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Bill Clinton: Obama Faces Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
Ben Frumin | September 27, 2009, 11:09AM
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On Meet the Press this morning, David Gregory asked former President Bill Clinton if he thinks there's a vast right-wing conspiracy against President Obama -- much like the one Hillary Clinton famously claimed her husband faced in the 1990s.
"Oh, you bet," the former President said. "Sure it is."
While it may not be as strong or widespread as the one he faced, Clinton said the right-wing conspiracy against President Obama is "as virulent" as the one Clinton faced himself. The former President didn't seem too worried about it though.
"He and his team have a positive agenda for America," Clinton said of Obama, before turning to his opponents. "Their agenda seems to be wanting him to fail."
"Whatever happens, it'll be manageable for the President," Clinton said.
Obama does face a number of challenges on health care reform, Clinton said, saying the President is at "a terrible disadvantage in the lawmaking phase" because he's asked Congress to develop a health reform bill. That means, Clinton said, that the President "is vulnerable to whatever anybody wants to say about any of the bills," even if Obama isn't 100 percent behind them.
Still, Clinton said, "I think we're gonna get a health care bill."
Late Update: Here's the video.
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theWalrus
September 27, 2009 12:09 PM
Did anyone think the election of a black president was going to pacify the neo-fascist, hyper-moralistic, pseudo-conservative rightwing? Of course not. Their origins and ties to the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920's is well known. They've been at this a very long time.
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trblmkr
September 27, 2009 12:09 PM
Watch out David, your vapidity is showing (again)!
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dickday
September 27, 2009 1:05 PM
Monkey-faced Gregory deems himself sooooooooo important.
It reminds me of my favorite prophet who once noted:
HE WHO DANCES WITH ROVE SHALL BE SHUNNED BY THE MASSES.
THUS SPAKE GERRY THUSTRA!!!
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saguaro
September 27, 2009 2:40 PM
How long is it going take for one to realize that only republicans are left are klansmen?
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Winston Smith
September 27, 2009 7:08 PM
Gee, thanks, MSM. I didn't notice this right-wing conspiracy bashing me over the head for the past thirty years until you pointed it out this morning. Good work.
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jward
September 27, 2009 8:14 PM
I wish there would be a lot more investigative journalism on how multimillion dollar corporations and their lobbies mold public opinion and pressure laws to be passed or defeated. For example, right now "Freedom Works" is active on numerous fronts (just got a referendum on the Oregon ballot for January to defeat upping corporate taxes from $10 a YEAR) and the main corporate funder of Freedom Works is the Koch petroleum conglomerate, the biggest privately-owned corp. in the country. They are also one of the main groups working to defeat health care, because that would weaken Obama and therefore undermine upcoming energy legislation.
Why does talking about this stuff always make one seem like a paranoid, when in fact the actions of these right-wing corporations, think tanks, journalism schools, "The Family" on C Street, etc. etc, actually exist and affect our lives?
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JNagarya
September 28, 2009 2:16 AM in reply to jward
Too much detail to communicate to the couch potatoes who want infotainment and 'nother bucket of popcorn.
Let's see that KREEP commercial again!
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RectoNoVerso
September 28, 2009 4:32 AM
I am not sure of the conspiracy in the sense that there isn't a coordination between opponents. I have no doubt however that fringe wackos have found in Obama the man they love to hate.
Very reminiscent of the forces unleashed in the 1950s and 1960s.
See phot at
http://rectonoverso.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/quand-ca-change/
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spense
September 28, 2009 11:14 AM
If the GOP is the party of NO, does this make them the nattering nabobs of negativism?
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RobbyLove
September 28, 2009 1:31 PM
Let's end the hypocrisy, shall we? Conservatives hated Clinton, progressives hated Bush, conservatives hate Obama. Progressives will hate the next GOP President, whenever that happens.
All of this mock outrage about our political discourse has changed nothing and will change nothing, except make the people on each side of the argument even more and more entrenched in their anger.
Hypocrisy breeds hypocrisy. Until we can come to terms with our own prejudices and hatreds, the venom will continue to flip-flop as political control changes hands.
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