A Puffington Host teaser headline this morning reads: “Bill Clinton Gives President Obama Another Headache.” (Politico‘s headline is: “Clinton Ditches Obama Message–Again.”) This time he says the Bush tax cuts should be extended: Says the PuffHo: “Clinton’s insistence that he would have “no problem” extending all of the tax cuts for some amount of time puts the Obama campaign in an awkward position.” Last week he said Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital was “sterling,” and then said, “Who, me? Undermining Obama? Never!” It couldn’t have been less convincing if he’d said “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘sterling’ is,” or, “I. Did. Not. Have. Financial. Relations. With. Wall. Street.”
It’s less likely he can wiggle out of this latest tergiversation, however. Unlike Cory Booker, Harold Ford, and other lesser Democrats, you can’t leash the Big Dog.
Even though he hasn’t been on the hustings for several years and arguably flopped in South Carolina in 2008 on behalf of Hillary, Big Dog Clinton doesn’t make many political mistakes. Even his B-game is impressive. So what’s with his “off message” comments of the last week? Here are three theories.
First, perhaps this is merely payback for besting Hillary in 2008, and now that Obama is vulnerable he’s going in for the kill by subtly undermining him. Chances for Hillary in 2016 are better against a potentially weak Romney than as a successor to a second-term Obama. Voters will likely be fed up with Democrats by 2016 if Obama manages to win this year.
Second, a variation of the first theory is that the Big Dog wants to kill off any chance of Hillary replacing Biden on the ticket, thinking this would also tarnish her chances in 2016 if she agreed to this desperation measure. A series of regular “mistakes” from the Big Dog will help foreclose this gambit.
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It has been reported that Romney was at the not so secret Bilderberg meeting lately. The die has been cast. Our Fearless Golfer will be relegated to the speaking circuit with his teleprompter, and the Architect of Obamacare will be the water boy for the CFR, and the Bilderbergers.
Bill Clinton is doing what he has been told to do. Get rid of the fool we now have in the White House, so that we can put a new fool in.
Peace,
Robert Walker
More than being a fool, Bin Obama, the Muslim and foreign citizen Occupying the White House, is a Tool, financed and used by Soros, bent on the destruction of what is left of America, and aided in this objective by the owners of the mainstream media; JEWS who hate their Israeli Brethern. All of this, motivated by their dream of creating a new currencly, to replace the US$Dollar..
People tend to forget. It was Clinton and Ms Clinton who first raised Obama´s Illegal condition in the US.
Then, somebody, somehow, made them stop commenting on this, giving raise to the “Birthers”. Demos or not, they are American Americans, although on the wrong track.-
An aging Hillary’s last possible if not very likely chance would be 2016. If enough Americans haven’t yet caught on that Obama is out to destroy America and he is re-elected, they will have by 2016 and if there is still a country left and/or free elections held, Hillary’s chances as a Democrat then will be about zero. Bill has to appear to be supporting while undermining Obama now in order to improve Hillary’s 2016 shot at it all. This is beginning to be fun. No chance that a man as selfish as Bill Clinton is altruistically going to help Obama.
Short answer to the Clinton question…Yes He Is.