“I don’t think he will withdraw.”
Does Hillary enter the mix, in any way, with her popularity, high visibility and presidential ambition? (Along with
Bill’s desire to get back into the White House.)
Thanks again.
I am no expert, just a follower of politics (I would say I have been an obsessive follower, since the 2008 Presidential campaign).
There is something behind Bill Clinton and James Carville stepping up their criticism of Obama and the way that they have run the White House. I don’t know what it is, but I don’t think that Hillary will run. I think she is, and feels, old and has said repeatedly that she will not.
So that leaves the questions of what Bill Clinton has to gain by articulating, validating and even enhancing Democrats’ reservations about Obama, and making them feel that it’s okay to express it out loud. Really, I haven’t a clue, despite spending a lot of time trying to understand it.
The best I can come up with is that he didn’t like Obama to begin with, he didn’t want Obama to be president, he didn’t appreciate seeing Hillary ridiculed by Obama during the campaign and there is no love lost between them.
Clinton has been in politics for decades, and is an expert politician. His behavior may be based on his analysis that the Obama administration is the Titanic, going down slowly but irreversibly, and if he wants to have a voice in national politics and kingmaking in the future, this is a good chance for him to speak up.
Don’t forget that he was with the middle-of-the-road Democrat organization in the 1980s and 1990s, and although he showed his true socialist colors with Hillarycare early in his administration, when that turned into a fiasco he pivoted right back to the center and stayed there for the rest of his term. I don’t think he wants to go down with the SS Obama.