Will Media Report Bill Clinton's Lingering Anger Towards Obama?
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- Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:57:59 -0700 (PDT)
Will Media Report Bill Clinton's Lingering Anger Towards Obama?
By Noel Sheppard | June 28, 2008 - 18:54 ET
While media gushed over Hill and Barack's kiss and make-up ceremony in
Unity, New Hampshire, Friday, a larger story was lurking in the
shadows without getting much attention: Bill Clinton is still very
angry at the presumptive Democrat presidential nominee, and he's not
close to calling a ceasefire.
In fact, according to the British Telegraph, the former President is
still on a war footing (picture courtesy AP).
With press members itching for a united Democrat party, it will be
interesting to see how much attention this gets in the next few days,
especially the juicy parts (h/t Hot Air, slight vulgarity alert):
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The Telegraph has learned that the former president's rage is still so
great that even loyal allies are shocked by his patronising attitude
to Mr Obama, and believe that he risks damaging his own reputation by
his intransigence.
A senior Democrat who worked for Mr Clinton has revealed that he
recently told friends Mr Obama could "kiss my ass" in return for his
support.
Well, at least the former President didn't call Obama a sleazy, slimy
scumbag. But I digress:
It has long been known that Mr Clinton is angry at the way his own
reputation was tarnished during the primary battle when several of his
comments were interpreted as racist.
But his lingering fury has shocked his friends. The Democrat told the
Telegraph: "He's been angry for a while. But everyone thought he would
get over it. He hasn't. I've spoken to a couple of people who he's
been in contact with and he is mad as hell." [...]
Another Democrat said that despite polls showing Mr Obama with a
healthy lead over Republican John McCain, Mr Clinton doesn't think he
can win.
The party strategist, who was allied to one of the early rivals to Mr
Obama and the former First Lady, said Mr Clinton was "very unhopeful"
about the nominee's prospects in November.
"Bill Clinton knows the party will unite behind Obama, but he is
telling people he doesn't believe Obama can win round voting groups,
especially working-class whites, in the swing states," the strategist
said.
Interesting that this comes from a British newspaper, isn't it? Closer
to home, the Huffington Post's Thomas B. Edsell, in an article
entitled "It's My Party, I'll Cry If I Want To" concurred with the
Telegraph (emphasis added):
The former president and Obama have not talked, and, by all accounts,
the man of the Clinton household remains hurt and resentful.
Associates provide a variety of explanations for the Bill Clinton
dilemma, none of them mutually exclusive.
Some say Bill Clinton not only wants Obama to reach out to him, but to
also promise to lift the cloud of alleged racism -- an accusation that
continues to eat at the man once dubbed the nation's "first black
president." Clinton, these folks suggest, wants Obama to publicly
exonerate him of the charge that he played the race card in the
primaries. [...]
"He is still bruised from the trail, really hurt about the racist
charges leveled against him, and convinced the Obama campaign fomented
it," said another source familiar with the former president's
attitude. "What he would really like is for Obama to apologize, but on
one level he knows that is never going to happen," a third source
said.
Once again, with media trying desperately to unite their Party, how
much attention is this going to get?
On a related note, according to UPI, the former President didn't speak
to Oprah Winfrey at Thursday night's birthday party for Nelson Mandela
(emphasis added):
Oprah Winfrey and Bill Clinton didn't seem like they were on good
terms at Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday in London, a source told the
New York Daily News.
Winfrey has spent the last several months campaigning for presidential
hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., whose chief competition was
Clinton's wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.
Both Winfrey and former U.S. President Bill Clinton attended a dinner
in Hyde Park, catered by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, in honor of
former South African President Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday.
"There was a very cold reception between them," a source told the
Daily News.
I bet we'll be hearing a lot about this as well.
―Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters.
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