One of our favorite Bill Clinton anecdotes involves a
confrontation he had with Bob Dole in the Oval Office after the 1996
election. Mr. Dole protested Mr. Clinton's attack ads claiming the
Republican wanted to harm Medicare, but the President merely smiled
that Bubba grin and said, "You gotta do what you gotta do."
We're reminded of that story listening to Barack Obama
protest his treatment by the now ex-President Clinton on behalf of his
wanna-be-President wife. "You know the former President, who I think
all of us have a lot of regard for, has taken his advocacy on behalf of
his wife to a level that I think is pretty troubling," Mr. Obama told a
TV interviewer. "He continues to make statements that are not supported
by the facts -- whether it's about my record of opposition to the war
in Iraq or our approach to organizing in Las Vegas."
Now he knows how the rest of us feel.
The Illinois Senator is still a young man, but not so young as to have
missed the 1990s. He nonetheless seems to be awakening slowly to what
everyone else already knows about the Clintons, which is that they will
say and do whatever they "gotta" say or do to win. Listen closely to
Mr. Obama, and you can almost hear the echoes of Bob Dole at the end of
the 1996 campaign asking, "Where's the outrage?"
[Obama's Clinton Education]
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