Vincent Feli Boy’s Blog

Former President Bill Clinton is known for presiding over the greatest peacetime economic expansion in U.S. history. And his loose morals.

Seriously, the man spends more time inside women than spend in the pages of celebrity gossip tabloids. Even as his wife, , seeks the White House, the Big Dog has apparently been up to his old tricks in the past few years. A new report in Vanity Fair unleashes a laundry list of recent Bill Clinton antics - and surprise surprise, his questionable relationships with women (including Gina Gershon) are at the forefront. Here are just a few excerpts: “Over the last few years, aides have winced at repeated tabloid reports about Clinton’s episodic friendship and occasional dinners out with Belinda Stronach, a twice-divorced billionaire auto-parts heiress and member of the Canadian Parliament 20 years his junior, or at more recent high-end Hollywood dinner-party gossip that Clinton has been seen visiting with the actress in California.

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“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). Like Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, this contest for the Democratic presidential nomination is getting curiouser and curiouser. Sure, arithmetically speaking, it’s practically impossible to see how Hillary Rodham Clinton can win, even with her jaw-dropping 41-point, 67 percent to 26 percent, win in West Virginia and her lead of 25 to 34 points in Kentucky polling. But Democratic superdelegates and activists have to be swallowing hard looking at Barack Obama, their presumptive nominee, running so weakly in West Virginia, a state that has voted Democratic in five of the last eight and eight of the last 12 presidential elections.

To be sure, as Americans over the years began placing more value on social and cultural issues and less on economic ones, West Virginia became less Democratic in presidential voting, giving George W. Bush a win of 6 percentage points in 2000 and 13 points in 2004. But, still, Obama rang up a big “No Sale” sign in the Mountain State this week.

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HILLARY Clinton said the Iraq war may end up costing Americans $1 trillion and further strain the economy, as she made her case for a prompt US troop pullout from a war “we cannot win”. This week marks the fifth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, but voters now say the economy is their top issue in the campaign for the November presidential election. Senator Clinton, the former first lady who is trying to convince voters she has foreign policy gravitas, criticised both her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination Senator Barack Obama, and the Republicans’ choice, Senator John McCain. She said the war has sapped US military and economic strength, damaged US national security, taken the lives of nearly 4000 Americans and left thousands wounded.

“Our economic security is at stake,” she said. “Taking into consideration the long-term costs of replacing equipment and providing medical care for troops and survivors’ benefits for their families, the war in Iraq could ultimately cost well over $1 trillion.” It has already cost $500 billion. Senator Clinton said that while Senator Obama insists he will withdraw US troops in Iraq within 16 months of taking office, his former foreign policy adviser, Samantha Power, had said he might not follow through on the pledge. “In uncertain times, we cannot afford uncertain leadership,” Senator Clinton said.

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What did Hillary Clinton win Tuesday? Simply the right to keep on fighting for the Democratic nomination. The senator from New York won three of four March 4 primaries, including two big wins in Ohio and Texas - must wins for her. As soon as the networks had called the Ohio race, but before the final result in Texas was known, Clinton appeared before a screaming crowd of supporters in Columbus.

She didn’t call herself the comeback kid, but the message was clear. “For everyone here in Ohio and across America who ever been counted out but refused to be knocked out, and for everyone who has stumbled, but stood right back up, and for everyone who works hard and never gives up, this one is for you,” Clinton said. Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois won Tuesday’s primary in Vermont (and continues to hold a lead in the overall race for convention delegates).

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After a morning rally here Friday, Clinton met with reporters to deride comments by Obama adviser Samantha Power suggesting that Obama’s commitment to pull troops out of Iraq in 16 months was a campaign promise that would be softened should he win the race. Clinton said the comments “raise disturbing questions.” She said she’s been steadfast in her plan to begin withdrawing one to two brigades a month within 60 days of taking office.

Obama, in , derided Clinton’s efforts “to try to imply that I wasn’t serious about bringing this war to an end. If it had been up to me, we would have never been in this war. It was because of , with an assist from Hillary Clinton and , that we got into this war.” As the crowd cheered at a crowded gym in Casper, Obama vowed to end the war next year.

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