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Bitter Bill Clinton's Bad Year

Carol Felsenthal just can't help herself. Like a hot knife through butter, she dissects Bill Clinton. In today's Chicago Daily Observer, Felsenthal tells us about Bill's bad year and why the Obama cabal has been nervous about him - and still does. Only the second American president to be impeached—the other was Andrew Johnson, and both escaped conviction by the Senate—Bill Clinton has had an exceedingly bad year since he joined his wife on the campaign trail in July, 2007. Felsenthal goes into depth on this, of course, and continues on to give us insight into the nervousness within the Obama camp: [Bill] Clinton is likely still seething at the fact that 200,000 people turned out to see Obama in Berlin. Those kinds of crowds are supposed to be reserved for Bill Clinton. When Obama was drawing standing-room-only crowds and Bill Clinton was speaking to half-full gymnasiums, Clinton, who sometimes seemed to forget to mention Hillary as his speeches devolved into “me, me, me,” said, petulantly, that one million people had come to see him in Africa. “I’ve been told I give a pretty good speech,” he volunteered at that campaign stop in eastern Texas. FULL ARTICLE...