Barack Obama is an Amateur, said Bill Clinton

Barack Obama is an Amateur, said Bill Clinton
In pursuit of the truth, cinops be gone - Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012

I read the book by Edward Klein, The Amateur. In the prologue, we have eight pages titled, As Bill Sees It. May I share with you excerpts from that unbelievable section.

Chappaqua, New York, August 2011: Bill and Hillary were going at it again, fighting tooth and nail over their favorite subject: themselves. It was a warm summer Sunday - a full year away from the 2012 Democratic National Convention - Bill Clinton was urging Hillary to think the unthinkable. He wanted her to challenge Barack Obama for their party’s presidential nomination…

“Why risk everything now?” Hillary demanded to know. “Because,” Bill replied, “the country needs you!” His voice was several decibels louder than necessary, and his nose was turning shades of red. “The country needs us! He shouted, banging a fist on his desk to drive home his point. “The timing’s not right,” Hillary shot back…

There was a reason Bill didn’t want to wait until the next presidential cycle, in 2016, when Hillary’ll be sixty-nine and Bill’ll be seventy. Bill’s had a lot of serious health setbacks - quadruple bypass surgery, a collapsed lung, two coronary stents - and all that’s left him feeling like he’s living on borrowed time.” …

When she hung up, Bill began to rattle off the results of a secret poll in which potential voters had been asked how they would feel about Hillary’s making a run against Obama for the White House in 2012. “Your poll numbers are all positive,” Bill said, pacing the floor. “African-Americans are moving away from Obama and in your direction, Latinos, too. And Jews. Women and the elderly are all on your side. Young college boys are the only ones clinging to Obama. It’s a no-brainer. You can win if you want back in the White House as much as I do.” A cloud passed over Hillary’s face. “Is it going to get out that you did this poll?” she asked.

Bill flashed a sheepish smile as he revealed that he had spent the past year writing a book about how to put America back to work. In his book, he intended to take some serious shots at Obama’s jobs and tax proposals. He thought Obama had made a huge mistake by attacking Wall Street executives, many of whom were Bill’s personal friends and had pledged to pay more taxes to help cut the deficit. “The economy’s a mess, it’s dead flat,” he said. “America has lost its Triple-A rating. Hillary you have years of experience on Obama. You know better than Obama does, and far better than those guys who are advising him. They don’t know what they are doing. They govern in sound bites. You’d be the ideal candidate…

Hillary rolled her eyes. “I’m the highest-ranking member in Obama’s cabinet,” she pointed out. “I eat breakfast with guy each Thursday morning. What about loyalty, Bill? What about loyalty? “Loyalty is a joke,” Bill said. “Loyalty doesn’t exist in politics. There’s no such word in the political rulebook… I’ve heard from Bush, asking my advice, than I’ve heard from Obama. I have no relationship with the president … He doesn’t know how the world works. He’s incompetent. He’s … he’s…”

He bit his lower lip and scanned the faces in the room… “Barack Obama,” said Bill Clinton, “is an amateur.” p. 12

George H. Kubeck, - Are you better off today after 4 years of Obama? Maybe Bill Clinton in a major talk on Wednesday evening at Charlotte, N.C. will come up with something dramatic and magical. Could it be his wife running for Vice-President or Bill will lead now the economic recovery?