Dr. James P. Wickstrom
Book: Bill Clinton called Obama 'incompetent'
Mon Jun 3, 2013
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton called President Obama "incompetent" and "an amateur," a new book out this week alleges.
Edward
Klein's new book, "The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House"
(Regnery Publishing) also states campaign sources said Clinton extracted
a promise from Obama to support his wife, former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton, for president in 2016 in return for the former
president's backing in 2012, the New York Post reported Sunday.
In
a piece for the Post adapted from his book, Klein said in 2011, Bill
Clinton wanted Hillary to challenge Obama in 2012, a gambit she
declined. Klein said two people who attended the meeting with the former
president in Chappaqua, N.Y., recounted how Bill Clinton then went on a
tirade against the sitting president.
"I've
heard more from Bush, asking for my advice, than I've heard from
Obama," Klein said his sources quoted Clinton as saying. "I have no
relationship with the president -- none whatsoever. Obama doesn't know
how to be president. He doesn't know how the world works. He's
incompetent. He's an amateur!"
Klein
said Obama resisted giving Bill Clinton a role in his re-election bid
but went along with the advice of adviser David Axelrod when his race
against Republican candidate Mitt Romney tightened.
Bill
Clinton agreed to give a sterling endorsement of Obama with Obama
agreeing to do the same for Hillary Clinton, said Klein, a former
Newsweek foreign editor and ex-editor in chief of The New Times Magazine
who has written books about Obama, Hillary Clinton and the Kennedys.
UPI
