HuffPost TV: Howard Fineman On The Clinton Crew's Return To The White House (VIDEO)

HuffPost's Howard Fineman appeared on MSNBC's "Hardball" Friday evening to discuss former president Bill Clinton's surprise appearance at President Barack Obama's press conference Friday, and the return of Clinton-era personnel to a central role in White House policymaking.

"They came to the fore in the last week or so in terms of handling this tax thing," Fineman told host Chris Matthews. "They knew they could sell it to Republicans because it involved cutting taxes."

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Christian Lander: 'Stuff White People Like': Treasures From A Book Tour Around America (PHOTOS)

When I began "Stuff White People Like" back in January of 2008, my knowledge of white people was limited mostly to my 29 years of being white. But I had a traveled a bit and spent four years in graduate school, so I was still in a pretty good position to observe the habits of the modern white individual.

So I started writing about them. Little would I know that there would be so many people interested in white people and how to exploit them for personal gain. Things went well. I wrote a book, I went on a few talk shows and for a while I thought I was a man who know all he could know about being white.

Then I went on a book tour.

My travels took me to magical places like Madison, WI, Austin, TX, Portland, OR, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It became painfully evident that I still had a lot to learn about white people.

It was an eye opening experience that helped me realize as much as all white people were the same, in many ways they were slightly, superficially different. But then again, there are few things that white people like more than slight, superficial differences

So I've set out to continue finding all of those things that bind white people together in unity, but this time I want to take it further, I want to take it to the independent coffee shops of the college towns in the Midwest, the music festivals in rural Tennessee, the bicycle collectives in Los Angeles and many more.

"Stuff White People Like" is going regional.

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Anne Hathaway's Little White Dress: Love It Or Leave It? (PHOTOS, POLL)

Anne Hathaway stepped out to the "Love & Other Drugs" Opening Night Gala in Hollywood on Thursday night in a rather interesting little white dress by Antonio Berardi. The simple silhouette was decked out with two strips of beige lace and ruffles on the hips. She paired the frock with Sergio Rossi peep-toe stilettos.

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Obamas Do Halloween At The White House (PHOTOS)

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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, handed out Halloween treats to area children and military families at the White House Sunday evening.

Local students between 6 and 14 years old, along with children from military families, were invited to celebrate Halloween on the North Lawn.

The president and first lady, along with Mrs. Obama's mother, Marian Robinson, spent about 30 minutes passing out goodie bags. Obama wished each child a happy Halloween as he distributed the treats, pausing occasionally for hugs or to comment on costumes.

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Later, the military families continued the celebration inside the White House.

The first couple joked to assembled reporters about children walking the long driveway in order to work off the snacks.

"This is the Let's Move method of trick-or-treating," Obama said, referring to Mrs. Obama's campaign to combat childhood obesity.

The goodie bags contained a box of White House M&Ms, a cookie made by pastry chef Bill Yosses, and dried fruit.

As they made their way across the lawn, the children meet a vast range of costumed characters ranging from a spooky Frankenstein to the Scarecrow from "The Wizard of Oz." Music from a jazz band dressed in pirate gear rang out across the White House grounds.

Multicolored pumpkins and gourds lined the driveway -- individually, in gravity-defying stacks and as part of a large mound over 5 feet tall. Pumpkin-headed scarecrows made of cornstalks loomed over the path with menacingly raised arms. Under the White House portico, a mobile resembling bats flying through clouds fluttered around a lantern.

Some of the local trick-or-treaters were students at Bancroft Elementary, which helps tend the first lady's White House garden, and Tubman Elementary, which has a relationship with the White House chefs.

After trick-or-treating ended, the Obamas stood near the front door, welcoming the military families inside, helping children climb the short flight of steps and thanking parents for their service.

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