Bill Clinton: Obama has to 'kiss my *&%!'

 

Bill Clinton

Despite Barack Obama's and Hillary Clinton's show of unity yesterday at a rally in Unity, N.H., a senior Democrat adviser who worked for Bill Clinton said the former president is so enraged by the primary campaign that he has told friends Obama will have to beg for his full support.

The adviser told the London Telegraph even Clinton's closest friends are shocked by his lingering fury.

"He's been angry for a while. But everyone thought he would get over it. He hasn't. I've spoken to a couple of people who he's been in contact with and he is mad as hell," the senior Democrat said.

"He's saying he's not going to reach out, that Obama has to come to him. One person told me that Bill said Obama would have to quote kiss my a** close quote, if he wants his support.

"You can't talk like that about Obama - he's the nominee of your party, not some house boy you can order around. Hillary's just getting on with it and so should Bill."

During the campaign, Clinton's temper came to the forefront when he accused the Obama campaign of injuring his reputation by interpreting his remarks as racist.

A second source, a Democrat Party strategist who worked for one of the early rivals to Obama and Hillary Clinton, told the Telegraph Bill Clinton was keeping his distance because he did not believe the Illinois senator could win in November, despite his strong standing in current polls. Clinton called his prospects for victory "very unhopeful."

"Bill Clinton knows the party will unite behind Obama, but he is telling people he doesn't believe Obama can win round voting groups, especially working-class whites, in the swing states," the strategist said.

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Clinton's anger over the campaign's outcome was confirmed by Joe Klein, author of "Primary Colors," a fictionalized account of Clinton's 1992 campaign, who said he had been told by Clinton friends he was "very, very bitter."

Last week Clinton issued a statement, through a spokesman, saying he "is obviously committed to doing whatever he can and is asked to do to ensure Sen. Obama is the next president of the United States."

The former president and Obama are expected to meet this week for the first time since the nomination was won. Campaign insiders have told the Telegraph Bill Clinton's future campaign role is a "sticking point."

"It's time for him to get over it or go off and do his charitable work, said Klein. "He knows the rules of the road. What's going on now is kind of strange. I think his behaviour is really, really shocking."

Earlier this month, WND reported the Obama campaign had chosen Patti Solis Doyle as chief of staff to his future vice presidential nominee, a choice called the "biggest f--- you I have ever seen in politics" by a former bundler for Hillary Clinton.

Clinton previously fired Doyle as her own campaign manager and many close to the New York senator believe Doyle provided inside information for a scathing article about Bill Clinton in Vanity Fair.

 

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