Tag Archives: Bill Clinton

Clintons Applaud Demise Of DOMA

From the Clinton Foundation site: Jun 26, 2013 | President Clinton and Secretary Clinton | New York, NY | Statement By overturning the Defense of Marriage Act, the Court recognized that discrimination towards any group holds us all back in our efforts to form a more perfect union. We are also encouraged that marriage equality may soon return to California. …

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Obama Backs Illinois Marriage

Unsurprising, but still welcome. President Obama would support Illinois’s same-sex marriage bill if he were still serving in the legislature there, the White House said Tuesday.  “Were the president still in the Illinois State Legislature, he would support this measure that would treat all Illinois couples equally,” spokesman Shin Inouye said in response to a question from POLITICO. “While the …

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Clintons: We’re Proud Of Jason Collins

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Bill Clinton Sends First Tweet

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Hillbilly National Airport

In two weeks Little Rock National Airport officially becomes Bill & Hillary Clinton National Airport in the first such re-naming for a former president and first lady.   There’s already a new nickname. “Locals are calling it the Hillbilly Airport,” one insider tells Confidenti@l. “And project managers certainly don’t want an airport named after our President called Hillbilly. In the South. …

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Bill Clinton Accepts GLAAD Award

The Associated Press reports on last night’s GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles: The event, hosted by actress-producer-director Drew Barrymore, boasted such Hollywood heavyweights as presenters Jennifer Morrison, Charlize Theron, Betty White and Leonardo DiCaprio. Other winners included “Perks of Being a Wallflower,” which was named outstanding film: wide release, and former President Bill Clinton was given the first advocate …

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Tweet Of The Day – Billy Jeff Clinton

All of this resulted from Clinton’s appearance last night on Colbert. (Tipped by JMG reader Ray)

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GLAAD To Honor Bill Clinton

GLAAD announced today that they will honor Bill Clinton later this month at their Media Awards in Los Angeles.  Via press release: Bill Clinton will receive GLAAD’s first Advocate for Change Award during the event. In 2011, Clinton advocated for marriage equality in New York, stating that “for more than a century, our Statue of Liberty has welcomed all kinds …

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Matt Baume: Marriage News Watch

Clip recap: “We’ve got lots of good news this week, from an op-ed by President Clinton to progress on Colorado’s civil unions. Plus a slew of favorable polls shows momentum building in key states, and opposition shrinking into just a few tightly-knit pockets. All that plus we’re counting down to oral argument in AFER’s Prop 8 case.”

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Quote Of The Day – Michael Brown

“Dear Mr. Clinton, with all respect to the office of the president which you held for 8 years, I must say that it is not just ironic that you are now asking the Supreme Court to overturn the legislation you signed into law 17 years ago. It is downright tragic.  May I ask you, sir, if 17 years have changed …

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Signorile On Bill Clinton & DOMA

“Clinton has at various points engaged in revisionist history in offering the reasons why he signed DOMA after the GOP pushed the law through Congress. The most disingenuous attempt was in 2009 when he, following on claims a year earlier by Hillary Clinton’s campaign, stated that Democrats were trying to stop a constitutional amendment from being passed. In fact, gay …

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At The 1996 AIDS March In DC

I was going through my ex’s photo albums here in Fort Lauderdale last night and found this shot I took at the 1996 National AIDS Candlelight March in Washington DC.  That’s NAMES Project founder Cleve Jones near the center, with Judith Light to his left.  Further to the right in the grey jacket is Betty Buckley.  On the far left …

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Bill Clinton: Overturn DOMA Now

“On March 27, DOMA will come before the Supreme Court, and the justices must decide whether it is consistent with the principles of a nation that honors freedom, equality and justice above all, and is therefore constitutional. As the president who signed the act into law, I have come to believe that DOMA is contrary to those principles and, in …

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Grammy Noms For Michelle Obama, Bill Clinton, Rachel Maddow, Ellen Degeneres

Four big names on our side of the aisle earned Grammy nominations yesterday in the Best Spoken Word category. Via Deadline: They both campaigned with President Barack Obama to help him secure a second term. Now both First Lady Michelle Obama and former President Bill Clinton have landed Grammy nominations. Both are up in the Best Spoken Word Album category …

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Frank Bruni On His Clinton Apology Piece

On Sunday I excerpted a few paragraphs from Frank Bruni’s New York Times column in which he demanded that Bill Clinton apologize from his role in the passage of DOMA.  (That JMG post generated quite the heated conversation.) Today Bruni joined an MSNBC panel to discuss his essay and where both Clintons stand regarding same-sex marriage.

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HomoQuotable – Frank Bruni

“Dear President Clinton,  What a year you’ve had, the kind that really burnishes a legend. At the Democratic National Convention, on the campaign trail, in speeches aplenty and during interviews galore, you spoke eloquently about what this country should value, and you spoke unequivocally about where it should head. Such a bounty of convictions, such a harvest of words, except …

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All Kinds Of Americans For Marriage

Another great clip from TheFour.

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Bill Clinton Mocks “Moderate” Mitt

I predict you will enjoy this. A lot.

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Bill Clinton At The DNC

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Wednesday At The DNC Arena, Part Two

I watched Bill Clinton’s fantastic speech standing on the arena floor and looking between Wolf Blitzer and his co-anchor, who were seated (oddly, I thought) right in the center. (Trivia: Blitzer spends his off-camera time wolf-ing down pretzel sticks.) When Clinton finished and the state roll call began there was a hubbub behind me and I whirled around to find …

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