Subscribe
NewsOne Featured Video
CLOSE

With friends like Bill Clinton, President Barack Obama sure doesn’t need enemies. Reminiscent of his 2008 campaign push for spouse and current secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former POTUS is making the rounds making subtle jabs at Obama’s policies…again.

Want to Keep Up With NewsOne.com? LIKE Us On Facebook!

Politico reports:

In an interview with CNBC that his office was scrambling to clarify Tuesday night, Clinton sided with congressional Republicans over Obama in calling for Congress to temporarily renew the soon-to-expire Bush tax cuts — but he also heaped praise on private equity companies like Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital, pleaded ignorance for his past gaffes and asserted his independence from the Obama campaign message operation.

It was Clinton in full Mr. Hyde mode — in a flashback to the deep and lasting tensions between the Clinton family and the Obama team that still linger on from that bitter 2008 primary fight.

The interview was part of a whirlwind television tour Tuesday afternoon, with Clinton spending also granting interviews to NBC, PBS and CBS that followed up on his turn last week on CNN, when he referred to Romney’s business background — which the Obama campaign had spent days tearing apart — as “sterling.” Once again, Clinton was sucking up all the media oxygen and generating dozens of headlines about an intra-party split between the two presidents.

Read more at Politico.com.