“My strong feeling is that moving forward, I'm going to need Bill Clinton involved in this [presidential election] process. He still is a transcendent political figure in this country. And I want him involved. And I’ll be looking for his counsel and his advice.”
-- Obama on keeping his enemies closer.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama says he will put aside raw feelings from a fractious primary campaign and marshal all of theDemocratic Party’s resources, including making significant use of the Clintons.
The Senator from Illinois says he has no hard feelings over the campaigning
style of the former president, who made the case for his wife on the stump in terms that some Obama supporters considered insulting and demeaning. “Look, there is nobody who is more talented or more gifted than Bill Clinton when it comes to understanding the broad crosscurrents of America,” Obama says.
Obama respects the former president for fighting so hard to preserve his own legacy, adding, “Understandably, he thinks that his wife would have been the best person to continue that legacy.
"[I]t is wrong that Senator Obama got to go through 15 debates trumpeting his superior judgment and how he had been against the war in every year, numerating the years, and never got asked one time, not once, ‘Well, how could you say, that when you said in 2004 you didn’t know how you would have voted on the resolution? You said in 2004 there was no difference between you and George Bush on the war and you took that speech you’re now running on off your website in 2004 and there’s no difference in your voting record and Hillary’s ever since?’ Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen."
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