Bill: "This Campaign Is Playing Out Exactly As I Thought It Would"

[Herman Munster]

http://www.examiner.com/blogs/Yeas_and_Nays/2008/1/7/Bill-Clinton-This-campaign-is-playing-out-exactly-as-I-thought-it-would

HANOVER, NH -- Although the presidential ambitions of Sen. Hillary Clinton have been bruised in recent days, former President Bill Clinton isn't surprised.

"This campaign is playing out exactly as I thought it would," Clinton told a crowd of students gathered at Dartmouth College Monday night. "All the pundits, as usual, are wrong. I always 'You'll have a hard time winning the primaries, but if you get nominated, you'll win the general election by a wide margin'."

Toward the end of the event, Clinton grew heated when discussing the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama. He suggested that the basis of Obama's campaign rested solely on the fact that he's a good speaker, a charistmatic campaigner and Obama's claim that he's consistently been against the Iraq war.

"This is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen," said Clinton. He rejected Obama's argument that the Illinois senator has always been against the war in Iraq (and to a greater degree than Sen. Clinton) and accused Obama of running a negative campaign.

"Did you like it when he called Hillary the senator from Punjab? Did you like that?" he asked a student. "The idea that one of these campaigns is postiive and the other is negative -- when the reverse is true -- ... is a little tough to take."

[Deja Q]

1. Good points, but as much as nation building is cool, America needs building too.

[MannyGoldstein]

2. How's His World "America Doesn't Suck" Tour With Poppy Bush Coming Along?

I'm looking forward to it.

[Colobo]

3. I think Bill needs to chill and admit

he belongs to the 90s.

[IndianaGreen]

4. Speaking of fairy tales... "I did not have sex with that woman!"

I am so sick of the Clintons and the Bushes I could scream!

[THUNDER HANDS]

5. if that's true

and he expected his wife to lose Iowa and be losing New Hampshire, and lose it to a guy who's expoding right now, then he should have told her to change her strategy.

As for the whole senator from Punjab thing, that was discussed in a Newseek article and Obama was furious when that statement was issued by a staffer.

[Joe the Revelator]

6. This is hilarious. Who thought that Bill would be the one the meltdown?

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