Now we know: Bill Clinton cost his wife the presidency

[karynnj]

48. Just as I suspect that Comey saying this is playing a verbal game of "hot potato",

so was this. In fact, this is typical Bill Clinton. Here, he is "said" to have warned people to do more in the Midwest, but do not forget that he validated comments against Obamacare in Michigan - listen to the clip here and you will hear Clinton giving a speech that works better for a change candidate, not HRC running, for the most part on Obama's legacy - http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/04/politics/bill-clinton-obamacare-craziest-thing/

Note that Clinton was a loose cannon in 2008 - possibly being a factor in Kennedy joining Kerry in supporting Obama - with close to racist comments after the SC loss. He also famously defended HRC's Bosnia comments - after that furor died down, explaining HRC was old and tired from campaigning - http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-resurrects-hillarys-bosnia-blunder/

In 2004, as he recovered from heart surgery, several close Clinton allies all spoke of his frustration with Kerry in September -- that he should not speak of terrorism, where Kerry was among the first to publicly speak of the danger back in the 1990s, or Iraq, but should speak on the domestic issues. In fact, Kerry's numbers, which were terrible after the media condoned all the attacks and purple heart bandaids at the Republican convention, ROSE as he gave a speech on Iraq at NYU, a speech on non state terrorism at the University of Pennsylvania, and was amazing in the first (foreign policy) debate. Not to mention, the timing of his book tour - summer 2004 -- when the most sought after answer was "because I could" resurrected a topic that was not helpful and he attacked the "left" that questioned the Iraq war itself or how it was being fought. Yes, I KNOW he campaigned after surgery in Philadelphia ... but IMO, he did more harm than help as the source of all the negative comments that were in every newspaper I read.

In 2000, Gore had a dilemma. He was part of Clinton/Gore and the administration did many successful things, but the immediate two years were colored by the impeachment hearings. I doubt I was the only mother of middle school girls who was not happy with the conversations in the car pools I drove! That a man who was known to the media as a mean drunk until he was 40 was able to run on bringing honor and dignity back to the White House could not have happened without this.

This really means that Clinton's vaunted political genius rests with winning the Presidency against a President at 39% and re-election against a pathetic opponent (Dole, a Senate hatchet man).