Bill Clinton on Obama: 'A Few Years Ago, This Guy Would Have Been Carrying Our Bags'

Weekly Standard ^ | 09-02-2012 | Daniel Halper

[bronxville]

Former President Bill Clinton tried to get former senator Ted Kennedy to endorse Hillay Clinton for president in the 2008 election by describing Barack Obama this way: "A few years ago, this guy would have been carrying our bags."

This anecdote is revealed in a New Yorker article on the relationship between Bill Clinton and Obama:

Tim Russert told me that, according to his sources, Bill Clinton, in an effort to secure an endorsement for Hillary from Ted Kennedy, said to Kennedy, “A few years ago, this guy would have been carrying our bags.”

Clinton is giving a keynote address at the Democratic convention this week in Charlotte, North Carolina.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/bill-clinton-obama-few-years-ago-guy-would-have-been-carrying-our-bags_651489.html

[bronxville]

Bill Clinton will be giving the keynote address at the DNC convention.

[Christie at the beach]

Clinton was pouting that OBama does not ever call him

to ask for advice nor to share his recipes. Lol.

[television is just wrong]

obama is nothing but a product of affirmative action.

[dfwgator]

Remember what The Swimmer did to Carter in 1980. He pretty much torpedoed Carter during the convention, the one good thing Kennedy did.

[Gabz]

obama is nothing but a product of affirmative action.

AMEN!

(Why doesn't FR have a "LIKE" button? - j/k)

[Gabz]

1980 was the first year I was able to vote in a Presidential election - and I have to admit - I have no clue what what you’re talking about.

Could you help me out and expand on your comment......pretty please (with a cherry on top, even)

[Sacajaweau]

No matter what Bill says, I will never believe that he actually wanted Hillary to be President.

I do believe that SOMEDAY we will find out that Bill was the clink in the Dem machine that turned their backs on Hillary and gave their blessing to Obama.

[dfwgator]

Kennedy and Carter were in a bitter fight for the nomination, and Kennedy’s speech said nothing about why Carter should be re-elected, it was all about Kennedy’s vision for the future, Carter was pissed, and when they were on stage together at the end, they barely acknowledged each other, and many thought that doomed Carter, as a lot of Democrats actually wound up voting for Reagan.

[faithhopecharity]

Sorry, Mr Clinton, that’s wrong. Carrying bags is honest WORK.

[soycd]

And now he IS our baggage.

[Moonman62]

Bill Clinton will be giving the keynote address at the DNC convention.

Isn't the keynote reserved for a rising star, not an impeached and disbarred has been?

(You know if Clinton were Republican his first name would be Impeached and his middle name would be Disbarred. His nickname would be Disgraced.)

[dfwgator]

Is there any doubt that if Bill Clinton ran against Obama for the nomination, that Bill will crush the Marxist Kenyan like a bug?

[Gabz]

Thanks - I totally don’t remember that.

Carter is the reason I became a Republican when I turned 18 in ‘78. I was a 16yo junior in HS in ‘76 and we did a mock debate and election. I wanted to be Carter and wound up being Ford. I went up against a girl who graduated as a junior, yet totally won the debate (and Ford won the election in my school-in NYC.)

[American Constitutionalist]

In 2005 Howard Dean said this:

: During a meeting Friday with the Democratic black caucus, Dean praised black Democrats for their work for the party, then questioned Republicans’ ability to rally support from minorities.

Howard Dean .. *** “You think the Republican National Committee could get this many people of color in a single room?,” Dean asked to laughter. “Only if they had the hotel staff in here.” ***


Bill Clinton on Obama: " A Few Years Ago, This Guy Would Have Been Carrying Our Bags " .
Bill Clinton was referring to a Hotel Baggage Porter.


Folks ? make no mistake about it, this is what Howard Dean and Bill Clinton were referring to.

[max americana]

and obama would have still screwed up carrying the bags..

[danamco]

IIRC He said:.......This guy would serve us coffee!!!

[UCANSEE2]

Dear Bill:

I don't think you want him carrying your bags. They're likely to get wet.

[UCANSEE2]

Dear Bill:

I don't think you want him carrying your bags. They're likely to get wet.

[ASA Vet]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2925816/posts

[Maudeen]

Where’s the infamous FR “that’s racist” post? :)