“Whether he was publicly comparing Barack Obama’s primary victory in South Carolina to Jesse Jackson’s campaigns in the eighties or privately, and apoplectically, complaining that Bill Richardson broke his word by endorsing Obama, every story has seemed to reinforce an image of [Bill] Clinton as a sort of ill-tempered coot driven a little mad by Obama’s success. ‘I think this campaign has enraged him,’ the adviser told me. ‘He doesn’t like Obama.’” [New Yorker]
“Coot.”
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hisurfer
I really disliked Clinton while he was in office, and refused to vote for him the second term (I voted third party, not GOP).
After so many years of Bush I was starting to really miss him. No more. He’s done more damage to HRC’s campaign than anyone else. Obama didn’t win me over so much as the Mr. and Mrs. completely turned me off all over again.
deec4
The Obama-loving media at it’s best. There was NOTHING wrong with comparing BO’s SC win to JJ.
Bitch Republic
I used to like Obama when he was first on the scene, but after the campaign he’s run, I think Obama is a total asshat. I’m with Bill, I can’t stand Obama now.
Leland Frances
Queerty, Queerty, Queerty. Your cherry-picked text pull from the article totally misrepresents its overall message, however critical it remains.
It is about the entirely REASONABLE anger of Pres. Clinton for the way he has been misrepresented during the campaign by Queerty’s equivalent Obamoonies in the MSM.
Quote [emphasis mine]: “As Clinton campaigned in Pennsylvania, he was rarely the cartoon politician portrayed in the press. HE STILL CONNECTS BETTER WITH VOTERs than his wife OR OBAMA. …
…[This] is what offended Bill Clinton. ‘Hillary’s opponent, in his entire campaign, every two or three weeks has said for months and months and months, beginning in Nevada, that really there wasn’t much difference in how America did when I was President and how America’s done under President Bush’, [Pres. Clinton] said in Lock Haven. ‘Now, if you believe that, you should probably vote for him, but you get a very bad grade in history’. In the closing days of the campaign, Obama gave at least three speeches criticizing the former President, who, ever vigilant of his legacy, defended himself at every stop. Few paid attention; Barack and Bill were like two boxers trying to have a fight but both getting pelted by a mysterious third force—the saturation gaffe coverage.”
todd
Bill should take a pill. He’s just mad that Obama is liked by the people, whereas his wife is loathed. He can’t stand that another democrat besides himself could be well liked.
Nitesurf
I’m done with the Clintons, their actions in this campaign have completely turned me off.
Leland Frances
Yeah, Todd, those 14-some million who have voted for Sen. Clinton chose her over Obama because the loathe her.
Nitesurf: Which is it? Obama’s regularly lying about what bills he actually passed in Illinois, using poster boys for “ex-gay” ministries to campaign for him, refusing to denounce homohaters the way he did Farrakhan, lying about Sen. Clinton’s health care plans, claiming he was conceived during the heat of passions about the Great Selma March four years before it happened, letting his national cochair and other staff members Swift Boat the Clintons as racists, backtracking on his insistence that DADT must be repealed, misrepresenting his position on DOMA, hiring professional lobbyists to run his campaign, ad nauseum….which of these are your favorite parts of Obama’s campaign?
seitan-on-a-stick
These politicians and the Obama surrogates may marginalize the Democratic Party as they race-baited the Clintons who played the game back (the prize is leader of the Free World). This campaign has lost it’s Blue Dog Democratic base (the key to winning in the South) where McCain has painted Obama as out of touch with poor people. OMG!! What have we done to tear down the Dems. It should have been the dream ticket: Clinton-Obama. Only Alpha Males get elected which is why we had Bill for 2 terms (even if he sucked on some gay issues, he was triangulated by the failed Gingrich Revolution) then we get a series of Beta Losers (Al Gore, John Kerry, Joe (Turncoat) Lieberman, John Edwards and now Barack Obama. Hillary is the Alpha Male!!! She reduced Barack to “Bambi” quoting Maureen Dowd of the New York Times (and she hates HILLARY) The Best man for the job is a Woman as Barack cannot seal the deal. Bill is the biggest asset to the Party, but the GOP-in-sheeps clothing anti-Clintonites have tarred-and-feathered our “First Family”. Barack could have followed in Bill’s footsteps but instead, let his gnashing-teeth surrogates bring down “Our Best President” so far for effective governing as the Moral character is still debatable. It would be easier to compare B.O to Jesse Jackson now as he will never rise above 45% anymore thanks to the Reverend by another name.
leomoore
Wow! McCain’s campaign strategy is working. We have a multiple choices available. There is the out-of-step old guy who managed to make people think he is a man of principle and integrity (can you spell waterboarding) and is willing to kill every Iraqi and every American soldier to win the “War on Terror” even if it takes 1000 years. Then there is the one who might be an empty hat who claims to be an agent of change without really informing us of what will change. There is also a bitch who can chew the leg off a chair but is about as tough as they get.
Sometimes we have to make tough choices so we look at those choices and make the best one we can. Of course, some voters will vote for a meaningless third party candidate and pretend they have lodged a meaningful protest, which worked really, really well in 2000. The rest will just not vote and claim they are simply too disgusted by the politicians, but they say that every election when it really means they’re just lazy and not well informed.
So what’s it going to be folks? Will we get so emotionally involved we cut off our noses to spite our faces? Will we suck it up and make a tough choice that at least gives us a chance to break from the current debacle in the White House? If you don’t mind how things are going then by all means vote for the old guy or the third party candidate or just skip voting all together. If you don’t like the way things are going then decide, now, to vote for either the potential empty hat or the bitch and stop whining about Jesse Jackson, Bill Clinton, and a black preacher who said bad things about gay people and white people (like that’s a big surprise).
Alec
The Clinton hit machine is certainly effective. Senator Obama has been transformed into a racist homophobe, and Senator Clinton is a working class, gay friendly quasi-socialist. While I ….admire is not the right word, appreciate the efficacy of her campaign, I am not one for coronations, political dynasties or, most importantly, a candidate who I believe overcompensates for her gender by taking hawkish positions that are detrimental to the long term economic and security interests of the United States and indeed, the world.
President Clinton, too, has been transformed by all of this. Against the rabid 90s right wingers, he looked pretty good. Against real Democrats, he looks pretty awful, self-involved and generally resembles his image as seen in Primary Colors.
Senator Clinton can sink Senator Obama’s chances of winning in November, but her campaign, and a political career beyond the senate, will be ruined if she does that without winning the nomination. In 2012 she will be a lost cause. That isn’t the solution I wanted (I started out supporting her, before she released Bill, a man I tolerate but whose politics and manuvering I both dislike, despise, reject, and denounce, to quote paraphrase his wife).
Tom
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