Nothing much new today, though things should heat back up this week as inquires continue on several administration scandals.
While searching Drudge, however, I came across an article “Obama was pushed by Clintons into endorsement of Hillary in 2016,” adapted from the new paperback edition of Edward Klein’s “The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House”
According to Mr. Klein, former foreign editor of Newsweek and editor-in-chief of The New York Times Magazine, “President Obama made a secret deal to support Hillary Clinton when she runs for president in 2016, campaign sources say, payback for the support her husband gave him in 2012.”
I found that quite interesting because I wrote right here many times during the last campaign that I thought it quite obvious that Willy thought the incumbent was an unqualified dunce. Yet although he threw a few barbs, he ultimately came around, finally offering full-fledged support when it mattered most, making me wonder why he'd do that.
Author Klein himself apparently felt similarly, and wrote: “Bill Clinton’s animosity toward Obama is legendary. A year before the last election, he was urging Hillary to challenge the sitting president for the nomination — a move she rejected.”
Willy’s also quoted by Klein as saying, “I’ve heard more from Bush, asking for my advice, than I’ve heard from Obama. I have no relationship with the president — none whatsoever. Obama doesn’t know how to be president. He doesn’t know how the world works. He’s incompetent. He’s an amateur!”
As the article continues, it mentions several several issues which I also note fairly often. I’ve listed them below because it provides satisfaction to know that someone far better connected than I, with significantly greater access to hard information, reaches the same conclusions as I have.
Mr. Klein opines that, “debacles have marked Obama’s second term, from Benghazi to the IRS scandal. While he was effective on the campaign trail, once in the Oval Office, he becomes a different person, one who derives no joy from the cut and thrust of day-to-day politics and who is inept in the arts of management and governance”
The author’s list goes on: “Obama has made a lot of promises — and nothing ever happened.
He once boasted that he’d bring the Israelis and Palestinians to the negotiating table and create a permanent peace in the Middle East. Nothing happened.
He said he’d open a constructive dialogue with America’s enemies in Iran and North Korea and, through his special powers of persuasion, help them see the error of their ways. And nothing happened.
He said he’d solve the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and put millions of people back to work. And nothing happened.
And then Mr. Klein concludes with a paragraph I think is perfect. So I’ll close today’s entry using that: “He may yet try to back out of his promise to Hillary Clinton. But as Obama’s presidency sinks deeper into scandal and inaction, the question is — will Clinton even still want his endorsement?”
That's it for today folks.
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