Bill Clinton: President Obama not getting his due ('Brilliant, articulate & Exceedingly Empathetic')

[kpete]

Source: Politico

Bill Clinton: President Obama not getting his due

Speaking in Cape Town, South Africa as part of the Fortune/Time/CNN Global Forum, Clinton said said that public perception of the president has lagged behind what he has done to benefit the country.
"He's done a better job than he's given credit for," Clinton said. "I feel very strongly about this." The former president, who, like Obama, saw his polling numbers dip dramatically during his second year in office, said that Obama is not fully "responsible" for how he is perceived, adding that a dip in approval is "not avoidable" in an economic downturn.

"Until people feel good about their own lives, they're not going to feel good about their president," Clinton said. "And there's nothing you can do about that."

"He is a brilliant, articulate and, I think, an exceedingly empathetic person," the former president said of Obama.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/39093.html#ixzz0sASPYRH1

[closeupready]

1. Figures he'd say that.

:eyes:

[xultar]

3. So you are saying that Bubba is lying?

[closeupready]

12. One DLC member scratching another's back, which is fine, I have no problem

with that. I just don't like many of the things Bill did, nor do I think Obama has it right on a lot of things. But my comment pertains to how they both follow similar conservative policies.

[amandabeech]

31. Well, Obama's economic team does look a lot like Clinton's.

Obama even has a modern day Brooksley Born in the person of Elizabeth Warren.

Clinton didn't listen to Ms. Born. We're waiting to see if Obama listens to Prof. Warren.

[Beacool]

14. Come on, give the guy a break.

It was a classy thing to say considering all that went down in the primaries. He didn't have to praise Obama, but he did.

;-)

[closeupready]

16. That's true, to be fair. I will give you that.

And I like Hillary. :)

[Beacool]

18. Thank you............

:pals:

[Demeter]

2. A Fact For Which Anybody Should Be Grateful

we are usually due a lot less than we think.

[avaistheone1]

28. We're getting a lot less than we think

[shanti]

4. i.e. the polar opposite of *ush!

at least personality-wise.

[xultar]

6. That is EXACTLY what bubba was saying. I'm sure knee jerkers

will say bubba was being a racist.

[western mass]

5. I'll give him his due

He's a greater TALKER. One of the best.

[AngryAmish]

7. "articulate"

Really?

[xultar]

8. Seriously? Are you going there? It's about to be racist when a white person brings up

the fact that another white person is being racist by saying a black person is articulate.

[AngryAmish]

11. I sincerely do not understand you.

[xultar]

17. Basically I'm saying black people are smart enough to know what is racist

and what isn't.

Bill using the word articulate in this instance is not racist.

I'm saying DON'T GO THERE because it is just as racist to assume that using the term articulate is racist.

If you don't understand that. I CANNOT HELP YOU.

[AngryAmish]

20. I don't buy that

[xultar]

22. Seriously? So basically when my dad says i'm articulate i shoud kick him in the nuts.

Cus he's racist.

Seriously white liberals crack me the fuck up. Your arrogance is astounding.

[Stuckinthebush]

23. What?

That doesn't make sense.

Are you saying that a white person can't say another white person is using racist-tinged words without being a racists him or herself?

[xultar]

30. Yes, in some cases it is racist. That is exactly what I was saying. You heard me right.

[Stuckinthebush]

32. Ok, thanks for the clarification

I'd agree that in some cases that is the case.

I don't think so in this one.

[pattmarty]

9. Their policies are similar and their both excellent politicians.........

...........I wasn't happy with Clinton's policies and (so far) I'm not pleased with Obama's. Bill is just out there politicking for the Dems in his own style, nothing wrong with it.

[xultar]

10. ************It isn't always racist when a white person says a black person is articulate************

By bringing it up you might be headed down a racist path of your own.

So give that shit a rest.

When my dad tells his friends that I'm articulate is he being fucking racist?

I'm about to ask all ya'll to let black people decided for ourselves what is racist. I don't' think we need white people telling us what is racist and what isn't. We're smart enough on our fucking own to determine that. No help needed there folks.

[kuroman992]

15. bravo

great comment.
l agree with u 100%.
i get so sick of seeing some use the struggles and racism that others endure to push thier own viewpoints.

[SILVER__FOX52]

13. So what does that mean?

We're supposed to love this milktoast shit because " it's really hard to be President ". It just makes you want to poop, doesn't it. Whatever. Just do your job. Let history judge you because you don't want to ask my progressive ass, right now.

[daa]

19. Obama's Latino Backlash

If Obama is so damn articulate, then why does group after group on the left continue to say he lied, misled, or broke promises?

"Hispanic voters are peeved about the president’s inaction on immigration reform. Just ask Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, who tells Bryan Curtis, “Obama broke a promise. It’s that simple.”

"“When he had a hold on Congress, when he had 60 votes in the Senate, he could have done it,” Ramos says. “And he didn’t. He chose other issues. And that’s why Latinos are so frustrated.”"

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-06-28/univisions-jorge-ramos-obamas-immigration-promise/

[FarLeftFist]

21. Cinderella, why can't you fix the entire worlds problems in 1 1/2 yrs?!

[EFerrari]

24. Advocating for your issue is not unreasonable.

Unreasonable is expecting anything to be done while you don't advocate for it.

[groundloop]

25. "When he had 60 votes in the Senate....." We never really had 60 votes

That's the problem, the public perceives that we had 60 but doesn't grasp the outrageous difficulty in keeping people like Lie-berman, Nelson, Landrieu, etc. in line with the rest of the party. That and the asinine fact that it takes 60 votes to accomplish anything in the first place.

Thinking like this is exactly why the Greedy Obstroctionist Party is so busy obstructing.

[Odin2005]

26. Says the Corporatist protege of a historian that was a stauntch defender of the Corporatists.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x444782

[GlennWRECK]

27. Empathetic?

Not sure about that one.
Id say yes to the first two but meh... politicians are liars and do what it takes to get the votes.

[Kelvin Mace]

29. So empathetic

that he turned his back on torture victims and gays.

[pitohui]

33. i agree i've been most impressed

considering the job he was handed obama is a rockstar from what i can see, he wasn't my first choice in the primary but i honestly don't think anyone else would have done better and most options might have done worse