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www.observer.com — Why would Barack Obama invite Hillary Clinton into a serious discussion of her potential appointment as Secretary of State without reaching his own conclusions about the risks and benefits of that possibility? That seems frivolous and foolish, neither of which describe the manner in which the ...

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Clinton Aides Comfortable With Bill's Vetting, Worried About Press
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... In conversations on Monday, officials noted that Bill Clinton has long expected that much of his work during the past eight years would be opened to public scrutiny if his wife were to win the presidential election. Moreover, they added, the former president already had made the lion's share of his financial record public -- including every paid speech he has delivered since leaving the White House -- in accordance with congressional disclosure laws that impact his wife. But there still exists the possibility that a post-presidential arrangement, whether through Clinton's ...

Clinton Aides Comfortable With Bill's Vetting, Worried About Press
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... In conversations on Monday, officials noted that Bill Clinton has long expected that much of his work during the past eight years would be opened to public scrutiny if his wife were to win the presidential election. Moreover, they added, the former president already had made the lion's share of his financial record public -- including every paid speech he has delivered since leaving the White House -- in accordance with congressional disclosure laws that impact his wife. But there still exists the possibility that a post-presidential arrangement, whether through Clinton's ...

Sorry, Folks, No 'Exasperation' Here
Taylor Marsh — ... Evidently there are some who just can’t stand a qualified woman running the world. But it’s Bill who is most assuredly the focus, especially for the media, traditional and new. Joe Conasan adds some of the more sane analysis: ...

Transparency And The Clintons
TalkLeft — Joe Conason brings some sense and facts to the discussion: The concerns about the Clinton Global Initiative and Bill Clinton’s other activities seem slightly overblown (as I’ve noted before). Every paid speech he has delivered over the past eight years is recorded in his wife’s Senate disclosure forms. Nor have donors to CGI been concealed, either, as any journalist who attends its meetings or examines its Web site should be able to determine. The countries that have donated funding to the Clinton H.I.V./AIDS Initiative are also a ...

Globetrotting for Dollars
The American Spectator — ... Predictably, as Hillary's potential nomination by Obama recently gained steam, the New York Observer's resident Clinton apologist Joe Conason wrote that concerns about Bill Clinton's philanthropic activities "seem slightly overblown." Conason notes correctly that Bill's financial data is provided on Hillary's publicly available Senate disclosure forms, but gets his facts wrong when he writes that the names of donors to the foundation haven't been concealed. ...

The Better Angels of our Nature
The Democratic Daily — ... John McCain met with Barack Obama today, (and is reportedly offering the Secretary of State slot to Hillary Clinton) and it can either be a sad grace-note at the beginning of another vicious season of polly ticks, or it can be the harbinger of what we might become. ...

Yesterday is Tomorrow
The Democratic Daily — ... future problems and focus on trivial issues of dogma and ideology. Whether we realize it or not (because the recession deepens by the day) the days of plenty have passed away for a time. And we sit in this limbo of war-that-is-not-war, dangerously extended and building up murderous hostility each day. Shouting names at one another, or throwing a hissy-fit because our priorities are not shared by all is a luxury we can ill afford. John McCain met with Barack Obama today, (and Obama is reportedly offering the Secretary of State slot to Hillary ...