Did Bill Clinton Just Blast Obama With Remark About the ‘Awful Legacy of the Last Eight Years’

By The Stream Published on March 22, 2016

Former President Bill Clinton stirred up a political hornet’s nest Monday when he appeared to blast President Obama and the “awful legacy of the last eight years.”

While campaigning for wife Hillary in Spokane, Washington, Clinton said, “If you believe we can rise together, if you believe we’ve finally come to the point where we can put the awful legacy of the last eight years behind us and the seven years before that where we were practicing trickle-down economics, then you should vote for her.”

A Clinton aide later said the former President was “referring to the GOP’s obstructionism and not President Obama’s legacy.” Was he?

Just last month, during a speech in Memphis, Clinton issued what the Daily Caller called a “stinging rebuke” of Obama, saying Obama is not the “change-maker” Hillary is. Clinton said, “Yeah, (the financial system) is rigged, because you don’t have a president who’s a change-maker who, with a Congress who will work with him.” He did backtrack a touch, adding that Obama has done a “better job than he has gotten credit for.” But accusing the “Hope and Change” President of not being a “change-maker” was a direct dig.

Bill Clinton and Obama have had a testy relationship ever since Obama accused Clinton of racism during the 2008 campaign. According to the book Blood Feud, that attack left Clinton fuming, “I hate that man Obama more than any man I’ve ever met, more than any man who ever lived.” He was also displeased when Obama suggested that he would break his promise to endorse Hillary in the 2016 race.

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