Bill Clinton on Obama: 'A Few Years Ago, This Guy Would Have Been Carrying Our Bags'

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Former President Bill Clinton tried to get former senator Ted Kennedy to endorse Hillay Clinton for president in the 2008 election by describing Barack Obama this way: "A few years ago, this guy would have been carrying our bags."

 

Bill Clinton on Obama: 'A Few Years Ago, This Guy Would Have Been Carrying Our Bags'

 

5:51 PM, Sep 2, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER

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Former President Bill Clinton tried to get former senator Ted Kennedy to endorse Hillay Clinton for president in the 2008 election by describing Barack Obama this way: "A few years ago, this guy would have been carrying our bags."

This anecdote is revealed in a New Yorker article on the relationship between Bill Clinton and Obama:

Tim  Russert told me that, according to his sources, Bill Clinton, in an  effort to secure an endorsement for Hillary from Ted Kennedy, said to  Kennedy, “A few years ago, this guy would have been carrying our bags.”

Clinton is giving a keynote address at the Democratic convention

You know it's much easier to make this stuff up than to reverse the photo.

You ought to know.   Now read the New Yorker article dimwit.

I read it.   The author claims a man now dead claimed "according to his sources" (un-named of course, not even identified as to a connection to Clinton) that Bill Clinton said this.

I think there's plenty of room for speculation that it was made up.