Bill Clinton has some regrets

I have not heard much lately about the "The One" expanding his campaign into Republican territory to change the political landscape. The polls say things are even now and Obama will be lucky to land the swing states never mind the Red ones. His campaign is in shambles compared to their outrageous plans of a couple of months ago. To bad!!!

Bill Clinton's behavior during and after the primaries has been so childish and ugly to watch. It seems to me that his jealousy and anger towards Obama being the new political star is drving him to act like a petulant child. If he was a real patriot he would be out campaigning for Obama but instead he is doing everything he can to send signals to die hard Hillary fans and independants that he would rather see McCain win, so his wife could run again in 2012. He has had so many chances to remake himself after the Lewinsky mess but his monstous ego gets in the way everytime. Hopefully Obama can win without the help of the Clinton's because they have become toxic and an embarassement to the Democratic party.

Clinton is similar to all old people. They don't realize when you had your shot it went poorly {lewinsky] and your time is over. Why is it some people have to be told and others gracefully realize they have to exit the stage? Hopefully the Clintons realize they are yesterday. Obama is today. exit stage right. Go back to flying "air ---- one" with your buddy Perlman

Obama plays the race card very well and often and is ever exposing himself as a fraud politician and a far cry from the leader for change he purpots to be. He has a poor record in the Illinois senate and has done nothing in the US senate except campaign. As a democrat, I am ashamed to have him for our candidate and have finally concluded that 4 years of McCain would be better than and inexperienced blowhard who is a hippocrite. Hillary 2012!

It is obvious that Bill Clinton doesn't think much of Obama. He calls his wife "the finest candidate he ever supported." Hillary is better than Obama, better than Al Gore. He doesn't think Hillary should be on Obama's ticket as VP, because Hillary should be the Presidential candidate, not the VP candidate. Obama and the DNC should get this message and stop badgering Bill Clinton to campaign for Obama. Obama is going to lose, and nobody can help him. He is who he is. The fault lies squarely with the DNC, for squandering the best opportunity to get a competent and effective Democratic President in the White House to do what we need for this country. Damn the DNC. The Clintons should start a new Party.

Everyone that is not for Obama is shooting them self in the foot. Quit being a bunch of sore losers and realize what will benefit you and your family.

Painting the Clintons as racists or accusing them of having made racist remarks was an absolute outrage. That's the thanks President and Senator Clinton get for all they have done for the black community and black politicians. Loyalty is not a political virtue for some politicians, so why should those of us who supported Senator Clinton be loyal to the Democratic party? Even if Obama were qualified to be president, which he certainly is not, I wouldn't vote for him. I don't trust him ; I don't like him; I consider him to be a narcissist even beyond the narcissism of most politicians; I don't like his relationships with Wright, Ayers, Pfleger, et.al; I think he lacks good judgement; he allows the race card to be played and plays it himself ... I could go on and on, but why bother? I shop he is soundly defeated this November, as I think he would be as disasterous as King George has been.

Bill Clinton is a sham. He was a big bank pimp and is showing it now in his cuff-linked life where he earns hundreds of thousands of dollars for talking, another polluting activity.

He did squat for the infrastructure, he did much for Rubin and his fat City-bank friend, he harmed ladies on welfare by demanding they get non-existent jobs, he did much for my stock holdings, but worst of all he brought the government to a standstill because of his unwillingness to admit his adolescent behavior in the downstair room with a bloody wide hipped intern!!!

May he suffer the anguish of a failed person in his old age.

This is an issue that I have turned over in my head quite a few times. Why would those who claim to be lifelong democrats with democratic principles shift to supporting john mccain who has little in common with them? Why would anyone, after 8 years of bush chaos, who must be deeply negatively affected by republican leadership, seek to align themselves with a bush clone?

I can come to little other conclusion than they are racists.

No president acts on his own and even if Obama is inexperienced and incompetent, he has an experienced and competent team of advisers around him.. many I might add, have worked closely with Bill Clinton during his tenure as president.

So, is it possible that an Obama presidency, with all this expertise, can do as poorly as a McCain presidency? Absolutely not! Then why would any sane democrat flee to support McCain if they are not racist. Is it possible that they would rather see another incompetent republican in the white House rather than have it painted black?

Why are people so foolish to put their personal wellbeing aside to back a man who is willing during $4 a gallon gas, to extend tax cuts to the oil comopanies and rich? Why back a man whose economic adviser says that Americans suffering is all in their heads? Why trust a man who has always been a warmonger, and will continue to exalt himself while the boys overseas continue to come home in body bags or crippled? This is the same man who backs the wars but voted against veterans bills?

Why... because they are racists. If Bill Clinton cannot see that he drew the race card and cannot shut up and just applaud Obama, then Obama had better cut himself loose of the Clintons.

By the way, anyone who seriously looked at the primaries would realise that Obama simply had a better strategy that Hillary who thought that the presidency was all locked up for her. She and bill and other backers, were simply outmaneuvered. Nothing else.

Grow up, democrats, grow up. Take your ego and racism and back Obama. The republicans are backing a candidate they dont like, but you are undermining one who s more likely to see things your way and to improve your lives.

Think Democrats, think. We need a democrat in the white house, not another disaster.

i'm not a big fan of Obama, I'd rather vote for someone else, but McCain is an empty suit. The guy can't even stand up to his own campagin, let alone special interests. I'm sick of pathetic weaklings in the oval office (who do you think called the shots in the Bush Admin, Rove or Cheney?). At least Obama has a clear direction he wants to lead the country.

Clinton may very well have been belittling Obama's South Carolina victory. Isn't that what happens during political campaigns? This hardly makes Clinton a racist. It seems like Obama offers reconciliation for white guilt so long as nobody crosses him. More than a few times lately, though, the Obama campaign has cried "racism" in an attempt to deflect legitimate political criticism. It seems to have back-fired (according to the polls)

Bill's Big Regret should be that serial adultery thing, the backlash to which propelled the fascists into office in 2000.

Louis D,
So you think a neophyte surrounded by knowledgeable people could make a good president? Why don't you make me the president? Why Obama? Why not you, or some other guy on the street? You think the President simply does what his advisors told him to do? Can his advisors replace him in talks with foreign leaders? George W. may not be very knowledgeable when he became President, but Obama is even worse! I can't believe how fast the quality of our Presidential candidates is falling!

As a Republican in the 1990s, I always despised Bill Clinton. That being said, I don't think he's a racist, but I also don't think that many people were out there claiming he was a racist either. For someone who spent such a long time in politics he is so sensitive! And how dare he lecture people about how they treated Hillary during the primaries when he treated her like crap by having multiple affairs and lying about it even after getting caught. I am voting for Obama because I think George Bush is embarassing to this country but Bill Clinton reminds me why I still can't call myself a Democrat.

its a shame that the choices we have for president are both poor ones. this proves the need to have a better system in place when determinging who the candidates will be. God knows that surely there are better qualified candidates in both parties, more qualified and better skilled than what we are stuck with. Which brings to mind that all this may result in one of the poorest showing at the polls by whites and the only gains will be by African Americans who support Obama by better than 90%.

It is pretty sad that some people can't see any thing but skin color- we have had a dummy for 8yrs.in the white house,someone who visited a college campus and was given a degree,and yet some are ready to elect another dummy who finished 894 in a class of 899!!!!!! If Sen. Obama was that dumb we would never hear the end of that,but we never hear from the media about McCain's shallow intellect.What qualifies McCain to be president? He's a senator albeit one of 100,so that makess 99 others qualified! He was a POW-what leadership role did he have in running the Viet Nam war?NONE!!! What war did McCain win? Last week McCain said he voted for the Dr.King holiday,a lie that no one in the news media called him on.McCain does not support the troops,he's voted against everything for the troops except keeping them in Iraq! McCain has been in the Senate for 30yrs.and look at the condition of this country-we are hated around the world,we are in so much debt in this country it will take generations to pay this down-done by one idiot with the help of people like McCain.America can't afford 4more years of incompetence and arrogance,of being the "world's bully",America can't afford McCain!!!!!

i CANNOT BELIEVE THAT ANYONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD EVER THINK THAT HILLERY CLINTON WOULD MAKE A GOOD PRESIDENT. BUT FOR SURE SHE LEARNED FROM THE BEST ON HOW TO DECEIVE THE PEOPLE. ALL BILL CLINTON WANTS IS TO BE NOTICED.AND BE PAID FOR IT AS WELL. THEY HAVE ROBBED OUR NATION SO MANY TIMES AND BEEN CAUGHT AT IT, BUT PEOPLE JUST KEEP THINKING THEY ARE O.K. THEY ARE THE NASTIEST PEOPLE AND FOR THE MAJORITY OF US WE SEE THROUGH THEM,I.E. THE LOSS. THANK GOD MOST PEOPLE SAW THROUGH THEM. AS FOR THE TWO THAT ARE RUNNING I AM STILL WATCHING AND LISTENING. I AM A DEMOCRAT BUT I HAVEN'T MADE UP MY MIND YET.

The issues facing the country and our communities are so overwhelming. We the USA will not be avoided the coming disasters no matter no matter who becomes president. Crime, unemployment, food shortages, gas prices, medical coverage, declining schools and so on. In Chicago, we are facing (once again) the highest levels of community violence in three years. Approximately 30 children that are black and brown, (people under the age of 20) where murdered by random violence. While in there homes, or with there parents even at church. Less you forget Mr. O was one or our Chicago politician. In fact, he was a State Senator in one of the hardest hit violence areas on the south side of Chicago. The unemployment, murder, drugs and crime keep coming he was ineffective then as he will be as president. As Americans, we have to look at changing our political systems from a none-responsive one to proactive one, and from reactionary one to progressive planning one. I am an African American from Chicago do you really think that I believe that Obama is going to change my quality of life or that he is my savior? Come on now! It is not black or white, its green. I have no money to buy influence with him or any other politician. You all do not understand the theater of Chicago style politics. My life challenges will not change because of Obama or McCain? The Race and Class wars in American have just started picking up steam since it went to sleep in the 1960’s. Yes, Bill Clinton's behavior was inappropriate and poor. However, Hillary ran a BAD campaign and she trusted the wrong people within her staff. Yes, there was a double standard to how she was treated not just the press but other so called progressives and women politicians. Nevertheless, wait until you see Mr. Obama’s temper / his real side. Than remember the movie the three faces of Eve. However, I believe that Obama is the right type of muliti-racial person for American’s sensibilities. Not to dark, not to light: But, most of all not to racial. After 400 years of forced and instructional slavery, the government decides to say, “I am sorry”. First to blacks in the military, now to the community-at-large. Ok ..., whatever our children are still dieing and put in prisons at overwhelming rates. The best I can hope for is that TIME will change the man. History has a funny way of shaping the individual and putting them in to extra ordinary situation forcing them to make extraordinary decisions. In fact truth be told African American and other minorities have gain more socially, morally and monetary with republicans than democrats because they had more to prove at the time. Not because it was the right thing to do and do not forget the Dixie-democrats that tried to kill off all people with differences. Even Bill Clinton gave us as a people very little. Poor women in America still can get doctors appointments for themselves or their children.
IT IS NOT ONE LEADER. WE HAVE TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM!

I'll be voting for Obama because I'm a Blue-dog Democrat but Hillary 2012 will still be in the back of my mind. I really don't think Obama will get those swing states UNLESS he selects Hillary as VP.

I consider myself a Black Latino and I support Obama but I do feel that it was outrageous for the Clintons to be called racist. During the 90s I was a young, single mother and I credit the Clinton policies with helping me get on my feet (training, healthcare etc) . I think Bill Clinton who was once touted as the "first black president" feels betrayed by the Black community and I don't blame him.

OH MY GOSH! IGNORANCE SURE ISN'T A BLESSING FOR SOME OF YOU. BILL CLINTON WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST PRESIDENT THIS SAD AND PATHIC NATION HAS EVER SEEN. WHEN HE WAS IN OFFICE WE ALL WERE LIVING GOOD. CAN'T SAY THE SAME NOW. HE WAS NOT A SAINT BUT THEN AGAIN HE WHO HAS NOT SINNED MAY CAST THE FIRST STONE. WE DO NOT KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT OBAMA. WHO ARE HIS BACKERS? WHO IS BEHIND HIM? HE SEEMS TO CHANGE HIS OPINION TO WHATEVER IS POPULAR (OFF SHORE DRILLING). I CAN NOT TRUST A MAN WHO CHANGES HIS MIND TO WHATEVER SEEMS TO BE HIP AT THE TIME. I CAN NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA BECAUSE HE HAS LITTTLE EXPERIENCE. IT IS LIKE HIGHERING A HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE TO RUN A FORTUNE 500 COMPANY. IT IS NOT PRACTICAL. THIS COUNTRY IS DESPERATE FOR STRONG, RELIABLE LEADERSHIP. I LOVE THIS COUNTRY AND ALL IT STANDS FOR BUT PEOPLE NEED TO WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE.

The double standard in this campaign is disgusting. Hillary's every word and action were disected by the press and cherry picked to Obama's advantage. The party and Obama's campaign people did not defend here in these situations and decided an orator was better qualified than one with experience. We are in very perilous times and being president is not an on the jobe training event. This campaign has always been racial and by the numbers of black people voting (92%) says it all.

I'm a black mail & I like the Clintons but if they don't help one another, it going to be bad thing for the country and im a person who has never voted, but they have me thinking about it a lot but when they don't help one another what am I suppose to think about the party .I hope Obama is not fraud & is trying to telling us what we all just want to hear , one thing I wish they would start talking about is jobs ,healthcare, job going overseas & education I think them are some of the good points to start talking about ,because when you don' have job to take care of your family nothing else matters or is on your mind.

Oh please! Bill Clinton feels betrayed by the black community? Bill Clinton should have kept his mouth shut. He is part of the reason his wife his sitting on the side lines now. They both started to crack after they realized that they did not have the nomination. She made ridiculous statements and he made ludicrous statements. Hilary ruined the Clinton regime. GO BARACK OBAMA!!! WE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD! For all you idiots that rather see Mcain in office, let's see if you feel the same way when you are paying $8.00 a gallon for gas. Or when you son, nephewor cousin is drafted for war. Mcain is an old fart who is set in his ways.
He is not a person for change

Ah, there it is again. Louis D (No. 9) uses a very broad brush to accuse anyone not for Obama as a racist. What other reason could there be for not voting for Obama ? Could it be (a) Inexperience (b) his lack of any impact in the Senate,
(c) His immense ego [ Berlin / acceptance speech in a Stadium vs. the Convention Hall ] (d) His changes in position since he clinched the nomination ?

The most important factor is that, with Democrats likely to gain a firm control of both houses of Congress, perhaps there should be some check on Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid ? Obama's left-wing positions (and again, how often does one actually see "left wing" in print - vs. the "other" wing ?? ) are quite enough reason not to vote for him.

Finally if racism is considering skin color as the biggest factor in one's voting decision, could it then be racism if one voted FOR a candidate for no other reason other than skin color ? I was never a real Bill Clinton fan, but the man was certainly NOT a bad man, or even a bad President. His biggest fault was only that he wanted too much to be liked, and therefore tried too hard to be all things to all people.

When will be Americans wake up and realize that each of us has the responsiblity to our country. We need to select someone as a leader, not only in values but in energy, motivation and get this country moving inthe right direction. There has been too much Bushism and greed in the last 8 years. This is not what America is all about. We are basically hard-working people who value freedom and the opportunity to lead decent lives while helping those less fortunate. We are a generous people.
Wake up, America and put your vote where your TRUE values are!

The Democratic Party died May 31st with that trumped up hearing on the votes. Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton ARE the Democratic party! Donna Brazille and Dean worked overtime to discredit Hillary! When McCain is elected...I expect both of these poor excuses for human beings to stand in Time Square in NY and apologize to every Democrat and all the people they made register as Independents. They both need to change their vocation to jobs that do not require interpersonal skills. These two are especially out of touch! I also think that all of the Obama backers in all states need to step down. This is the worst decision that has ever been made by the DNC. The Super Delegates that were bought by the Obama Hope Fund have a lot to answer for...thanks to them it will be McCain for 4 y3q4w.

I do not know how Socialism will benefit any family re: asdfasd, but We need to remember that We the people elect these idiots then complain when they are off on thier own agendas i.e. congress-what are they doing now? There are so many people who need to go bye bye (fired) i.e. Polosi and those alike. We (the people)can take back our country...What happen to integrety and honesty???

I like Obama ok, even though he has not done squat yet. I felt the press did a terrible injustice to Hillary. They did not treat her fairly but I do credit her for being a strong female who was willing to pay hard ball with the best of them. To win somebody's got to lose. . . she will be fine.

Bill Clinton is a very savy politician. What he is saying is not easy to hear, but it still may be the fact.

Louis D.....that is the most ridiculous post I've ever read. If a Democrat wants to vote for Mccain they must be a racist? So if anyone disagrees with Obama we're racist? I think you should come to some new conclusions because these statements are absurd. Is it possible that Obama could be wrong on some issues, mainly his energy policy which entails spending billions of dollars and the next 15 years trying to come up with the next best thing? Note: Since the idea of drilling off shore was brought up by Bush, oil prices have dropped $35 a barrel. Reason: worries about the demand for oil overseas...meaning we can take care of ourselves with our own oil. Maybe some of us disagree with the idea of telling our enemies we will be leaving Iraq on June 10, 2009...so hang low, don't make much noise, you can take back control of the country in June when we leave...this makes sense to you???? Maybe its that Israel doesnt feel comfortable with Obama. Maybe we're not willing to over look his inexperience like you are. Maybe its the people he keeps closest to him that have been too controversiaI for some of us. I can go on and on like this.....so you've determined I'm a racist? You're clearly uninformed about the issues of this campaign and about the character issues in this race....WE ARE NOT ALL RACISTS!

HAHA HOW FUNNY THIS ALL IS, PEOPLE AND THEIR OPINION. LOOK AROUND YOU PEOPLE OUR LEADERS DON'T HAVE ANY CONTROL OR SAY SO WHAT HAPPEN TO THE UNITED STATE.HE WHO HAVE THE MOST OIL WINS. REAL ISSUES.

I HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO SPEAK SPANISH TO BE A VALUE TO THE USA IN THE FUTURE, OR NO JOB FOR ME. i NEED A MASTER TO WORK AT JACK IN THE BOX. MY KIDS DON'T KNOW HOW TO TALK ON THE PHONE ANYMORE
THANKS japan for tex mess. IN ORDER TO BUY A REPUTABLE CAR I HAVE TO BUY ASIAN. MANUFACTURING WHERE?. HARD WORKING,NOT WHITE OR BLACK. MEXICAN OR ASIAN. HERE WE GO AGAIN BLACK VERSE WHITE, AND THE REST CONTINUE TO MOVE FORWARD.SOME PEOPLE SAY 99% black votes
what % is this in the US population =6% WOW

After reading these comments, it supports my feelings that the United States of America is a sad, sad, nation with a cancer of racism that will be the death of it. I see comments that really and might as well say, "I'm not voting for Obama because he's Black", but are full of other very irrelevant reasons as to why they're not voting for him, I would respect you more if you would just say I'm not voting for him because he's Black, because that's the real reason. For those of you with racial prejudice (conscious and unconscious) just put your sick feelings (you really do have a sickness) aside close your eyes if you have to, and listen to both candidates, you would clearly see that Obama is the better of the two. And I sorry but the vase number of us no matter Black, Brown, White, Yellow, Green, etc are stuggling a bit right now the economy is BAD, and there are those that for some reason (racism) have foregotten that they are in this struggle and will remain in the struggle in thier supoort of McCain. Will America ever be a place where Blacks and other minorities won't be faced with the racial discrimination that Whites (not all, however a lot) impose on us. I'm Black and Proud, however it's sad to be Black in America, The Land of the Free and Home of the Brave, maybe just for Whites, think about it.

I will never vote for O'Bama because of the stance he takes with "universal" health care for everyone. He wants socialized medicine for everyone, but who is going to pay for it? That's right-The American Taxpayer! I can remember when working in a Memphis, TN clinic in the mid-nineties doing physicials for Canadian nurses that were coming to the U.S., working for health agencies in droves, because they could not find any work in Canada. I was told by many fellow Canadians that many people on Canadian transplant lists either died or came to the U.S. for their operations because it took so long to to get one. I was also told that Canadians waited an average of 1 year to see a medical specialist for a first appointment. Many U.S. medical providers will not stay in the U.S. medical system due to lack of payment on a timely basis. On an average, doctors must wait at least 6 months right now for the average Medicare payment, and I suspect that with government red tape, the payment structure will much longer than that. The state of TN has "Tenncare", an enhanced form of Medicaid, that no other state has replicated because of the waste, fraud, & abuse that went along with the program. People have to realize that all social programs cannot be afforded by the government. If the democrats think this is a solution to the healthcare problem now, & people claim they can't get sufficient health care now, wait until socialized medicine is implemented. Most of us responsible, tax paying American citizens will regret it.

Bill Clinton is a good man, and he does good work for the world. I believe Bill Clinton has been seriously disrespected by the Obama camp.

I think it is such a shame to call Bill Clinton a racist...Obama, his surrogates, and Obama-Media behaved absolutely disgraceful. The dem party big tops never said a word to defend the only dem president in 1/2 a century who served two terms in the White House. It's disgusting.

Obama and his band of mean-spirited villains knew that they needed to DESTROY Bill Clinton's relationship with black people, and oh yes, they did everything in their power to do so. I paid attention to the entire primary season very closely, and it is ATROCIOUS how the Obama camp treated Hillary and Bill.

I will never dare reward Obama's actions with a vote.

EVER.

Bill Clinton does not seem as bright as he was in the White House. He damaged Hillary's campaign.

We cannot have a Republican Bush clone, another "C" student, in the White House. I just LOVED Paris Hilton's response today to McCain's ad. I laughed so hard, I watched the video 3 times! She simply made McCain look like a real horse's ass.

We cannot have another Republican dictator in the White House. I do not agree Cith the Bush "Stay the course" mentality. Such mental inflexibility could be due to some alcoholic encephalopathy.

Military experinece is a plus for a president. However, I am not at all impressed with McCain's lame ads about his being in Vietnam.

Comment #9 listed Obama as an orator. Our current president, as a dictatpr, has the entire world hating the USA. What is better for our country - orator vs. dictator?

Hillary as VP could pick up votes which Obama cannot. However, many of our older voters will not vote for any minority. Could a black and female team win an election in our country? John Edwards could also be a VP candidate. Too bad his wife has advanced cancer.