Former U.S. Presidents are supposed to keep their noses clean after they retire. But not Bill Clinton. He is acting like a complete pig as he continues to resort to lies in his continued attacks on Barack Obama, who has caught up to Hillary Clinton in California and is likely to win the South Carolina Primary. Here are a few excerpts from an L.A. Times article about Lyin’ Bill:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign aired a new radio ad in South Carolina on Wednesday that repeated a discredited charge against Sen. Barack Obama in what some Democrats said was part of an increasing pattern of hardball politics by her and former President Clinton.
The ad takes one line from an Obama interview — “The Republicans were the party of ideas for a pretty long chunk of time there over the last 10, 15 years” — and juxtaposes it with GOP policies that Obama has never advocated.
The Clinton campaign argued that it was simply quoting Obama.
But in the original context, Obama was describing the dominance of GOP ideas in the 1980s and 1990s, without saying that he supported them. He asserted that those ideas were of no use today.
The ad marked the escalation of a bitter fight between the two Democratic front-runners that has taken on a new dimension because of the involvement of Bill Clinton, the titular leader of the party.
Responding to the ad aired by the Clinton campaign, Dick Harpootlian, former chairman of South Carolina’s Democratic Party, accused the Clintons of using the “politics of deception,” and compared the former president to Lee Atwater, the GOP operative from South Carolina who was known for his tough tactics.
In response, Bill Clinton said “They just spin you up on this and you happily go along.”
In Washington, Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), the judiciary committee chairman who endorsed Obama last week, castigated the former president for “glib cheap shots” at Obama.
It is no surprise to me that Bill is lying again. Isn’t that what he is known for? What a joke. Who wants a president, in Hillary, that can’t stand up for herself? She ought to tell him to knock it off, like she told him when she gave him a black eye after the Monica Lewinsky affair blew up.
Get over it.
It’s funny because, if Clinton wasn’t in the race, Obama would be praising the Clinton/Gore administration. He should at least aknowledge the dipomacy and the economic recovery of the Clinton /Gore administration. It might show substance to his smug talk.
One of Obama’s shady dealings has come to light. And that was found out by the Dems. What would the Reps find if he ever made it to the finals?
Why does Obama use the SI SE PUEDE! Slogan on his campaign office in Santa Ana, When the originator and owner of that phrase is Dolores Huerta who endorses Hillary?