Asked if Obama was ready to become president, a readiness point Hillary Clinton hammered hard throughout the campaign, Bill Clinton clearly dodged the question, saying he doubted….
… anyone was ever ready for that job, that he had learned a few things in his early White House weeks in 1993.
Then he added, Obama “is smarter than a whip, so there’s nothing he can’t learn.”
Asked about regrets over his sometimes polarizing role in his wife’s unsuccessful campaign, he first said he wasn’t going to talk about it, then proceeded to do so. “I got bad press,” Clinton said. “Why? Because I told the truth that there was a different standard applied to the finest candidate I ever supported.”
Asked specifically about his role in Sen. Clinton’s campaign, he suggested the media check the voting results where he had campaigned in places like South Carolina, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, implying the results were positive for her where he had campaigned.
Then he added, “There are things that I wish I’d urged her to do. Things I wish I’d said. Things I wish I hadn’t said. But I am not a racist. I’ve never made a racist comment and I never attacked [Obama] personally.”
Then later that week, Hillary was still calling Obama her opponent when speaking to a group of supporters.
What is going on here?
The Clinton’s are still pissed that they lost the nomination to this upstart freshman senator. They somehow feel that they were mistreated by Obama and his campaign. They also seem to be a bit miffed at their role within the prep work for the convention. They are still concerned that they are not getting their share of the ass kissing, after all they did control the Party for some 16 tears.
The Clinton’s also seem to be a ship without a rudder–they had NO alternative plan in case they did not win the nomination. That was the arrogance of her campaign–that she was the inevitable nominee. But with that illusion shattered they continue to be a thorn in the side of the Dem Party.
The next question is–how will this play out at the convention?