June 18, 2009 6:21 PM

Bill Clinton Offers Support To Obama

(AP)  Former President Clinton said through a spokesman Tuesday that he is committed to helping Barack Obama become president, his first comments in support of his wife's former rival since their primary ended three weeks ago.

Relations between the last Democratic president and the candidate who wants to be the next one are still frosty - they still haven't spoken in the aftermath of the heated campaign. But Bill Clinton extended an offer to help in a one-sentence statement from spokesman Matt McKenna.

"President Clinton is obviously committed to doing whatever he can and is asked to do to ensure Senator Obama is the next president of the United States," McKenna said.

It's not clear what Obama might ask him to do. The campaign wasn't specific when asked.

"A unified Democratic Party is going to be a powerful force for change this year and we're confident President Clinton will play a big role in that," said Obama spokesman Bill Burton.

Bill Clinton will not be attending the unity rally Friday between the two former rivals Friday in New Hampshire. McKenna said the former president is in Europe this week to celebrate Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday, give speeches and work for the William J. Clinton Foundation.

Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke Sunday and talked about Obama connecting with the former president sometime in the future, Burton said.

Bill Clinton was an outspoken critic of Obama during the primary race. He said Obama's candidacy was a "fairy tale" and raised questions about whether the first-term Illinois senator had the experience to lead the country. During one debate Obama snapped at Hillary Clinton, "I can't tell who I'm running against sometimes."

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by rowdywicca June 25, 2008 2:50 PM EDT
Oh, Shaddup. NOTHING is enough for a racist hater and sore loser like yourself --fruitloop. LOL


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Posted by toldyouso12 at 10:29 AM : Jun 25, 2008

Ahhh B-easy and her bright and charming delusional self. Talk about a racist hate baitor...now this one takes the cake!
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by rowdywicca June 25, 2008 2:48 PM EDT
Bill and Hillary Clinton ARE the democratic party, and are the only success the DNC has had in 30 YEARS! Of course, they''ll be supporting the part and the party platform!

But Obama?? LMAO! I''m sure they''ll be hard pressed to keep from gagging...so I don''t imagine they''ll be saying it much.

Too bad the DNC had the opportunity to nominate the BEST...and then let the WORST buy his way into the nomination.
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by toldyouso12 June 25, 2008 1:29 PM EDT
Meaningless statements that he does not endorse some of the things some of them have said or done are simply not enough!


Posted by obama8years at 08:12 AM : Jun 25, 2008


Oh, Shaddup. NOTHING is enough for a racist hater and sore loser like yourself --fruitloop. LOL
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by toldyouso12 June 25, 2008 1:28 PM EDT
oldyouso...Bill Clinton has a big fat cigar for you.Bend over...

Posted by mr2258 at 09:48 AM : Jun 25, 2008


I want three. One for each ***. LMAO oops--my cigar just popped out. LOL
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by mr2258 June 25, 2008 12:48 PM EDT
toldyouso...Bill Clinton has a big fat cigar for you.Bend over...
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by toldyouso12 June 25, 2008 11:57 AM EDT
WRITE IN HILLARY''''S NAME on the November ballot

and get 2 for 1 !!!!

Posted by TruUSA at 05:54 AM : Jun 25, 2008


2 pieces of ****** for one price--is still just a huge pile of ******--no thanks. And no to paying off her debts either. Show your love--send your two dollars to HRC today. If all you 18 million HRC supporters did that --she and Bill could stop abasing themselves by begging Obama supporters to bail her out. LMAO

Or do this--write her name in--but send your 2.00 to her today too--that way she can start paying back the people she''s been deadbeating since January.
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by toldyouso12 June 25, 2008 11:54 AM EDT
FVCK Bill Clinton and his fake support. He thinks if he pretends to help Obama that Obama supporters will pay off his wife''s huge and unnecessary debt--that is what this is all about. But Obama should not promise what has not been given to him yet. WRONG MOVE OBAMA.you should have checked with your donors first--most of us will now--NOT DONATE--because we don''t believe in paying for the stick that beat us and tried to cripple us--he gets no money that could funnel to HRC and as long as he ties or implies his money is HR''s money to get--he will find his donations are waaaaay down. We don''t want to bail her out--we don''t want to appease her supporters--if they throw the election--they were going to do it anyway. Fvck them all--I would not aim a mouthful of spit Hillary''s way if she was on fire--because I would not want to accidently put the fire out.

There is very little love in Obama''s camp for HRC and very little money for her or her ungrateful, sore loser supporters. Their mess--they should clean it up themselves--and next time--get out when you run out of money--because no one wants to pay for an idiot who does not know when to quit. Her party--she danced to it--her bills--why should we pay for her pigheadedness? Obama should not promise what is not in his hands to deliver--if he does--then he will lose out too. Only those who can stomach both will help her out--good luck with that.
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by frootloop47 June 25, 2008 11:20 AM EDT
Obama8years,

Weather Underground member William Ayers,
Jodie Evans, a radical, anti-American activist,
Frank Marshall Davis, the anti-Christian radical,
Rev. Jeremiah Wright who said in reference to 9/11 that America''''s "chickens have come home to roost,

Are NOT Barack Obama and they don''t represent what BARACK OBAMA stand for or will work for.

Oh by the way...the "chicken''s have come home to roost" quote, is actually a quote by a (white) US diplomat, talking about what a pitiful US Foreign policy the Bush Administration has.

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by obama8years June 25, 2008 11:12 AM EDT
Consider some of Barack Hussein Obama''s other known associates:

Weather Underground member William Ayers, who advocated a dozen bombings, including the bombing of the U.S. Capitol building in 1971 and the Pentagon in 1972...

Jodie Evans, a radical, anti-American activist who once said that Osama Bin Laden had a "valid" argument for 9/11, facilitated over $600,000 in aid to Islamic radicals in Iraq and who according Ralph Nader''s Public Citizen "raised over $50,000" for the Obama campaign...

An Obama campaign "official blogger" whose work appeared in a socialist magazine and who reportedly had a communist flag in his residence...

Frank Marshall Davis, the anti-Christian radical and known member of the Communist Party USA who Obama looked upon as a "father"...

Rev. Jeremiah Wright who said in reference to 9/11 that America''s "chickens have come home to roost"...

Barack Hussein Obama has not actually repudiated Ayers or Evans or Davis, or Wright.

Meaningless statements that he does not endorse some of the things some of them have said or done are simply not enough!

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by jedi080808 June 25, 2008 5:28 AM EDT
Bill is secrecty giving money to McCain for sure. Obama ruined the Clinton legacy and thats why I love Obama.

The Clintons are awful people and I loved watching them crash and Burn.
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