Bill Clinton Throws Fit During Meeting With Superdelegates
Bill Clinton met with California’s superdelegates last weekend and they were treated to a red-faced hissy fit from the former President.
…Clinton had one of his famous meltdowns Sunday, blasting away at former presidential contender Bill Richardson for having endorsed Obama, the media and the entire nomination process.
“It was one of the worst political meetings I have ever attended,” one superdelegate said.
According to those at the meeting, Clinton - who flew in from Chicago with bags under his eyes - was classic old Bill at first, charming and making small talk with the 15 or so delegates who gathered in a room behind the convention stage.
But as the group moved together for the perfunctory photo, Rachel Binah, a former Richardson delegate who now supports Hillary Clinton, told Bill how “sorry” she was to have heard former Clinton campaign manager James Carville call Richardson a “Judas” for backing Obama.
It was as if someone pulled the pin from a grenade.
“Five times to my face (Richardson) said that he would never do that,” a red-faced, finger-pointing Clinton erupted.
The former president then went on a tirade that ran from the media’s unfair treatment of Hillary to questions about the fairness of the votes in state caucuses that voted for Obama. It ended with him asking delegates to imagine what the reaction would be if Obama was trailing by just 1 percent and people were telling him to drop out.
“It was very, very intense,” said one attendee. “Not at all like the Bill of earlier campaigns.”
It really is an amazing thing to watch the Clinton’s literally become unhinged as the nomination slips further and further from Hillary’s grasp. Bill Clinton has been suffering from a chronic case of “foot-in-mouth” disease since the first day of his wife’s campaign.
Bill Clinton’s anger at Richardson is understandable, but his continued amateurish blunders are not. I’ve never been a fan of the Clinton’s, but I have always respected Bill Clinton’s skill as a politician. In many people’s eyes Bill Clinton’s political prowess is almost mythical, but his repeated outbursts and blunders are slowly eroding that myth.
-Chris Jones
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DIDO! And “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!’
Foot in mouth disease and misspeaking. Now that’s the pair I want running the country I live in. NOT!!!
A rose by any other name is still a rose. A lie by any other name is still a lie. Bill wasn’t held accountable for lying to Congress and the American people. Why should Hillary believe she is accountable.