In an odd twist, Hillary Clinton’s campaign has admitted that Bill Clinton supports the Colombian Free Trade Agreement that Senator Clinton stridently opposes. Either the former president, after a career of free trade advocacy, decided even he couldn’t flip flop with a straight face OR this is a cunning political strategy.
The Clinton presidency brought us [...]

With the demise of Mark Penn as a daily figure in this campaign, I wanted to take a retrospective look back. Not just to the beginning of the campaign, but to the beginning of Bill Clinton’s campaign in 1992. It makes the events of the past 3 or 4 days that much more astounding.
I. The [...]

Image source: freakingnews.com
Last week the Clinton campaign released a new “3 AM” ad, this time targeting the economy and McCain. Taking a page out of the Obama campaign, the McCain counter-ad was released before most people had seen the original. They complement the previous “3 AM” Clinton ad targeting Obama and Obama’s [...]

Greenwald has a breakdown of the stories that made the news…
Here are the number of times, according to NEXIS, that various topics have been mentioned in the media over the past thirty days:
“Yoo and torture” - 102
“Mukasey and 9/11″ — 73
“Yoo and Fourth Amendment” — 16
“Obama and bowling” — 1,043
“Obama and Wright” — More than [...]

That’s not an exact quote, but it may as well be. Most who’ve been following this race will agree that if she doesn’t take Oregon or North Carolina, she’ll have little chance of winning the popular vote and it’ll then be impossible to persuade the superdelegates to jump off the Obama bandwagon. And since Oregon [...]

Wow. It’s good to be a Clinton! (returns here)
Here are the numbers Drudge show:
Feds Taxes Paid: $33.7 million
Charity: $10.2 million
Her Senate Salary: $1,051,606
His Presidential Pension: $1,217,250
Her Book Income: $10,457,083
His Book Income: $29,580,525
His Speech Income: $51,855,599
Good for her and good for him.
But why was this info so hard to get again?

The man who tried to destroy the Clintons is now almost endorsing the New York senator.
From Pitt-Tribune:
Walking into our conference room, not knowing what to expect (or even, perhaps, expecting the worst), took courage and confidence. Not many politicians have political or personal courage today, so it was refreshing to see her exhibit both.
Sen. Clinton [...]

We already knew Bill Clinton enjoys a good scrum. Now he’s telling other Dems to put the pads on or stop playing the game. At a campaign rally in West Virginia, Bill Clinton said:
“If a politician doesn’t wanna get beat up, he shouldn’t run for office. If a football player doesn’t want to get tackled [...]

If you don’t know who Scaife is, The Corner has some background…
In this picture, she is seen talking to none other than Richard Mellon Scaife, the owner of the paper and the man who once said that the death of Vincent Foster was the “Rosetta stone” of the Bill Clinton administration. (He also funded the [...]

This is really amateur hour.
The Obama campaign gave this photo to news outlets for what reason? To show that President Clinton meets people?
All this will ultimately end up doing is remind people that Obama was a member of Wright’s church for over 20 years, and that Bill Clinton met the man for a couple minutes.
As [...]

This is probably the first time in long time he’s had negative favorability ratings.
From MSNBC:
One of the survey’s more striking findings is the diminished standing of former President Bill Clinton, whom some have seen as campaigning too aggressively for his wife — and against Obama.
More respondents in the poll view him in a negative light [...]

“Now, they have been spending the last two, three weeks — you remember that advertisement with the phone call, telling everybody, getting all the generals to say well we’re not sure he’s ready, “I’m ready on day one, he may not be ready yet.” I don’t understand. If I am not ready, how is it [...]

He explains it better than any of us can…in particular the Clinton’s attacks on Obama’s war stance and how they’ve consistently lied about it.
Fair warning, the video is long.

Hope you got all the way through it. Lessig is one of the best at making his points and making them well.

I missed it (obviously), but here are the details (audio here) …

Apparently Rush had a guest host that day because he was “sick.” Heh, okay…
Folks, this is an ex-President! That is absolutely nuts! But he apparently wanted to get all those ditto heads to come vote for Hillary so she could stay in the race. [...]

The common wisdom on Bill Clinton is he’s an invaluable asset to any campaign. Reasons given…he’s a beloved President, draws large crowds, draws large money, and it’s therefore assumed he’ll draw large support.
But let’s look at the record…

2000: Al Gore virtually shuns Clinton and runs his own campaign against the son of a former President. [...]

In the following clip, he actually says, “If you elect me, I’ll repeal those subsidies…”
(Note: I didn’t know the video was autoloading (and repeating?), so you can go and see it here.)
I really think that historians will look back on this campaign and agree that Bill has hurt Hillary SO much more than he has [...]

“The doors open at 7 and they close at 7:15. It would be tragic if Hillary were to win this election in the daytime and somebody were to come in at night and take it away.”
- Bill Clinton, continuing to push the campaign’s meme that caucuses are unfair.
Does he have a point?
Discuss.

Yes, Billary is back on the stump telling people that Obama’s plan doesn’t cover everybody, that it’ll deny us health care, etc.
Ugh…
“Her opponent excites more Americans … but would in fact deny us universal health-care coverage for the first time,” the former president said. “She represents the solution business.”…
“It would be truly tragic if the [...]

[Re-published from 2008Central.net. This liveblog on Donklephant will be updated periodically. For the latest please visit the active liveblog at 2008Central.net]
Today, Bill Clinton is campaigning for Hillary Clinton in Madison, Wisconsin. He’s scheduled to speak at 2:15 CST. I’ll be live blogging.
1:15: Alright, I’m here and I have my press credentials. He’s [...]

After South Carolina, the Clinton team is rethinking their “Attack Bill! Attack!!!” strategy.
From CNN:
(CNN) – Democratic sources supportive of and regularly in touch with the Clinton campaign describe what one calls “a huge wave” of sentiment that Bill Clinton “needs to stop.”
The sources — who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject — [...]