Well, after the drubbing in South Carolina,the Hillary Clinton campaign appeared to put Bill Clinton on a very tight leash. He toned down his venom and faded back out of the headlines. Well, that didn't last long. He's back at it again – in a somewhat more muted tone, but Bubba is slinging barbs at Obama again.
ABC News' Sarah Amos reports that former President Bill Clinton — despite myriad promises he would stop assailing his wife's opponent given how it has backfired on her — upped his harsh attacks today in Tyler, Texas.
"There are two competing moods in America today," Clinton said. "People who want something fresh and new — and they find it inspiring that we might elect a president who literally was not part of any of the good things that happened or any of the bad things that were stopped before. The explicit argument of the campaign against Hillary is that 'No one who was involved in the 1990s or this decade can possibly be an effective president because they had fights. We're not going to have any of those anymore.' Well, if you believe that, I got some land I wanna sell you."
ABC News' Sarah Amos is traveling with the former president and transcribed his comments.
For the record, in the 1990s, Obama was a civil rights attorney, community organizer, and was in the Illinois state senate.
As Jake Tapper observes, Bill Clinton seems to spend an awful lot of his stumping time for his wife defending his own legacy. Which is probably why his savage attacks in South Carolina backfired so badly. People remembered all there was to dislike about the Clintons. (There is a mildly amusing comeback from the Obama campaign at the link that could have been soooooo much better. I would have fired back that Clinton's new theme song is "Don't Start Thinking About Tomorrow.")
Bubba’s doing unwitting advance work for McCain here.
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This untrained Bow-wow in Chief just keeps on ruining his wife’s chances to become POTUS. Just like in the ’96 election, Bubba-loony is spending the most time, money, and motor-mouth maniac chin-music BS talking about his favorite subject—-himself.He doesn’t give a rat’s ass about Hillary, the Dhimmicrats, or anything else except his narcissistic infatuation with "me, myself, and I."The guy is ruining his own brand in this tailspin flame-out.
"Well, if you believe that, I got some land I wanna sell you"….it’s in a place called Whitewater, Arkansas. I know you’ll like it.
Mrs. Clinton does not have B.J. on a leash. She never has, and never will. B.J. is alll about B.J..
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Oh B.S. So no one can criticize Obamarama? Even if the criticism comes out of the mouth of Billy Jeff, it just might be legitimate. I’m with Clinton on this one.