Bill Clinton

June 22, 2008 - 11:12am

Cartoon caption contest winner

What did Hillary Clinton say to Barack Obama to cause him to react in such a concerned way?

And why is Bill Clinton there looking for the fist bump?

Click here to view the winner and runner-ups from this week's cartoon caption contest.

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June 16, 2008 - 8:26am

This week's Cartoon Caption Contest

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June 12, 2008 - 7:02pm

Menendez on eve of McCain: issues in Obama's favor, but campaign requires big effort

On the flight to Puerto Rico, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) turned to former President Bill Clinton and told him one of the reasons his wife was losing was because the campaign too often allowed Sen. Barack Obama to frame the issues.

When Clinton ran in the 1990s, he stayed on message - most famously with his "it’s the economy, stupid" rundown of the first President Bush. He won, Menendez observed, because Clinton forced his opponent to respond to the issues on his terms.

A flummoxed Bush was left marveling at supermarket product scanning devices while Clinton told voters, "I feel your pain."

Sixteen years later, his wife didn’t capture the issues and present them aggressively enough, in Menendez’s view, and she suffered the consequences.

Now, as he shifts gears from Clinton to Obama, Menendez is on the offensive, trying to frame the immigration and ethics debates against Sen. John McCain, a day before the presumptive Republican presidential nominee lands in New Jersey for a Burlington County campaign rally.

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April 19, 2008 - 7:12am

Caption Contest Winner

Check out the winner and runner-ups for this week's Cartoon Caption Contest.

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April 17, 2008 - 3:13am
OPINION

A substantive debate...minus substance

Did you watch last night's debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama? What did you think? Which one came out on top?

Click on the image to the right to view my Debate Sketchpad from last night's 21st (and final?) Democratic Presidential Debate.

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April 14, 2008 - 2:03am

This week’s Cartoon Caption Contest

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April 10, 2008 - 2:24am

The Clintons save face

Don't forget to vote in this week's Cartoon Caption Contest. The deadline is this Friday at noon.

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April 8, 2008 - 11:40am
OPINION

Menendez stumps for Clinton in Puerto Rico

U.S. Senator Bob Menendez was in San Juan on Sunday and Monday, joining former President Bill Clinton on a two-day campaign swing in Puerto Rico – where 63 delegates will be elected when the island holds a Democratic presidential primary on June 1.

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March 13, 2008 - 8:28am

America's Top 53 Political Sex Scandals

Eliot Spitzer is just the latest in a long list of political sex scandals that goes back to the Continental Congress. Politicker.com has a list of America’s Top 53 Political Sex Scandals that includes prostitutes, sex with minors, strippers, extramarital affairs, massages, nude swim parties, and even a murder. New Jersey gets three slots on the list.CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE LIST

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February 25, 2008 - 3:01pm

"Hope and History"

In an atmosphere of political cliches being bandied from one side of the party to the other, Democratic Sen. Barbara Buono today paraphrased a much-quoted poem by Irish bard Seamus Heaney as she reasserted her support for the presidential candidacy of Sen. Hillary Clinton.

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