Clinton Openly Praises McCain-Palin By Betsy Newmark

Oh, that Bill

Source: http://betsyspage.blogspot.com/2008/09/oh-that-bill.html

Friday, September 26, 2008

Democrats must be pulling out their hair as Bill Clinton makes his apologia tour for the McCain-Palin ticket. He's talked about why Americans like Sarah Palin. He went on The View and talked about why Americans admire John McCain so much. He was quite kind to McCain when Clinton was on Larry King.

And, it's also readily apparent from both his statements during the primary as well as his interview last night with King that Clinton genuinely likes and admires McCain. In describing their relationship, Clinton said of McCain: "I like him and I admire him." He went on to note that the Arizona senator had helped him normalize relations with Vietnam and fight the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Kosovo.

He's defended McCain on postponing the debates to work on the financial crisis and reminded us that McCain was the one who wanted more debates.

"We know he didn't do it because he's afraid because Sen. McCain wanted more debates," Clinton said, adding that he was "encouraged" by the joint statement from McCain and Sen. Barack Obama.

"You can put it off a few days the problem is it's hard to reschedule those things," Clinton said, "I presume he did that in good faith since I know he wanted -- I remember he asked for more debates to go all around the country and so I don't think we ought to overly parse that."

And now to top it off, he's suddenly decided that he has so much respect for the Jewish High Holy Days that he can't start campaigning for Obama until after Yom Kippur. Yeah, I'm sure that, in the past, he always held off campaigning for himself and his wife until Yom Kippur had passed.

And are Democrats at all surprised that, with Bill Clinton, it's always going to be about him and not them?

If he keeps this up, the McCain campaign is going to start scheduling events for him.