Right Thinking From The Left Coast
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if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Kiss My Ring, Boy
by Hal_10000

It always has to be about him, doesn’t it?

In politics, Hillary Clinton speaks for the Clinton family now, and aside from her campaign debt, she has no real difficulty supporting Barack Obama privately and publicly.

But Bill Clinton has a beef. A Democrat who has spoken directly to Clinton about his feelings said that the former president remains “miffed” for two reasons. One is that he feels that Obama’s candidacy was essentially an anti-Clinton candidacy; that Obama ran against Clinton’s presidential record at times, implying that it was timeworn, divisive, and damaging to the party while adopting policy positions that seemed to flow directly from the Clinton oeuvre. Why should Clinton embrace a guy who spent the past twelve months bashing him and his accomplishments?

Really? Did you guys get the sense that Obama was bashing Clinton’s accomplishments?  The only accomplishment he could be accused of “bashing” was NAFTA and Hillary bashed that up pretty good herself.  I guess not falling down on the ground and worshiping the very name of Clinton counts as bashing these days.

Two: Clinton is convinced that the Obama campaign went out of its way to portray the former president as a racist. Clinton wants a private meeting with Obama to sort these things out; he has reconciled himself to the reality of Obama’s nomination and does not want to sit on the sidelines.

This is very typical and the reason I am oh so glad these fuckers are almost gone.  They played the race card on Obama relentlessly.  And now they’re “miffed” because they got called on it.

I really hope Obama just ignores Bill Clinton.  As Hillary found out, having that bloated gasbag on the campaign trail is not necessarily a good thing.

Posted by Hal_10000 on 06/24/08 at 07:13 PM in Election 2008  • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink • Discuss this in the forums
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