The more he acts out like this, the more I blame him for being complicit in this financial meltdown. Repealing Glass-Steagal, signing Gramm-Leach-Bliley, and almost signing in Bankruptcy "Reform." Ending welfare "as we knew it". He also walked away with $110 million in Private Equity cash in the last 8 years. (What's in our wallet now? Worthless paper and debt.)

He bent over for the Republicans because of his incessant need to be loved at all times.

Bill: 51% of the country loves you. Work for us. Get Obama elected, and stop the snide comments.

I don't think so, MJ. He supports Obama. I think he's still miffed at Obama but he supports him. I don't believe that Clinton wants to be the symbolic head of the party out of power.

I used to like Clinton, but most of that was because the right wing attacked him so viciously
and he was so good at beating them in the polls.
I think I confused "like" with defend. As I said before; "With Republicans we get trickle down economics, with today's Democratic Party we get trickle down government."

The more I look back on Clinton's Presidency the more disappointed in him I become. The latest reminder was his signing the Gramm/Leach/Bliley act. Apart from the Hillary issue, if Clinton doesn't like Obama maybe its because he sees Obama as not friendly enough toward Wall Street.

Clinton was/is just one of a number of Democrats who is owned by the Banking, Insurance, Credit, and Investment community. To see Clinton, Chris Dodd, Chuck Schumer or even Joe Biden commenting on the financial mess we're in is laughable.

Oh, did I forget to mention the Bankruptcy Reform
Bill?

Its not bad enough we have to put up with Republicans, but when you add business friendly Democrats to the mix, you know 90% (arb) of the public is going to get fu**ed.

Worthless.

Currently we are just trying to find a solution to the financial crisis. However, later we will have to figure out what went wrong and how to establish new regulations so that this does'nt occur again. In an Obama administration that process will not be kind to Clinton. Very likely repealing Glass-Steagal and signing Gramm-Leach-Bliley will be recognizerd as opening the door to this mess. Republicans will of course be doing backflips to prevent any real analyses of what went wrong since they were in the center of this deregulation movement from the beginning.

Clinton deserves much of the blame and a McCain administration may help Clinton preserve his reputation.

Mj, look. Bill is the worst loser of the two in any contest. Check out how he reacted after he lost the Governors race in Arkansas......He doesnn't like to lose and with the Primaries he did. Do you think it is easy for him? It isn't easy for any of us. The best Obama can do is put him in situations that he can be positive. Does he like McCain? More than likely. We all did. Remember when we actually thought it might be a good idea for him to be on Kerry's ticket?

Wow... who knew Rosenberg was a psychologist.

Idiot.

Ouch people! Ouch!
I don't know the motives behind President Clinton's reticence to support Obama, but I certainly acknowledge that he is reticent. He was just on The Daily Show and he could not have been less enthusiastic about Obama. Even after Chris Rock made such a point about Clinton refusing to say Obama's name- you would think his next interview he would go out of his way to be effusive. Not at all. I voted for Clinton twice, like them both, liked the 90's- but it is undeniable that Clinton is not interested in helping Obama get elected. Hillary seems to over it and helping.

Coates says it better than me. That I will concede.

http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/stop_talking_about_bills_tepid_endorsements.php

I don't think that Clinton's being soft on McCain will help persuade undecided voters. Everyone knows Clinton is a master-politician and a Democrat. Absent some serious defect in Obama, one would expect Clinton to endorse Obama enthusiastically and without reservation. Knowing that Bill is fully up to the acting job, I expect voters will see anything less than a "wholehearted" endorsement as a weaseling lawyer's damning with faint praise.

That said, perhaps everyone is giving both Clintons more attention than they deserve. Those voters for whom a liberal approach to issues is paramount will vote for Obama anyway. Those with reservations about the breadth of Obama's knowledge might be reassured, but not by the kind of endorsement Bill seems to be giving. Those who have reservations about Obama's character and integrity will hardly care about Bill's opinion in that regard, and, needless to say, those biased against Obama for racial reasons won't listen.

I am a white, boomer-generation, modestly informed, non-political-junkie Chicago Democrat. I voted for Bill twice. This year I preferred Obama, but had misgivings in trusting the Presidency to a young and untried first-term senator. The person who has removed any doubt as to whom I will vote for has been John McCain, who in the past weeks has smashed his own facade of character and integrity, and exhibited breathtaking recklessness in choosing Sarah Palin. The nicer and more complimentary Bill Clinton is toward McCain, the less weight his endorsement has with me, and it's approaching the negative numbers.

It's just as well if Obama doesn't find himself politically indebted to the Clintons. Neither Bill nor Hillary can be trusted to serve loyally as Secretary of State, while appointing Hillary to the Supreme Court would give her enemies a field day and waste Obama's capital on someone who lacks judicial temperament anyway. I'm disappointed that my generation has given America no better presidents than Clinton and G.W., but I'm quite ready to let go of both of them.

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