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In a speech that steered clear of policy proscriptions, but that urged a need for creative thinking about copyright and content distribution, former President Bill Clinton on Friday called for further discussion “about the need to give people an appropriate return on their ideas and development of them, and presentation of it, in film and music and in other areas, and the need to give it as quickly as possible to the world.” Clinton’s speech came at the Creativity Conference, a half-day meeting hosted by the Motion Picture Association of America, Microsoft, and Time Magazine, where participants ranging from House Majority Leader Eric Cantor to HBO CEO Richard Plepler discussed issues in the creative economy ranging from federal research and development investment to copyright.

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Last night, President Bill Clinton formally nominated President Obama for a second term at the Time Warner Center in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina in a fiery, energetic speech that had the DNC crowd roaring from the moment he stepped on stage.

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Last night during his speech to the Democratic National Convention, President Clinton called out Mitt Romney’s reckless plan to increase military spending. “The Republican argument against the president’s re-election was actually pretty simple — pretty snappy,” Clinton said, “It went something like this: We left him a total mess. He hasn’t cleaned it up fast enough.

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Since this is a culture blog, I’m going to leave the policy and political analysis of President Clinton’s barnburner DNC speech to others (see Daniel Larison , Jonathan Cohn , and James Fallows for some good examples). But one of the reasons that Clinton’s speech succeeded in the way that it did was the cultural cache surrounding Bill Clinton and the era where he was more relevant

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Bill Clinton singlehandedly dismantled the Romney-Ryan campaign narrative that President Obama is trying to put an end to Medicare at the Democratic Convention Wednesday night, pointing out that it is in fact the Romney-Ryan proposal for Medicare that would permanently change the program to a depreciating voucher system. “It takes some brass,” Clinton said, “to attack a guy for doing what you did”: First, Both Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan attacked the President for allegedly robbing medicare of $716 billion

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The latest line of attack from the Romney campaign says that Barack Obama wants to abandon President Clinton’s welfare reform policies. Now Bill Clinton himself is saying that the Romney’s claim is false. “Governor Romney …

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Newt Gingrich paid another visit to Chris Matthews on Thursday for a discussion that touched upon topics from Mitt Romney’s tax returns to the latest polls showing President Barack Obama’s lead. Toward the end, they also ..

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Former President Bill Clinton . Bill Clinton speaks at ‘A Night Out With The Millennium Network’ at the Old Vic Tunnels, presented by The Clinton Foundations and The Reuben Foundation.

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“Just like their theories have been tested and didn’t work,” he said, “my theories have been tested. The last time they were tried was by a guy named Bill Clinton

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Cory Booker : Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a surrogate for the Obama campaign, called efforts by that campaign to attack Mitt Romney on his private equity career “nauseating.” “This kind of stuff is nauseating to me on both sides,” he said on Meet the Press. “It’s nauseating to the American public. Enough is enough.

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