Bill Clinton found himself in an unusual and uncomfortable position yesterday - drawing intense fire from Democratic presidential candidates and a brushback from his wife's own campaign.In other words, dummy up. We're still focus-grouping this issue to determine what your wife's position will be. She's clearly incapable of giving a simple answer to a simple question, so before we call you a Nazi like Tim Russert, give us some time to figure out where we stand.
Barack Obama and Chris Dodd both took rare shots at the former president for claiming that critics of Hillary's stance on giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants were unfairly trying to "swift boat" her.
"To have the former president come out and suggest this is a form of swift boating . . . is way over the top in my view," said Dodd, a Connecticut senator.
Obama fumed: "I was pretty stunned by that statement."
It's the first time any Democratic candidates have attacked Bill Clinton, who is enormously popular among party members.
The rebukes came after Bill took a swipe at his wife's rivals. He likened recent Democratic attacks against his wife to a "scandalous" 2004 ad by John Kerry's fellow swift boat Vietnam veterans, questioning the candidate's military valor. He also compared the controversy to a 2002 ad that linked former Sen. Max Cleland, who lost three limbs in Vietnam, to Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.
After recalling the earlier political attacks, which still set Democrats seething years later, Bill Clinton said, "I had the feeling that at the end of that last debate, we were about to get into cutesy land again."
In a stunning in-house slap at the former president, a senior adviser to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign said the former president's remarks were not part of campaign strategy and were considered counterproductive by her advisers.
Elsewhere, Michelle Malkin is thoroughly enjoying this.
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