Chelsea Wedding Proposal: Those 40 Goats and 20 Cows for Hillary and Bill Are Still on Offer
Hillary Clinton promised a Kenyan man to pass along his ''very kind offer'' of 40 goats and 20 cows for her daughter Chelsea Clinton's hand in marriage. Godwin Kipkemoi Chepkurgor, a man of modest means, originally made the offer in a letter to Bill Clinton when all three Clintons traveled to Africa in 2000. He has not given up hope, telling CNN , "I've waited for a long time. I'm still waiting to meet her and express my love for her."

Steve Bing Paid For NKorea Flight: PHOTO
WASHINGTON - A businessman says a wealthy Hollywood producer paid for the flight that carried former President Bill Clinton and two American journalists home from North Korea. Marc Foulkrod, chairman of Avjet Corp., the company that manages the plane, said the aircraft is owned by Stephen Bing, a longtime Democratic donor and fundraiser. Bing raised at least $100,000 for Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, in addition to giving the personal maximum $2,300. The Clinton...

Who Will Write This Year's 'Making of the President'? [Books]
Honestly? We'd rather read a book-length history of the Hillary Clinton campaign written by Josh Green than read another word about McCain and Obama. But let's take a look at the people currently working on their own novelistic takes on the waking nightmare that has been 2008 thus far! The Observer reports on the contenders: Michael Takiff, on oral historian. He's writing a Bill Clinton biography (though maybe it's been shelved). He's a Nation-contributing lefty, who once also tried to write a book about

Goats for nuptials? It's Chelsea Clinton's call
A Kenyan man's offer of 40 goats and 20 cows for Chelsea Clinton's hand in marriage may still be on the table

Bill Clinton -- A Hero's Welcome: PHOTO
Having secured the release of journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee from a North Korean jail, Bill Clinton continued to do what he does best yesterday in NYC: Proving how much he really is The Man. BTW -- We're pretty sure we heard an "MVP" chant in the background... See Also

Bill Clinton Frees US Reporters From Kim Jong-Il's Clutches [Reporters In Peril]
Bill Clinton went on over to North Korea, met the crazy dictator there, and won: North Korea has pardoned Current TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee for their slanders and calumnies.

Private Citizen Bill Clinton: Mercer St. [Gawker Stalker]
Aug. 6 @ 6pm [Submit your own Gawker Stalker sightings to stalker@gawker.com] We heard cheers in my office and ran to the window to see what was going on. We saw a mob of people surrounding an SUV.

Bill Clinton went to N. Korea and laid his mack down: VIDEO
Embedded video from CNN Video The second black President couldn’t get it done, so they had to call up the O.G. How gangsta is that? Yo, there is nobody else in the United States government (that isn’t military) that coulda got those journalists any smoother. It so reminds me of the Jaime Foxx stand up when he was jokin about Bill talkin to Osama:

Laura Ling & Euna Lee Return Home To The US, To Their Families: PHOTO
Happy, Happy Day today!! Yesterday we learned that President Bill Clinton made his way to North Korea to meet with their supreme leader Kim Jong-il to orchestrate the pardon and release of two jailed US journalists , Laura Ling and Euna Lee , who were sentenced to 12 years hard labor on trumped up charges of trespassing and have been incarcerated for the past 4 months. Happily we learned late yesterday that President Clinton , Ling and Lee had left North Korea and were already making their way...

VP DEBATE SPECIAL: Bill Clinton Makes the Case For Joe Biden
Clinton says there’s no better VP choice to help repair our relationships around the world than Joe Biden. It’s hard to argue with Bill on that one.

The Wall Street Journal On Clinton's Successful Trip To North Korea: PHOTO
In the wake of Bill Clinton's successful trip to North Korea to secure the release of jailed journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, some Republicans couldn't wait to express their hearty congratulations on a job well done: You get the idea. And perhaps realizing that their rightwing brethren were sounding a little harsh about the safe return of two American citizens who had been imprisoned by a branch of the "Axis of Evil," the Wall Street Journal editorial page decided to be a little more...

Bill Clinton and Freed Journalists Leave Korea: PHOTO
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and formerly imprisoned journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling have left North Korea and are bound for Los Angeles.

Freed journalist told sister -it had to be Clinton'
In a phone call from her captivity, freed journalist Laura Ling said that North Korean officials would be willing to grant amnesty to her and Euna Lee if Bill Clinton took part in the process, her sister Lisa Ling said Friday: “She very clearly stated it had to be President Clinton.”

Bill Clinton Used Vast Web of Business Contacts to Secure Journalists' Release
Former president Bill Clinton's central role in the return of two journalists detained by North Korea has once again cast a spotlight on his vast web of financial and political contacts, a network that troubled senators who weighed whether to confirm his wife as secretary of state.

Freed journalists home in US after NKorea pardon: PHOTO
Two American journalists jubilantly reunited with family and friends early Wednesday upon returning to the United States with former President Bill Clinton , whose diplomatic trip to North Korea secured their release nearly five months after their arrests. The jet carrying Euna Lee and Laura Ling , reporters for Al Gore 's San Francisco -based Current TV, and Clinton arrived at Burbank 's Bob Hope Airport at dawn. Clinton met with communist leader Kim Jong Il on Tuesday to secure the women's...

Steve Bing Flew Bill Clinton To N. Korea
So the former prez could negotiate the release of those two detained U.S. journalists. According to AP, Clinton flew to North Korea on movie producer/director Bing's private jet. Since it's currently illegal for American planes to fly to North Korea, Bing had to iron out details with the U.S. government over several days.

Clinton Says Acted As American And Father
Bill Clinton describes what prompted his trip to North Korea. He said he acted as an American and as a father. Also he wanted to so that his country and North Korea can see where they want to go from here. Clinton said he is not a policy maker and shouldn't be, but has an obligation to report to his government. By Armen Hareyan Posted August 7th, 2009 by admin_huliq Similar News Stories View Related News The Winner of 'So You Think You Can Dance' Is Cash For Clunkers Senate Vote: 60 To...

Debate Liveblog III: Townhall Without Pity
Karen Tumulty, Michael Grunwald and I will be liveblogging tonight's debate again at the usual address. Learn it, bookmark it, live it. As you know, tonight's debate will be a townhall, a format that allows for back-and-forth with voters, intermingling among candidates and questioners, and freewheeling exchanges. Oh, actually: it will allow for none of those! By agreement of the two campaigns, there are to be no followups. No reaction shots of audience questioners. (This last, presumably, is to avoid

BILL'S H'WOOD BLOCKBUSTER
WASHINGTON -- Bill Clinton's triumphant return from North Korea with two rescued US journalists had Hollywood written all over it -- from the Burbank airport to the big-time producer who...

Al Gore Welcomes Euna Lee, Lisa Ling Home
Former Vice President Al Gore welcomed home the two American journalists who had been detained in North Korea. The journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, were pardoned by Kim Jong-il on Tuesday after former President Bill Clinton made a surprise trip to the nation to negotiate their release. The journalists were arrested in March while on a reporting trip for Current TV, the media outlet founded by Gore. "It speaks well of our country that when two American citizens are in harm's way that so...

Bill Clinton leaves North Korea as journalists are released
Two US reporters held in North Korea's notorious labour camps are to be released following the intervention of former president Bill Clinton.

BILL CLINTON TO BRING IMPRISONED JOURNALISTS HOME FROM NORTH KOREA
Former President Bill Clinton has won the release of Current TV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who have been jailed in North Korea since March on charges of entering the country illegally. The state-run Korean Central News Agency announced that the two women had been pardoned by North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and would be allowed to leave the country with Clinton. No mention of Clinton's visit to the country was made by either the North Korean or U.S. governments until the former...

Julia Stiles, Chelsea Clinton, James Franco head celebrities in NYC schools
Students returning to school this week will find their campus green turned into the red carpet as a host of boldface names are filling the city's lecture halls. Supermodel Christy Turlington will be attending Columbia University to study maternal and child health. Then there's Chelsea Clinton, who will allegedly begin her pursuit for a public health policy graduate degree at Columbia. Meanwhile, " Spiderman" hunk James Franco has begun taking classes downtown at New York University, where he'll rub shoul

Sarah Palin = Star Wars, Hillary Clinton = Star Trek [Political Science (fiction)]
The Republicans tried to replace Hillary Clinton in the hearts of millions of women voters by giving us Sarah Palin as John McCain's running mate. But Palin hasn't quite proved to be the perfect Hillary replacement. Could it be their differing policies? Nah. It's really the fact that Hillary is totally Star Trek, while Sarah is 100 percent Star Wars. And there's no substituting between those two things. Conclusive proof below. Hillary is technobabble, Sarah is The Force. Ask Hillary how she plans to refor

You Betcha! Sarah Palin isn't simply ratings ... [Sarah Palin]
You Betcha! Sarah Palin isn't simply ratings gold when Tina Fey is playing her. The vice presidential debate last night was the most-watched VP matchup ever, even surpassing by 33% the Obama/McCain debate from last week. According to THR, 69,989,000 viewers tuned in, which makes it the biggest debate audience since 1992, when Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Ross Perot all faced off. Palin has since had all three men fired. [THR] 5:00 PM on Fri Oct