On Sunday September 28, former president Bill Clinton appeared on the liberal Daily Show, hosted by Jon Stewart and aired by Comedy Central.  As much of the conversation centered on the recent economic upheavals, Clinton had many opportunities to take pot-shots at the current administration as well as the McCain campaign.  However, in contrast to the tonal turn that the presidential campaign has taken recently, Clinton chose to concentrate instead on policies that he believes need to be implemented to help the struggling economy.  Clinton advocated more stringent regulations in the lending market as a condition of the 700 billion dollar economic bailout, which ultimately failed to pass today.  Later, when prompted by Stewart to speak about what his own candidacy would be like, Clinton demurred, instead electing to throw his support behind Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.  His endorsement marked the latest push by the Clinton camp to put the messy primary race in the past and concentrate on putting a Democrat in the Whitehouse.  Whether it will be enough remains to be seen.

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Possible Actual Occurrence of SNL Satire Cancelled 

Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin nearly had the epic meeting/battle that was foreshadowed by SNL's skit on saturday night. Clinton was scheduled to speak at a rally in New York protesting the Iranian President Ahmadinejad. Clinton was, to say the least, shocked when she discovered that Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin would also be attending the event. Clinton aides immediately cancelled the Senator's scheduled appearance citing the fact that the rally was "...never billed to us as a partisan political event."  It seems as though those of us eagerly awaiting the possibly "explosive" meeting between these two will have to wait a little while longer.

Sources:Yahoo! News