Well, this is interesting. Robert Reich, former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton has just let go – both barrels – on Bill Clinton.
I write this more out of sadness than anger. Bill Clinton’s ill-tempered and ill-founded attacks on Barack Obama are doing no credit to the former President, his legacy, or his wife’s campaign. Nor are they helping the Democratic party. While it may be that all is fair in love, war, and politics, it’s not fair – indeed, it’s demeaning – for a former President to say things that are patently untrue (such as Obama’s anti-war position is a “fairy tale”) or to insinuate that Obama is injecting race into the race when the former President is himself doing it. Meanwhile, the attack ads being run in South Carolina by the Clinton camp which quote Obama as saying Republicans had all the ideas under Reagan, is disingenuous.
It is not pretty when old comrades fall out. This is the kind of damage I think the Clintons are doing to the Democrats. The fractures they are causing with their win at all costs mentality may be devastating. One hopes.
You can bet your bottom over-taxed dollar that when (not if) Hilly the Hun wins the nomination, Reich and other Democrats who have been offering up tepid criticism of Hilly’s husband will instantly forget those criticisms and go back to shilling for Clinton Inc.
I agree with Mwalimu Daudion; the only thing wrong with what Bill Clinton is doing, is that he is doing it to a Democrat. These false personal attacks are requried when BJ Clinton and other Democrats directs them at anyone other than a Democrat.
Bill Clinton is doing so out of ambition. His wife is the same. They never put the American people at the top of their list; much less other Democrats. It always was about ambition. Probably to compensate for their inabilities to compete effectively in the private sector.