i think, the clintons got knocked around a bit for with racism charges, i think democrats and liberals have been building a case for the past couple of years now that any opposition to obama is racism in disguise and i think so when you come out in the sort of odd challenge to a guy who is holding the presidency for you and happens to be the first black president, that looks bad for them and i think it would be a tough narrative to fight against, they are not exempt as we saw during the primary. bill: i m out of time, thank you, and we ll have you both back on real soon, okay? thanks. bill: 20 minutes before the hour, you had romanoff, right. martha: yes. i did. he thought he was going to be picked to replace salazar for the senate seat in the first place and he was unhappy that he wasn t chosen and bennett was chosen by the obama administration, and, so, i find that they are on two separate sides of that race, very, very interesting. fun to watch. here s an amazing tale, one man s
and caroline hellman, and coauthor of the book rethinking presidents, are we ready for a woman in the white house ladies, hello and good morning, today we discuss bill clinton, mary catherine, what is he up to? well i think there is clearly some obama-clinton grudge still going on here especially with bill who i think felt knocked around during the primaries. you know, he wants to repay a favor to romanoff, which is fine and maybe he heard about the white house and romanoff talking about how he got white house job offers and he thought i have presidency powers to throw around here, too, and goes and does it and whether in the future, hillary, looking at the poll numbers, might think of running in 2012 is a difficult row to hoe. bill: let me tackle hillary in a second, you suggest bill clinton s loyalty to romanoff is the only reason why he is supporting him publicly, and in an e-mail, by the way that went out to supporters yesterday before the white house was notified about it? n
candidates are have a hard row to hoe because they are both well behind in the polls with the republican candidates in the state, so, at this point it might be moot. bill: here s what everybody is trying to figure out, now. and i i guess in time, we ll understand this, mary catherine. but, when blanche lincoln came from behind in arkansas about a month ago the headline wasn t necessarily blanche lincoln wins it was bill clinton leads her to victory. well, i would add robert begins seemed to think there was more to clinton s move than just helping out romanoff, in the briefing yesterday he was like, well, i d like to talk about it but i won t. which, seems to intimate something else is going on there. and, bill clinton has a lot of weight to throw around and i think it is interesting that he didn t notify anybody before he did it. bill: you were about to go to the hillary issue and i ll go to caroline and come back to you, mary catherine, do you see, or sense, would it even be pos