According to the Huffington Post,
on the campaign trail today in Charlotte, North Carolina, the former president said a general election matchup between his wife, Sen. Clinton, and Sen. John McCain would be between "two people who love this country" without "all this other stuff that always seems to intrude itself on our politics."
Whether that was a reference to Barack Obama,was not clear but its interpretation is surely a sly dig at Obama's support of the Revd Jeremiah Wright, who was exposed last week for delivering sermons in which he told worshippers "God damn America
The post continues
Howard Wolfson, a spokesman for the Clinton campaign, said the former president was not implying that Obama didn't love America. As for "this other stuff," that Clinton referred to? He was talking about "the politics of personal destruction," said Wolfson. "He was lamenting that these kind of distractions 'always seems to intrude' on our politics."
Matt Apuzzo at the Drudge report tells us
Retired Air Force Gen. Merrill "Tony" McPeak said he was disappointed by the comments and compared them to those of McCarthy, the 1950s communist-hunting senator......"I grew up, I was going to college when Joe McCarthy was accusing good Americans of being traitors, so I've had enough of it,"
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