If he was not endorsing them he shouldn't have shared the stage with them.
7/98 Online Progressive Review ".When Clinton was inaugurated, Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker came to Washington to see his old boss sworn in. That left the state under the control of the president pro tem of the senate, Little Rock dentist Jerry Jewell. Jewell used his power as acting governor to issue a number of pardons, one of them for a convicted drug dealer, Tommy McIntosh. The pardons were a big subject of controversy in Arkansas and not the least of the questions was: how did McIntosh get included? Enter Robert "Say" McIntosh, father of Tommy, and a colorful political activist. According to the Washington Times, many in the state "say it was a political payoff, offered in exchange for dirty tricks Mr. McIntosh played on Clinton political opponents during the presidential campaign, or as a payoff for stopping his attacks on Mr. Clinton." It seems that the elder McIntosh had worked for Clinton in his last state campaign and, according to McIntosh in a 1991 lawsuit, the governor had agreed not only to pay him $25,000 but to help him market his recipe for sweet potato pie and to pardon his son. He also alleged that Clinton expected McIntosh's help in covering up a trail of sexual indiscretions. McIntosh dropped his lawsuit a month after Clinton was elected president and, he claims, after the president-elect agreed to get his son out of jail. . The younger McIntosh was released 18 years before he was eligible for parole. ."