Op-ed:

Trouble in paradise 

By: Diane Sori

It started back in January with Bill Clinton saying, “Barack Obama is an amateur.”

Add to that, “The economy’s a mess, its dead flat.  America has lost its Triple-A rating… “

Finish it with, Obama “doesn’t know how to be president,” and is “incompetent.”

And so began what has become a questionable alliance between Bill Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama...or is it more like a cleverly crafted payback for Obama grabbing the presidential nomination away from Hillary.

Bill Clinton is truly becoming an albatross around the neck of Obama’s re-election campaign and Republicans (like me) could not be happier.

Last week Clinton said, "I think he (Romney) had a good business career...the man who has been governor and had a sterling business career crosses the qualification threshold."

Makes you wonder whose side Bubba is really on.

Even though it’s obvious that Clinton got a late-night  ‘what the hell did you say,’ phone call from the White House after that one, and even with him backtracking somewhat on that statement this week, the damage to Obama was done, and no one sees Bill or Hillary crying over it.

In a recent interview on CNBC, Bill Clinton stated that the U.S. is in “a recession” and that Congress “should extend all the George W. Bush’s tax cuts due to expire at the end of the year.”

“Extend all the Bush tax cuts...”  Bill Clinton is actually publicly supporting a policy of George W. Bush, the man who Obama blames for all America’s economic woes...who’d have thunk it!

Barack Hussein Obama wants to extend tax cuts for middle class taxpayers only, wanting to end cuts for individuals making more than $200,000 a year, or for couples making $250,000.  Could it be that it finally hit Bubba upside his head that he is one of those very individuals...just something to think about.

And then we have Obama sending Clinton into Wisconsin to campaign for union backed Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett against Governor Scott Walker in that ridiculous farce of a recall.  We all know how that turned out and that Bubba was NO help to Barrett at all.

Obama is losing his so-called ‘magic touch’ as more and more Americans no longer buy into his progressive liberal rhetoric, and even the ‘big guns’ like Bill Clinton seem to no longer have the power, or even the will, to sway the voters as they once did.

The bottom line in all this is that Bill Clinton is purposely (while trying to stay below the radar) undermining Barack Hussein Obama in what appears to be a stealth jihad of sorts.  I believe that he actually dislikes Obama’s entire agenda.  Remember, Clinton balanced the federal budget...Obama can’t even get a budget passed.  Clinton prided himself on bringing the races together...Obama is deliberately causing a racial divide unseen since the days of segregation.  And the economy under Obama, in a word, stinks, as unemployment numbers continue to rise...under Clinton the economy, for the most part, thrived.

And no matter how much they play kissy-face in public, Bill Clinton has an ax to grind, because if Hillary had indeed been the nominee and won, the president of the United States would NOT be Hillary Clinton but would be the amalgam known as ‘Billary.’

As the saying goes, ‘payback is a bitch’ and Bill Clinton will make sure that that payback hurts Obama and hurts him big time...’aint revenge sweet!