Ed Klein is publishing a book – The Amateur – which features the following exchange, according to the NY Post:
“Barack Obama,” Bill Clinton said, according to book excerpts, “is an amateur.”
The withering criticism is incredible, given the fact that Bill Clinton is actively campaigning for Obama’s re-election.
But according to the book, Bill Clinton unloaded on Obama and pressed Hillary to run against her boss during a gathering in the ex-president’s home office in Chappaqua last August that included longtime friends, Klein said.“The economy’s a mess, it’s dead flat. America has lost its Triple-A rating . . . You know better than Obama does,” Bill said.
Bill Clinton insisted he had “no relationship” with Obama and had been consulted more frequently by his presidential successor, George W. Bush.
Well, what’s the big deal? Bush is basically a nice guy and Obama’s a drip. Everybody knows that. Who would want to hang out with Obama anyway? (George Clooney must be desperate.) It goes on:
Obama, Bill Clinton said, “doesn’t know how to be president” and is “incompetent.”
Well, duh. Nobody ever said Bill was stupid. As for whether this dialogue is accurate – how could it not be? The only part I question is this:
But Hillary resisted the entreaties, according to two of the guests interviewed for the book.
“Why risk everything now?” a skeptical Hillary told her husband [about her making another run against Obama], emphasizing that she wanted to leave a legacy as secretary of state.
Some legacy. My guess is they went out and tested the waters and didn’t get quite the response necessary. But who knows? In any case now begins….
The night of the long knives.
Assume, for the sake of argument, that 0 looses this time around. Come 2016 there is likely to be an interesting Democratic primary featuring Hillary, Barack, and an X factor.
– spoken, so like Bill.
I have never been a Hillary fan . . . but if I had to choose between her and Obama, I would vote for Hillary in a heartbeat.
Say what you will about her platform and agenda, but you have to admit that she’s vastly more qualified for the Presidency than Obama. But then again, who isn’t? Any small-town mayor has more executive experience than Obama did in 2008 (i.e., none). And I’m not sure how much meaningful experience he’s accumulated since his inauguration, given that he’s spent so much of his term on the golf course, on vacation, campaigning for reelection, and raising funds.
At least with Hillary it wouldn’t feel like every single word out of her mouth and every last thing she wants is some attempt to fulfill revenge for some perceived social slight.
Unlike Emperor Barry I, Caliph of Vengeance.
At least with Hillary it wouldn’t feel like every single word out of her mouth and every last thing she wants is some attempt to fulfill revenge for some perceived social slight.
Have to disagree, I think that’s EXACTLY what Hillary WOULD be doing, and most people see that and that’s exactly how and why Obambus beat her. She might do it with a slightly different state of mind, a tiny bit more objective, but the actions would be about the same.
I’m under no illusions that Hillary wouldn’t pursue Progressive Redistributionist policies (as of course she certainly would), I’m not even saying she wouldn’t bend over backwards to hand our country to the Islamists (she would, one of her closest confidants is Anthony Weiner’s Muslim Wife); I just don’t think she’d be openly wrapping it in the veneers of racial revenge, trying to stoke riots and violence, etc.
Bill Clinton insisted he had “no relationship” with Obama and had been consulted more frequently by his presidential successor, George W. Bush.
Sounds like little Billy may have got his feelings hurt.
I’ve watched Hitlery in action as SOS; and as “competent” as she readily appears, she’s carrying water BIG TIME for Ozero! And top of THAT agenda is her squishy, ignorant palling around with the islamists of the world and either her total naivete or her insidious policies & beliefs about the very REAL threat of Islam, its ultimate mission to conquer and Sharia Law. IMHO, she scores a big fat zero in that dept alone!