The San Francisco Chronicle reports today that former president Bill Clinton has again exhibited what appears to be a growing anger management problem, this time at a private meeting of California superdelegates before Clinton's speech at the state convention in San Jose last Sunday. According to the report by Phil Matier and Andrew Ross, Clinton at first seemed "classic old Bill at first, charming and making small talk with the 15 or so delegates who gathered in a room behind the convention stage." When Clinton and the superdelegates got together for a group photo, however, one of the superdelegates expressed regret to Clinton on the news of his former campaign manager, James Carville, calling New Mexico governor Bill Richardson a "Judas" for endorsing Barack Obama. At that point, according to Matier and Ross, "it was as if someone pulled the pin from a grenade." The former president grew red-faced and commenced to finger-pointing as he has so often of late, raging: "Five times to my face [Richardson] said that he would never do that." Clinton then proceeded to go on a tirade against every perceived enemy of his wife's campaign from the media to the caucus system in states won by Obama. "It was very, very intense," one superdelegate recalled, "Not at all like the Bill of earlier campaigns." Following his tantrum, Clinton proceeded to go out and make his much-noted speech urging California Democrats to "chill out" on concerns over the harsh campaign between his wife and Obama. "It was kind of strange...," another superdelegate remarked, "We couldn't help but think he was also talking to himself."
Mark C. Eades
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