Bill Clinton Blames Kennedy for No Child Left Behind Flaws

Voter Beware:
Many of Senator Clintons supporters think they are getting “two for the price of one”. THINK about what you are voting for.
How confused will the world be when your President Hillery is stating US Policy one way an ex President Clinton is running around the world mouthing off and contradicting his wife.
And…..if you think Senator Clinton can control her husband….do I need to remind you of the ugly history the Bill has exhibited in his affairs of the heart.

Is Bill Clinton ok? I worry about his sanity. Can he possibly think it makes good political sense to criticize Ted Kennedy for a bill that Hillary supported?
He might as well start criticizing George Bush for taking us into war in Iraq. How stupid would that be, given that Hillary voted to authorize the war? Oh…wait…he already did that.

Just another “Bubba Eruption”!

Yes, Bill Clinton is now showing his true colors. He resents Ted Kennedy for favoring Obama. It seems that Bill will say or do anything to help Hillary win. Less clear is whether his is doing it for her or himself.
My image of Bill clinton has gone down the tubes for good. Obama is in a higher league than Bill and Hillary together. –As is Ted Kennedy.

Ted Kennedy and Obama bringing in old ideas. Vote for someone who cares about real change. Vote Clinton. Remember how good we had it when they were president/ Ask Chicago slum residents what Obama and Rezko did to them.

Bill Clinton was the best and most popular Democratic president we have had since 1963. Yet you are all here to throw it out the window thinking this helps you BELOVED OBAMA somehow. I cannot for the life of me figure out why people are utterly and grotesquely out of their minds.

uh…j0hn edwa,
I guess you didn’t get the memo this morning that Hillary’s co-chair of her campaign, Antonio Villaraigosa, has to explain Rezko’s contributions to his mayoral campaign.
Besides that, there’s also the picture of Rezko posing with Bill and Hillary that was circulated last week.
You need to fix your memo holderer.

Hillary can’t give a straight answer to any question because she like Bill needs to determine what the meaning of the word “is” is! Both shameless narcissistic hucksters!! Throw the bums out!

Bill is so angry that his ‘good buddy’ Ted endorsed Obama that he had to get in a good dig!! Same old..same old. More of the Clinton strategy of ‘say anything’ and the dumb public will buy into it. He’s so pathetic.

Just a thought, I have to wonder how long alot of the Obama supporters have been in the democratic party. Your candidate preaches hope and change, rising above old style politics; yet your words on the posts are vicious and mean spirited. Anyone who lived and worked for a living under President Clinton knows that life was pretty good.

There you go again! Inserting you opinion before we hava a chance to form our own. “Clinton seemed to blame Kenneday….” When will you people just report the news and forego the titilation? NCLB had every chance of being something worthwhile until Bush failed to see it properly funded.

The best way I see the difference between Obama and Clinton is – Obama is a bleeding heart liberal far too the left. Clinton is a moderate slightly to the left but very much of a centerist.
R

In schools,today No Child Left Behind has failed. Children are not being helped by this program, it has taken the control of the class from regular teachers and given it to beauracracy. Under President Clinton, we had better school performance. Sen. Hillary Clinton has the ideas to fix our children’s schools,which in part is to give the control back to the teachers. President Clinton has a say in this argument. Ted Kennedy knew President Clinton was going to criticize him. As Ted Kennedy crticized Hillary when he stumped for Obama.

It is hard to believe a Democrat attacking Ted Kennedy. Bill Clinton should start to attack other Democrats as too liberal and as tax and spenders. I guess if it worked for Rove, it can work for the Clintons.

Rezko also gave money to one of Hillary’s top campaign staffers. Was on the washington post yesterday. Look it up. Anyone remember Hillary’s rogue financier from Hong Kong, Hsu? Or, what about Bill’s pardons at the end of his term.
Can anyone explain why the bulk of Hillary’s support comes from uneducated members of the party?
But even with high school or less, those people could certainly tell us what the definition is is.

Everybody’s blaming Bill Clinton for the tensions that he brings to Hillary’s campaign, and rightfully so. But he has had a willing partner, His wife Hillary. We found out in a civil debate that Obama can get his policies out in the open, not like in past debates where Hillary tried to shout him down every time Obama had someting to say. And just when the Kennedy endorsement seemed to solve the ‘Foot in Mouth’ disease that the Clintons were suffering from, toning down the negative rhetoric, Bill Clinton attacks Ted Kennedy unjustly by stating that No Child Left Behind was his and Bush’s fault. Hypothetical: How many toes do the Clintons have? Better count fast; they seem to shoot off one or two of them each news cycle.

Is there something the matter with mentioning who sponsored a bill?
This must be a new rule I haven’t heard about. There seem to be a lot of those this year.

Look, the ad goes like this:
I voted for the bankruptcy bill after I took their money, but I’m glad it didn’t pass.
I voted for the “Authorization to Use Force in Iraq,” but I had no idea George Bush would use it to use force in Iraq. [Crude image of Hillary flipping upside down.]
I supported the Governor in issuing Driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants before I concluded it was horrible. [Crude image of Hillary flipping upside down.]
I called Reagan one of my favorite Presidents, a man who played the music beautifully before I attacked a primary opponent who said he changed the direction of the country. [Crude image of Hillary flipping upside down.]
Then, you throw in a shot of her casting her head back in that laugh, and we have President McCain. Unelectable.

Let’s not forget when these two left the White House with each having a case of sticky fingers, not to mention his PardonGate episode running concurrent with the moving trucks being stuffed to the gills.

Obama has the nerve to say he could get right the first time…can he explain why he PULLED THE WRONG LEVER not once, not twice but 5 TIMES!! Obama supporters YOU SHOULD READ THE FULL ARTICLE not just the HEADLINE!!

As soon as the Kazakhstan influence-peddling story broke, Bill disappeared, and suddenly Hillary says it’s not about the twosome, she’s all on her lonesome.
Sorry, Hillary. You’re good, but not that good.
Every rally should have folks holding signs with one word: Kazakhstan. Uranium mines? This guy just won’t slow down. It’s all about Crony Capitalism, and the Clintons are masters of the game.

It kills me how it’s perfectly ok for Obama to criticize Hillary and her husband, but it’s complete blasphemy if Bill or Hillary criticize Obama and/or Ted Kennedy. You people are hateful at best. Lets throw this out there cause if I were Bill and I truly wanted to be mean spirited as some of you are suggesting which is pretty far from the truth here people, lets get real, criticizing Ted Kennedy for a vote is as ridiculous as Obama has been for criticizing Hillary’s vote for the war. To me criticizing votes, particularly a vote that Obama was not directly involved in is petty and getting old. If I were Bill and I were truly being mean spirited I would criticize Ted Kennedy for leaving a pregnant woman drowning in the bottom of a lake. Now that’s mean spirited. So in the spirit of all of these blogs I would say that even thought Ted Kennedy got away with that, and perhaps his story he came back with back then were true enough to let him off the hook for it, I would say that leaving a woman at the bottom of a lake trumps all in the judgement category. It even trumps lying about monica lewinsky. This is politics and I say leave Bill and Hillary alone because this is all totally ridiculous and I for one hope she wins because quite frankly she is a million time smarter than “uh, um, what I meant to say was…” Obama and smarter than all of the other candidates combined. None of them can out debate her. None of them. Plain and simple.

I did not see any blame in Clinton’s statement. Press just twist, stir up things, and stupid people fell into trap. Republicans do not want Clintons, whom they fear. Now democrats including Kenndys are falling to the trap.

What bad sports the Clintons are. Cheap shot. I think they’re scared, old dogs and all…

Let Hillary run,Bill.

No Child Left Behind was a scam invented by Bush to tun our school systems over to for-profit and religious organizations.
Our kids were used as pawns by the right wingers who wasted vasts amounts of our kids precious time preparing for idiocy tests that were designed to punish and close public schools.
Bush should be impeached for obstructing our kids educations and for being a child abuser.
Kennedy should apologize for being so gullible and for not fixing the obvious crime of Bushes plan sooner.
Shame on both these men.

In every election since the beginning of our country, one candidate has touted “change.” Never has any fundamental change in the way Washington operates actually occurred. The only significant change has been a function of which party is in office. Younger people have not yet had a chance to see this pattern for themselves. All the candidates have taken campaign contributions from questionable sources, and have done so for centuries. I voted for Barak Obama twice for IL Senator, and note with concern that both his hometown newspaper endorsements cited his failure to explain, to their satisfaction, his multiple Rezko connections, and note that all is NOT known about how Rezko’s Feb. 25 trial will affect his candidacy. I am worried that this will be a time bomb if we do not find out about it before he goes up against a Republican. I like his policies, but see him as more vulnerable than Hillary Clinton. With two good candidates, it is critically important to win the general election. Obama, a good person, is going to be discredited WHEN this Rezko thing is brought up by the Republican machine, because even if he is not guilty, they will employ plenty of dirty tricks to do great damage to the Democratic Party, esp. since so many are endorsing Obama. I’m voting for Hillary Clinton because she’s eminently qualified AND is less of a risk.

Well gee it could be that Bill Cinton was talking to teachers that think the NCLB is a bad idea. I think he nailed what is wrong with the law and its implementation perfectly.
In fact Ted Kennedy himself has criticised the law though in his case he says it is because the republicans didn’t fully fund it. Most democrats agree that it has been a bad thing.
It really isn’t all about the campaign. The clintons have real ideas and real solutions but they don’t fit into easy soundbites. To me it is refreshing to hear a president or a candidate really answer questions.
If that is a reason to think Bill is losing it you’ve obviously been brain washed by the fact that you haven’t heard any coherant ideas coming out of a president’s mouth for too long.
Time to rcognize that you really do want smart in charge of things again and not just the guy that you think it would be fun to have a beer with.

Three points:
1. NCLB: Bill Clinton is absolutely right to criticize NCLB as a failure, and he’s even right to criticize Kennedy– contrary to what people believe, funding is set by Congress, not the President. They didn’t. But Hillary did vote for NCLB so what’s bad for Kennedy is bad for Hillary on that one.
2. Reszko: Obama did nothing wrong associating with Reszko in the manner in which he did, and the only people who don’t understand that are people on these blog comment threads who get all their news from these comment threads. Further, since Villaraigosa, who supports Hillary, is also connected to Reszko, Hillary’s supporters should be careful about trying to stir up controversy around Reszko–Obama’s people aren’t bringing it up, Hillary’s are (J|union– ed was responding to a previous post, essentially saying “you don’t really want to go there for your own sake). It’s in everybody’s best interest to let Reszko die and try to find something of substance to go after Obama for. Scandal-touting is the result of desperation.
3: Equality of commentary: Bill Clinton going after Ted Kennedy is NOT the same as Obama going after Hillary, as some commenters have suggested. HILLARY is running for office and she needs to answer questions. TED KENNEDY is not running for office. It is not a one-to-one comparison.

To the person with the three points:
“Equality of commentary: Bill Clinton going after Ted Kennedy is NOT the same as Obama going after Hillary, as some commenters have suggested. HILLARY is running for office and she needs to answer questions. TED KENNEDY is not running for office. It is not a one-to-one comparison.”
It doesn’t matter whether its Bill or Hillary criticizing Obama, they get accused of all sorts of nonsense every time they do while Obama is put up on some type of a pedestal like he can’t take the heat. Please. Obama has been more critical of Hillary than Hillary of Obama. Do your research. But Obama cries wolf every time he gets criticized. He’s a wuss ball and he’s about to get hammered by the republicans should he get the nomination. Just watch.

Steve wrote: “Has Obama been Right From Day One on anything other that the Iraq vote? Why shouldn’t we assume he just got lucky?”
I do not care if he got anything else right from day one; Iraq is the reason that I am voting for him. I believed in the traditional liberal positions on individual rights but disagree with their economic ideas. So Senator Obama will have disagreements with me on some issues, but he will also have my vote.
On Iraq, he was not lucky, he simply showed good judgement. It’s easy to get into a war; it’s hard to get out of one. I lived through the Viet Nam years and remember that lesson well.
Alan
white, middle-aged, ex-Republican for Obama

Sorry, Ted Kennedy deserves the blame. He was the chief sponsor of the bipartisan bill.
NCLB is an excellent example of bridging the gap, unifying divisive groups, reaching across the aisle, blah, blah, and getting screwed. If they can do it to Ted, imagine what they’ll do to Senator Sunshine.

There he goes again!…I hope the Democrats do take the “two for one” tag team, because that’s a ticket McCain can beat nationwide!

Bill Clinton is an excellent speaker and a great ex-president. Bill Clinton spent his 8 years in office with an unprecedented area of growth.
I think it’s time that Bill Clinton finally pointed out what a horrible president George Bush is and what a horrible womanizing senator Edward Kennedy is.

This gave me quite a chuckle:
“I think it’s time that Bill Clinton finally pointed out what a horrible president George Bush is and what a horrible womanizing senator Edward Kennedy is.”
Uh, yeah, Bill speaking out on womanizing, BRILLIANT argument.

Quite frankly,we in education have long known Ted Kennedy knew that NCLB had major flaws,but instead of addressing them, chose to force the measure on us.

To the people that believe Obama stands a chance: Wake up! He will NEVER be President.
Someone that speaks using lofty poetry and citing “change” doesn’t address the problems this country faces.
There are IMPORTANT things to be considered like National Security, stopping the outsourcing of American jobs, bringing back our Industrial base, pulling the Social Security out of the dumps, stopping illegal immigration, expanding our over-crowed prisons, bringing the education system up to par — and the list goes on.
Obama is NOT qualified to address any of those issues! Poetry doesn’t cut it people — experience does.
Mitt Romney is the only candidate that will do what needs to be done. He did is for Mass. and for the Olympics, he can do it for the country.
Obama is not a bad man, neither is Bill Clinton, or Hillary or anyone else running. Everyone is human, and no one is perfect.
However, this country needs someone that can run it like a business and make it profitable again. As a parent of a young child I am concerned about my child’s future as he will be entering the work force within the next 6 years.
We owe it to our children to vote responsibly. A vote for anyone other than Mitt Romney is not a responsible vote!

Ted Kennedy worked against Bill Clinton’s legislative initiatives and has made his personal distaste for Clinton very clear. Helping to put Bill back in the White House had to be out of the question.
Hillary’s pointing out the fact that it took LBJ to get JFK’s civil rights legislation passed couldn’t have helped win Ted’s endorsement, but she wouldn’t have gotten it anyway.
Ted was more responsible than anyone in the Senate for getting Democratic support for NCLB. This was during Bush’s short-lived period of bipartisanship. Ted was suckered and he has expressed his anger about it. Hillary voted for NCLB, and she, like most Democrats, has complained about its implementation and under-funding for years.

What Clinton stated regarding NCLB is true. However, he left out the part where Obama said: “It is a piece of legislation that is flawed and I will OVERHAUL the No Child Left Behind Act.” He, Bill, speaks the truth but he speaks in HALF-TRUTHS.
I am beginning to wonder if one can expect anything more from a Clinton. Is a little frankness, integrity and honesty to much to ask?
Anyway, here is the thing: I knew there were some Dems. in the party that did not like Bill. I didn’t know there were as many until just a few days ago. They are angry with him for the countless scandals, flawed policies that he adopted b/c he was to much of a – to stand up to the Repubs., etc. Anyway, if he keeps this up it will be the Dem. party against Bill and Hillary. And mind you, she will need the support of Dems (law makers back in Wash.) if she is the nominee & eventual prez (it will be an extremely long shot her winning the general election but it could happen)……so him going after Dems is the dumbest thing he could ever do, not to mention his legacy he is so proud of – which no doubt is in the toilet by now or soon to be there…..
This has turned out to be a very interesting political season. I don’t care for the divisive politics, gimmicks, hi-jacking of the party etc. but I have enjoyed watching this all play out…..

Dick Morris should be proud of the ex-president who hired him to run his 1996 campaign.
The Democrats lost the legislative majorities in the ’90s largely due to him. He covered the most underhanded backstabbing style of politics with ambiguous rhetoric that could sound progressive or conservative as occasion demanded; but he’s long since lost the veneer that he had in the first half of the ’90s. No wonder Bush Sr. refers to him as one of his sons.

I think before we criticize Hillary and other Democrats for voting for the war in Iraq we need to remember the context of the times and look at the distortions that were perpetuated and not challenged by many news outlets including the so-called liberal media. I belive that if more people had stood up to the administration the politicians including Hillary would have been forced to go more slowly in there process of voting for a pre-emptive strike. Anyone who wasn’t on board with the invasion was called a terrorist sympathizer and was considered unpatriotic. Almost, every newspaper in the country made the mistake of confirming the Bush assertion that Sadaam was behind 9/11. I blame the American people who believed those lies without questioning and supporting Bush–yes Hillary was very wrong but so were many citizens. As a nation we will have much explaining to do to future generations about the many tragedies brought on my the Bush/Cheney hubris. Realize this: they did have popular support. I have talked to so many who voted for Bush twice but blame the Democrats for taking us to war. There is a serious disconnect with this type of thinking. Dust off the history books people. Remember, in a democracy the people get the government they deserve.

Back when Obama received his coronation as the heir to JFK, I suggested, perhaps cynically I thought, that we would soon see a knife in Ted Kennedy’s back courtesy of the Clinton campaign. But my goodness! I never thought that I would be proven correct.
I am a lifelong Democrat and have supported Bill and Hillary in the past, But now, over these past few months, I’ve come to understand that the pundits were right about them all along: They really cannot be anything except divisive.

I’m glad President Clinton is finally speaking out . He has been silent enough for the last 8years. No child left behind has been a failure . When he mention Ted Kennedy it was to a group of teacher and the media turns eveything around and the ignorant people believe every gossip the media wants to push down our throat.