This is SO funny as I can't even comment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Obama 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WE SUPPORT HILLARY IN 2008

She's the only one who can "roll up her sleeves and clean up the mess" left by the GOP — NOT dreamer boy!!

Or vote Biden or Richardson b/c God save our country if the newbie gets elected - who isn't even wise enough to realize what he DOESN'T KNOW yet; let alone play pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey in the Oval Office –> He clearly could have waited until 2012 or 2016. He's only 47, but he's such a baby that he's demanding to be King now Sadly the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Senator Obama is certainly NOT!! AND Oprah should stick with her own life and hawking her Book Club (which she can't even get right all the time either).

Senator Obama wants to raise the minimum age to receive maximum Social Security benefits! How much longer will our parents and elders have to wait to retire? And how much longer will we have to wait for our turn?

NO MORE having to explain to our children - why it's (NOT) OKAY for the President Of Our Nation to do drugs!!! It's time to take back our country and make America proud again.

JUST SAY NO - TO OBAMA IN '08

NO MORE EXCUSES AMERICA!!!!

The key word is "Proven" ability.

I trust I am confident Hillary will be our next President. Obama talks about changing the usual way of doing things in Washington BUT he has never identified one thing he is going to change and he has never mentioned what he wants to change it into.

Obama is just a Cry Baby. He knows pretty well he does not have the experience required to lead a world power like the USA. Now he is gone into Scare Mongering. C'mon dude, talk issues. Is the sky falling over you yet? Run and hide under Oprah's skirt..!

Hilaary .. 08

I'm sick of seeing headlines that say Obama stands for change and Hillary stands for experience. All of the candidates will make drastic changes but we can only vote for one; that's Hillary because she has the experience and will make changes.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH heheheheheheheheheh

Thats the show stopper Folks.

No Bill, actually that's exactly what you ran on. Your memory seems to be faltering.

Hillary a Genius???? Far from the truth!! Back to the old Clintons again, staying and doing anything to get elected.

Can't be that smart she married him!

Wow, he keeps this up and I'm going to vote for Cynthia McKinney.

Bill Clinton needs to level with the people. His policies did not create jobs in fact it sent thousands of American jobs overseas via NAFTA. The Clinton administration benefited from the explosion of the internet economy and the numerous dot com start ups that followed. If anything Al Gore deserves the credit for the prosperous economy of the 90's because it was his leadership that expanded the internet and allowed for the creation of so many internet companies and the money they pumped into he economy and the jobs they created.

Bill, you're not running and if you were, we don't want you either. Stop with all this praise for the wife stuff and go do something useful.

Gee- what an unbiased and unexpected opinion. But I bet Hitlers mom said the same thing about her son once too.
Aint that special.

Depends what your definition of genius is. Taking taxes from successful people to support people who don't particularly care to work is socialism. If Im not mistaken that's Hillary's plan. That doesn't take a genius.

One can only bring about positive change if one has knowledge of the issues and the experience in resolving them for the better. Change for change sake can be disastrous as we witnessed with George Bush. In 2000 Americans changed course and opted for a washington 'outsider' and abandoned all the good that the clinton/gore team did for the country. What did we get for the change; record deficits after erasing all the accumulated surpluses, anaemic to low job growth, a housing meltdown and a foolish war in Iraq. Nobody talks about the fact that most of the same evidence that was used to go to war was presented to Bill clinton and a case was made for war with Irag which he rejected. Expericenc matters folks!

Can this blog please start reporting on where candidates stand on various issues instead of where they stand in recent polls? Most of these posts read like they belong in US Weekly or People. I'd prefer the "why" instead of the "where."

Meanwhile, Michelle Obama complained that Obama is lazy, dirty and snoring at home. What a contrast!

"The reason she ought to be president, over and above her vision and her plans is that she has proven in every position she has ever had in life, whether it was in elected office or not, that she is a world-class genius . . ."

Lemme get this straight: Is Bill saying that Hillary was behind the economy's success during his term in office? Or that limiting access to welfare was helping people out in ways the GOP wouldn't? Sounds like that is what he is suggesting at least.

Oh, and what elected office did she hold? (besides being co-president #42)

Help me out here people.

Everything your saying, Bill, is also Hillary's position? Guess she also thinks she's a world class genius. But if she's so smart, why isn't she telling him to stay home and shut up?

If Hillary is such a genius, she would have cuckoled Bill.

If she is such a "Genius" why could she not tell you the definition of what "is" is.

Wow, what a story. How in the world did the crack journalists at CNN find such a story out there. Just stumbled on it I suppose.

Has anyone down at Team Clinton noticed yet that every time Bill opens his mouth, Hillary's numbers go down?

He's beginning to sound like some old guy at a swingers club trying to get his wife some action, hoping that if she does, he can get some vicarious thrills out of it!

Barf…. The Clintons make me sick.

I was a political science major. I never remember there being such a term as "senior governor."

That's sort of a dubious distinction, because most states have an 8 year term limit. Arkansas had no term limit.

He had no foreign policy experience whatsoever, unless you count going on trade missions for the state of Arkansas- home of Wall-Mart, of which Mrs. Clinton was on the board of directors.

This guy will say anything, it's downright disturbing.

She sure doesn't seem to be a world-class genius when it comes to foreign affairs. She voted for the Iraq war and refuses to say she made a mistake. She voted on the Kyl-Lieberman bill that ties Iraq troop levels to Iran. She refuses to talk to foreign leaders. That sounds a lot more "Bush"-like than -I- want back in office.

Especially his..

Ha Ha!!

Sorry Mr. President, but we know what happens when an empire is succeded by an heir or spouse. History will repeat itself and we need Barack. A man who takes from the people (donations) and hopefully will return it to the people instead of Interest groups.

"World class genius"? More like this and I will be convinced thet are both fools.

oooh Gosh!

"World class", at what???????

–Nearly 15 minutes into his first speech, he added almost as an afterthought that "everything I'm saying here is my wife's position, not just mine."–

I love it. I like Bill Clinton, I really do. Especially because I suspect that he knows that his wife won't make a very good president, assuming she could even get elected if she wins the nomination. He's out there essentially campaigning for himself again, and loving every second of it. The best part is when he says stuff like this he helps out Hillary's rivals.

OBAMA '08
Bill Clinton for UN Ambassador in the Obama administration.

Why is a comment from a candidate's spouse worth a daily headline? Careful, CNN. Your bias is showing.

No one ever said she was stupid… It all the other thing people say about her thats the problem.

And Hillary calls Bill "A World Class Moron"!

World-class phonies - both of them! He's sell his soul to get his butt back into the White House. And if she were not married to him, it would be "Hillary Who?"

What a bunch of CRAPOLA!

Many of America's presidents have mishandled the crisis of their respective time in history, despite having impressive credentials:

- 15th President James Buchanan was elected to the first of five terms in Congress; President Jackson's minister to Russia; from 1834 to 1845, served as U.S. senator; President Polk appointed him secretary of state. Despite his extensive political experience, President Buchanan did NOTHING when Southern States began seceding from the Union once Lincoln won the Election of 1860 -

- 28th President Woodrow Wilson, with a Ph.D., was our best educated president. Nevertheless, President Wilson never joined the "League of Nations" after World War I due to it's disagreement with the Treaty of Versailles (which ended World War I) - this lends itself to the causes of World War II -(i.e., the Treaty of Versailles blamed the entire war on Germany).

-32nd President Franklin D. Roosevelt, credited with his excellent leadership during the Great Depression and World War II, may have caused the "Cold War". With the defeat of Germany, Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Churchill, and Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta to debate the future of Europe in 02/1945 - Roosevelt was in poor health, near death, and gave up too much of Eastern Europe to Stalin, thereby causing the "Cold War" between America and the Soviet Union.

On the other hand, 33rd President Harry Truman, the only 20th century president without a college degree, is considered by many historians to be one of our greatest presidents and perhaps the most decisive.

Hence, Bill Clinton's assertion that Hillary is a "world class genious", but that doesn't a great president make.

Childrens Defense Fund
Kinship Caregiver Support Act (S. 985)
sponsored by Sen. Hillary Clinton [D-NY] and 9 other senators (including Sen Obama) never became law.

Continuous reference to her 'efforts' to do something but never translates into anything actually accomplished.

This is one of the things, besides Clinton dishonesty, that I fear for our country.

I am really concerned about four years or REAL bipartisan bickering, impeachments, scandals and investigations, while the rest of us pay the price for their in-fighting.

Karl Rove and Ken Starr types will crawl back out of the woodwork just for the 'fun' as Hillary puts it, of battling the Clintons for four more years.

The republicans, in addition to may on the left, simply do not trust nor want Hillary and Bill in the whitehouse again.

I am fearful this is going to be a nightmare.

What a bunch of bull**it. Bill is just making more of a fool of himself than he already is.

NOBODY BELIEVE A WORD HE OR HILLARY SAYS ANYMORE. THEY ARE JUST TWO OF THE BIGGEST LIARS IN POLITICS (and there's plenty of competition out there).

As people hear and see more and more of the Clinton's, the more and more they're convinced that it is best for this Country to move on WITHOUT EITHER OF THEM.

Sure Bill… If she's a genius then you are a model in fidelity.

Can someone please tell me which change argument Bill Clinton is pushing for his wife? The only change I can fathom is the one for the history books..first lady to first hubby..but same ideology..the clintons do know the system but do not have fresh idea or the gusto to implement..they owe a lot to the lobbyists for whom the will work for, not the so called "ordinary American".

I believe Edwards means whats he say, so does Obama and Huckabee, I wish Bloomberg will also join ..these pple and a completely new face represent a much needed real change for the free world! Not the Clintons ..or the supposed Clinton-Bush(denies) galvanting around the world repairing the mistakes of the Bushes and the Clintons!!

Blah, blah, blah. More of the same from the Clinton News Network. Do you even try to hide your preference anymore CNN?

Hillary Clinton is very smart, I don't think anyone's denying that…but is she electable? I actually feel bad for her because much of the criticism leveled against her is unjustified or just plain ignorant (people just not liking her because she comes off as a ***** - propagated by 15 years of right-wing smear-campaigning).

Genius? Is that why she voted for the Iraq invasion without even reading the National Intelligence Estimate.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/29/magazine/03Hillary-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
I think we've had enough of that kind of "genius".

Mrs. Clinton failed the DC bar exam, and later passed in Arkansas, where she didn't find work until months later when she got a teaching job at Fayetteville. She didn't get the job at Rose until Bill made AG. A "genius", hardly.

How about Hiliary Clinton campaign on her OWN!! I think a former President should stay netural in his parties primary election (even if his wife is running). You don’t see either 41 or 43 or Carter endorsing anyone!

She has proven ability to improve peoples lives? Perhaps Bill could be more specific. Is he refering to her previous ideas about how to reform health care? Those didn't turn out well at all. Is he referring to the policies she helped form at Walmart during her time on their board? Try asking your average Walmart employee just how much they feel their job improves their lives.

This is pretty thick rhetoric, and if Bill has something specific he is referring to, he needs to back it up. You can make your claim, but cite the raw data you are using to back up that claim. In some ways, this sounds like Bill saying, "Here's what I think… oh, and by the way, Hillary thinks it, too. Vote for me… er, I mean Hillary!" The more I listen to Bill, the more I worry that Hillary would be a puppet president under him (much like it looks Russia's Putin will control his successor) and that he would be finding a clever way to skirt around the issue of term limitations.

That doesn't sound very American to me.

Besides, she's caught me with my pants down hundreds of times so I owe her big time.

Yes, she is brilliant. Let's see she was brilliant and flexible with her choice of the original Attorney General, her original health plan done in secrecy and opposed by virtually the entire Clinton Cabinet. The way she says if the Republicans find out this or that about another candidate they will use it against them while she has no flaws to exploit. (That shows so much class and concern for her fellow candidates)Yes she is world class but genius isn't the term I would use. Go Biden, Obama anybody but her.

Somebody please tell me how this quote has made front page headlines on MSN, Drudge, and CNN this morning! Is it really news that Bill would say something like this about Hillary?

With respect to "genius" meaning ability to help others, check out Obama's extensive track record.

With respect to genius meaning intellect, while Hillary is no doubt an intelligent person, Obama is certainly no slouch. He was editor of the Harvard Law Review, which speaks volumes in itself. AAND, he didn't get to where he is now by having a famous spouse

hahaha… clinton is probably suffering some sorts of mental illness. Bush is even making fun out of his comments. he is just talking nonsense left and right. your geniuos wife keeps on changing her positions left and right based on the poll number. we just cannot trust her anymore…

I am so happy to see Bill out there "helping" Hillary. He makes about as much sense as a slug. Go Bill…Obama needs you out there and thanks.
Obama 08

HILLARY AND BILL ARE THE GREATEST! JUST LIKE THE KENNEDYS!!!!!!!

I think Hillary and Bill are both brilliant, and that both want to do all and anything they can to help mend the US. I think that they compliment each other, –Bills brilliance is partly his charisma and ability to make people like him and want to work with him. Hillary's brilliance is partly her determination and work oranization, and added is both their strong desires to help the world. I think they are 2 halves of a whole, and the fact that they found each other and recognized this is one of the miracles we need. I can only hope and pray Hillary is elected. Even she won't be able to straighten out this mess very quickly, but I think she is ready to hit the ground running and start on the mess from day one. She is by far our best hope. Go, Hillary!

OMG, now I'm rolling on the floor laughing. Before this, I scoffed, giggled, wrinkled my nose and even cackled like Hillary at the suggestions Bill has made about his cold wife. But this comment is truly Hillarious (2 ll's = pun intended!). You people cannot be so stupid to believe what this man says. If she's so great and wonderful, powerful and impressive, why in the world have multiple affairs throughout your marriage? Wake up Clinton supporters, you are getting duped BIG TIME by this sales-couple. She has done nothing for children, nothing for foreign relations, nothing for the economy, nothing for blacks and nothing for New York. All she has done is to morph into character and learn her lines and accents for those of you who will fall for their act and believe the made up story lines. No more Clintons or Bush's! Time for USA to move on to another family!

She very ambitious, calculating and dishonest.

Bill Clinton, "My wife's a genious I just don't wanna sleep with her, you know what I mean? But seriously, y'all need to vote for her or I'm gonna have to keep giving $0.5 million dollar speeches. Just elect her and we can scam a few more million dollars from America with a thousand hundred pardons and I'll get to retire early, you know what I mean?"

Bill, Come ON! You know Hillary. She is constantly changing her position almost on all issues. I remember you spoke out against the Iraq war, while Hillary was supporting Bush for the war. It was just because of the poll numbers. That is what she always goes by. What a genius! I am sure she will sound differently if she is nominated in democratic primary. She will change her tone again if she is elected. That is her history. No matter what you say, you cannot sway us anymore…We will either go for Obama or Edwards.

If we never read or heard anymore of Sen. Hillary Clinton, we would vote for her. I believe the next president will be Sen. Clinton. Jeanne

CNN you misprinted the quote A World Class Idiot!

I don't want Hillary Clinton to "make positive changes" in my life. I want her to leave me alone. I am perfectly able to run my own life, and I don't appreciate ANY representative of government thinking of her/himself as my father or mother. (Actually, government's "parental" actions are more like those of a wicked stepmother, right out of "Hansel and Gretel.")

Live free or die.

I doubt she knows more about economics and foreign policy than Ron Paul!

After watching Michael Moore's film, "Sicko," I now have a better understanding of Hillary. It seems like she was once a kind and caring person, who, much like Annakin Skywalker, was seduced by the Dark Side, and now treads in the shadows, while avoiding the light.

Gov Terry Branstad of Iowa was also elected governor the same year as Clinton.

Branstad served non-stop from 1978 though 1998.

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/11/03/election/governors/iowa/

Clinton was defeated for re-election as governor in 1980, and regained the office in 1982.

So Clinton is once again caught in a lie.

Perhaps she's a genius at power politics, but she did flunk the D.C. bar exam, which tests for the minimal competence necessary to practice law. And she displayed very poor judgment, at a minimum, by choosing to be a summer clerk, while at Yale Law school, for a lawyer in a tiny small Oakland, CA law firm who was *extremely* far left and probably communist in orientation. (How quaint that word "communist" sounds, but remember, it was official U.S. policy to stop the spread of communism.) Why would a law student in Connecticut, who grew up in Chicago, and who could get a clerkship almost anywhere, choose *that* law firm? Hmmm.

I think all Obama campaign needs is more appearences by Bill and more statements like these.

GO OBAMA 08!

HA HA……'World Class Genius!' What next for this 'Clinton Road Show?'.. Slick Willie..'World Class Comedian?'
The Clintons are Bad, Bad News…Wake-Up Voters, there are better candidates. Anyone BUT Hillary and Bill!

Wow. He's as out of touch with reality as dubya.

Disgusting!

This man has lost his mind. There's NO WAY I will give my vote or support to the Clintons. They've showed their behinds like never before and their terrible performance and tactics gave me visibility into how they would run THEIR presidency.

CNN, this story needs more play, even if it did come from one of your rivals:

ABC News has learned that the campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., has registered the names of two Web sites with the express goal of attacking her chief rival, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.

It's the first time this election cycle a presidential campaign has launched a Web site with the express purpose of of launching serious criticisms on a rival.

Hillary says the additional troops making up the 'surge' in Iraq is working.

Hillary says she would eventually reduce troop levels in Iraq, and leave only a small contingent force there.

This leaves our remaining, smaller, ill-equipped force subject to the level of violence perpetrated against our soldiers before the surge. Making them once again a target.

Our remaining troops will again be fighting insurgents, al-Qaida, Sunnis, Shia and every secret Iraqi Army unit that wants to take this smaller size force on.

How is that genius?

Actually she isn't a genius, she's insane. If the definition of insanity is trying the same thing expecting to get different results, then all liberals are clinically insane. Socialism DOESN'T work. It never has. It never will. (not with humans in charge of it anyway)

OK and imy friends am einstein ! ! ! Bill Your wife is a loser

HILLARY AND BILL ARE THE GREATEST! JUST LIKE THE KENNEDYS!!!!!!!

Maybe, but it is obvious that this could and will never be said about any of the bushes.

I never understood what it is about the Clintons people dislike so much. It seems to me their intentions were and are to improve this country - and for the majority, not a minority. They are generally well-respected throughout the world, something our current president is not (if you've traveled abroad, you already know this fact). No president will ever be perfect nor please everyone. I'm a registered independent voter and it seems logical to me Hillary Clinton is best-suited to be an effective president.

Bill is a world class disgrace. Furthermore, both he and Hillary are not a married couple, but rather a business arrangement and everybody knows it. Go away buffoon!!!!!!!!!

I'm certainly no Hillary fan, but, there are some interesting comments here. It suddenly becomes quite apparent that all the Hillary bashing and hateful remarks are happening because of the REAL possibility of her nomination and subsequent election. For what ever personal agenda is being put forward by the bashers, good luck with that! You do have to wonder if these aren't Republican or Obama plants doing all the howling…

Although alot of the posters as usual want to speak badly about Hillary and Bill Clintion, I think it is wonderful that this man, although imperfect, as all of us are, loves his wife and is not afraid to let us know about it.

He made a fool of her. Now he's telling us she is a world-class genius? It seems to me he is starting to diminish himself with this kind of talk. He's pressing too hard.

They are both brilliant…

Go Hillary, kick their butts…

I can’t wait to see the right wingers heads explode when those two words are uttered….

Madame President

Does anyone else feel Hillary would be better off without Bill campaigning for her? I feel like it's reached a point where his comments and activities are overshadowing hers. People who might have considered voting for her may not if it means listening to him as the "proud hubby" gushing on and on about her all the time.

"World Class Genius"???

Maybe in Arkansas.

Clinton isn't as far gone as people think she has. The latest polls from Iowa and New Hampshire show her ahead of both — with trendlines going her way.

So this actually is, for reporters, the fun part of covering a campaign like this. I'm writing this from a shed in the Cedar County Fair Grounds in Tipton, IA, covering a couple of Clinton events before getting on an Obama bus tomorrow. The suspense of who's going to win the caucuses, and the primary, is real.

But it's also the part of the campaign when we of the national press, and you dear blog readers*, start mattering a lot less to the campaigns and to the outcome. The polls are getting less and less meaningful, the stories are getting smaller and smaller, the impact of national storylines and Internet events is fading, and the view of the race from 30,000 feet is now thoroughly obscured by the Iowa clouds.

We Iowans are going to vote for a candidate we feel is good for he job.

Is genius another word for putz?

Hillary Clinton is surely 'World Class' but you would need to add some other words with that - Politician or Flip Flopper or Hypocrite or Deceiver or etc. Simply put Hillary Clinton will put her own persoanl interests above the want or need of the American people. If she is elected President it will be due to the sheer ignorance of the American people.

ABC reports that the Clinton campaign plans to launch a couple of micro-sites attacking Obama's "present" votes, as catalogued in the Times.

No word yet on whether Obama's grabbed any library-related URLs.

But seriously, a point to note: Obama is the only candidate without a 527 working on his behalf in Iowa, and now the only one without an attack site (obviously a far more transparent form of politics, but still fairly punchy). Is there a way for him to make the case he's playing cleaner? Because on the 527 front — the one that matters, as far as reaching voters goes — if you think the campaigns have some responsibility for their surrogates, he clearly has some high ground.

I'm still a little reluctant to cast these micro-sites — as ABC does — as "nasty." I think maybe we should save our adjectives for stuff we're going to see next week.

Oh yeah she is if she can get so many to believe she has 35 yrs of experience.

For Heavens sake what experience does Hillary Clinton Have? She claims 35 years of experience doing what? Being Bill's "perfect" wife for 10 years as 1st lady of Arkansas, his "perfect" wife in the white house for another 8.

If this is experiences, America brace your self for LAURA BUSH 2012, Chelsea Clinton 2020

LAURA BUSH's Qualification:

1. Bush 41's Daugther in law……10yrs experience

2. First Lady of Texas…… 8yrs of experience

3. 1st lady to Bush 43…….8yrs

Boy, years and years of experience and she's even nicer.

HILLARY AMERICANS ARE ALLERGIC TO BULL

She really does seem incredibly intelligent and well informed. She will be a welcome change from the current occupant of the white house.

How does Mrs. Clinton plan on improving the lives of the majority of Americans? Giving them free health care, education, housing, and anything else their heart desires? I have a concept - How about allowing people to improve their own lives without the taxpayers footing the bill? I had to pay for my own education, which allowed me to afford the lifestyle that I choose to live. Why should I pay for every deadbeat in society to "improve their lives" when they could do it on their own if they possessed an ounce of initiative?

Why are Bill's comments deemed relevant or worth reporting? Despite his background and experiences, he is still commenting about his spouse. I'm certain that all of the presidental candidates' spouses think quite highly of them as well -that doesn't make it newsworthy.

"Genius" is much misused by and for the hoi polloi.

Re Thomas's comment:

Woodrow Wilson was psychologically tormented and got his PhD with difficulty. Not a "genius."

FDR. 4 terms - a politician of genius who left behind memorable words and more.

Truman - married to a wife who didn't treat him well, and not clever enough to deal with Stalin.

Hillary. One of her classmates told me many of them were smarter. A lawyer friend told me the DC bar, which Hillary failed is rather easier than the VA bar exam. Smart lady. "world class genius" makes even supporters think, that the gentleman "protests too much" and makes us think he's trying to cover up mediocrity with more makeup than Elizabeth I ever wore.

Elizabeth I - a world-class genius.

Frank M - VA

It all looks like the beginning of the
end for the Clintons.
Obviously, there is a God.

Poll: Obama More Electable Than Clinton

The new Gallup poll finds that Barack Obama would be a stronger Democratic nominee than Hillary Clinton. Either of them could win when matched up against three top Republicans, but Obama has stronger margins and is above 50% support for himself in all three cases:

So anytime Bill opens his mouth now to praise Hillary, CNN reports it. Keep up the good work!

HILARY IS GOING TO CHANGE THE US FOR THE BETTER. GOD BLESS HER AND HER HUSBAND

This truly needs to be said. Regardless of how many times the Clinton's infuse the canard of Obama's lack of experience into the mix, the more impressive his candidacy will become as the media actually deconstructs his past and starts publicizing the breadth and scope of his accomplishments. But there is still something which Obama has that Hillary never can, namely having lived his life in brown skin and having a different perspective due to this reality. Fareed Zakaria makes this case rather eloquently

In 1993, Hillary personally set back universal health care thirty years in this country by dropping that ball, and in 2003, she just couldn't be bothered to read a 90-page Senate Intelligence briefing on Iraq before casting her vote for war. Some genius. Do we really want these two characters back in the White House?

So in the Senate she gave out 2.3 billion dollars in earmarks (LA Times) a lot of it to private companies not government projects. I am so impressed by her commitment to change. And these companies then donated to her. Yeah, that is change. I want that.

Hillary is an intelligent woman, but the real clincher is that she actually cares about the US.

She certainly is a genius! That label should apply to anyone who can trick so many people into believing that her hare-brained schemes would help and not hurt our country, that she has any economic know how, or that a mere legislator with no executive experience and serious moral lapses is fit for the pres'cy. What a strategist!

Richard from St Paul, that might be one of the best analogies and funniest statements I have read in a long time!!!

why is Bill so involved in hillary's campaign? other spouses are not that involved . Is he running for pres. or is she ?
How much will he be involved if she is pres? Hope not as much as she was in his administration when she made many blunders and was too "advisory" as 1st lady!

Stop global warming! Shut this clown and his sideshow wife up!

If they would stop injection so much hot air into the atmosphere, a rancher in Texas could add 428 cattle to his herd.

Open mouth, insert foot.

I was shocked by a phone conversation I had with my Dad last Friday evening. My Dad is a doctor who reads the Wall Street Journal every day and certainly falls much more into the small government rump wing of the Republican party. He has probably voted Republican in the last 5 or 6 presidential elections. In 2000 and 2004 I desperately tried to convince him to consider Gore and Kerry to no success. I was taking a more passive approach this time around. Completely unprompted, my father said that Obama was the only candidate worth getting excited about, and that all the others were a bunch of losers. Even more surprising, he seems to have finally detected the perversion of conservatism created by the Christianist wing (I recommended your book a while back). I think my Dad probably finds the prospect of a creationist president almost as horrifying as the prospect of Hillary as president.

Which to my mind is the crux of the Obama candidacy. Obama, it seems, is a bit like Reagan, in that he actually has the possibility of stealing all of those moderate republicans like my Dad to a democratic ticket. Now if the Democrats would just realize the huge opportunity they've got to destroy the republicans next fall.

When are we going to get past the "Bush, Clinton, Bush (and hopefully not)Clinton phase of American history? Let's get some change, better, worse, whatever! Change!

Don't get me wrong. I like the Clintons. But this election isn't about who's a genius. It's about what's best for the country. I think a Hillary presidency would be four years of partisan attacks unlike anything we've ever seen. It would be the least productive in history (and that's saying a lot.) I have seen independents with barely an interest in politics lash out and claim that any candidate on the GOP side is better than her.

I'm not a die-hard dem and I never considered myself a supporter of H Clinton, but it really makes my blood boil every time I hear some nimrod or bush-head call Bill Clinton a liar as though lying is unique to one family alone.

Get YOUR facts straight. Bush 43 has surpassed every president in recent memory as the Great Fibber. When Clinton lied, nobody died. Bill Clinton's stain wound up on some dumb girl's dress; Dubya's stain is on the Flag and in the sands of Iraq - and we may never wash that out. Clearly, Bush and the the ultra-cons betrayed this country with their lies and deceit. And the more they chant "Clinton Lied" the more I want to pull that lever in Hillary Clinton's favor.

The nightmare is now. Time to wake up.

God Bless America.

Lets run down the list:

I didn't have sex with that women.
It was a vast right wing conspiracy.
Bush lied.
Global warming is caused by humans.
Hillary is a genius.

What's next?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Is that why you had the affairs? To see if you could fool the genius?

Does anyone remember George Bush I running around campaigning for his son?

I thought presidents were supposed to be Statesmen, not political hacks.

CNN - how is this news? He's been saying this for years. He is her husband, do you think he's going to say anything negative?
Where is the news on the Ron Paul campaign?

One of the major problems with Hillary is that she lacks the finesse capabilities that are absolutely necessary to leading. She comes on too strong and tries to force everything down other's throats. This is what happened when she tried to reform the education system in Arkansas, and when she tried to reform the national healthcare system.

Intelligence is but one part of the puzzle and I think it is safe to say that it will take more than mere intelligence to guide this country through the perilous dangers we now face.

There is NO way Hillary is going to be able to unite this country, and EVERYONE knows that. By electing her, we are guaranteeing ourselves another 4 angry years of a 50/50 split in this country.

A fine example of the Bill and Hillary show…Stay tuned, it's just the beginning!!

i belive in hard working and long resume of experience and Hillary is the one

Easy compared to Republicans. Christians hate Science, Physical Reality, and Truth.

Clinton's brag that they've got a better oppo research team than do the Republicans, hence their ability to stay ahead of them? So by deduction, the best dirt they can dig about Obama is his name, admitted teenage drug use and the discredited madrassa smears? Did it ever occur to you that there isn't any dirt in Obama's background because he hasn't been as underhanded, duplicitous or conniving as most politicians? You've been shown this before, and I'd hope you'd be able to refute it or desist in continuing a narrative you can't prove with a single salient fact proving it true or likely.

BUBBA–save America, you and Jimmy just GO AWAY and take the smartest woman in the world with you..

What truly is sickening is the fact that the Clinton's have provably gone even where Rovian Republicans wouldn't tread in there unquenchable thirst for power.

She's a world-class opportunist….but I don't remember seeing her name in the Mensa rolls. I wouldn't trust her or her husband as far as I could throw them. How about releasing all those papers you're still hiding from public scrutiny?

please Bill, if she was so smart she would have married someone else and would have put together a better health care plan, would have voted against going to Iraq, voted against the Iran resolution, etc, etc, etc….

Clinton's are openly trying to splinter the nascient Democrat/progressive/fed-up conservative coalition then you need new glasses!

As quickly as Obama is trying to expand the base of the party the Clintons are trying to undermine the efforts with overt entreaties to the latent and not-so-latent racism still swaying hold on America. The ultimate end of this is the loss of black American support while Willie impugns one of the most impressively credentialed politicians ever to have brown skin. I can't wait until the media actually reports the breadth and depth of Obama's "experience" and people see him for what he's always been: a person able to bring different groups together for the benefit of everyone, to the overall detriment of polarized politics, while getting things done, not just thrown to a "committee" for studying.

Ok, First off, Let's compare Bill Clinton with our current President. Clinton: wiped out the national debt and created a surplus. Bush: wiped out the surplus and created a $3 trillion national debt. Clinton: lied about getting oral sex. Bush: Lied about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in order to start a war resulting in thousands of casualties on both sides, a large chunk of the $3 trillion debt, a war nobody wants but him and an extra country we have to take care of now. Clinton: created "Don't aks dont tell" so the all who wish to serve our county, can. Bush: created D.O.M.A. to protect the country from the possibility of Dick Cheney's daughter marrying a woman. Clinton: Did good things for this country, and continues to this day. Bush: Crippled our economy, brought the american dollar down to par with Canada, screwed up the nation, Did terrible things to this country, and still does. So you tell me, how again was Clinton a bad President??

A genius of what? She has not run anything and no one can say what she has accomplished. Obama is a new Senator but everyone forgets, Hillary has been in only 7 years. This must be one of Bill's famous statements like "I did not have sex with that girl" as we all know.

This is why we need HIllary!!!!

she has been vetted tested this obama,is not good for America.not in these hard times,we need leader from day one.

Illinois’ disabled veterans are at “rock bottom” — “dead last” — in benefits and claims processing of applications for disability. But Illinois’ veterans take a back seat because their junior senator is running for president. And that senator, Barack Obama, has missed an astonishing number of hearings and meetings of the Senate Veterans committee. … ..

But Obama has skipped 19 of 37 VA committee meetings in the 109th congress. Obama’s attendance record was the second worst of all Democrats on the committee. He attended just 18 of the committee’s 37 meetings in Washington D.C.

… .. On the campaign trail, Obama stresses the importance of providing “the best care” for veterans and their families: “Providing the best care for our service members, veterans and their families is one thing about this war we can still get right.”

* But Sen. Obama has continually skipped hearings on the veterans budget. Chairman Craig opened a hearing Obama missed and said, “we will consider today … legislation touching on veterans insurance, housing, burial, compensation, and employee benefits.” Obama also missed all four committee hearings in a series that focused on the President’s proposed 2007 budget for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Ranking Senator Akaka noted during the hearings that “we must learn a lesson from last year’s budget crisis and do everything we can to ensure that veterans and their family members have access to health care and benefits they have earned.” (From the GPO on 6/23/05, 2/28/06, 3/2/06, 3/7/06, March 9, 2006.)
This guy needs to be vetted,I pray for all those Vets,while this man votes present on important issues..i went listen to her radio show on the web..very interesting
http://www.taylormarsh.com

These folks who can't stand Bill are both funny and pitiful. If Bill were able to run, he'd easily win over anything the Republicans could put on the ballot and still enjoys high favorable ratings among Americans and people around the globe.

The only ones who are the genius' here are the ones who can see through the Clinton charade.

Please people, think, haven't we had enough of the Clintons. Do we really want four more years of divisive, stained years. It's time to heal our nation and select a leader not based on spin but reality and truth!

Hillary Clinton said she would support Barack Obama for president if he's the nominee.

Guess that means she thinks he has enough experience to be president. That is the smartest thing she's said during her campaign.

OBAMA TELLS BUSH…STOP TEARING DOWN PUBLIC HOUSING IN NEW ORLEANS….Says BUILD FIRST !!!

Washingon, D.C., Dec. 18, 2007 - U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., today sent the following letter to President Bush, calling on him to abandon his administration's intentions to demolish federally-assisted housing in New Orleans.

Dear Mr. President:

I urge you to abandon all plans to demolish federally-assisted housing in New Orleans, Louisiana, until there is a comprehensive plan to meet the region's extensive affordable housing needs.

Two years ago, when you appeared in Jackson Square, you spoke of America's "duty to confront this poverty with bold action." You explained: "Americans want the Gulf Coast not just to survive, but to thrive; not just to cope, but to overcome. We want evacuees to come home, for the best of reasons — because they have a real chance at a better life in a place they love."

Unfortunately, there are an estimated 12,000 people already homeless in New Orleans, and thousands more are struggling with costly and slow rebuilding efforts and private rents that have risen 45 percent since the storm. More than two thirds of the housing stock was destroyed by the hurricane, and much of it has not yet been rebuilt. Thousands of residents are still living in trailers with dangerous levels of formaldehyde even though more than 800 days have passed since Hurricane Katrina made landfall.

Despite this harsh reality, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is now planning to reduce the limited supply of affordable housing even further by demolishing 4,500 units of public housing. Notwithstanding your wish for evacuees to come home to "thrive" and "overcome," New Orleans does not have adequate affordable housing options even for the people who are already there.

It is critical for policy makers to answer the following questions before any demolition takes place:

• Is demolition, which was originally planned and approved before hurricane Katrina, still a sensible strategy in light of the region's housing crisis?
• How many new units of public housing will be built or acquired to replace the 4,500 scheduled for demolition? If less than 4,500, what is the plan to close the gap to get back at least to pre-Katrina levels? If more than 4,500, what plans are in place to ensure adequate income diversity and economic integration?
• What plans are in place to meet the low-income housing needs during the period between demolition and the availability of new housing?
• What supports are in place to assist residents during any housing transition?

Almost a year ago, I visited New Orleans and posed similar questions to HUD. I have yet to receive an adequate response to that inquiry.

There is no question that most displaced residents want to come back to their homes and apartments, but that is hardly possible if they return to a city with fewer affordable housing options available than it had before. I support the conversion to mixed income neighborhoods and greater economic integration, but such redevelopment plans must not be at the expense of adequate and improved housing options for the poor. No public housing should be demolished until HUD can point to an equivalent number of replacement units in the near vicinity.

Over the past two years, the federal government has failed the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. But there is still an opportunity to demonstrate that they are not forgotten. I urge you to reconsider the demolition of these housing units until there is a comprehensive plan to meet the region's extensive affordable housing needs. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Barack Obama, United States Senator

Visit:www.Blacks4Barack.homestead.com

I wonder why the "world class genius" voted for the Iraq war?

Hilliary is a socialist. If you watched her Iowa commercial on YouTube, her "presents" were a laundry list of governmment programs such as universl health, universal Pre-K, etc. How are we going to pay for all of these program? Probably if you opened her packages, you will find a jack-in-the-box that is programmed to grab your wallet.

When Bill was president, he was a liar who talked out of both sides of his mouth. He was going to make abortion rare but legal. However, his policies actively promoted abortion.

Let's go forward and leave the excesses of the past behind,

Now Bill … While I admit that you were a masterful politician … and at one time had and showed real promise … but squandered the opportunity to share your inherent gifts and talents to their potential …

I think Hillary is an O.K. person but just won't vote for her in the primary or general election even though I'm a lifelong Democrat.

A world-class genius? Please! She's very accomplished and has much to be proud of. I just don't want her HER as my president. She's just not what this country needs.

I must admit I've always tried to figure out why Hillary thinks she has all this experience.

Well now I know!!! It's because she's delusional!!

Hillary secretly believes she was president already!!! Don't believe me? Check her interview with Candy Crowly ,

http://ianschwartz.com/2007/11/07/video-hillary-when-im-president-again/

Or go to:

http://www.campaignnetwork.org/default.aspx

and select the vedio from her speech at Council Bluff Iowa with Bob Kerry and listen to her again make the statement. It occurs while she is talking about health care. These are just two instances, there are more.

Did I miss something?? When was she elected the first time?? These statement really concern me. Once maybe you say ohh O.K., but repeatedly?? Sounds almost Nixonian

Why are CNN and the other MSM not talking about this?? HEY CANDY WHY AREN'T YOU????

You guys print this in great detail this shameless plug from Bill but refuse to report statements made by Hillary which if made by any other candidate would be front page news for days, i.e. Kucinich and U.F.O's.

Well what planet was Hillary on when she became president the first time???

Hmmmmmm maybe thats why Bill thinks she such a genius. Must be where those 35 years of experience came from too.

I think Hillary Clinton is lucky to have such a fine advocate. The Clintons earned their place in the world. Obama has yet to do that. Michelle Obama and Mrs. Edwards are unabashed about their support of their spouses so why not get upset about them? Bill Clinton is the spouse of Hillary Clinton. It's not her fault that he happens to be a very popular former president.

BILL CLINTON Vs. BARACK OBAMA

I am profoundly disappointed that Bill Clinton would dare giving an opinion in this campaign and expects the country to take him seriously, when he is BIASED. Even a fool knows that Bill would say anything to return to the White House for a third term. All for what? So Washington would remain a deadlock, extending old fights, and America would remain STANDSTILL, and our government continues to loose repect home and abroad?

By the time he is sworn-in in 2009, Barack Obama would be a year older than Bill Clinton in 1992. Barack has comparable academic and professional background as Bill if not better (open to debate). Certainly I do not see Barack abusing privilege in the Oval office, when he becomes President. I can not say that of Bill anymore. Why should anyone entrust the White House to the Clintons, anymore?

Besides, President Clinton seems to forget that Abraham Lincoln is a classical example of a President who did not have to spend 20 years in Washington before he ran for and assumed office. And for the records, Lincoln ruled well and changed the world for the better. And like President Clinton said in the early nineties, ‘The same old experience isn't relevant. You can have right kind of experience or the wrong kind of experience…’ I do not want to weigh Hillary’s experience here necessarily. Attacking one of our democratic candidates would not be wise in my view.

But I actually thought that at some age (say over 50); people do enjoy some wisdom and command respect especially if they respect themselves. President Bill Clinton should kindly respect himself and maintain reasonable distance from the 'politics of self destruction'. He is doing so well already with his global initiative. I want to continue to admire him as an elder statesman and my political hero, and not one cheap person that would say or do anything to return to the White House.

I thought this race was Obama vs. Hillary, not Obama vs. Bill, featuring Hillary. I wonder how she expects me to vote for her.

If HRC's a "world class genius," why wasn't she able to provide decent health care benefits to Wal Mart workers while she was on the Board of Directors for six years. In fact she has never even repudiated the company's lack of health care benefits for its employees until very recently. Wow, what a genius? 6 years to make a change at one company..and it didn't happen.

Hillary is a genius who can finish the New World Order plans started by Dubya Bush… The Clintons are known to vacation with the bush family… uh, no thanks.

Vote for change…
Ron Paul 2008.

wow I love the Clintons, And I'm sure she will bring her genius to the whitehouse, and we can quit funding stupid baseless wars and all of us will have healthcare. I love you Hillary, America loves you, well maybe the facist neo cons don't but us thinking genuis democrats think your the best. I'm Nathan Smith in Columbus Ga., and I approve this message.

Good one Bill… and you're a committed husband, right?

…AND BILL IS A "WORLD CLASS LIAR."

i am liking obama more and more. he is very articulate, quick, sharp, and refreshing. i did vote for clinton in 92 and 96, but those two are really getting on my nerves now. they really are ruthlessly ambitious and EXPECT to win. she has stuck by a serial adulterer for 30+ years. i mean huh? and poor chelsea knows she is the product of a loveless political marriage. at this point, i don't think one democratic candidate would do any better or worse than the other. as long as it isn't bush or a republican, they could put elmo in and i'd be happy. at least elmo would cheer everyone up! and let's face it. the candidates cabinet does all the work and if congress can get along with that candidate, who cares if it's hillary or obama? with the clinton track record, obama better make sure he's not on any charter planes that malfunction all of a sudden. yikes!

Posted by: emmarose | Dec 15, 2007 8:02:33 PM

Would the Clintons rather Obama lied like they did. Hillary had better remember her husband answer to a question regarding his drug use. Remember this?…"I tried it (marijuana) but I did not inhale.." Bill Clinton. Let us cut to the chase. The Clintons are outrightly desperate.

Can't you just see the strategy meetings? Bill says "Don't YOU say anything bad about Obama, Hillary. I'll go out and make things up and plant the bug in people's ears" How transparent …. and pathetic! The worst example of dirty politics.

Beth & Jeff–I love your liberal usage of emoticons. You two should run Hillary's marketing.

Seriously, though, you must be about 15 years old.

Looks like Bill confused the word "genious" with the word that you would describe a female dog.

This reminds me of a story…
During the Clinton administration, Bill and Hillary decided to check out a professional baseball game. Being high-rollers from Washington, they were seated behind the dugout. Before the game started, an official walked over to Bill, whispered something in his ear, and then Bill pushed Hillary over the rail, causing her to land on the field. A secret service agent then said to Bill, "Mr. President, I think they wanted you to throw the first pitch."
Ron Paul '08

Some of you Rightys are pathetic.

1. You claim to be the party of family values yet you bash Hillary for staying with her husband.

2. You claim to be the party of "life" yet get some kind of pleasure from killing hundreds of THOUSANDS of innocent Iraqis.

3. 9/11 happened on Bush's watch, not Clinton's.

4. We kicked butt in Afghanistan with Clinton's military.

BTW Bill Clinton is a Rhodes Scholar and graduated from Yale. He is smarter than you.

Some of the comments by some of the Obama supporters on this blog are REALLY, REALLY dumb. Just thought I'd point that out. It always makes my day to come here and read the entertaining foolishness.

I am caught scratching my head wondering where some peoples brains were during Bill's Presidency. He lied, claimed to not inhale and cheated on his spouse. In most circle, someone with these qualities is a scum.
He is now a hero….and supporting his wife. His wife has experience, covering up his lies. Ignoring what is occurring around her, and trying to claim Presidential credibility by standing in his shadow, during her run for president. The best credibility she could have had, would have been to dump the bum.
Her or Obama…….no question, she has no credibility!

President Clinton is wrong in his thoughts as it relates to "Experience". What is crtically important in the next decade is for "America" to regain our place in the world as a dominat power who respects the rights other nations in the world. To do this we must have a leader who demonstrates integrity,wisdom,chracter and the ability to communicate to the american people. There are two viable canidates on the democratic side who appear to demonstrate that they have what it takes to restore confidence in "America", both abroad and at home. The two are Senators Obama and Edwards.

Genius? So a genius is one who would screw over the majority of US citizens to pay for the health care of illegal immigrants? That's a genius - the mandate to impose socialism with penalties for those who don't want or need healthcare? Maybe the genius should ask the Canadians how great "universal" health care is. She might change her mind if she had to wait six months to a year for an appointment to see a physician's assistant.

Wow! CNN must be doing something right.

Look at all the posts to this blog by people who have "aircraft carrier" sized suppressed rage about some unknown they cannot specify.

A psychiatrist could have a nice career with just these people as the sum total of his/her patient list.

Get some intense therapy folks. You really need it.

Bob