Love, Bill

by Christian Grantham - 10:36 pm January 26, 2008

Congratulations, Obama!

“Did you notice he didn’t specify?” Clinton said when asked about the comment. “They never do. They hurl these charges, but nothing gets specified. I’m not taking the bait today. I did what I could to help Senator Kerry every time he needed me, and every time he asked me. He can support whomever he wants for whatever reason he wants. But there’s nothing for me to respond to.”

Another reporter asked what it said about Obama that it “took two people to beat him.” Clinton again passed. “That’s’ just bait, too. Jesse Jackson won South Carolina twice, in ‘84 and ‘88. And he ran a good campaign. Senator Obama’s run a good campaign here, he’s run a good campaign everywhere.”

The reference to Jackson seemed a way to downplay today’s result in a state where a majority of voters are African American. Clinton was also asked today about charges of race baiting, and defended himself by citing testimony from John Lewis and Andrew Young, who marched with Martin Luther King. “I don’t have to defend myself on civil rights,” he said.
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1. Comment by Rob — January 27, 2008 @ 1:07 am

   I guess President Clinton felt his previous attempts to marginalize Obama had been too subtle. Now he’s wallowing in the mud like the porker he is. Sweet Jesus, haven’t we suffered enough with eight years of these two? Must we relive the nightmare?

   
   
   

2. Comment by Christian — January 27, 2008 @ 10:07 am

   Which parts of the Clinton years were nightmares? It wasn’t your share of paying down our nation’s debt, was it?

   I do hope President Clinton can take a more affirming role and give his current role over to the campaign’s communication team.

   Many people in the Clinton White House knew this side of President Clinton, the side that wouldn’t settle for superficial conversations and argued the point. He read voraciously, and his Presidential archives will tell a story of a President that was at the helm of almost every important matter through the amount of notes in the margins of documents, often directing decisions that needed to be made. Publicly, President Clinton was kept very busy making the case for strong domestic policy agenda with the backing of the nation’s best and brightest, leading our nation to historic economic proserity. Without the weight of the White House resources it took to manage that arena for him, President Clinton is the man you see today. The challenge for Hillary Clinton is to muster the resources it will take to focus her husband away from having conversations on superficial topics with the media that the media desperately needs to drive attention to their product and focus him on an agenda that will gain the votes of the American people for his wife and a chance to right this nation’s course. He’s passionate, and it’s that passion that brought our country under his leadership to an era of unprecedented power abroad and historic economic times at home.

   
   
   

3. Comment by Rob — January 27, 2008 @ 10:48 am

   South Carolina is being reported as a big win for Obama, but within that big win is an extremely troubling truth. Obama received only 24% of the white vote; he ran last among white voters. The Clinton strategy, loathsome though it may be, seems to have succeeded. The implications for the remaining primaries and for the general election are huge.

   As for the nightmare of the Clinton Presidency, I was referring to the paranoia, the narcissism, the Buddhist temples, the Lincoln bedroom, the miraculously discovered Rose Firm billing records, the lying, the self-pity, the villainization of political opponents, the pardons, the empty gestures against Saddam and Osama. After eight years of that, it wasn’t just Monica who needed a long shower, it was all of us.

   
   
   

4. Comment by Christian — January 27, 2008 @ 11:10 am

   It will be tough for the Clintons to address some of those issues, but tougher for the Republican nominee to contrast themselves with the worst of your fears having literally robbed the American people of their savings, their homes, their jobs and their children over the past 8 years to an unprecedented failure of leadership at home and abroad our country has ever witnessed under the leadership of Republicans in the Bush Administration and the U.S. Congress. The list of those indicted and sentenced to serve time in prison alone tells the story of where the Republican vision for American wants to take this county for another four more years.

   
   
   

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