Daschle says President Clinton acting ‘unpresidential’

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Daschle says President Clinton acting ‘unpresidential’
By Sam Youngman
Posted: 01/22/08 10:33 AM


Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), speaking on behalf of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), said on a conference call Tuesday morning that former President Bill Clinton’s criticisms of Obama in recent days and weeks are “not presidential.”

“It’s not in keeping with the role of a former president,” Daschle said.

The former majority leader said the Clintons are engaging in the same kind of tactics Republicans did when they went after him in 2004, defeating him in his reelection bid even as he was the sitting Senate leader of his party.

“This is the same kind of tactic that Washington uses quite frequently,” Daschle said, adding, “I think it destroys the party. Ultimately, it divides us.”

The purpose of the call was to announce the creation of the South Carolina Truth Squad, which Daschle said will “respond forcefully to each and every one of these distortions.”

do the attacking and campaign dirty work, while the presidential candidate tries to remain "above it all".

for VP.

Oh the irony - Obama needs a lobbyist to speak for him.

:shrug:

Those were the days....

I remember those days well...

on this board for being weak and accomodating (full disclosure, I worked for the 2004 reelection campaign in SD) tom daschle is a good man. And amazingly, it is many of the same people who support Obama in this race, apparently not understanding that Obama is Tom's heir in the senate, he has many of the same star, and much in common politically and policy-wise.

but he was a poor Senate minority leader.

attention of others. Yes, I realize Bill is an ex president but then again he is a private citizen and he does not lose his right to speak out for HRC. He does have a right to speak out against obama and obama's positions and especially on this reagan issue which was and obama tried to be too cute by half on this as it was intended as a slap at the clinton administration, but it backfired on obama. obama does himself no good when he goes after the only democratic president that beat those facist bastards twice and left office with a high 60 approval and the last taken he was liked by 83% democrats. Yes, it will be lower the next time because of the lies and alibies obama and his team put out there, but once folks step back and see and read the truth and know neither clinton played the race card nor disrespected dr.king.....

an old expression down south reminds me of obama, talking out his ass cause his mouth knows better...

The Boys caucus for Obama...Ari and Turtle count the "viables"

true no matter how he didn't have a backbone as minorty leader under the bushit regime..he wasn't the only one who showed no backbone in that Senate.

...perhaps he could've stemmed some of the damage they did...

gone after both bushes as forcefully as they're going after Obama, who is standing in their way, then this country would be way better off.

I just question Daschle's bona fides to discern what constitutes a trenchant or effective political strategies...

the hilarys didn't do it so why does Daschle have to be under fire cause he's sorting out the clinton lies NOW?

All the dems except the brave ones like Ted Kennedy, who is also telling bill clinton to cool it, acted like weenies..including hilary and bill.

His own moment of effectiveness passed when he kept rolling over for the Bushies...

That's hypocritical.

...about Bill, who certainly lacked effectiveness in standing up to the GOP.

It's just that when Daschle, in particular, uses phrases spouting about what's "good for the party," it's hard to take him seriously. That's all.

I believe in John Edwards now..that he changed..we all have different perspectives and mine is..we're capable of having epiphanies and I'll give Tom Daschle a chance, like I'm giving John Edwards, until I see he doesn't deserve it.

in the way to run a country..and the fucker just keeps on lyin'.

This is the course Clinton is taking. Sure, his wife might get the nom, but it will leave Dems very bitter and divided, having our most popular president acting like an attack dog in a party primary.

Tom Daschle- the ultimate authority on how to strengthen the Democratic Party. Give me a break.

republican onslaught when he was minority leader would be considered "unstatesmanlike"

Daschle is clutching his pearls, how precious. I'm now going to thank the republicans for forcing this idiotic tool out of office. I don't care for Bill Clinton's behavior recently, but it hardly destroys the party. And division is a perfectly natural part of politics. Daschle is yet another goddamned fool who wants everyone to play nice together, former head of the capitulation wing of the Democratic party. Fuck Daschle.

Here's another...coming your way,really soon. SMEAR his family, and their dedication to american politics at your peril, Sir.

Cha-ching! Yet another Dem Senator heard from;yes,and I AM aware he got beat by Rove.


Read & Believe.

DLC understatement of the year. Can't think of an adjective for this timely mindblowing offbeat statement
of misunderestimation worthy of its awesome boldness.

:-)

Obama looked so "presidential" in his little "playground" fight with Clinton last night, right? Give me a break! :eyes:

...so of course he'll slam Bill Clinton, who is campaigning hard for his wife.

What people fail to point out -- and what Obama's camp won't point out (it would be foolish of them to do so) -- is that this is uncharted territory. Any statements about what is "presidential" in this context, are simply what that one speaker thinks -- there is no precedent to judge him by.

If a candidate's spouse won't campaign for them, what does that say about the candidate? But if a candidate's spouse is a former President, then is that an unfair advantage? Obama seemed to think so, as he complained that he did not know who he was running against. I found that laughable, since both Obama's and Edward's wives are very, very visible in support of their spouses too, and have also made controversial remarks. But of course neither of them has the standing that Bill Clinton has, by virtue of being a ex-President.

Should Hillary not make use of a great asset who is on her side? It is to laugh.

Now, as to the issue of whether Bill has stepped over any lines, in regard to his standing as a former President. I don't think so, he is just campaigning hard, and that means sticking your elbows out once in awhile. I would definitely fault both him and Hillary on the truthiness scale -- saying that Obama said he "liked" Reagan and/or his policies -- he did not. On the other hand, he showed incredibly poor judgment in what he really did say, holding Reagan and his party up as the "party of ideas" -- sorry, the only way you can read that remark is one that puts the Democrats in a bad light IMO, as the party that did not have ideas. And it's not true. What the Republics had was not more ideas, but rather they had a mighty Wurlitzer to promote their so-called "ideas" -- which were really a formula for gutting government, making endless war, looting the treasury and stomping on the least amongst us.

And Daschle. Oh my goodness. Is he part of the "new politics" that Obama is pushing? If so, I only ask that people recall how effective Daschle was as Senate Majority Leader. If this is any indication of how well Obama's "new politics" will work -- no thanks.

BTW I don't support Hillary, I'm for Edwards now that Kucinich is out for all practical purposes.

Every time he gets in trouble he runs and whines to one of his old Daddies and asks for their help.

What is that?

Of note: Right after Hillary arrived in the senate and the Dems were getting beat up pretty badly by the Repubs and the media she went to Tom and asked him to set up a war room so the Dem Senators could have a coordinated and rapid response to attacks. Tom told her - This is not hand to hand combat. Tom was/is a fool.

Daschle?

I don't think President Clinton needs any advice from him.

The parade of the irrelevant goes on.(P.S> Will he also join Bloomberg?)

let hillary run her own campaign, he already had his turn.

He was almost as big as a wimp as Reid is now.

Bill hardly talks about Bush

:rofl: