Posted on 02/16/2008 9:12:18 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
NACOGDOCHES, Texas (AP) — Former President Clinton on Friday accused Sen. Barack Obama, his wife's rival for the Democratic nomination, of trying to ignore any accomplishments they achieved during their years in the White House.
"You have one candidate who's made the explicit argument that the only way we can change America is to move into a post-partisan future and therefore we have to eliminate from consideration for the presidency anybody who made good things happen in the '90s or stopped bad things from happening in this decade," said Clinton, who was winding up a day of East Texas campaign appearances for his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
"It doesn't matter how much good you did," the former president said at Stephen F. Austin University. "We've got to get rid of you because you had to fight to make something good happen. You had to fight to stop something bad from happening. And if you fought, you made somebody mad, we ought to give you an old watch and retire you. You can't possibly make a contribution to America's future."
Without mentioning Obama by name, Clinton said the Illinois senator was promoting a position that it's "actually an advantage to not have any experience because you've not made anybody mad."
"It's been very effective," Clinton said. "It's already taken four good candidates out. It would have taken Hillary out if she didn't have so much grass-roots support and so much guts."
Clinton said his wife's position is to "bridge the party divides when we can, but we also need to be prepared to fight."
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Clinton never thinks enough people are paying attention to him.
Run, ignore or cry, no good option.
Bill Clinton: Obama’s ignoring my White House legacy
So do I, Bill. So do I.
Bill, your diddling around in the '90s led to a very bad thing happening in this decade--on September 11, 2001, to be specific.
Probably cause he doesn’t have a legacy.
The real question is how did those two (Hilary and Bill) ever fit both their egos into the same room.
She has no guts. Those weak attacks on obama have been pathetic.
His church, affirmative action admittee, never once straying from the democratic caucaus, never running anything,
his insane wife (well maybe she should go in this direction) , che, cocaine use, meeting with despots,
more than a trillion in new spending ( again maybe this is not the best line of attack either) but she never attacked, because she is gutless.
Monica?
I’m glad to see this. The Clintons are opening a new front in their battle against the MoveOn-Soros-Obama wing of the party. They are not going to say that Obama is too liberal (it would not be considered a negative in the Dem primaries), but they are going to argue that he is simply too idealistic and not tough and pragmatic enough.
It might work better than the subtle race-baiting Billary seemed to be tinkering with.
Ignored like BillHill Ignored UBL in the 90’s... Ignore the coming storm because it would inevitably happen on someone elses watch?
It could be argued that BillHill caused everything that has happened to date... So if its so bad then they are the culprits... guess its not really that bad after all... guess we really don’t need all this change now do we..
Rats dug a huge hole and unleashed Obama.
Ignored like BillHill Ignored UBL in the 90’s... Ignore the coming storm because it would inevitably happen on someone elses watch?
It could be argued that BillHill caused everything that has happened to date... So if its so bad then they are the culprits... guess its not really that bad after all... guess we really don’t need all this change now do we..
Rats dug a huge hole and unleashed Obama.
Ignored like BillHill Ignored UBL in the 90’s... Ignore the coming storm because it would inevitably happen on someone elses watch?
It could be argued that BillHill caused everything that has happened to date... So if its so bad then they are the culprits... guess its not really that bad after all... guess we really don’t need all this change now do we..
Rats dug a huge hole and unleashed Obama.
A giant among men! In his dreams.
Bill, we already know about the BJ you got from Monica. Take that out and you have NO legacy... imagine that!
Bill Clinton gives every impression of being power-addicted, and unwilling to give up the presidency. He uses Hillary’s candidacy as a way to get back in office. For this reason more than almost any other, Hillary must be denied.
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