If Barbour’s going to run for president, then heaping praise on the Thug-in-Chief probably isn’t the best idea. Update: People in the comments have noted this could very well be a backhanded insult considering the average person’s opinion of politicians.
President Barack Obama is one of America’s best politicians ever, according to one of his potential rivals for re-election in 2012.
“The president is one of the greatest politicians in the history of the United States,” Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Barbour’s comments came during a discussion of Wisconsin’s budget battle — a fight that’s sparked widespread protests as Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has tried to curtail collective bargaining rights for public employees.
Obama is “quiet [on the issue] because most Americans know this has to be done,” Barbour said.
Here’s the video:
HT: Mara Z.