Another scripted pre-primary rant from Bill Clinton

Marc Ambinder - Bill Clinton Bitches Out The Media

Excuse the French, but that’s the only word that came to mind when reading a transcript of Bill Clinton responding to a shouted question from Jessica Yellin in South Carolina. I await the video. (Context: ex-SC GOP chair Dick Harpootlian, an Obama supporter, likened Clinton to Lee Atwater.)

“I never heard a word of public complaint when Mr. Obama said Hillary was not truthful, no character, was poll-driven. He had more pollsters than she did.

When he put out a hit job on me at the same time he called her the senator from Punjab, I never said a word. And I don’t care about it today. I’m not upset about it.

The only thing I pointed out was that there was substantially no difference in her record and his on Iraq, and that he had said in 2004 there was no difference between his position and President Bush. And he said that was somehow dishonest, but he never answers how it’s not accurate. So this is crazy.

Pardon me, but Bill Clinton is a f*** a****.

Update: More Self-Pity:

Trailhead : Bill’s Peace Offering

Speaking to a crowd at the Williamsburg County Recreation Center, Bill Clinton just now offered an olive branch:

“If [Barack Obama] wins this nomination, I’m going to do what I can to help him become president.”

The promise comes after a week of bitter exchanges between the former president and the Obama campaign. “After all the mean things they said about me, I can’t believe I’m saying this,” Clinton said.

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Comments

  1. So Disgusted wrote:

    I can’t belive how low Bill Clinton has sunken. I am so disgusted, I’m getting chills as I watched the video, which is now up through CNN. This is so disgusting. What a gutterish bully…he’s so fake, so cavalier…now I understand why he and Hillary have stayed together for so long. They’re birds of a feather…reprehensible.

  2. markg8 wrote:

    Shorter Bill Clinton today when speaking to the CNN reporter:

    “Voters aren’t interested in pushback against or factchecking of our lies and distortions about Obama. At least not any I just talked to. They want to hear you echo our lies and distortions.”

  3. Redhand wrote:

    I can’t belive how low Bill Clinton has sunken.

    Not really, he has always been this way.

  4. a former european wrote:

    This reminds me of why I reluctantly voted for Bush in 2000. I couldn’t take even one more day of the Clintons, or their obsequious manservant, Algore. I can’t believe anyone in their right mind wants Bubba or the she-Bubba back in the White House. Bush may be an incompetent doofus, and I will cheer his departure, but bringing back the Clinton’s is like asking Nixon to give it another go.

    VOTE OBAMA!

  5. John the Marine wrote:

    Bush may be an incompetent doofus, and I will cheer his departure, but bringing back the Clinton’s is like asking Nixon to give it another go.

    VOTE OBAMA!

    Wow, these are indeed desperate times!