According to Edward Klein, who wrote a new biography of President Barack Obama entitled, The Amateur, he mentioned that former president Bill Clinton thought so little of Barack Obama that he mocked him as an 'amateur." Bill Clinton supposedly encouraged his wife to quit her post as Secretary of State last summer and persuaded her to challenge President Obama in this year's Democratic presidential primary. Hillary, of course, stated she wasn't going to challenge Obama nor did she intend to remain as Secretary of State if President Obama wins a second term as president earlier this year.
The title of the book was taken from Clinton's bombshell criticism of the president. "Barack Obama," Bill Clinton said according to book experts, "is an amateur." The book says that Bill urged Hillary to challenge Obama for president last summer in the ex-president's home office in Chappaqua last August that included longtime friends, according to Klein. Klein says that Bill told Hillary that the economy's a mess and that America lost it's Triple-A rating. He said that Hillary knows better than Obama. Bill Clinton insisted that he had no relationship with Obama and was contacted more by his presidential successor, George W. Bush. "Obama, Bill Clinton said, "doesn't know how to be president and is incompetent." Hillary resisted her husband's remarks and asked, "Why risk everything now?" She said she wanted to leave a legacy as Secretary of State. She said if nothing else she could consider 2016 for a presidential run.
There have been some critics that have criticized Klein's comments such as Bill Clinton's spokesman Mat McKenna and Phillippe Reines, a spokesman for the Secretary of State. Who's telling the truth I don't know but I firmly believe the Clinton's aren't close friends to Obama for no other reason than the results of the 2008 Democratic primary. I personally believe the Clinton's are very disappointed in the fact that the Democratic primary was rigged in order to ensure that Barack Obama received the party's nomination that year. I do believe the book would be interesting reading.
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