Bill Clinton: Obama's Not Very Smart

Okay, so that's not exactly what he said but it's pretty much the gist of his "praise" of Obama's handling of the economic crisis.

"You know what he did?" Clinton said, heralding Obama's reaction to the financial crisis. "First he took a little heat for not saying much. I knew what he was doing. He talked to his advisers – he talked to my economic advisers, he called Hillary. He called me. He called Warren Buffet. He called all those people, you know why? Because he knew it was complicated and before he said anything he wanted to understand."

So it was too complicated for Obama to understand right away, he had to talk to smart people like Bill and...Hillary to make sense of it. The backhanded compliment is fine and delicate art. Bill Clinton is a master of it.

Have I mentioned the strange new respect I've developed for the Clinton's in the last year?

posted by DrewM. at 10:28 AM

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