Bill Clinton helped sink his wife's chances for an endorsement from Senator Ted Kennedy by belittling US President Barack Obama as nothing but a race-based candidate.
Bill Clinton helped sink his wife's chances for an endorsement from Senator Ted Kennedy by belittling US President Barack Obama as nothing but a race-based candidate.
"A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee," the former president told the liberal lion from Massachusetts, according to the gossipy new campaign book, Game Change.
The book says Kennedy recounted the conversation to friends with fury.
After Kennedy sided with Obama, Clinton reportedly griped, "The only reason you are endorsing him is because he's black. Let's just be clear."
The revelations in Game Change are guaranteed to reopen the 2008 Clinton racial wounds that had been scabbing over amid his post-election public silence and his wife's high marks as Secretary of State.
Bill Clinton, whose stock with black voters was so high he used to be referred to as 'America's First Black President', severely damaged his rep in his overheated drive to help elect his wife.
The book, by Mark Halperin of Time magazine and New Yorku00a0 magazine's John Heilemann, is based on 300 anonymous interviews.
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