Marc Ambinder has a report entitled “Why Bill Clinton’s Miffed At Obama.” Given the man bites dog nature of that headline, my curiosity was piqued.
It turns out that Clinton thinks “Obama ran against Clinton’s presidential record at times, implying that it was timeworn, divisive, and damaging to the party” and “went out of its way to portray the former president as a racist.” Of course, given that Hillary Clinton was basically running on a return to the Clinton glory platform and that, when that didn’t work, Bill Clinton was running a borderline racist smear campaign against Obama, it’s hard to get too upset at these things. Perhaps that’s why he’s merely “miffed” rather than, say, “outraged.”
