Clinton Still Doesn’t Think Obama Is Ready For The Jelly

By Kleinheider Posted on August 5, 2008 at 7:10 am

The former president still refuses to concede that Barack Obama is ready for the Oval Office:

Bubba’s backers concede his unwillingness to say his party’s nominee is ready to sit in the Oval Office was a faux pas.

“The political answer is to just say, ‘Yes,’ period,” said Democratic strategist Chris Lehane. “But as a former President, he has a special perspective on what it takes.”

Clinton couldn’t just say the political thing, Lehane added, because he’s still smarting from Hillary Clinton’s bitter defeat.

“This is someone whose spouse was on the ticket, a person he felt tremendously strong about, who he felt had the ability to become President,” Lehane said.

Clinton and his wife argued in nearly every speech that she was ready tobe President on day one.

Bubba did praise some of the very same traits he ripped in the primaries - including Obama’s ability to lead through inspiring words, which he trashed as empty rhetoric on the campaign trail.

“He clearly can inspire and motivate people and energize them, which is a very important part of being President,” Clinton said. “And he’s smart as a whip so there’s nothing he can’t learn.”

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