Bill Clinton "meltdown" with super delegates? (Wizbang Politics)

Former President Bill Clinton reportedly lost his temper while meeting with super delegates in California when the subject of Bill Richardson's endorsement of Barack Obama came up, according to Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross of the San Francisco Chronicle:

According to those at the meeting, Clinton - who flew in from Chicago with bags under his eyes - was classic old Bill at first, charming and making small talk with the 15 or so delegates who gathered in a room behind the convention stage.

But as the group moved together for the perfunctory photo, Rachel Binah, a former Richardson delegate who now supports Hillary Clinton, told Bill how "sorry" she was to have heard former Clinton campaign manager James Carville call Richardson a "Judas" for backing Obama.

It was as if someone pulled the pin from a grenade.

"Five times to my face (Richardson) said that he would never do that," a red-faced, finger-pointing Clinton erupted.

The former president then went on a tirade that ran from the media's unfair treatment of Hillary to questions about the fairness of the votes in state caucuses that voted for Obama. It ended with him asking delegates to imagine what the reaction would be if Obama was trailing by just 1 percent and people were telling him to drop out.

"It was very, very intense," said one attendee. "Not at all like the Bill of earlier campaigns."

Read the whole report at the link above. It should be noted there is nothing in the article to indicate the sources quoted are not the same person, and others in attendance dispute the interpretation in the article.

My own impression has always been that when Bill Clinton loses his temper, he is usually honestly conveying his feelings, at least. When he is circumspect and reflective, perhaps less so open, and if he bites his lower lip, he's probably trying to create an impression.

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Comments (4)

Bill just may become McCain... (Below threshold)

1. Posted by JAT | April 3, 2008 6:34 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

JAT:

Bill just may become McCain's biggest assist in this election

Posted on April 3, 2008 06:34

Nothing like throwing a tan... (Below threshold)

2. Posted by COgirl | April 3, 2008 11:29 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

COgirl:

Nothing like throwing a tantrum when you can't get your way. He fooled a lot of people in the 90's but the population has grown weary of the Clinton's and their antics. It's only going to go downhill from here.

Posted on April 3, 2008 11:29

It should be noted there... (Below threshold)

3. Posted by Lee Ward | April 3, 2008 11:30 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)

Lee Ward

It should be noted there is nothing in the article to indicate the sources quoted are not the same person, and others in attendance dispute the interpretation in the article.

Of course the other accounts wouldn't be mentioned in the article.

The press's feeding frenzy continues. If Bill Clinton sneezes the press will claim he was intentionally spreading germs in an attempt to harangue superdelegates.

Posted on April 3, 2008 11:30

Invoking the name of Gore i... (Below threshold)

4. Posted by Lee Ward | April 3, 2008 12:39 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Invoking the name of Gore is just another ObamaLie (tm).

Political strategists say it's a near impossibility that Al Gore, a Nobel Prize winner, former vice president and Hollywood darling, would ever serve in Barack Obama's cabinet, should the Illinois senator win the White House.
"It's hard to imagine that Al Gore would accept any position in any administration after already having been vice president, having run for president, won an (Oscar), a Nobel Prize," Mary Ann Marsh, a Democratic political strategist, told the Herald this morning. "You just can't see it."

Marsh's musing comes just a day after a presumptive Obama said he'd make Gore his global warming guru in his administration.

"I will make a commitment that Al Gore will be at the table and play a central part in us figuring out how we solve this problem," of global warming, Obama said during a town hall meeting in Pennsylvania on Wednesday.

Marsh called Obama's announcement a "political gesture" to further ingratiate himself with Gore, whose endorsement is one of the most sought after in the Democratic race for the nomination.

"The most Obama can hope for is that (Gore) will support him as a superdelegate," she said.

The fact that he talks on the phone to Gore on occasion has been stretched and spun by the ObamaLiar into the misconception that Gore is supporting Obambi's candidacy.

Al Gore hasn't agreed to that, and if you parse the ObamaLiar (tm) carefully you'll see that no where does Barack say that he's obtained any sort of commitment for Gore whatsoever.

Posted on April 3, 2008 12:39