Well, 2004 Bill Clinton says that. It's unclear whether 2008 Bill Clinton would remain intellectually honest or whether he would evasively microparse his way out of it.
(That was a joke, of course).
Bill's 2004 endorsement of Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton below the fold.
I'm sure everyone has seen this Rove-Style fearmongering ad put out by the desperate, flailing Clinton campaign.
And those who have followed this campaign know that the Clintons have played the fear card when her back was against the wall before.
Bill:
There is a better than a 50 percent chance that sometime in the first year or 18 months of the next presidency something will happen that is not being discussed in this campaign. President Bush never talked about Osama Bin Laden and didn't foresee Hurricane Katrina. And if you're not ready for that then everything else you do can be undermined. You need a president that you trust to deal with something that we will not discuss in this campaign....
"How we meet those challenges will determine whether our grandchildren will even be here fifty years from now at a meeting like this listening to the next generation's presidential candidates," Clinton told several hundred voters in Plymouth. He did not elaborate on what he meant by the prospect of the audience's grandchildren not being there in 50 years.
Hillary:
"It's a horrible prospect to ask yourself, 'What if? What if?' " Clinton, a New York Democrat, told a house party in Concord, according to the New York Post and The Associated Press and confirmed by her campaign.
"But, if certain things happen between now and the election, particularly with respect to terrorism, that will automatically give the Republicans an advantage again, no matter how badly they have mishandled it, no matter how much more dangerous they have made the world."
Clinton usually only talks about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks when she speaks of her work helping Ground Zero workers cope with medical problems.
But in an airport hangar this morning, she said: "We have people who are plotting against us right now, getting ready to repeat the atrocity of Sept 11. We know it, I see the intelligence reports."
She also said, "I don’t think there has ever been a more important decision for the citizens of New Hampshire."
But, what does 2004 Bill Clinton have to say about this. He is quite clear. He states in incredibly strong terms--calling it one of his personal laws of politics that we should vote for Obama and reject Clinton and denounce her kind of politics. This is a direct quote:
Now, one of Clinton's laws of politics is this. If one candidate is trying to scare you and the other one is try get you to think, if one candidate is appealing to your fears and the other one is appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope.
This is a long-standing position of Bill, too. He said it in 1992.
"Don't forget there have been a lot of charges and countercharges and ups and downs, but when you strip it all away, this election is a race between hope and fear, between the courage to change and the comfort of the status quo," he said during an appearance at the Scranton airport. "
(h/t Nuisance Industry)
There you have it. Bill Clinton thinks you should vote for Barack Obama over his wife. When he's being honest.
UPDATE: Here's the video. (h/t MadAsHellMaddie)