Bill Clinton Reportedly Said Obama ‘Would Have Been Carrying Our Bags’ a ‘Few Years Ago’
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The New Yorker has published a piece titled “Let’s Be Friends: Two Presidents Find a Mutual Advantage,“ in which they claim Bill Clinton told Ted Kennedy that Barack Obama ”would have been carrying our bags” a few years ago during the last presidential election.
The statement, passed on to the New Yorker by sources of Tim Russert, was allegedly made in an effort to convince the late senator to endorse Hillary Clinton for president.
The New Yorker relates:
Bill Clinton, in an effort to secure an endorsement for Hillary from Ted Kennedy, said to Kennedy, “A few years ago, this guy would have been carrying our bags.” Clinton’s role in the campaign rattled Obama. He told ABC News in an interview that Clinton “has taken his advocacy on behalf of his wife to a level that I think is pretty troubling.”
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The article is largely a chronology of Barack Obama and Bill Clinton’s relationship, which began with a degree of mutual distrust and, according to David Axelrod, has improved significantly.
“Would I be truthful if I said to you that we went through a long and difficult campaign in 2007-08 and as soon as it was over the relationship was instantly close?” he said. “I mean, that just defies human nature. But I think it’s grown up over time.”
Bill Clinton will be giving a keynote address at the Democratic convention this week in Charlotte, North Carolina, the Weekly Standard notes.
(H/T: Drudge)
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:40pm…
Report Post »You can tell that Bill and Barry hate each other.
They neither one can hide it very well at all.
They both want to be Dr. Evil, but there’s just one spot open for that job.
yourfriend
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:35pmI thought Clinton said, “a few years ago, he would have been serving us coffee”.
Report Post »FreedomWitness
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:39pmYou are correct.
Report Post »as_mad_as_hell
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:56pmThat’s what I remember hearing, and it was quite awhile ago. Why is this news?
Report Post »DIR
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 10:10pmI don’t know what Bill said about Barry and bags, but Bill’s pretty smart. He put his ‘old bag’ out to pasture years ago, well maybe he carried her around a little bit. I know she’s still running around. I can’t remember when I last saw the two of them together.
Report Post »SCREW-WINDOWS
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 10:26pmThe whole green energy deal was also Clintons idea and poor ole Barry fell for it hook line and sinker (I bet Bill is still chuckling over that one).
Report Post »pakaeboiboi
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:33amYO …. Yourfriend …. Bill’s done wid his coffee …. he’s tryn ta checkouta the joint now ….. needn sumone ta carri da lug age …..
Report Post »mercenary4freedom
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:22amClinton still has a stake in this NWO, UN world govt scam. The Clintons are enemies of the state as well as Obama & his staff.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 6:19amSOS, calling Bill Clinton, come to the rescue! Calling Bill Clinton, come and help me! Oh wait, that’s old news too.
Every time Barack starts losing his mojo, he gets on his knees and kisses Bill’s feet. That’s what you call “moving forward.”
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 8:25amEither way, Clinton now carries Obama’s water.
Report Post »rflemingtx
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:31pmThis is news? Those of us paying attention knew of this 4 years ago.
Report Post »wvgirl
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:39pmExactly. Sheesh!
Report Post »blazingaway
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:31pmYou see the difference between Republican Presidents who retire from public life and keep their crap to themselves and DNC Presidents who never retire, never stop saying crap and just end-up craping all over themselves and everyone else … the Clintons are pigs, wallowing around in the mud and squealing at ever chance they get to get more attention and to be feed.
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 11:59pmAnd there was a bunch of stuff missing from the White House when the Clintons left!
Report Post »Watermain
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:27pmAgreed.
Report Post »marvel
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:20pmOne day black Americans will realize they have been sleeping with the enemy. I’m not surprised at all that Clinton, the old Southern Democrat that he is, would say such things.
Report Post »SilentReader
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:16pmHe was probably on cocaine when he said that.
Hey, but if anyone can feign it Bill Clinton certainly can. He’s the biggest fraud of all time, and right up there with the Empty Chair and Hillary Clinton. They are three peas in a pod. Clinton’s just angry that the Empty Chair out-frauded him.
I can’t wait to hear what fantasy he comes up with in his speech at the DNC. Whatever it is I‘m sure he’ll get in a jab or two for the sake of the Communist Party.
Report Post »Val_Dragon
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:15pmIf Obama controls healthcare in an aging society then he effectively control its death rate. If he controls the death rate then he can effectively control the amount of revenue collected as a result of the death tax (the federal estate tax). This is a tax that is assessed on the value of all of your assets upon your death including your house, cars, furniture, business property, machinery and inventory, stocks, bonds and real estate. This is a big part of his hidden agenda. This is the pot of gold Obama is after.
Report Post »In 2013, the exemption drops from $5 million to $1 million. Under an Obama 2nd term that exemption will fall much further and the death tax rate will climb enormously. This is how he is going to “spread the wealth around”.
VoteBushIn12
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:19pmThose are some drastic “ifs”
Obama is a policy maker. He “controls” nothing but the armed forces. Get your head right.
Report Post »Val_Dragon
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:37pmPolicy maker = executive order maker = control. Open ur eyes and get ur head out of ur azz.
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:22pm@VAL_DRAGON
Oil Mining = Burning Fossil Fuels = Global Warming = Human Extinction
Big Business = Lots of Money = Purchases Nuclear Weapons = Human Extinction
Rats = Disease Carrier = Plague = Human Extinction
Earth’s Existence = Gravity = Meteor Collisions = Human Extinction.
Your ability to draw parallels where there are none – or very few – practical examples to support your claim is… well… unparalleled.
I heard a saying once, it went something like this, “Open ur eyes and get ur head out of ur azz.”
Report Post »Dallasmarine
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:12pmI would like to reserve not a black or brown or white porter for Nov. 7th. Lets make it a half Kenyan half white one that won’t skuff the bottom of my bags.
Report Post »milkah
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:12pmThese two can’t stand each other, Obama because Clinton outshines him every time and Clinton because Obamas in the White House and he isn’t.But they’ll come out and pretend to be thick as thievs to keep the Dems in power. Slick and Slimey
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:23pmYeah and Perry, Romney, and Gingrich are all brothers in arms. Have you forgotten the hatred they spit at one another not 6 months ago?
$50 says they walk out just as “slick and slimey” as you claim the Dems will.
Report Post »soybomb315_II
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:09pmThis sounds familiar, is this old news?
The Clintons were the status quo…The establishment never likes competition and dissent. Kind of like how the Romney campaign handled the Tea Party
Report Post »Val_Dragon
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:09pmObama should think about getting those freckles zapped, he’s really starting to look like his biological father Frank Marshal Davis.
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:22pmClinton hopes his coldsore doesn’t break out in HD TV.
Report Post »Val_Dragon
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:07pmAxlrod? That’s a true commie. His Tom Selleck / hitler mustache is so funny.
Report Post »marine249
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:04pmyes ah sir yes ah sir
Report Post »where would you like
me to put your bags
master willie
loriann12
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:18pmI don’t think he meant it as a ra c ist remark. I think he meant as in, he would have been a nobody, not good enough for any job but manual labor until they MADE him. He‘s an empty suit who thinks he’s smarter than he is.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:40pmWillie wouldn’t have tipped him.
Report Post »Maybe told him not to plant corn in the Winter.
mercenary4freedom
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:28amALEXROD is such a slimey liar/manipulator he reminds me of VOTEBUSH12
Report Post »cal_105
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:02pmNow it is Clinton carrying Obama’s bags.
Report Post »Brasil2520
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:00pmSlick Willie has more face’s than a coin, he will pander to any group that helps him or his wife win a election, it was great when Barry took the office from Hitlery, up to that point Willie was so pro black, then it came back to bite him LOL !, just like in South Africa many white‘s voted for a black gov’t, now the same whites complain about crime. hope and change, what a joke.
Report Post »yiska8
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 8:55pmNow that’s the Slick Willie I know and remember. The true racist inside. Not to mention an alleged rapist. I remember reading about how he used to treat one of his old black drivers back in Arkansas. The word **gger was pretty common and flowed out of his mouth freely back in the day. And now more than ever we hear this stuff from Willie and the party of the KKK. A few years ago??? Back in the good ole days of the KKK and segregation?? Is that what you meant, Bill? So tolerant, these liberals. Plenty of reminders of why I never liked or trusted the SOB. But, then I don’t like or trust the current SOB in office.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:04pmOh yeah, I remember some things that happened back in ‘94 that some of his operatives took the hit for. Bubba is starting to show his TRUE COLORS again.
Report Post »BODYBAG
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:12pmHey, thanks for that romp through history that should be quite embarrassing
for all liberals. Its a history that has been conveniently erased.
Inconvenient truths. Those stubborn slave-holders – democrats, Those folks
galloping through the night wearing sheets and burning crosses – democrats,
Keeping black folks from voting, eating in a diner, riding a bus, going to college
- democrats.
Thats why they suffer white guilt to this day and want to give away everything
for free. Why african americans flock to them overwhelmingly just boggles the
mind.
Dont you know that conservative republicans are the ones that truly support
Report Post »freedom for ALL PEOPLE.
chips1
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:19pmYISKA8:
Report Post »Your post sure got me interested in peoples stories about all of the politicians out there. These are just some of the stories in “The Naked City”.
yiska8
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:30pm@RJJ
Report Post »I hated that movie!!! That’s when the Hollywood left really kicked into high gear and I saw the media for the first time help elect a President of the United States and re-elect him. It was just the beginning.
yiska8
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:42pm@Chips1
Report Post »This was before the internet took over. So, I remember most of these stories from newspapers, but I’m sure I read excerpts from book reviews in our local paper, but this was back before the 1992 election. And then they surfaced again before the 1996 election. All the women that came forward with pretty much the same story about sexual harrassment and rape was too much. I was a kid, but I do remember all my friends voting for him and me telling them not to, because of what I had read about. I tried. They were young and stupid. Just what the Democratic party preys on to this day.
Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 8:51pmObama is carrying Clinton’s baggage. He is carrying it on stage at the DNC as Clinton the Rapist Declares a Republican war on Women. Maybe they can start a fund raiser and get Sandra Fluke some Birth control and whoever has to sleep with her a bag to toss over her head.If Bill does not molest her first that is.
Report Post »RFlagg
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 8:50pmI’m very disappointed Blaze. You should be pointing out about how his was reported years ago. The only thing “newsworthy” about this at all is the fact that some folks apparantly are just learning about it.
“The statement, passed on to the New Yorker by sources of Tim Russert…” wow. Seriously? Does nobody at the Blaze listen to Rush, for example?
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:06pmummm… seems to me that Everyone conveniently wants to discuss who Ryan dated in College; That dog thing about Romney..Personally I think that’s a great idea. very Safe carry on for dog, well strapped and they get the wind as desired…My dogs love wind in their faces and this is so much safer…They don’t want to talk about EATING DOGS; COMMUNIST CELLS; Under-the-table deals with RUSSIA (wait I’ll be more flexible) and Clinton’s own remarks: ROMNEY “STERLING BUSINESS RECORD” (Sterling is a great word) or that OBAMA is telling everyone a “FAIRY TALE”
Report Post »I don‘t see how he’s going to do it with a straight face. It will be interesting!!!
Rayblue
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:07pmThey must have dredged this up for laughs.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:31pmOn one hand it is old news.
On the other hand it is good to remind people & to bring other up to speed.
It is election time after all. Bill is shilling for Obama, so let us make him less effective.
Report Post »christos
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 8:49pmThat’s fine he can still do that,no argument here,that job would be below him though considering he has never worked an honest day in his life,this time he can carry his bags right out of 1600 Penn.
Report Post »pissantno.10
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 8:45pmya a raceist white guy and a raceist black guy they are going to get along. i think a duel in the morning would be fitting some time around noon.
Report Post »SANCTIONEDUSAPATRIOT
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 8:45pmA Demorat with a racist remark? To another of his breed?! This just can’t be true… cough-cough
Report Post »Watermain
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:21pmNo racism…remember that Clinton was the first black president.
Report Post »randy
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 8:43pmOld news!
Report Post »mharry860
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 8:42pmHe still should be, what else is he good for?
Report Post »pwatkins
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 8:42pmWho knows Clinton could be under a threat..have heard a such story, but questioned it with skeptism. Maybe Obama and the progressive democrats know something on the Clinton‘s he doesn’t want to be known…who knows what is going on in the democratic party. All I know is I would not believe much of anything Bill Clinton says and don’t care for much of what his wife is doing, so I think his speeches are useless for Obama.
Report Post »Stelex
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:20pmBush would never had said such a thing, Dems are the true racists and users. Divide, Pander and Enslave…….Dems are pure evil.
Report Post »FreedomWitness
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 9:36pmI think the original quote was that Obama would be ‘serving us coffee.’
Report Post »nonliberal
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 10:59pmI think it was a racist remark because he is black. Where is Chris Mathews?
Report Post »Wayne
Posted on September 2, 2012 at 11:17pmAmen, thats what he should be doing today. but I don’t thank he could that eather.
Report Post »ISRAELISOURFRIEND
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:22amALL AGREE SAY I!
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Report Post »1froglegs
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:59amYou are clearly a liberal troll. The fact that you have to post this crap shows how pathetic and desperate you liberals have become. From a group of congressmen lying and claiming the N word was yelled at them, to trolls like you posting this garbage on right-leaning sites, it is evidence of the attempts by the left to change the subject because you cannot defend your ideology.
Report Post »EaglesnBirdies
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:26amPeople on this site are afraid to give credit it’s due. Thanks for that post.
Report Post »TEXASGRANNY73
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 3:03am@Nobull14 Repugnant comment.
Report Post »muddpuddle
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 7:16am“A few years ago he would have been shinning shoes”
Report Post »mersey
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 7:38amThe progressive Democrats are putting high hopes on Clinton’s speech this coming Wednesday evening. I’ll be interested in seeing how many people actually view the speech, especially since it’s going up against the NFL kickoff game (Dallas vs. N.Y. Giants). I know what I’ll be watching, and cigars are not involved!
Report Post »setusfree2012
Posted on September 3, 2012 at 1:15amFreedomwitness- Exactly! What did they do, change the story so it wouldn’t sound so racist, or what? I wouldn’t put it past Clinton to say something like that, but now you have to wonder since they can’t get the story straight.
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