Bill Clinton can’t seem to accept that his wife, Senator Hillary Clinton will not be the Democratic nominee for President. And he continues to, intentionally or otherwise, put his foot in his mouth by suggesting Obama is a poorer choice for the nomination. Here’s the latest gaffe/slam by Mr. Bill as reported by The Hill:
Bill Clinton appeared to undermine Sen. Barack Obama again Tuesday.
The former president, speaking in Denver, posed a hypothetical question in which he seemed to suggest that that the Democratic Party was making a mistake in choosing Obama as its presidential nominee.
He said: “Suppose you’re a voter, and you’ve got candidate X and candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything, but you don’t think that candidate can deliver on anything at all. Candidate Y you agree with on about half the issues, but he can deliver. Which candidate are you going to vote for?”
Then, perhaps mindful of how his off-the-cuff remarks might be taken, Clinton added after a pause: “This has nothing to do with what’s going on now.”
The comments are unlikely to be taken as an innocent mistake by those Democrats who continue to be angry with the former president for, they say, not supporting the Illinois senator wholeheartedly, if not implicitly undercutting him.
The controversial comments came just hours before Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.), the former first lady and principal rival to Obama, was due to speak from the convention podium. […]
From when he called Obama’s candidacy “a fairytale” to when he compared the Illinois senator’s win in South Carolina to that of Rev. Jesse Jackson’s, many Clinton loyalists, detractors and analysts feel that Clinton did irreparable damage to both his wife’s candidacy and his legacy as president.
Now in a convention that continues to be racked with stories and questions about how unified the Democratic Party truly is, Clinton’s appearance Wednesday — and his tendency to go off the teleprompter — has some Democrats very nervous.
Can you say “sore loser?” The only reason that this convention continues to be “racked with stories and questions about how unified the Democratic Party truly is” is because Bill Clinton and a few of the Clintons’ most fanatical and sycophantic supporters continue to leak stories to the media about this supposed division within the party. And I have a hard time believing that it’s all just an innocent coincidence that these stories keep popping up. It seems more like a calculated effort by the former President (if not his wife) to steal the spotlight from Obama, the party’s nominee, for his own personal and possibly vindictive reasons.
Imagine what a circus a Hillary Clinton presidency would have been with First Gentleman Bill acting like a loose cannon whenever he felt like it. This only reinforces my belief that Obama is the better choice, and that keeping Hillary off the ticket was also a wise move. Bill Clinton simply refuses to leave the stage gracefully, even eight years after his last term in office ended. He failed to fully back Al Gore in 2000, did the bare minimum for John Kerry on 2004 and now appears to be actively sabotaging the Democratic convention which will nominate Barack Obama instead of his wife, Hillary.
He’s lost all credibility with me, and to be frank, I pity Hillary Clinton for being married to such an ass. He only hurts her future career in the Senate with such antics. If Obama loses to McCain it will be in no small part because of this man’s enormous and overinflated ego.
