Jim Clyburn to Bill Clinton: 'Chill' on Obama

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4143754, Jim Clyburn to Bill Clinton: 'Chill' on Obama
Posted by jefferson_dem on Mon Jan-21-08 04:21 PM

Black leader to Bill Clinton: 'Chill' on Obama

(CNN) -- The bitter back-and-forth between former President Bill Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama has led a prominent black lawmaker to tell the former president Monday to "chill a little bit."

Sen. Barack Obama marches in a Martin Luther King memorial parade in Columbia, South Carolina, Monday.

As their campaign sparring continues, the Illinois senator seems to be spending almost as much time responding to Hillary Clinton's husband as he does to the candidate herself.

House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, one of the most powerful African Americans in Congress, weighed in on the feud Monday, saying it was time for Bill Clinton to watch his words.

Bill Clinton has delivered full-throated attacks on Obama in recent days, accusing him of overstating his opposition to the war in Iraq, complaining about Obama's union supporters in the Nevada caucuses last weekend and blasting his relatively mild praise for Republican icon Ronald Reagan during a Las Vegas newspaper interview.

Obama adviser David Axelrod said the Clintons have been playing "good cop, bad cop," with him wielding the club while she stays positive.

And Obama said Monday that Bill Clinton "continues to make statements that aren't supported by the facts."

Bill Clinton's attacks on Obama, Clyburn said in a CNN interview, were unfair because a former president's viewpoint "carries with it extra weight." Watch Clyburn tell Clinton to 'chill' »

"I think they would say in 'Gullah Geechee' country he needs to chill a little bit. I hope he understands what that means," Clyburn told CNN.

"I can understand him wanting to defend his wife's honor and his own record, and that is to be expected. But you can't do that in a way that won't engender the kind of feelings that seem to be bubbling up as a result of this."

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http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/21/obama.clintons /

VIDEO of Clyburn telling Bill to "chill" ---> http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/21/obama.clintons/#cnnSTCVideo