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A feud is erupting between President Obama and Bill & Hillary Clinton.\u00a0 As we saw during the Vice Presidential debate, the Obama administration is trying to blame the debacle in Libya on our intelligence agencies and the State Department.\u00a0 Bill, having given Obama a big boost with his convention speech, is furious that Obama is trying to throw Hillary under the bus.\u00a0 An account of the feud and what it might do from Tony Lee:<\/p>\n

A nasty rift has opened up between President Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over the fallout from the terrorist attacks on the U.S. consulate in Libya that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens. This feud may undermine and threaten Obama\u2019s reelection chances.<\/p>\n

Obama and Clinton both do not want to be held responsible for the negligence before and the cover-up after the Libya attacks. Clinton biographer Ed Klein on Friday reported that Bill Clinton, sensing Obama\u2019s political team wants to pin legal and political blame on the State Department and Hillary Clinton, has been working on doomsday and contingency scenarios \u201cto avoid having Benghazi become a stain on her political fortunes should she decide to run for president in 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\u201cIf relations between Obama\u2019s White House and Hillary\u2019s State Department rupture publicly over the growing Benghazi scandal, that could damage the Democratic ticket and dim Obama\u2019s chances for re-election,\u201d Klein writes.\n

According to Klein\u2019s sources, Bill Clinton has assembled an informal legal team in case there are cables or other evidence that would legally implicate Hillary. Klein also told The Daily Caller that Bill has even considered advising Hillary to resign if the Obama administration tries to make her the \u201cscapegoat.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Friday, there were signs the White House was preparing to do to throw Hillary Clinton and the State Department under the bus.<\/p>\n

White House press secretary Jay Carney, when asked if Obama and Biden had \u201cnever been briefed\u201d about the fact that more security was needed in Libya, essentially blamed the State Department, saying, \u201cmatters of security personnel are appropriately discussed and decided upon at the State Department by those responsible for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carney repeated a variation of this line throughout the press briefing.<\/p>\n

Carney\u2019s comments came a day after Vice President Joe Biden not only contradicted State Department officials but himself threw the intelligence community under the bus when he said the Obama administration did not know U.S. interests in Libya needed more security before the attacks and that the intelligence community changed its story after. . . .<\/p>\n

Klein writes that the long-simmering feud between Obama and the Clintons has only gotten worse after the Democratic National Convention. The bad blood between Obama and the Clinton family dates back to the 2008 Democratic primary, and Obama\u2019s advisers had to convince Obama to give Clinton a prominent role at the convention.<\/p>\n

Klein writes \u201cthe latest quarrel began when Clinton heard that Obama was behaving so cocky about his first debate against Mitt Romney that he wasn\u2019t taking his debate prep seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clinton offered to give Obama some advice, and Obama brushed him off.<\/p>\n

Klein writes \u201cthe former president was dumbfounded that Obama had ignored his offer, and his hurt feelings quickly boiled over into anger.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBill thought that he and Obama were on friendly terms after the convention,\u201d a source told Klein. \u201cHe couldn\u2019t believe that the White House didn\u2019t even extend him the courtesy of a return phone call. He concluded that Obama\u2019s arrogance knows no bounds.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is no love lost between Obama and the Clintons, and they could mutually destroy their political futures in the days ahead. Team Obama could destroy Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 prospects by scapegoating her for the Libya attacks. But Hillary Clinton, by potentially resigning or pointing to evidence that implicates Obama and Biden, can just as easily torpedo Obama\u2019s chances at getting reelected.<\/p>\n

via Libya Fallout Gives Rise to Obama-Clinton Feud<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Look for this to come out in some way in tomorrow\u2019s presidential debate, which is supposed to focus on foreign policy.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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