Tom Blackwell Dec 30, 2011 10:55 PM ET | Last Updated: Dec 31, 2011 12:41 AM ET As Abe Lincoln geared up for his re-election campaign in 1864, the Republican unceremoniously jettisoned his first-term vice-president and picked Andrew Johnson, a southerner from the rival Democratic Party, as his surprising running mate. Lincoln hoped to broaden the administrations appeal after four years of the catastrophic Civil War, and the gambit seemed to work. The bipartisan team swept into office, before a pistol-packing theatre actor ended it all for the president a few months later. With Barack Obama likely facing a daunting battle in next years race, some Democrats have suggested an unusual reprise of the Lincoln manoeuvre: Why not have Joe Biden, the current Vice-President, swap jobs with Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State? An Obama-Clinton ticket, as the theory goes, would revive a Democratic base disillusioned by the Presidents compromises on various issues, and inject some verve into...

DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Struggling Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich choked up at a campaign event on Friday, wiping away tears as he discussed his late mother in a display of emotion that was reminiscent of Hillary Clinton 's game-changing teary moment in 2008. At a campaign event in Iowa targeted at moms, Gingrich lost his composure repeatedly when asked about his mother, who suffered from depression and bipolar disorder before she died in 2003. The audience of mostly women was sympathetic as Gingrich, the former speaker of the House of Representatives, cried. "I do policy much easier than I do personal," Gingrich said by way of recovery, to laughter from the crowd. The emotional scene was reminiscent of a pivotal moment in the Democratic presidential race in 2008. Hillary Clinton, who lost her frontrunner status when Barack Obama won the first Democratic nominating contest in Iowa, teared up briefly during a campaign stop in New Hampshire, the n...

Mitt Romney : Take a long, hard look at Hillary Clinton 's 2008 presidential campaign With all of the rising and falling among the field of Republican presidential candidates over the last few months--from Michele Bachmann to Rick Perry to Herman Cain to Newt Gingrich to Ron Paul--Mitt Romney has remained steadily near the front. Now, less than a week before the Iowa Caucasus it would be easy to get over-confident, which is what Romney's campaign seems to be doing . Remember four years ago when Hillary Clinton was assumed to be the presumptive nominee for the Democrats? In mid-December of 2007 some polls even suggested that she had a 29 point lead over Barack Obama for the nomination, and we all know how that turned out. Rick Perry: Figure out how the federal government works It would be a safe assumption to think that a presidential candidate would have a pretty good grasp on the government and how it works. That is until you meet G.O.P candidate Rick Perry. His gaffes ...

December 28, 2011, 4:34 pm By MARJORIE CONNELLY Four years ago, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton were battling each other for the Democratic presidential nomination. Now, Mrs. Clinton is President Obamas secretary of state, and together they top the lists as the Gallup polls most admired woman and most admired man of 2011. Mrs. Clinton has finished first on the list of most admired women 16 times since 1993, coming in second in 1995 and 1996 to Mother Teresa and in 2001 to Laura Bush. No one else has been named No. 1 man or woman in the Gallup poll as often as Mrs. Clinton. Mr. Obamas finish is his fourth time on the top. Presidents often take that spot: a sitting or newly elected president has been named the most admired man by the Gallup poll for past 31 years, and 55 out of the 65 times the question has been asked. The Rev. Billy Graham has never been No. 1, but he has been in the top 10 more than any other man 55 times since 1955. This year, he is in third place, followi...

Mitt Romney : Take a long, hard look at Hillary Clinton 's 2008 presidential campaign With all of the rising and falling among the field of Republican presidential candidates over the last few months--from Michele Bachmann to Rick Perry to Herman Cain to Newt Gingrich to Ron Paul--Mitt Romney has remained steadily near the front. Now, less than a week before the Iowa Caucasus it would be easy to get over-confident, which is what Romney's campaign seems to be doing . Remember four years ago when Hillary Clinton was assumed to be the presumptive nominee for the Democrats? In mid-December of 2007 some polls even suggested that she had a 29 point lead over Barack Obama for the nomination, and we all know how that turned out. Rick Perry: Figure out how the federal government works It would be a safe assumption to think that a presidential candidate would have a pretty good grasp on the government and how it works. That is until you meet G.O.P candidate Rick Perry. His gaffes ...

Hillary Clinton's Human Rights Day speech has been deemed a historic moment not just for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights movement, but for the nation as a whole. Now, the State Department is offering a new spin on Clinton's speech, during which she noted "gay rights are human rights," by turning it into a poignant music video. Check it out! FOLLOW HUFFPOST GAY VOICES ';var coords = [-5, -72];// display fb-bubbleFloatingPrompt.embed(this, html, undefined, 'top', {fp_intersects:1, timeout_remove:2000,ignore_arrow: true, width:236, add_xy:coords, class_name: 'clear-overlay'});});

December 28, 2011, 4:34 pm By MARJORIE CONNELLY Four years ago, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton were battling each other for the Democratic presidential nomination. Now, Mrs. Clinton is President Obamas secretary of state, and together they top the lists as the Gallup polls most admired woman and most admired man of 2011. Mrs. Clinton has finished first on the list of most admired women 16 times since 1993, coming in second in 1995 and 1996 to Mother Teresa and in 2001 to Laura Bush. No one else has been named No. 1 man or woman in the Gallup poll as often as Mrs. Clinton. Mr. Obamas finish is his fourth time on the top. Presidents often take that spot: a sitting or newly elected president has been named the most admired man by the Gallup poll for past 31 years, and 55 out of the 65 times the question has been asked. The Rev. Billy Graham has never been No. 1, but he has been in the top 10 more than any other man 55 times since 1955. This year, he is in third place, followi...

Princeton, NJ (CBSAtlanta) - Americans have named President Barack Obama the Most Admired Man and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the Most Admired Woman living today in any part of the world. The results are from a new USA Today/Gallup poll. President Obama has been the Most Admired Man for four years in a row. Clinton has been the Most Admired Woman each of the last 10 years. She's topped the list of Most Admired women a total of 16 times since 1993, finishing second in 1995 and 1996 to Mother Teresa and in 2001 to Laura Bush. Also on the list of Most Admired Men George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Billy Graham, and Warren Buffett. Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin, and Condoleezza Rice round out the top five Most Admired women. Gallup has been asking Americans to name the person they most admire living in any part of the world since 1946. Copyright 2011 WGCL-TV. All rights reserved.

President Obama and Hillary Clinton are once again at the top of the admired list. According to a USA Today/Gallup Poll they are the most admired man and woman in the world in 2011. Each top their category with 17 percent of votes. Clinton has been the most admired woman by for a record 16 times since 1993. President Obama has been the most admired man for the last four years. Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin, and Condoleezza Rice round out the top five most admired women. President Obama is followed by George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Reverend Billy Graham, and Warren Buffett.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton top the 2011 top-10 list of persons most admired by Americans, according to a Gallup/ USA Today poll released Wednesday. Obama greets the crowd at Boieng Field Sunday (KOMONews.Com photo) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Despite sometimes low job approval ratings, and a memorable 1990s scandal, presidents and ex-presidents top the male part of the list. Ex-President George W. Bush is in second place, followed by former President Bill Clinton. The Rev. Billy Graham makes the top 10 list for the 55th year. The 93-year-old evangelist first made the list shortly after World War II. The list of most-admired men ranges from the religious Pope Benedict XVI and Mormon prophet Thomas Monson to self-publicizing, profane real estate mogul Donald Trump. The overstated Trump shares the list with philanthropists Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. (David Becker/Getty Images) Newt Gingrich may be falling in the presidential polls, but he makes the top-10 most admi...

Home > News > us-news Washington, Dec 28 : More Americans admire President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton than any other figures, according to a survey. When asked without prompting to name the living man and woman whom they most admire in the world, Gallup poll found that Obama and Clinton each received 17 percent of all mentions. Clinton tops the list of most admired woman for a record 16th time, trailed by Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin and Condoleezza Rice. Obama won the title of most admired man for the fourth consecutive year, followed by George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, the Rev. Billy Graham and Warren Buffett, ABC News reports. The lists, which Gallup has compiled nearly every year since 1948, are a mix of popular, high profile leaders in politics, business, charitable causes and entertainment. Of particular note this year, according to Gallup, are newcomers to the mens list: Buffett and Thomas Monson, president of the Church of Jesus Chris...

Dec 27, 2011 6:33pm Email Smaller Font Text Larger Text | Print Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images When asked without prompting to name the living man and woman whom they most admire in the world, more Americans name Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton than any other figures. The Gallup rankings , tallied from a nationwide poll conducted earlier this month, show Obama and Clinton each receiving 17 percent of all mentions. Clinton tops the list of most admired woman for a record 16th time, trailed by Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin and Condoleezza Rice. Obama won the title of most admired man for the fourth consecutive year, followed by George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, the Rev. Billy Graham and Warren Buffett. The lists, which Gallup has compiled nearly every year since 1948, are a mix of popular, high-profile leaders in politics, business, charitable causes and entertainment. Of particular note this year, according to Gallup, are newcomers to the mens list: Buffett and Tho...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has voiced concerns over democratic freedom in Hungary in a letter to the prime minister, a local media said on Tuesday. A spokesman for Prime Minister Viktor Orban confirmed he had received a letter from Clinton, but did not disclose its contents. Orban's centre-right party scored a landslide victory in a 2010 election. Orban's government went on to pass measures critics say weaken institutions such as the Constitutional Court and meddle with press freedom. The letter "put in writing the things she had articulated verbally before," spokesman Peter Szijjarto told the national news agency MTI on Tuesday. "The prime minister will, naturally, respond to the letter in due course." Clinton visited Budapest in June to hold talks with Orban and told a subsequent news conference that she was concerned about democratic freedoms in Hungary, where she said essential checks and balances must be strengthen...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called for a 'peaceful and stable' transition in North Korea and says the United States wants better relations with its people after leader Kim Jong-il's death. 'We both share a common interest in a peaceful and stable transition in North Korea as well as ensuring regional peace and stability,' Clinton said after talks with Japan's Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba on Monday. 'We reiterate our hope for improved relations with the people of North Korea and remain deeply concerned about their well-being,' she said. Clinton said that the United States has also been in 'close touch' with South Korea along with China and Russia, which were all involved in now-moribund denuclearisation talks with North Korea. Gemba - whose visit was scheduled before the shock announcement of Kim's death - agreed with the US stance on North Korea and urged renewed efforts over the cases of Japanese abducted by the communist re...

WASHINGTON -- When Hillary Rodham Clinton ran for the Senate in 2000, she promised to bring 200,000 jobs to upstate New York. But between January 2001, when Clinton was sworn in as a senator, and January 2010, when she resigned to become secretary of state, the northern suburbs and upstate region lost more than 100,000 jobs. Over that same time period, employment declined throughout the nation. Clinton's tenure as a senator included the recession of 2007-09, when millions of Americans lost jobs. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Clinton's successor, has come up with her own strategy for boosting employment in upstate New York -- a five-part plan to provide federal loans, grants and bonding assistance for local governments, and a new tax credit for agriculture. But unlike Clinton, Gillibrand isn't predicting how many jobs her plan might create. "It's very hard to determine, first of all," Gillibrand said. "And second of all, you are going to try to pitch for each p...

Washington, Dec 22: Concerned over the continued violence and abuse of women demonstrators in Egypt, the Secretary of State, Ms Hillary Clinton, has called the Egyptian Prime Minister, Mr Kamal el-Ganzouri, to register deep US unease about the situation, particularly the attacks on women. The call came after Ms Clinton earlier this week called the treatment of the women a disgrace that dishonored Egyptian revolution this year that ended decades of repressive rule. The Secretary had a very good call with the new Egyptian prime minister, Ganzouri, last afternoon... and it was a very productive call, all focused in the right direction..., State Department spokesperson, Ms Victoria Nuland, told reporters. She said Ms Clinton had been greatly concerned, and particularly concerned about the horrible images. She, obviously, said she had been greatly concerned, and particularly alarmed about the horrible images. And he was very clear that the Egyptian authorities want to see their security for...

Posted at 05:28 PM ET, 12/21/2011 Bill and Hillary Clinton greet Vaclav Havel at the White House, 1998. (Stephen Jaffe/AFP ) Hillary Clinton will lead the official U.S. delegation to the funeral of Vclav Havel , the White House announced Thursday. The secretary of state will be joined by Bill Clinton they hosted the late former president of the Czech Republic at a 1998 state dinner as well as Madeleine Albright and Ambassador Norman Eisen , the U.S. envoy in Prague. Will Lou Reed attend the Friday ceremony as well? The former Velvet Underground frontman who had a longtime mutual admiration society with the former Velvet Revolution leader eulogized Havel on his blog this week as great great man who was necessary more than ever in a world gone mad. I would so much have loved to bring him up to date on Occupy. I admired him before all others. By The Reliable Source | 05:28 PM ET, 12/21/2011 Categories: In other news... Next: Hey, isnt that. . . ? President Obama at Del Ray ...

Washington, Dec 22: Concerned over the continued violence and abuse of women demonstrators in Egypt, the Secretary of State, Ms Hillary Clinton, has called the Egyptian Prime Minister, Mr Kamal el-Ganzouri, to register deep US unease about the situation, particularly the attacks on women. The call came after Ms Clinton earlier this week called the treatment of the women a disgrace that dishonored Egyptian revolution this year that ended decades of repressive rule. The Secretary had a very good call with the new Egyptian prime minister, Ganzouri, last afternoon... and it was a very productive call, all focused in the right direction..., State Department spokesperson, Ms Victoria Nuland, told reporters. She said Ms Clinton had been greatly concerned, and particularly concerned about the horrible images. She, obviously, said she had been greatly concerned, and particularly alarmed about the horrible images. And he was very clear that the Egyptian authorities want to see their security for...

By Charley KeyesCNN Senior National Security Producer POSTED: 4:49 pm EST December 21, 2011 UPDATED: 12:38 am EST December 22, 2011 WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's vocal criticism of Egyptian authorities' violent handling of protestors, especially women, is necessary and not undue interference in another country's business, a State Department spokeswoman insisted Wednesday."We are going to speak out for the human rights of people around the world. We do not consider that interference," spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said at her afternoon briefing.Nuland was repeatedly questioned about comments from Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr, who rejected U.S. criticism and said Egypt would not accept any interference in its affairs.Clinton, in unusually strong and vivid language earlier in the week, blasted Egyptian security forces for beating women after images of the beatings zipped around the world on social media sites."Recent eve...

Small Text Medium Text Large Text Mohamed Abd El Ghany / Reuters WASHINGTON (CNN) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's vocal criticism of Egyptian authorities' violent handling of protestors, especially women, is necessary and not undue interference in another country's business, a State Department spokeswoman insisted Wednesday. "We are going to speak out for the human rights of people around the world. We do not consider that interference," spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said at her afternoon briefing. Nuland was repeatedly questioned about comments from Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr, who rejected U.S. criticism and said Egypt would not accept any interference in its affairs. Clinton, in unusually strong and vivid language earlier in the week, blasted Egyptian security forces for beating women after images of the beatings zipped around the world on social media sites. "Recent events in Egypt have been particularly shocking," Clinton said...

By Charley KeyesCNN Senior National Security Producer POSTED: 4:49 pm EST December 21, 2011 UPDATED: 12:38 am EST December 22, 2011 WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's vocal criticism of Egyptian authorities' violent handling of protestors, especially women, is necessary and not undue interference in another country's business, a State Department spokeswoman insisted Wednesday."We are going to speak out for the human rights of people around the world. We do not consider that interference," spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said at her afternoon briefing.Nuland was repeatedly questioned about comments from Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr, who rejected U.S. criticism and said Egypt would not accept any interference in its affairs.Clinton, in unusually strong and vivid language earlier in the week, blasted Egyptian security forces for beating women after images of the beatings zipped around the world on social media sites."Recent eve...

Small Text Medium Text Large Text Mohamed Abd El Ghany / Reuters WASHINGTON (CNN) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's vocal criticism of Egyptian authorities' violent handling of protestors, especially women, is necessary and not undue interference in another country's business, a State Department spokeswoman insisted Wednesday. "We are going to speak out for the human rights of people around the world. We do not consider that interference," spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said at her afternoon briefing. Nuland was repeatedly questioned about comments from Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr, who rejected U.S. criticism and said Egypt would not accept any interference in its affairs. Clinton, in unusually strong and vivid language earlier in the week, blasted Egyptian security forces for beating women after images of the beatings zipped around the world on social media sites. "Recent events in Egypt have been particularly shocking," Clinton said...

Posted at 05:28 PM ET, 12/21/2011 Bill and Hillary Clinton greet Vaclav Havel at the White House, 1998. (Stephen Jaffe/AFP ) Hillary Clinton will lead the official U.S. delegation to the funeral of Vclav Havel , the White House announced Thursday. The secretary of state will be joined by Bill Clinton they hosted the late former president of the Czech Republic at a 1998 state dinner as well as Madeleine Albright and Ambassador Norman Eisen , the U.S. envoy in Prague. Will Lou Reed attend the Friday ceremony as well? The former Velvet Underground frontman who had a longtime mutual admiration society with the former Velvet Revolution leader eulogized Havel on his blog this week as great great man who was necessary more than ever in a world gone mad. I would so much have loved to bring him up to date on Occupy. I admired him before all others. By The Reliable Source | 05:28 PM ET, 12/21/2011 Categories: In other news... Next: Hey, isnt that. . . ? President Obama at Del Ray ...

CAIRO, Dec 21 (Reuters) - The Egyptian foreign minister said on Wednesday that Egypt would not accept any interference in its internal affairs, in response to criticism by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the way security forces dealt with women protesters. In a speech on Monday, Clinton criticised the actions of Egyptian security forces as showing the "systematic degradation" of women that "disgraces the state", some of the strongest U.S. language used against Egypt's new rulers. Footage showed Egyptian soldiers beating protesters with batons, often after they had fallen to the ground, in what activists described as a forcible attempt to clear a sit-in demanding a swifter transfer to civilian rule. The clashes since Friday have left at least 13 dead and hundreds wounded. "Egypt does not accept any interference in its internal affairs and conducts communi...

Published: Dec. 21, 2011 at 8:32 AM WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- A robo-call advocating U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for president is the latest event dropping Clinton's name into the 2012 race, observers say. Clinton has made it clear that she doesn't intend to remain in the political arena in 2012 and beyond -- in fact she wants to be a grandmother now that her daughter, Chelsea , is married. "It's ridiculous. This is all just silly mischief-making by a very small group of people ... with nothing better to do," Mo Elleithee , Clinton's national press secretary during the 2008 campaign, told The Washington Post in an article published Tuesday. Robo-calls were made in Maryland, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, and Michigan, Florida, New York and Arizona saying the country would be "better off today if Hillary Clinton was our president." The calls urge listeners to go to RunHillary2012.net and sign a petition to try to persuade Clinton to run ...

Douglas Schoen and Patrick Caddell really want people to believe that they authentically want Hillary Clinton, and not Barack Obama, to be president. So much so that they keep publishing the same op-ed on the matter with minor thematic tweaks, and people keep running it despite the fact that it is, essentially, high-toned gibberish. But, whatever, Politico needed to be the fourth or fifth media organization to peddle this idea to its readers, so let's take a look-see . The new bold idea that Schaddell brings to the table today is for Democrats in New Hampshire to get behind nominating Clinton as president through a write-in campaign: First, and most important, ordinary Democrats and independents in New Hampshire should mobilize behind a grass-roots effort to write in Clinton's name during the Jan. 10 Democratic primary. Second, a committed group of Democrats with resources and stature needs to help facilitate an authentic cit...

WASHINGTON (AP) The Obama administration called for a peaceful and stable leadership transition in North Korea on Monday but made few demands on a nuclear-armed nation known for its unpredictability, poverty and hostility to the United States. Prospects for new nuclear disarmament talks involving North Korea and the United States appeared to dim with the unexpectedly sudden death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and uncertainty surrounding the planned succession to his politically untested son. Top Obama administration national security officials are focusing intelligence and other assets on the opaque internal politics of the reclusive communist nation that President George W. Bush once placed on an "axis of evil" enemies list. President Barack Obama conferred by phone Monday night with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda to underscore the U.S. commitment to Japan and other close allies, the White House said in a statement. Obama also conveyed the importance he place...