Obama in the Time of Clinton

So Bill Clinton thought Obama was “incompetent” before Obama’s reelection. Thanks for the heads up, dude!
I never got the feeling that Bill Clinton had the country’s well-being at the top of his list of priorities… but it was somewhere on the list at least. Below him getting reelected, of course. And since he made a deal with the incompetent Obama to help Hillary, I guess it’s below getting his wife elected — which is kind of sweet. Of course, who knows what Hillary has on Bill.
For Obama, though, it’s never seemed like the country’s well-being made his short list. He’s got his political future, his inept attempts at a legacy, all his big left-wing schemes he’s trying to push through — but all the stuff really affecting this country like the economy, jobs, and gas prices have never been able to get his attention for very long. Of course, I wonder how Obama would have done in the more frivolous times of the Bill Clinton presidency. With that un-burst dot com bubble, we were just hemorrhaging money for a while. That’s a situation when people are probably more willing to focus on silly liberal ideas as they don’t have real problems to contend with — but also feeling less like they need big new government programs. Still, the lesson of Bill Clinton is that Democrats do best when we don’t have actual problems to deal with. It’s like a Chihuahua is fine if you’re not worried about home security — useless and annoying as it is — but you don’t put it in charge of guarding a junkyard.