Former Clinton Adviser Dick Morris: 'Bill Clinton Does Not Want Barack Obama to Win'
Former Clinton White House adviser Dick Morris said Monday, "Bill Clinton does not want Barack Obama to win."
"I’ve spoken to several good friends who are staunch conservatives who have had exchanges with Bill Clinton in private," Morris told Fox News's Sean Hannity, "and at one point one of them quotes him as saying, 'You have six months to save the country'" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
DICK MORRIS: Bill Clinton does not want Barack Obama to win. I’ve spoken to several good friends who are staunch conservatives who have had exchanges with Bill Clinton in private, and at one point one of them quotes him as saying, "You have six months to save the country."
And he never liked Obama. They never got along. He is an in-law in a sense because she is in the administration, but, and he has to do what he has to do, which is what he’s going to do, what he did today I think in running around helping him raise money, and is going to do tonight.
But when it comes to a little jab here or a little jab there, you can count on Clinton to do it. And this wasn't such a little jab. This was throwing Obama under the bus. Obama's whole campaign is based on the idea that Romney is not a venture capitalist but a vulture capitalist. And here he comes out and says he had a sterling business career and crosses the threshold for qualification to be president, the exact opposite of what his candidate is saying.
Morris was talking about comments Clinton made on CNN's Pier Morgan Tonight last week that were seen by many as being very damaging to the Obama campaign.
*****Update: Fox News's Charles Krauthammer on Tuesday called Clinton "a double agent" for his recent comments about Obama.
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➚ I believe Morris
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 12:06am.
Clinton has come as close to overt mutiny as he possibly can without Obama calling in the boyz from Chi-town.
Billy-Jeff isn't the only dem
Submitted by UpNorth on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 12:19am.
straying from the path of true (dem) righteousness. Between the defections and the out-in-the-open mutinies, Baracka's campaign is going to have their hands full.
I'm going to stay cautiously
Submitted by mustango on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 1:02am.
I'm going to stay cautiously optimistic. I don't think we can trust Bill. But if he's for real, I guess we'll take what he gives us.
Meanwhile, LAT's shells out this tale on Clinton saving Obama
Submitted by Gary Hall on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 2:11am.
As the truth begins to leak out - and the effort to keep it censored from the broad public becomes difficult - they're pulling out all the stops now:
For Obama and Clinton, the hatchet's buried — if not forgotten
The interesting play here is that, as they almost consistently do, the LAT's was never want to tell the reader, back in 2008, about the hatred between the Obama and Clinton camp. Now, since they want it to be "buried," it's finally getting mentioned.
Me? I'm hanging onto Ed Klein's blockbuster revelation; Bill Clinton stated last summer that Obama is an amateur and an incompetent President.
It should not be acceptable to the voters in the United States, that an ex-president who feels that the sitting president is incompetent and must be replaced, is allowed to play politics purely for the sake of his political party, the Democrat Party.
The national media's job here is to set the record straight.
(;~/ gary
I have no doubt Clinton would
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 6:54am.
I have no doubt Clinton would like to see Obama go down in flames, because of the shabby treatment Obama gave his wife (You're likeable enough, Hillary.... just one example)
And I doubt Bill considers the SOS job a prize. I'll bet to him it's more like an "I won, but you can come and work for me!" than a genuine gesture of respect (and I happen to agree with him). But Hillary had to do the gracious thing or risk looking like a sore loser.
2016
Submitted by Tjexcite on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 7:25am.
It will be easier to for Hillary to win after a Romney first term over an Obama second term. As after an Obama second term there will not be a democrat President ever again. The two parties will be Tea party and Socialists party.
I can at least dream
Submitted by MidAmerica on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 8:17am.
It just makes you want to believe that maybe there are some democrats who are more worried about the condition of this country than they are about winning the next election. If so the Whitehouse may go into deep bunker mentality not knowing who to trust.
I think Clinton is looking forward...
Submitted by c5then on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 8:40am.
Since it is HIGHLY likely that the country slips into another recession (yes I know it doesn't really feel like we came out of the last one) next year and that it will be just as bad or worse than in 2008...He is looking for the winner in November to be blamed for that as well. If it's Obama, then the DNC will not really approve a "now for something completely different" kind of campaign, but if it is Romey then that will work nicely.
Hillary running against an incumbent Romney in 2016 is a better prospect than running as the heir to Obama.
Of course if Romney is able to pull off a "fix" of the economy and we are in a boom time in 2016, then he and hillary are screwed.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
we must remember
Submitted by MidAmerica on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 9:13am.
Our arrogant and immature choom President treated Hillary like this when he was a candidate...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pdKwBkDowU
Game of Thrones
Submitted by Rasmus on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 10:24am.
It's all calculated, although I don't know how carefully plotted and planned it may be. Bill Clinton can't avoid the limelight, and his wife is in Obama's cabinet, so of course he's going to go out to every fundraiser he can and take the stage. But he's weighing whether his chances of getting back in the White House (as First Man, this time) are better in 2016 after Obama's second term, or after one-term Romney.
As others have said, if Obama is in for 4 more years this country will be hurting badly, and I doubt anyone will be interested in another Dem for Pres for a while. If Romney wins, things could go either way and Bill figures the "throw the bum out" feeling voters have been taking against incumbents could be just the thing Hillary needs in 2016.
It's the Game of Thrones, without the cool parts.
Definition of Win
Submitted by rman2 on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 10:35am.
I guess it depends on what Bill's definition of "win" is! Does he want Obama to "win" in a landslide and continue to be a lib rockstar? Probably not. Or does he want him to "win" by squeaking by and sweating it out for the next 6 months? Clinton's are Democrats through and through PERIOD.
This is all about Bill, nothing about Hillary
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 7:35pm.
Clinton doesn't want Obama to overshadow him when it comes to history. The last two term Dem President prior to Bill was Truman. Clinton wants to be the last two term Dem President for at least a hundred years.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
The Clintons have every right
Submitted by john5750 on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 1:21am.
The Clintons have every right to despise Obama.
Starting with the way Obama sent his black Chicago thugs into the midwest caucuses to intimidate voters with violence, threats and corruption. Texas was a good example of the violence and corruption when we saw Hillary win the Primary votes and Obama steal the caucuses. Texas is the only state with both a Primary and caucuses.
Then he had Pelosi running around with a carrot and a stick to get the delegates to turn on Hillary. They were given a choice - go with Obama and receive campaign financing and choice committees or stay with Hillary and receive no finances and no perks on committees.
After all this corruption Obama managed to steal the delegates, but if you remember, Hillary still won the popular vote.
Then there was Obama, who either through jealousy or stupidity, grouped Pres.Clinton in with George Bush on the subject of the economy. He apparently forgot that Pres.Clinton gave us the Greatest Economic Recovery in History . A simple graph will show you how Bush Sr.'s economy was devastating, then Clinton's economy was magnificent, then Bush Jr.'s economy went down the toilet again. Pres.Clinton is a genius and Obama failed to accept that fact, which has led us into another devastating situation. Obama may know how to steal an election, but not much else.
After voting for Hillary in the Primary I voted for McCain because he tried to put legislation through to prevent the real estate collapse we are in now. McCain saw it coming. But the big banks paid Sen.Obama to work to block McCain's bill and it was blocked. Bush gave us the wars & war profiteering resulting in the huge deficit, but Obama gave us the foreclosures & real estate losses.
The only thing that could stop me from voting for Romney would be Hillary. I'm ready for another Greatest Economic Expansion in History.
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slick willy pimping once again
Submitted by intellibronc on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 1:32am.
This time slick willy is pimping for his 'wife' for 2016, the demoncat insiders have already thrown barry under the bus, who wouldn't, look what he's done in 4 long years.