Obama is doing a "better job than he's given credit for," said US President Barack Obama's Democratic Party predecessor Bill Clinton.

Public perception of the president has lagged behind what he has done to benefit the country, Clinton said, speaking in Cape Town.

Clinton said, "I think he's done a better job than he's given credit for. I feel very strongly about this."

It sent Bill Clinton to ask Rep. Joe Sestak to back out of the Pennsylvania Democratic primary in exchange for an unpaid job as an adviser, the White House has revealed.

The White House said in a report on Friday in The Washington Post that the former president approached Sestak last summer when he began his challenge to Sen. Arlen Specter, who had changed parties, from Republican to Democratic, and had President Obama's backing.

Former U. S. President Bill Clinton has said that Violence or the threat of it is the "bright line" that must never be crossed in disagreements over public policy.

Former U. S. president Bill Clinton has undergone heart surgery recently & said he is feeling great. He left the hospital with a mission to contribute for the Haiti relief works and waved to the cameras and smiled after undergoing emergency heart surgery.

"In my capacity as UN Special Envoy for Haiti, I will continue to work with the Haitian government and people, international donors and multilateral organizations," Clinton said in a statement.

New York, Jan 11 : Bill Clinton reportedly belittled Barack Obama during the Democratic run up to the presidency, resulting in Ted Kennedy endorsing the first Black US President, according to a book.

Clinton helped sink his wife’s chances for an endorsement from Ted Kennedy by belittling Obama as nothing but a race-based candidate.

“A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee," the former president told the liberal lion from Massachusetts, according to the gossipy new campaign book, “Game Change.”

Clinton, whose stock with black voters was so high he used to be referred to as “America’s First Black President”, severely damaged his reputation in his overheated drive to help elect his wife.

Washington, Dec. 23 : Osama Bin Laden-controlled terrorists came within minutes of assassinating former US President Bill Clinton during his 1996 Philippines visit, a new book has revealed.

Clinton was saved shortly before his car was due to drive over a bridge in Manila where a bomb had been planted.

The attack came during Clinton''s visit to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Manila in 1996.

He was scheduled to visit a local politician, his route taking him across a bridge in central Manila.

Washington, Dec 18 - Monica Lewinsky, whose affair with Bill Clinton nearly ended his presidency, is back saying she believes the former president lied under oath when he described their encounters.

The former White House intern makes the assertion in a new book "The Death of American Virtue", due out in February, by Ken Gormley. The book also claims that Clinton had yet another extramarital affair, with Susan McDougal of Whitewater land deal fame.

Washington, Nov 19 - An invitation to President Barack Obama's state dinner in honour of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh may be the hottest ticket in town, but former president Bill Clinton is not coming to the party.

Nor would two top lawmakers, one from Obama's own Democratic Party and the other from the rival Republican Party, according to Politico, a Capitol Hill newspaper.

A Clinton spokesman cited by Politico said he will not be attending the state dinner honouring India on Tuesday, but gave no reason.

Tel Aviv - Former US president Bill Clinton has said he believes that Israel would today be living in peace with its neighbours had former premier Yitzhak Rabin not been killed in 1995, Israeli media reported Sunday.

"Not a single week has gone by in which I have not reaffirmed my conviction that had he not lost his life on that terrible November night, within three years we would have had a comprehensive agreement for peace in the Middle East," Clinton was quoted as having said in a speech at the Yitzhak Rabin Center in Tel Aviv late Saturday.

Pristina - Former US president Bill Clinton will visit Pristina on Sunday for the dedication of a statue celebrating his role in the fight of the Albanian majority against Serbian rule, Kosovo's prime minister, Hashim Tahci, said Thursday.

The statue is to be unveiled on the Bill Clinton Boulevard, Thaci said, calling on Kosovars to turn out en masse "on the occasion of the visit by our great friend."

Port-au-Prince, Haiti  - Former US president Bill Clinton is to lead a large international economic delegation to Haiti later this week to help boost the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

About 100 representatives from the US and other countries in the region will meet with Haitian officials in Port-au-Prince on Thursday and Friday to discuss investment opportunities.

The Inter-American Development Bank, which has about 729 million dollars of projects in Haiti, organized the effort.

Clinton was named a UN special envoy to Haiti in May. (dpa)

New York, Sep. 26 : Describing US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as "the best public servant our family has produced," former US President Bill Clinton has admitted that his wife is better than him.

His praise came during the start of his annual global issues conference in New York, Sky News reports.

In return, Hillary offered praise: "I am very proud of my husband, and I think what he has invented and brought to life here is extraordinary."

New York, Sep. 23 : Former US President Bill Clinton has described Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as one of the world''s smartest leaders.

Clinton, who was introducing Rudd as a panellist, along with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, in the opening session of the four-day climate change conference to discuss key global issues, said: "In my opinion, he is one of the most well-informed, well-read, intelligent leaders in the world today."

Washington, Aug. 19 : Former U. S. President Bill Clinton went to the White House on Tuesday and briefed incumbent Barack Obama and his top aides about his recent trip to North Korea, which resulted in the release of two American women journalists -- Laura Ling and Euna Lee.

According to the New York Times, the 40-minute session took place in the White House Situation Room. Before the meeting, Clinton spoke to the president by phone and briefed his national security adviser, Gen. James L. Jones.

The paper said that the meeting was rich in symbolism. The president invited Clinton to the Oval Office to talk further.

Washington  - US President Barack Obama met with Bill Clinton Tuesday at the White House to discuss the former president's trip this month to North Korea.

Clinton had gone to North Korea to secure the release of two US journalists who had been held there for months, and the White House said at the time that the 42nd president would soon debrief Obama on the trip.

New York, Aug. 13 : A new Rasmussen Reports poll has said that over one in four Americans (26 percent) now have a better opinion of former President Bill Clinton than when he left office after he retrieved two imprisoned American journalists from North Korea.

According to Fox News, Bill Clinton also enjoyed higher favorability ratings than his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Overall, 58 percent of voters said they viewed the former president favorably compared with 40 percent who had an unfavorable opinion of him.

Washington, Aug 13 : Speaking about his wife Hillary's recent visit to Africa, former U. S. President Bill Clinton said that the trip reaffirmed his wife as the nation's top diplomat and also illustrated her dancing ability.

Clinton was speaking at the launch of a new guide about Harlem, one of New York's main attractions.

Kinshasha (Congo), Aug. 11 : U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost her cool on Monday when a student asked her what Bill Clinton thought about the growing influence of China on the continent.

Hillary Clinton, who is currently traveling in seven African countries, seemed initially perplexed when a student asked her the question during a meeting with the Congolese youth in Kinshasa.

Clinton angrily replied:

New York, Aug. 7 : Former President Bill Clinton offered very few additional details Thursday on his trip to retrieve two American journalists who had been captured and detained by North Korea.

Speaking at a Clinton Global Initiative event in New York, his first public appearance since the plane carrying the former president and the two journalists landed in Los Angeles, Clinton said that it would be "wrong" for him to say anything more about the trip.