Florida. To win, he likely needs to win not one but all of those states. While Nate Silver sees “a hair’s worth of [...]

A new poll from the New York Times and CBS finds that
The McCain campaign’s recent angry tone and sharply personal attacks on Senator Barack Obama appear to have backfired and tarnished Senator John McCain more than their intended target. . .
After several weeks in which the McCain campaign unleashed a series of strong political attacks [...]

Allah can certainly be forgiven for asking the question: Is Bill Clinton voting Republican this year?

And by the way, isn’t it odd that Clinton concludes that McCain “isn’t acting in bad faith” in “suspending” his campaign and canceling his debate appearance simply because he believes McCain isn’t “scared?” Isn’t “suspending” and cancelling in order to change the [...]

Her account seems almost credible.  In no way whatsoever.

Also, is it as possible for the media to report on a troopergate scandal without thinking of Bill Clinton?
I guess not.

In 1992, George H.W. Bush and the Republicans referred to Bill Clinton as “the failed governor of a small state”.  Because of that, they argued, he was not fit to be president.
The words “small state” weren’t used by accident.  The implication was that executive experience in a place with so few people couldn’t translate into [...]