All Due Respect: Jim Cooper Kicks The Clintons While They’re Down

By Kleinheider Posted on June 11, 2008 at 8:07 am

Congressman Cooper shares his thoughts on a potential Hillary Clinton vice-presidential nod with John Rodgers:

Cooper asked rhetorically if a President Obama wanted former President “Bill Clinton around the White House?”

Cooper pointed to a recent Vanity Fair article, in which Clinton’s post-White House business dealings and social life — including allegations of seeing “a lot of women” while traveling — were discussed in-length among other unflattering details concerning his recent years since leaving 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

“It’s amazing,” Cooper said of the article, which the Clinton camp denounced. “I think that it’s much better for Bill Clinton to remain a private citizen and doing his good charitable work and not having to worry about government disclosure because you know he’s refused to say who contributed to his presidential library and all of those things. There are a lot of issues there.”

“I think Bill Clinton is a great president, but ya know, you’re limited to two terms.”

On the other hand, Cooper said Obama (D-Ill.) is a “new era” and doesn’t need the “baggage of the past” coming back through a “distracting” Bill Clinton.

Cooper says he’s not picking up the phone to express his views to the Obama campaign, saying it was “above his pay grade.”

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