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The Generals' Revolt

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:07:22 -0800

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Bill's Back in Business

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Joe Conason - Sep. 22 (Opinion) - Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Your email has been sent. Alex Wong / AP Photo Mocking the predictions that he’d be sidelined or prove an irritant to his wife, the former president has his mojo back and is kicking off

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A Team Player Who Stands Apart

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - Sep. 18 (Special Report) - Tension Between Leading or Blending In Marks Clinton’s Tenure at State

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Supreme Court Eyes Decades of Campaign Finance Laws

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Independent - By Daphne Eviatar - Sep. 09 (News Analysis) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear arguments in a case that could reverse major gains made in recent decades to reduce the influence of corporate money on federal elections. At first blush, Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission appears to

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Free Speech and ‘Hillary: The Movie’

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Sep. 09 (Interview) - Does the application of campaign finance laws to “Hillary: The Movie” violate free speech rights? What are the implications for electoral politics if the Supreme Court rules in favor of Citizens United?

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It’s 3 a.m. Do You Know Where Hillary Clinton Is?

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By David Rothkopf - Aug. 23 (News Analysis) - The secretary has quietly begun rethinking the very nature of diplomacy and translating that vision into a revitalized State Department, one that approaches U.S. allies and rivals in ways that challenge long-held traditions.

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Afghanistan, Iraq and the Clintons

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Worldfocus - By Martin Savidge, Gideon Rose, Carla Robbins - Aug. 14 (Interview) - Week in review: Gideon Rose of Foreign Affairs magazine and Carla Robbins of The New York Times discuss the week’s top stories: A major U.S. offensive as national elections approach in Afghanistan, a surge in suicide bombings in Iraq and Hillary Clinton's trip to Africa.

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The Many Layers of Nahalat Shimon beg the question: Where's the money coming from?

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

arabisto.com - By Eileen Fleming - Aug. 09 (Special Report) - Last Sunday morning just before sunrise, Israeli forces evicted seventy more Palestinians from their homes in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, which is being taken over by the Nahalat Shimon settlers. "The events in Sheikh Jarrah garnered international censure from the European Union, the United Nations (UN) and from Britain, which said it was 'appalled' at the move. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday night called the Israeli evictions "deeply regrettable" and she urged "the government of Israel and municipal officials to refrain from such provocative actions."

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Hillary Clinton demands accountability for war crimes

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Aug. 05 (Opinion) - As we send murderous, crusading civilian units around the world to accompany our invading armies -- while ushering a regime of torture wherever we go -- and then announce we will only Look to the Future, Not the Past, when their crimes are exposed (despite our best efforts to keep them concealed), do we actually expect anyone to take these sermons seriously?

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In Release of Journalists, Both Clintons Had Key Roles

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Mark Landler, Peter Baker - Aug. 05 (News Report) - Former President Bill Clinton left North Korea on Wednesday morning after a dramatic 20-hour visit, in which he won the freedom of two American journalists, opened a diplomatic channel to North Korea’s reclusive government and dined with the North’s ailing leader, Kim Jong-il.

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The Ghosts of Clintoncare

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Ezra Klein - Jul. 26 (News Analysis) - Barack Obama's strategy to pass health-care reform seems based on a simple principle: Whatever Bill Clinton did, do the opposite. Where Clinton and his team crafted their health-care reform plan in the executive branch, Obama has left the details of his effort almost entirely to Congress. Where Clinton pursued an ambitious reconstruction of the entire sector, Obama has sought to preserve existing insurance arrangements and win the support of industry players. Where Clinton spent a year developing his bill before even getting to Congress, Obama lashed his efforts to a tight (and apparently unrealizable) timetable. Even the atmospherics offer contrasts: Clinton's big push for reform came in a soaring 1993 speech before a joint session of Congress, in which he offered painstaking details of his plans; Obama made his argument to the nation at a news conference last week, addressing concerns more than specifying proposals. Obama's reluctance to follow Clinton's example is understandable: Few legislative failures have been as catastrophic as Clinton's on health-care reform. Yet the ghosts of the early 1990s still hover over today's debates.

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Lanny Davis Now Lobbying In Support Of Honduran Coup

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - Jul. 15 (News Report) - And now the hardest working conservative Democrat in show business has a new gig: lobbying against the Honduran leader recently deposed in a military coup.

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Rising Costs

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Republic - By Jonathan Cohn - Jun. 30 (Opinion) - Notwithstanding the predictable fits-and-starts of the legislative process, it seems likely that Obama will have a bill to sign by year's end, thereby accomplishing what the Clintons famously could not. But then what? Having crafted a bill that can pass Congress, will Obama be signing a bill that people actually like? It's a question best answered by examining another episode of the past--one that, although a mere footnote in political history, is fraught with warnings for today's reformers.

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Clinton: Obama Has Passed '3AM' Test

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Sam Stein - Jun. 07 (News Report) - It's been fifteen months since Hillary Clinton charged that Barack Obama lacked the chops to handle a crisis phone call at 3 A.M. And the two have gone from bitter electoral rivals to partners in foreign policy. On Sunday, Clinton revisited that defining attack affirming that Obama could answer that early morning call. "Absolutely," the Secretary of State told ABC's "This Week." "And, you know, the president in his public actions and demeanor, and certainly in private with me and with the national security team, has been strong, thoughtful, decisive. I think he is doing a terrific job."

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Hillary's New Crusade

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Michelle Goldberg - Jun. 07 (Opinion) - A year ago today, Hillary Clinton ended her presidential campaign—to the relief of many. But even her critics must admit that as secretary of State, she’s been a feminist hero to behold. One year ago today, Hillary Clinton ended her presidential campaign, much to the relief of millions of ardent Barack Obama supporters like me. Throughout the primaries, I had been irritated and then outraged by those who argued feminism obliged women to back her. The possibility that our first female president would be a former first lady promising to continue her husband’s legacy struck me as profoundly dispiriting. During the campaign, her hardball tactics horrified me. So when she made her rousing and gracious speech in the National Building Museum, conceding defeat but celebrating "18 million cracks" in "that highest, hardest glass ceiling," I was too furious to really hear her.

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The Mellowing of William Jefferson Clinton

Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Peter Baker - May. 31 (Special Report) - Bill Clinton loves to shop. On a March day in an elegant crafts store in Lima, the Peruvian capital, he hunted for presents for his wife and the women on his staff back home. He had given a speech at a university earlier and just came from a ceremony kicking off a program to help impoverished Peruvians. Now he was eyeing a necklace with a green stone amulet. Standing all by himself, the former president of the United States moved his eyes methodically across shelves of wooden carvings, jewelry and sculptures as he searched for something distinctive to bring his wife. “She used to look forward to me coming home from wherever I’ve been,” he mused with a laugh. “Now I’m afraid I’ll be second fiddle to whatever world leader she’s just met.”

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Hillary Clinton's diplomacy raises some eyebrows

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Paul Richter - May. 24 (News Analysis) - For years as North Korea defied the West with its nuclear program, U.S. officials considered international negotiations their best chance, if not their only hope, for dealing with the renegade regime. So it came as a jolt when Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton seemed to say recently that the Obama administration was throwing in the towel on the talks. The idea that North Korea would take part, she said, was "implausible, if not impossible."

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In Baghdad visit, Clinton reassures Iraqis

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Liz Sly, Caesar Ahmed - Apr. 26 (News Report) - During an unannounced visit to Baghdad on Saturday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to reassure anxious Iraqis that the U.S. would not abandon them despite plans to start withdrawing U.S. troops soon. Her visit coincided with a sudden surge of violence that had claimed the lives of nearly 160 people in the previous two days. But Clinton said she was confident that the bloodshed did not mean recent gains in security were being eroded.

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Clintons’ gooey bliss confounds the cynics

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Tony Allen-Mills - Apr. 26 (Opinion) - Spring was in the air in New York and Bill and Hillary Clinton were out on the town with Chelsea, their daughter. At the Café Carlyle, the New York Post reported solemnly, they sat “holding hands” while listening to the cabaret. A few days later the Clintons were in Washington. This time they were seen walking hand-in-hand down MacArthur Boulevard after an intimate dinner at a popular restaurant.

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Hillary Clinton slips back into first lady mode

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Sarah Baxter - Mar. 15 (News Analysis) - There was a quiet gesture of intimacy when Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama teamed up for an awards ceremony for women at the State Department last week. In an unscripted moment away from the cameras, Clinton reached out and gave the first lady's hand a squeeze. Like Clinton before her, Michelle Obama has had to go out to bat for her husband after his popularity hit a rough patch. “I believe in this nation and I believe in my husband,” she said in her first television interview as first lady as a poll showed Barack Obama’s approval ratings had slipped below George W Bush’s at the same stage of his presidency.

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Secretary Clinton's safety dance

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By David S. Cloud - Mar. 08 (Opinion) - The way to think about what kind of secretary of state Hillary Clinton will be is to remember what she did after coming to the Senate eight years ago. While some of her new colleagues feared the former First Lady would be a dilettante who disdained legislating, she surprised them by plunging into the details of the job and gradually earned a reputation as one of the Senate's most substantive members. She displayed the same style in her weeklong trip to the Middle East and Europe this week, and it was a sharp contrast to her approach on her maiden trip as secretary to Asia in February, where she made headlines with frank and sometimes jarring comments playing down the importance of human rights in the U.S.-China relationship and speculating about a possible succession struggle in North Korea.

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Clinton to Visit Middle East Amid Calls for Radically New Peace Strategy

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - Mar. 01 (News Analysis) - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton this week will make her first foray into Middle East diplomacy, attending a high-level conference on humanitarian assistance to Gaza and making the rounds of Israeli and Palestinian officials, at a time when a growing chorus of voices in the United States say the peace process needs a dramatically new approach.

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U.S., China Agree to Focus on Economy, Climate

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - Feb. 22 (News Report) - China and the United States agreed Saturday to begin high-level consultations on combating the global economic crisis and climate change, with China's poor human rights record relegated as a lesser priority. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton held extensive talks with a panoply of Chinese officials, including President Hu Jintao, and toured a new low-emissions power plant using General Electric technology to highlight the Obama administration's determination to form a partnership with China on reducing harmful emissions.

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Clinton Urges China to Keep Buying Treasuries

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Bloomberg - By Indira Lakshmanan - Feb. 22 (News Report) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged China to continue buying Treasury bonds to help finance President Barack Obama’s stimulus plan. The two nations’ economies are intertwined and it wouldn’t be in China’s interest if the U.S. were unable to sell its government debt, Clinton said in an interview with Shanghai’s Dragon Television today. China knows it needs a healthy American economy as its biggest export market, she said, adding that the U.S. must take “drastic measures” to stimulate growth. “We are truly going to rise or fall together,” Clinton said. “By continuing to support American treasury instruments, the Chinese are recognizing” that interconnection.

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Hillary Clinton uses China visit to seek consensus on tackling global economic woes

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Tania Branigan - Feb. 21 (News Report) - The United States and China could help lead a global economic recovery by working together, Hillary Clinton told a press conference in Beijing this morning. The US secretary of state has vowed to use her visit to increase co-operation between the two countries, but she has been criticised by campaigners for saying that disagreements over human rights, Taiwan and Tibet should not interfere with making progress on the economy, climate change and security issues.

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