Tag Archives: Bill Clinton

Via press release: Extra-marital dating site AshleyMadison.com is evoking the infidelities of POTUS’ past in honor of the upcoming President’s Day weekend. Their brand new billboard features Bill Clinton, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy, three of American history’s horniest leaders, alongside the tagline “Who Says Cheaters Never Prosper? Happy President’s Day!” The first billboard of the campaign was …

Via the New York Times: Former President Bill Clinton will swear in Bill de Blasio as New York City’s 109th mayor at the inauguration ceremony on Jan. 1, the mayor-elect’s transition team announced in a statement on Saturday. Mr. de Blasio served in Mr. Clinton’s administration as a regional director of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and was …

“We have some unresolved issues that it would be nice to sit down and talk about now. He was the love of my life and I was the love of his life and you don’t get over those things. If we had the opportunity to sit down and visit with each other in person, I’m not saying the romance would …

Oh-so-conveniently timed for the 2016 presidential aspirations of Hillary Clinton, the National Enquirer claims to have unearthed an audio “sex tape” recorded by Monica Lewinsky sixteen years ago. A never-before-heard tape of Monica Lewinsky telling then-President Bill Clinton that she could ‘take all my clothes off’ if he agreed to an illicit meeting with her has reportedly surfaced. The tape, …

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. …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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

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 …

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.”

“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 …

“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 …

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 …

“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 …

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 …