Bill Clinton was at the centre of a race storm last night after he was accused of denigrating Barack Obama. The former president allegedly claimed during the hard-fought Democratic primary race: ‘A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.’ He is said to have made the racist remark in a phone call entreating Senator Teddy Kennedy, the party’s vastly influential elder statesman,... 

By Nile Gardiner Barack Obama’s Gallup approval rating of 52 percent may well be lower at this stage of his presidency than any US leader in recent times with the exception of Bill Clinton. But he is still worshipped with messiah-like adoration at the United Nations, and is considerably more popular with many of the 192 members of the UN than he is with the American people. Share/Save Read More →

Two old friends, fresh from a day of mourning in rainy Boston, came south Saturday night to pledge to a roomful of roaring Tennessee Democrats that Ted Kennedy’s dream indeed will never die. Share/Save Read More →

By Ralph R. Reiland "This isn't about me," President Barack Obama said last week, maintaining that his manic push for a vote on health care reform is all about us. Share/Save Read More →

By Dick Morris Asked why he was naming some of his rivals to top administration jobs, President Lyndon B. Johnson said it best: “I’d rather have them inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in.” President Obama seems to echo Johnson’s management style in his handling of Bill and Hillary Clinton. By bringing them into his inner circle, he has marginalized them both and... 

President Obama is losing a member of his press shop just shy of his first 100 days in office. Ellen Moran, White House communications director, will become chief of staff for Commerce Secretary Gary Locke. Share/Save Read More →

By Helene Cooper Well, that didn’t take long. Just 44 days into the job, and President Obama is going gray. It happens to all of them, of course — Bill Clinton still had about half a head of brown hair when he took office but was a silver fox two years later, and George W. Bush went from salt and pepper to just salt in what seemed like a blink of an eye. Share/Save Read More →

By Asma Gull Hasan I know President Obama is not Muslim, but I am tempted nevertheless to think that he is, as are most Muslims I know. In a very unscientific oral poll, ranging from family members to Muslim acquaintances, many of us feel, just as African-Americans did for the non-black but culturally leaning African-American President Bill Clinton, that we have our first American Muslim president... 

By Michelle Odis Is it unethical for former Clinton flack George Stephanopoulos –  an independent journalist – to participate in daily conversations with three of the Democratic Party’s top strategists while employed as ABC News’ chief Washington correspondent and anchor of “This Week”? Share/Save Read More →

By Walter Shapiro Through most of his inaugural primetime press conference, Barack Obama seemed like he was channeling a particularly loquacious combination of Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, and the ghost of Hubert Humphrey. The president's response to the first question from the Associated Press about the risks of sounding too apocalyptic about the economy ran (or, to be more accurate, crawled) for... 

REUTERS – President-elect Barack Obama filled top Justice Department posts on Monday with four former Clinton administration lawyers, including naming the Harvard Law School dean to argue the government's position in U.S. Supreme Court cases. Share/Save Read More →