Bills seems to be forgetting that Hillary is Hopelessly behind Mr. O.

But it is interesting that he thinks the race should not be about the past, but rather the future ..... because the past is all Hill has.

Can the Clinton pandering to McCain get any worse? This is certainly a bad omen!

McCain against torture? Sure, but then he voted FOR Waterboarding in contradiction to his public stance.

Bush was seen as a moderate, too, back in 2000. Look what that got us.

McCain lost any moderate cred when he began backing Bush leading up to this campaign season.

Someone needs to shut this guy down now. As we are seeing he is all about Bill and Hill...

"my true colors, my true...coooollors keep shining through... "

While America is losing their benjamins they're realizing that Bill and Hill and their brainwashed supporters think it is all about "The Clintons"

"America? Who's That?...oh, oh yeah... that's that thing that put me in that nice house where all the ladies liked me more."

"Yeah ...well they better saddle up cause my wife needs to get back in that white house"

Bill, you're falling behind with the message here.

Hillary finally came to her senses today, and said in front of a crowd that the most important thing in Nov is to have a democrat in office. I'm guessing she'd been getting a lot of flack for praising McCain after all the polls showed 1/4 of her supporters saying they'd be crossing over, and only 60% voting for Obama if (when) he wins.

So Bill-O, you might want to stay with the message from HQ, lest you want to start your own campaign again. Oh, the memories...

Let us wait for few weeks and we will hear from Bill Clinton that the ticket McCain/Hillary is unstoppable. That is the only thing which is remaining. God bless America and God bless Obama. OBAMA08

It is interesting that Bill Clinton would pay tribute to John McCain, and at the same time, he is being honest. That is refreshing! Many Democrats recognize John McCain as a moderate who tends to look at most issues in a fair and realistic way. In addition, he does not have to belittle and ridicule someone to make a point. Unlike some of you, he does not have to call Hillary some of your vicious and ridiculing names to debate an issue. I believe that is called "respectful debate". Since in one of the very first debates when Obama called Hillary "untrustworthy", I saw how he planned to run his campaign--the Karl Rove/Newt Gingrich gutter.

Bill Clinton is a very intelligent person, and he respects someone when respect is deserved.

dl: Saddle up my friend because if it ain't Hillary then it's going to be McCain! So if we don't want another John Kerry then Hillary is the one who is ready on day one! Hillary you go girl! We got your back!

100 years McCain is just fine according to Hill and Bill. So this means if you want to get out of Iraq you have to vote for Obama. Go figure!!!

Perhaps people need to read between the lines and realize the strategy in play. It benefits the DNC to paint the RNC candidate as a respected man of the past whose views are similar to the DNC candidates. People dont give Bill enough credit! LOL

Thinking: You obviously are not thinking. Hillary running with John McCain? That might be a good new way to get the most qualified people, but the preferred philosophy of "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" might be too much of a stalemate. Don't you worry. Hillary knows who she is and what she stands for, and we know, too. As far as a dream ticket...she was allowing someone to be hopeful. She was not referring to me.

Obama will never be electable, WRIGHT. McCain, is a better choice over Obama. The polls, you can find a poll to compliment any canidate.

once again pumping up McCain and leaving a member dem. out good job bill keep up the good works.
Obama 08

georgia,

I do not know what happened to my post, but Hillary doesn't know who she is. She bends with the wind, or at least her public face does. If she knows who she is, she is keeping it secret, who that is.

All I know is that the Clintons have been pushing McCain for a a couple of months now. I wonder if that is such a good idea.

She is looking bad and falling behind in the polls again.

Is this another Clinton Flip-Flop or
are they(I still can't figure out which
one is running for president)just
speaking out of both sides of their
mouths as always!
In Fayetteville, NC, Clinton was asked what he should tell Democrats who are thinking for John McCain "Please think through this decision," Clinton said, laughing "It is not a wise decision for yourself or your country."

Bill and Hillary are intent on sinking Obama so that they can get another shot in 2012.

One good thing to come out of this primary is that the gilding is off the lily. Now the Clintons can be seen for what they are: narcissists interested in only themselves. And the re-examination of Bill's "golden years" as President points up a lot of corporate shilling on his part. Time for the party to move past these two and become a true alternative to the Republicans.

When Obama wraps up the nomination, Bill and Hillary will join the Liberman Party.

the clintons are running for 2012 at this point.
acts like these are very desperate and damaging to the democratic party.
Women for Obama

It sounds like Mr. Bill's priority list for the next president is, Hillary, McCain, Obama - in that order. Could it be he is realizing inevitable defeat in this primary and sees McCain as the weaker opponent in 2012 and would rather see a
Republican win in 2008 than Obama? I once had the utmost respect for Bill Clinton and have contributed to his wife's cmapaign, but after watching this Rove style of politics and hearing this baffoon praise an even bigger baffoon (in the wrong party), cinches it for me. Obama's integrity and decency shines through and the Clintons' personalized insulting campaign makes Obama shine even brighter.

I can't believe that there are people in the democratic party who pay attention to what the clintons are doing... and still support them!
they are the sleeze of america!
they truly embody so many of the reasons why america is sinking in the world.

The title of the this article is misleading. This article is meant to be sensationist. You are more than suggesting that Bill is supporting McCain. GIVE ME A BREAK!

It's simple. The Clintons know now that the nomination is worse than worthless this time around after the acrimony they've created within the Democratic party. Too many staunch Democrats would stay home - nearly all blacks - and, losing to McCain, she would become a total pariah, worse than Nader. So they want Obama to have it but will take this time and opportunity to tear him down as much as possible so he loses. They then can come back in four years uncontested. This contest has made me sympathetic to the Republicans on one point - my feelings toward the Clintons.

Did anybody tell Bubba that McCain rates a 24 from the League of Conservation Voters (that's out of a hundred -- not too good); and fares even worse with other enviro groups? "Senior moment", Bill?

i used to be a strong supporter of hillary clinton. i donated the maximum to her campaign. now i don't think i could vote for her in good conscience.

on the flip side, the clintons made me realize obama's strenghts by comparison.

hillary and obama are similar on issues. McCain is the opposite - he wants us in iraq forever, wants to start new wars, wants the supreme court justices to be neoconservatives, prefers to support businesses over people.

bill's action will send more hillary supporters toward obama (like me) than to mccain.

From the article:
"He said McCain was on the right side of issues like being against torture of enemy combatants..."

Apperently all of you are missing something and so is Bill Clinton here just the past month John McCain voted against the banning of waterboarding used against American enemies, even though he agrees that torture is repugnant. This is a toatl hypocrisy and not exactly any sort of straight talk express, and Bill Clinton should know better. Also Bill is quoted as saying that McCain is moderate, now I understand that Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton are every aware of John McCain voting record in the Senate but have they been listening to his campaign rhetoric? His position while on the campaign trail has been a focused effort trying to appease the far-right base and religious base in the Republican party. I agree that he has been somewhat moderate in the past but as a President if we are to take him at his words wei will be in Iraq indefinately, we will Bomb-Bomb-Bomb Iran(a third front in the war), and we will still be in Afghanistan! If you call this foreign policy expereince i would hate to think what he would do if we had to enforce a draft because that is the only way we could fight on three fronts! The military is stretched and is already using a back-door draft maneuver called Stop-loss for those enlisted that want to get out but can not due to this law that allows the president to do this to our brave men and women. You know it is a travesty that Republicans get as much support as they do from the military when they show so little regard for those who have given their life to serving and disagree then find themselves in a war or better fired for their disagreements (see Gen Fallon, Abaze etc)!

McCain is not moderate. Why is Bubba repeating the republican talking points? McCain is Bush's third term. Plain and simple. More death, more destruction, more recession, more people losing everything. Is he trying to get McCain elected? If there is any doubt in anyone's mind that they DO NOT CARE about the party, here is another example.

Will someone please tell me why he's doing this? Every time I think of McCain as president, I think of Ronald Regan at his daffiest. And God help us who he picks as his Vice-President, because he'll no doubt be prez within the first term.

The Clintons are just as much a thing of the past as McCain. Can you really imagine at least four more years of Bill and Hillary on the national stage? What exactly will his role be?

HRC cannot even manage her own presidential campaign. She and her team often contradict Bill and vice versa. She is broke and has to have billionaires write threatening letters for her.

She lost this campaign as much as Obama won it. If she can't win the primary how can she beat John McCain.

As for Bill, he is just jealous of Obama because he is does what he did, only better. Boo hoo.

Seems to me that McSame is the past as well. . .and he is in a hopeless position. He can't pander to the various crazy-butt ministers on the Religious Right and still be much of a "moderate." Bush was packaged that way too, and all we got was Pat Robertson on speed dial to the White House, the Terri Schiavo fiasco, and every right-wing nutcase running the country into the ground.

If that is Bill Clinton's idea of moderate, then we don't need them back in office, either.

D: It is only the people who were NEVER going to vote with Obama to begin with that continue to hold on to the Jeremiah Wright nonsense. Obama is running for president, Wright isn't. They are PLENTY of unsavory characters (including WRIGHT) that the Clintons has associated with over the years. Hillary and Obama are the candidates. Judge them on their own qualities, values, experience, and wisdom. Guilt by association is the lazy person's way out of thinking for themselves.

Those darn Clintons are always "mispeaking" He said "McCain was on the right side of issues like being against torture of enemy combatants" McCain even though he was tortured voted for torture recently when he had a chance to vote aganist it. But Bill must have been sleep deprived when he was speaking at this rally!

For eight years as president I supported Bill Clinton. I voted for him twice. I gave him money and I took a ton of beatings at dinner parties. PLEASE Bill. Shut the hell up! Your endorsement of John McCain feels as phony as "I did not have sex with that woman." All that was missing was the finger wagging.

The Clinton's are the Liebermans of 2008. Hillary will stay in the race to bloody Obama. That will give McCaine the win in the general election. The neoconservatives win with McCaine, or, with "centrist" Hillary. She will always "compromise" way to the right...

Since it became clear that Hillary cannot beat Barack Obama, the Clintons have been doing whatever they can to throw the election to McCain, opening the way for her to make another run in 2012. With his debauchery, Bill Clinton was responsible for the election of George W. Bush. Now it looks like he is going to be responsible for another Republican administration. The super delegates better wise up to this soon.

The Clintons recognize they can not get the nomination in 2008. They are trying to tear down Obama so McCain can win in 2008 and Hillary can run again in 2012.

How many times is Bill Clinton going to endorse McCain? Is he forgetting that McCain doesn't understand the most basic religious division in Iraq (Sunni and Shiite)? Or that McCain makes jokes about bombing Iran? That is not the sort of person who should answer the phone at 3 a.m. in the White House. Bill Clinton also seems to forget that McCain and the Republicans have no health care plan for America, and that McCain's economic policies would further hurt the middle and working class. It's hard to understand what Bill Clinton is doing.

On all key elements of foreign and economic policy, McCain is virtually identical to Bush. So why is Bill Clinton praising him as a moderate? He knows the nomination fight is lost, and wants a McCain victory so Hillary has a shot in 2012. It is Bill Clinton's ultimate perversion - he would sacrifice thousands more to wars in Iraq and Iran, and cause the economic suffering of millions in the US, to regain power for himself and his wife. Pathetic!

Bill will use his Presidential status to twist lots arms when the superdeligates come into play. It's imperative that we make it known to the superdeligates that the will of the voter is paramount in this process. Moveon.org might be the right vehicle for communicating this important message.
(NO BACK ROOM DEALS)

hm, funny, I remember McCain voting for the Military Commissions Act, which codifies the US' right to torture prisoners and detainees into law. McCain "opposes torture" only when there are cameras on. he believes more than any other candidate in recent memory in American exceptionalism. non-Americans can melt and die, be tortured, blown up and eradicated for all he cares. he's not a racist, he's an extremist nationalist, even more than Bush is.

didn't the moderate mccain vote for bill clintons impeachment, they should ask chelsa that question.

Unbelievable! Bill is essentially calling McCain an honorary democrat as a dog-whistle enticement to fellow democrats to encourage Hillary's supporters to flock to McCain if Hillary loses.

Basically, they know Hillary has lost it and that Obama WILL NOT chose her as VP, so they are poisoning the November well for him with fellow democrats.

It's interesting that whenever the media starts receiving hints about what the Clintons are really up to the Clinton campaign denies it vehemently, then a few days/weeks later you find out it’s totally true (e.g. race-baiting, poaching pledged delegates, then wanting McCain in 2008 to win so Hillary can win in 2012, etc.).

The DEMs should have stepped out of the way and let the republicans successfully impeach Bill Clinton. The party protected the Clintons in one personal scandal after another, and now they’re trying to throw the presidential race if Hillary doesn’t win. Outrageous!

Doesnt anyone see this as a plan to make McCain unelectable to Republicans. Everything that Clinton sited goes against the main steam of Republican thinking right now. I would be interested to see if this hurts McCain in the long run. When I think about it it doesnt seem like a good idea for McCain to be getting high praise for Clinton. With all the hatred towards Clinton in the Republican party (never mind this site) Maybe just maybe this is intended to hurt McCain and help Clinton in her fight against your guy..

The Clinton's would rather have McCain win than Obama. That much is clear. The Clintons have contacts in the McCain power structure, but they would be barely treading water in Obama's network.

If it comes down to Hillary v. McCain, as a liberal I would have to vote for McCain. Hillary is far more conservative. The only reason she is running as a Democrat, is that the GOP would never nominate a woman.

Bill Clinton seems to forget that he's a Democratic Party member.

Bill Clinton is proving to be very D I N O.
Bill Clinton can't jump the shark.
Bill Clinton and the DLC are sooooooo 20th century.

What is "moderate" about someone who follows Bush's economic and foreign policies? If McCain wins the presidency, it will be the greedy rich and the stupid poor who put him there.

AMERICA *NEEDS* A NATIONAL UNITY TICKET:

"McCAIN/CLINTON: PROTECTING AMERICA'S WARMONGRELS AND MEGA-CORPORATIONS, ONE TAX BREAK AT A TIME!"

Operation Chaos...

McCain is not a straight talker, or straight shooter. He contacted bank regulators to give his friend Charles Keating a pass as he was fleacing old folks in Los Angles California out of their life savings. This cost the U.S. taxpayer (us) billions of dollars.

Now he intervenes on the $35 billion Air Force tanker deal on behalf on the French EADS (Airbus) by making calls and writing letters that resulted in having the specs changed in EADS favor. That will cost the U.S. tens of thousands of U.S. jobs. Now guess what, many former EADS lobbyists are on his campaign staff.

And, he is willing to get your kids killed in another immoral stupid war.

Maybe Bill would like Hillary to be McCain's Veep!

Which McCain is he referring to? The 2000 McCain, who was moderate and against torture and stood up to the evangelical right or the new Bush-clone McCain, who supports waterboarding, panders to the evangelicals?

If the Clinton campaign can't shut this guy up now, what will happen when he's co-president?

Give me a break...sorry Bill's legacy is tainted for me. I question everything that comes out of his mouth now. Only Democrats...when Republican presidents leave office, they do it with grace and dignity...

McCain voted with G.W. Bush 95% of the time and has voted conservative 85% of his time in office.

Unbelievable. McCain stopped being a moderate in 2004 when he realized that his last chance to carve a route to the White House was to support Bush and become more Bush than Bush. Hasn't Bill been following McBush's Republican primary ads? Out here in California, it was "John McCain -- the True Conservative"! We yanked Joe Lieberman's superdelegate status for supporting McCain; maybe we ought to yank Bill's status for the same reason!

This is classic Clinton strategy. He's making McCain an unacceptable choice for republicans. That's the whole point. He's not running on the democratic ticket.

I'm confused - is Bill Clinton campaigning for his wife or for the republican nominee?

Redaction: "praise for McCain" not "praise for Obama" in 7th line from bottom. Sorry.

Why is Bill PRAISING McCain?

Stop with that nonsense. It's time to take the McCain on, not go out of your way to say good things about him.

Even if Hillary wins the nomination, how is she going to convince swing voters to vote for her if Bill is going out praising McCain?

At least Obama says that McCain is a war hero but he says that he would be a third Bush presidency.

What, exactly, does he think he is doing? Is he so unaccountable to his own party that he would praise the Republican nominee in one breath and throw a substantially capable Democratic candidate under the bus the next? This is pathetic. If nothing else, I truly hope this scorched-earth policy burns his own legacy once his wife's derisive campaign has gone down as well.

McCain anti-torture? On Feb. 13th McCain voted against the anti-torture bill in the Senate, and when it passed without his support he suggested that Bush should veto the bill. How is that for being a "moderate"?

Right. He's moderate. He's for keeping us in Iraq for 100 Moderate years; Moderately waterboarding prisoners; Moderately sitting back and doing nothing while the economy tanks; Moderately standing by while religious whackos like Ron Parsley and John Hagee endorse him; Moderately surrounding himself with lobbyists. I suppose he is slightly to the left of most fascists, but other than that, Bill (as usual) is full of crap.

Why don't Bill and Hillary just fess up and admit that they're Republicans? Then Hillary can be McCain's veep choice, and Obama can take them BOTH down in November.

Bill Clinton must have totally lost his brain. Is this what the strategists have predicted? That the Clintons want McCain to win so Hillary has another chance at the presidency in 2012? Really, this is shameful behavior, his charisma is fading fast.
McLame
is anything but a moderate when it comes to foreign policy. He is most likely even more unilateral and imperialistic than Bush. Just take a look at who the cast of characters are who are whispering in his ears. Rove, Lieberman,....
The Neocons can't line up any faster......they have at their disposal the perfect war hungry, militaristic, never- surrender candidate. John McCain's alarming lack of knowledge on critical subjects should be a gigantic red flag for everyone. His own party members have described his hotheaded, fiery, stubborn, rage filled rants as very disturbing. Moderate??? on what?????

There is only one common denominator among hillary's remaining supporters, blind racism, and the clintons are expert at exploiting that. They exemplify all that is wrong with American politics.

Bill is setting his wife up for a 2012 run..

Bill's presidency cost the democrats the majority in both houses of congress. Bill left Gore high and dry in 2000, giving us George Bush. George Bush senior regards Clinton as a wayward son. And now Bill praises McCain, instead of Obama. Bill is sabotaging the democratic party. Unacceptable. Party loyalty is necessary where the other party is 100% lock step in line like the republicans. Bill is costing democratic votes when he talks.

Ralph - didn't you mean MS. Clinton looked into the eyes of America and lied?? Oh,er, wait - they both did!

They are out to benefit the Clintons.
They want the history books to be full of something other than impeachment.

The Clinton's scorched earth style campaign will RUIN their chances of a 2012 run. Though a lifetime progressive, I will now not vote for Hilary Clinton under any circumstances and I have a feeling that I am far from alone on this.

Why does Bill continue to praise McCain? it's insulting to Obama, his wife and the democratic party. Bill makes me so sick, i cannot stand to see his old crusty lying face.

bill and hill have always been selfish, arrogant and power mad. in reality if you examine the past 14 years they are mostly responsible for the republicans being in office. in 94 they lost congress and gore lost because bill could not keep his zipper up. so the fact that they want another republican to win as long as they reach their goal should not be news.

Can't somebody name the Clintons as ambassadors to Botswana or something and get them out of American presidential politics once and for all?
Just dreaming I guess.

What he is saying is Republicans, Independants and Regan Democrats won't have a hard time voting for him. Is that too subtle? He's saying Wright is unacceptable to Republicans, Independants and Regan Democrats. That means Democrats will lose if Obama is the nominee. You haven't figured it out. But we have. The outrage is that Obama is still willing to be the first black democratic nominee, sacrificing any chance we might have in November. But don't worry. When he loses by a landslide, he can always blame Hillary Clinton. It's worked for him up until now.

There is nothing wrong in what President said of McCain. The Clintons practice what Barack Obama only preaches about- not to indulge in personal attacks. I am in the 28% of Hillary voters who will cross over to vote for McCain if Obama is the nominee. Obama can still win me over - ONLY if he embraces the only successful 2 term Dem President and his legacy AND treats Hillary with dignity and respect. So far, in my judgement, Obama has failed to do both

Ever since Bill Clinton came onto the national political scene, he's been touted as one of the most brilliant men alive with a sharp, keen mind for political analysis and strategy. His ability to remain in office and deflect assaults from the right while maintaining support on the left throughout the 1990s (leaving office with high approval numbers) speaks to his unique mental capacities for compartmentalization and triangulation. His intellect helped him hide significant character flaws from the public for a very long time.

Skipping forward to today, the 2008 Bill Clinton that we're seeing on the campaign trail shows signs of something very common of people who have had major surgery (such as coronary bypass) at a later stage in their lives.

Mental decline, including dementia, is a common effect of coronary bypass surgery for many who have had it, and Bill Clinton has never been quite the same mentally since he had the surgery in 2004. Any surgery is going to slow the blood flow to our brains (if not stop it altogether for varying amounts of time). In older people that kind of assault to the body seems to have an affect on mental capacity.

As anyone who knows someone who has had the surgery can attest, the difference can be quite dramatic or very subtle. It's as if that inner censor, that voice inside of us that weighs what we're thinking and about to say, is no longer there. Any fool thought that pops into our minds comes out of our mouths without any regard or concern for the effect it might have on others. Elizabeth Taylor and Bette Davis are two of the more dramatic examples of the kind of brain damage I'm speaking of.

McCain is not a moderate! For example, his speech this week about the mortgage/housing crisis shows clearly that he would do nothing more than Bush.

Na .. I just think he's a snake and its in his nature. We just thought he loved us before.

He knows that Hil can't win, so he is ruining the chances for Barack. Prediction on Bill - he has to move out of his Harlem office by the end of this year.

I would've loved to elect Bill Clinton for a third and fourth term. Now, it frightens me that he and Hillary are running against Obama as well as running For president. If that means McCain get in- great- she can try again in 4 years. I think not. She'll be even more tarnished by then.

With all this talk of snakes … keep an eye on Hillary or should I say an ear. When Hill's in Texas she has a drawl, when she's in Chicago she has a twang, when she's in New York She clips her words and when she's in a blue collar state she drops the "g's" off of all the word ending in "ing". I think perhaps Hillary is a chameleon ... or as we say down in the holler a PHONEY

Her speech in the south was insulting. Uh Hilliary, people are educated, this is the 21st century. We're even smart enough now to choose NOT to vote for you. Ahh, isn't education wonderful!

The bottome line. Bill Clinton and Hilary helped pass NAFTA which has been the single largest reason our jobs are gone. John McCain has changed from a man who crossed party lines to George Bush, Jr., only alot older. I want change and believe that Barack Obama is the best bet for that. After all, we sure have never had a bi-racial President before.

The truth for many people is they are afraid to put a black man in the White House over fears about what he will do for the black people. After seeing what the rich white man has done to our country, I am one is not afraid of a man who is half black. I have evolved into someone who does not look at skin color but rather looks at a mans character and truthfulness.

I don't know about you but I sincerely believe that Barack would do his best to be a good President. Many people might disagree but alot is at stake. If he does a poor job then another black man getting to the Presidency will be severly hindered in the future. If he were to do a good job then he could demonstrate that color doesn't matter and that a man of any color could be President. I believe most of the American people are good, honest people. Unfortunately, I believe a good portion are also somewhat ignorant and easily swayed by what they hear. When thinking about John McCain for President ask yourself if you like the current economic situation, the war in Iraq, gas prices, the idea of a North American Union, or the attempted destruction of the constitution and the rule of law by the Fuehrer Bush. If you like those policies then please vote for Bush, Jr. If you have any intelligence at all vote for something different and give that man a chance.

The Clintons are known to say and do anything to get what they want.
Now, they did come to realize that "Hell-ary" HAS LOST. So the last option is to promote Mccain so that she can run again in 4 years. The Clintons are in denial. They refuse to believe that America will never vote for her no matter how many times she runs.

*** OBAMA is our next president.

It's astonishing, that Hill and Bill are so desperate to get back into the WH, they would publicly favor a Republican over a much beloved Democrat, and the first African American with a real shot at the presidency, to boot.

The self absorption of the Clintons, seems boundless.

I've JUST LOST ALL AND ANY SHRED OF RESPECT I EVER HAD FOR BILL CLINTON and Hillary Clinton (for her not only aligning herself w/ McBomb, but for continuing to allow her husband to say such misguided ignorant untruths). This does it for me!

This is part of the Scortched Earth policy Obama's campaign is talking about.
Even an ex American President can play such kinda politics.
I thought Americans were winners...

Young fighter pilots pray for war. It is an adrinaline rush plus they have the distinction of being a warrior with a better chance for rank.

John McCain bombed primitive people in grass huts killing women and children. His plane was shot down by poor people defending their homes and way of life.
Would it have been better and more civilized of his captives to have killed him on the spot or to hold him over untill they were able to expell the invader from their land and then let him go?

Pee Wee Herman is a greater hero than Meatgrinder McCain!