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Since the reports claim Bill in Monica got it on in the bathroom and hallway, she wouldn't be considered a bed buddy. This is an old story, with the same old Clinton's. While people are trying to figure out Obama's connection with a minister or his African family, Bill Clinton is wheeling and dealing with all kinds of folks. Wonder what Bill has to deliver for $20 million dollars.

Does anyone realize that the reason the Republicans are voting for Clinton is because she's not electable. Too much baggage.

Here an F.O.B., There an F.O.B.

Even so, Bill Clinton seems to recognize that some of his relationships could become politically problematic. Aides to the former president recently told reporters Clinton would move to sever his business ties with billionaire Ron Burkle. An entrepreneur with a playboy reputation, Burkle signed up Clinton as a senior adviser to the Yucaipa Cos., Burkle's private investment firm. The arrangement included stakes in Yucaipa partnerships. Little was known about Clinton's profits from this arrangement until last week, when The Wall Street Journal reported that the former president was expected to reap about $20 million when the company bought back his shares. Clinton's spokesman tells NEWSWEEK the amount of his compensation has not yet been determined.

One possible issue that might have affected Clinton's decision to reconsider his business relationship with Burkle: the financier's ties to the Arab emirate of Dubai. One of Clinton's partners in a Yucaipa fund is the Dubai Investment Group, a company closely linked to Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, Dubai's ruler. Clinton and Maktoum have a warm relationship, and the sheik, along with other Middle Eastern leaders, was a major contributor to Clinton's presidential library.

Bill's Dubai connection is potentially problematic for Hillary. Two years ago, the New York senator denounced the Bush administration when it failed to block a deal that would have handed over operations of six major U.S. ports to Dubai Ports World, a firm owned by the government of the United Arab Emirates. (The company eventually withdrew its bid.) This month, Hillary criticized oil-rich foreign governments that use "huge pools of money" to buy up stakes in major U.S. financial institutions. That's a good applause line—but a tough one to deliver with a straight face while her husband has a business partnership with a similar foreign fund. Mark Saylor, a U.S. spokesman for Dubai, tells NEWSWEEK that neither Dubai nor Maktoum would comment on their dealings with Bill Clinton. Read the full Newsweek story

by Barbara Ehrenreich, The Nation - There's a reason Hillary Clinton has remained relatively silent during the flap over intemperate remarks by Barack Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. When it comes to unsavory religious affiliations, she's a lot more vulnerable than Obama.

You can find all about it in a widely under-read article in the September 2007 issue of Mother Jones, in which Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Sharlet reported that "through all of her years in Washington, Clinton has been an active participant in conservative Bible study and prayer circles that are part of a secretive Capitol Hill group known as "The "Fellowship," also known as The Family. But it won't be a secret much longer. Jeff Sharlet's shocking exposé The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power will be published in May.

Sean Hannity has called Obama's church a "cult," but that term applies far more aptly to Clinton's "Family," which is organized into "cells"--their term--and operates sex-segregated group homes for young people in northern Virginia. In 2002, Sharlet joined The Family's home for young men, forswearing sex, drugs and alcohol, and participating in endless discussions of Jesus and power. He wasn't undercover; he used his own name and admitted to being a writer. But he wasn't completely out of danger either. When he went outdoors one night to make a cell phone call, he was followed. He still gets calls from Family associates asking him to meet them in diners--alone. Read the full story here

Duh....In a year when even Republicans weren't supporting Republicans, the Democrats had a clear ride to the White House. However, after the negative antics of the Clinton campaign and the focus on race, the Democrats don't stand a chance in 2008. McCain is looking and acting like a leader while Hillary and Barack duke it out on the street corner. What a waste of a historic moment.

For all of the young people and new voters, don't let this stop you from going to the polls. Even if you don't select a presidential candidate, make sure to put the people into office that have your interests in mind. A lot of those superdelegates that could have stepped up and put an end to this mess before there was no coming back are elected officials. Some of them need to find another profession. They blew this election. Keep that in mind when you go to the polls this year, and during the mid-term election.

Young people have the power to change this foolishness in DC. BE THE CHANGE!

A poll released Thursday suggests Arizona Sen. John McCain has moved ahead of both Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and New York Sen. Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House.

It also reports that McCain is ahead of Clinton, by a 51 to 41 percent margin.

A poll released Thursday suggests Arizona Sen. John McCain has moved ahead of both Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and New York Sen. Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House.

The Rasmussen Reports, an independent polling organization, reports McCain leads Obama 49 to 42 percent. It also reports that McCain is ahead of Clinton, by a 51 to 41 percent margin. Read the full article here

Mrs. Clinton's schedule is quite revealing. Seems Bill didn't even give Hillary the respect to wait until she left home to have his sexcapades. Lord only knows what Billy boy will be up to if the Clinton's get back in the White House. This is actually disgusting behavior for a president.

As for Mrs. 3 AM, Ready on Day One, looks like the most she'll be ready for is running a high-level day care center. Her statements about her experience go beyond spin. Heck, based on these reports, it was a gross exaggeration or a three letter word no one wants to utter.

Hillary Clinton 'in White House' as Bill Clinton committed adultery with Monica Lewinsky

Hillary Clinton spent the night in the White House on the day of her husband’s fateful assignation with Monica Lewinsky, and may have actually been inside the building when it occurred, according to records of her daily schedule as First Lady released yesterday.

....The former First Lady’s schedule for February 28, 1997, the day that Ms Lewinsky’s blue dress became stained in an encounter with Mr Clinton, shows that his wife held several meetings in the White House that morning, and spent the night there.

Mr Clinton’s encounter with Ms Lewinsky took place in an Oval Office bathroom in the early evening. Read the full story here

Hillary Clinton papers sink experience claims By Toby Harnden Telegraph

Hillary Clinton's boasts that she gained major foreign policy experience as First Lady have been undermined after 11,046 pages of her White House schedules provided scant evidence to back up her claims.

…her visits to Northern Ireland indicate that she went little beyond the traditional role of a president's wife attending social events, meeting women's groups and greeting children.

Despite Mrs Clinton's claim last week that she was "instrumental" in bringing peace to Northern Ireland, the schedules do not record her attending a single policy meeting in the province.

In Belfast, she gave an address to the Vital Voices women's conference, spent 30 minutes at a reception at the City Hall and visited the PlayBoard children's project.

Her schedule records that she and Cherie Blair, the then Prime Minister's wife, were to "proceed to the children's play area, where children are creating playground models".

They were then to "proceed down the path where they are joined by 25 children with balloons" and go "to the top of the hill and release the balloons".

...In Bosnia, she was introduced by an eight-year-old Bosnian girl and a class of 13 year olds before a roundtable session that included the Bosnian president Ejup Ganic and American diplomats.Read the full story here

Hillary Was in White House on 'Stained Blue Dress' Day

Schedules Reviewed by ABC Show Hillary May Have Been in the White House When the Fateful Act Was Committed

In December 2000, when both of Hillary Clinton's brothers were involved in trying to broker pardon arrangements for associates, several days of documents show only a long list of "private meetings" at the White House.

Between Dec. 1 and 22, Clinton had a total of 25 "private meetings" before the day on which a first round of pardons was announced by her husband. Read more here

11,000 Long-Awaited Pages of Clinton’s Schedules as First Lady Are Released John M. Broder

The documents offer no support for her assertions on the campaign trail that she helped negotiate the Irish peace accords or facilitated the flow of refugees in the Balkans, but neither do they disprove them. There is no evidence to back up her assertion that she helped pass the Family and Medical Leave Act, the first legislation Mr. Clinton signed as president in February 1993.

They provide no insight into her role in appointments to key administration posts or in courting donors for her political campaigns or her husband’s, nor in how she coped with revelations in 1998 of her husband’s sexual betrayal with a young White House intern. Read the story here

Hillary Clinton missed key presidential moments Daniel Nasaw, The Guardian

· Papers cast doubt on claim of first-hand experience
· First lady was often far from scene of negotiations

But documents from her first lady office threaten to undermine her claim to have played a major role in Clinton's foreign policy decisions.

For instance, Clinton has said she helped negotiate the April 1998 Good Friday agreement between warring factions in Northern Ireland. But while Catholic and Protestant figures hashed out details of a power-sharing agreement in Belfast Clinton was at the National Press Club in Washington at a "Hats on Bella" party honouring Bella Abzug, a congresswoman from New York who had recently died. While President Clinton phoned major participants in the peace talks she met with Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and joined a farewell party for Democratic worker Karen Finney. The day the agreement was inked she met with Philippine first lady Amelita Ramos.

When Nato launched air strikes against Serbia in an attempt to punish Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic for the country's onslaught against ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo Clinton toured Egyptian ruins, including King Tut's tomb and the temple of Hatshepsut. She dined at the Temple of Luxor, and stayed overnight at the Sofitel Winter Palace Hotel there. Read the story here

Lewinsky and the First Lady By The Associated Press

Hillary Rodham Clinton was in the White House on at least seven days when her husband had sexual encounters with Monica Lewinsky, according to the first lady's calendars released Wednesday. A look at her schedule on days when Lewinsky said she had sexual encounters with Bill Clinton:
Dates of Bill Clinton's encounters with Monica Lewinsky: Nov. 15, 1995, Nov. 17, 1995, Jan. 7, 1996, Feb. 4, 1996, March 31, 1996, and March 29, 1997 Other dates:

Dec. 31, 1995: Lewinsky said she and the president had a sexual encounter early that afternoon in a study down the hall from the Oval Office. Sometime afterward, the president, first lady and their daughter, Chelsea, flew to Hilton Head, S.C., to spend New Year's Eve with hundreds of friends during their annual getaway at an intellectual family retreat known as Renaissance Weekend.

Jan. 21, 1996: Lewinsky and the president had an afternoon sexual encounter in the hallway by the private study next to the Oval Office, Lewinsky said later.

April 7, 1996, Easter Sunday. Mrs. Clinton had no public schedule. Lewinsky said that, at the president's suggestion, she performed oral sex while he was on the telephone in his office.

Feb. 28, 1997: The schedule shows Mrs. Clinton was in the White House at least part of the day, when President Clinton and Lewinsky had oral sex near the Oval Office, leaving stains on her dress. Read all the dates here