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.

Hillary Clinton

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

April 7

From the multitude of news items about who said what when and about whom, there is the ever present assumption that every word out of a candidate's mouth should be gospel truth. It almost seems preferable to have stretched a story in order to make a point about an issue such as health care as Hillary Clinton has done with one of her stump speech stories. There is apparently some difference in the telling of the story by Hillary Clinton and the hospital where the hospital denies that it denied service to a young pregnant women who subsequently died.
On the attacking McCain front it is interesting to note a a CNN story For Pa. voters, economy is Job 1 in the context of an ad by the Clinton campaign which illustrates how the other candidates are not competent enough to answer a ringing phone about the economy crisis.
Then there is the ever constant scandal of some sort. For this week's serving there is the resignation of one a trusted Clinton adviser. There was some discussion how the adviser , Mark Penn, being paid to promote the trade agenda of the Colombian government. The problem started when it became clear that the two agendas, Clinton or Colombia, were diametrically opposed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7333899.stm
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/06/clinton.hospital/index.html#cnnSTCText
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/03/campaign.commercials.check/index.html#cnnSTCText

Dec 3 - Dec 9

Hilary Clinton's health care proposals apparently don't provide for the use of hostages to pay for treatment as shown by recent New Hampshire events. When Mr. Eisenberg took the Hilary Clinton campaign office hostage, he was apparently seeking medical coverage after being turned away from Frisbie Memorial Hospital. Fortunately no one was seriously harmed, but Mr. Eisenberg is being charged with kidnapping and the like. Also there was the resignation of another Hilary Clinton campaign organizer after she was discovered to have forwarded the Muslim/Obama email.

Despite the distractions of fake bombs and chain emails, Hilary Clinton managed to garner several endorsements including Congressman Dennis Cardoza and the NH National Education Association among others. Hilary Clinton also caught onto the latest media catch phrase of subprime rate by detailing her plan to deal with the issue. In this plan a 90 day moratorium on foreclosures is called for along with a 5 year halt on the increase of adjustable rate mortgages. This week Hilary Clinton also battled the unknown effects of Oprah's endorsement of Obama with her mother daughter campaign appearances.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/05/real_estate/Clinton_foreclosure_prevention/index.htm
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316273,00.html
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http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=4593
http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=4570
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316223,00.html?sPage=fnc.politics/youdecide2008