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riversedge

(69,724 posts)
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:46 PM Mar 2016

Bill Clinton was criticizing “awful legacy” of republican obstructionism, not President Obama

It is shameful that anyone would advance such a notion the Bill would speak ill of Pres. Obama's Presidency. Just shamefl


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Bill Clinton was criticizing “awful legacy” of republican obstructionism, not President Obama


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By Bill Palmer | March 22, 2016





Former President Bill Clinton did something remarkably rare for him this week: he misspoke in a completely incoherent manner. It was jarring because Bill Clinton generally doesn’t misspeak. It was even stranger because in his jumble of words it sounded like he might have been saying that President Obama is leaving an “awful legacy” behind. Even as opponents have tried to pounce on the odd gaffe, it’s clear in context that Bill was talking about something else entirely.


......................The very notion that Bill Clinton would suddenly decide to throw Barack Obama under the bus is absurd on its face.

When I met Bill Clinton last week, he couldn’t stop talking about how President Obama doesn’t get the credit he deserves. And we all remember Bill getting up there at the 2012 convention and delivering the fiery defense Obama’s first four years in office, which helped him get reelected. Does any sensible person really believe that he’s suddenly doing a one-eighty on his view of Obama for no apparent reason, at a time when Hillary is standing closer to Obama than ever? Of course not. That’s nonsense. So just what was Bill talking about yesterday?

One of the things Bill Clinton has been harping on for the past month is how democratic voters have failed to turn out in midterms, handing congress to the republicans and setting the stage for obstructionism. Sure enough, he clarified today that his criticism was of the “awful legacy” of republicans trying to obstruct every move that President Obama has tried to make. There is no story here. Move along, unless you’re so afraid of Hillary Clinton winning that you’re willing to resort to ludicrous fake controversies.

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Bill Clinton was criticizing “awful legacy” of republican obstructionism, not President Obama (Original Post) riversedge Mar 2016 OP
No worries, riversedge. NanceGreggs Mar 2016 #1
Sorry, it's not "clear" at all to me. Yes, I watched the full, unedited version. JonLeibowitz Mar 2016 #2
These Hillary supporters gabeana Mar 2016 #4
Truth does not matter here if you are trying to score points upaloopa Mar 2016 #3
Are you admitting that Hillary's campaign retrowire Mar 2016 #6
No upaloopa Mar 2016 #9
Frankly, I don't think Bill Palmer's right either Mike__M Mar 2016 #5
Interesting that these excuses come up here sadoldgirl Mar 2016 #7
Disgusting how Sanders' supporters spread their crud. Hoyt Mar 2016 #8
Well he did say this: Vattel Mar 2016 #10
Go away, Bill mobyz Mar 2016 #11

NanceGreggs

(27,813 posts)
1. No worries, riversedge.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:55 PM
Mar 2016

Anyone with a modicum of common sense KNOWS what Bill was referring to - and it WASN'T Obama's tenure in office.

As for those with NO common sense - who actually believe that Bill (or Hill) would suddenly, and for no good reason at all, distance themselves from Obama in the midst of the primaries - they'll obviously believe anything.

JonLeibowitz

(6,282 posts)
2. Sorry, it's not "clear" at all to me. Yes, I watched the full, unedited version.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:56 PM
Mar 2016

No, this doesn't mean I am sure Bill was slamming Obama. But I have my suspicious, because again, it is not clear. I don't remember what he has said about PBO in the past.

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)
3. Truth does not matter here if you are trying to score points
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:56 PM
Mar 2016

A lie is as good as the truth if repeated often enough. And this from the campaign standing on the moral high ground.

Mike__M

(1,052 posts)
5. Frankly, I don't think Bill Palmer's right either
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:00 PM
Mar 2016

As I replied deep into a Bernie-slanted thread on this topic, what Bullhorn Bill was referring to was the economic collapse and its aftermath --eight years-- and the other seven years of Bush before the collapse-- he explicitly referred to Bush economic policy. Considering the odd way he divided the time spans, its plain to me that he was not dissing President Obama; that would have been "the legacy of the last seven years," and the eight years of Bush before that. So even the campaign's explanation (and Bill Palmer's piece in this OP) about Republican obstructionism is off the mark. Yes, his statement might seem a little incoherent, he could have made his point more clearly, but this whole line of attack about rejecting Obama doesn't seem right to me.
Sorry fellow Bernie fans. Let's win on real issues. I don't think this one is a real issue.

More meaningful to me is the fact that a former president, and bona fide Historic Figure gave a speech that 800 people lined up to hear, while the day before, more than ten times that many lined up across the street to hear the other guy.

sadoldgirl

(3,431 posts)
7. Interesting that these excuses come up here
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:04 PM
Mar 2016

again and again. If this is so absolutely and definitively
clear, why engage in that?
And why leave out the part about deregulation causing
the crash in 08?

Some of you must be worried that people heard the
words, but are too stupid to draw the "correct"
conclusions.

 

Vattel

(9,289 posts)
10. Well he did say this:
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:31 PM
Mar 2016

"A lot of people say you don't understand that it's rigged now," he said of the nation's struggling economy. "Yeah, it's rigged now, because you don't have a president who's a change-maker, who, with a Congress who will work with him." He then added that Obama had done a lot better than he gets credit for. But he did fault Obama and the obstructionist Republicans.

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