It may be that Barack Obama\u2019s time in office serves to enhance Bill Clinton\u2019s (personal) legacy among Democratic operatives.\u00a0 For all his faults, The Man from Hope at least made many people he spoke to and worked with feel better about themselves.\u00a0 Obama is a different cat.\u00a0 During his campaign for president, several reporters who had worked around both men remarked that Clinton sees a person the way that person wants to be seen; Obama sees a person the way that person is.<\/p>\n
And when it comes to working in the Obama White House, loyalty runs in only one direction.\u00a0 The curious case of soon-to-be-former White House Counsel Gregory Craig<\/a> is the most recent example.\u00a0 Last Friday, the early supporter (and bridge builder to the Kennedy family) was forced to resign because of his apparent inability to close down immediately the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center.\u00a0 You know, the same site filled with terrorists no other country wants, including America?<\/p>\n Maybe the only thing different if this had occurred in the Clinton White House would be the inclusion of a teary-eyed hug on the way out the door.\u00a0 Now that Craig is moving back to his white shoe D.C. law firm, maybe he\u2019d appreciate knowing the president he helped elect still thinks he\u2019s an effective lawyer.\u00a0 While Craig separates his aspiration from his reality, he\u2019s got plenty of company<\/a> among those listing the ending date of Obama-related work on their resumes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It may be that Barack Obama\u2019s time in office serves to enhance Bill Clinton\u2019s (personal) legacy among Democratic operatives.\u00a0 For all his faults, The Man from Hope at least made many people he spoke to and worked with feel better about themselves.\u00a0 Obama is a different cat.\u00a0 During his campaign for president, several reporters who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,501,502],"class_list":["post-2119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-bill-clinton","tag-gregory-craig"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2125,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions\/2125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}