Nobody crosses the “first black president” and gets away with it!
Via Yahoo News:
The call came at 2:15 a.m. on Jan. 27, 2008, awaking Rep. James Clyburn, Democrat of South Carolina. He instantly recognized the voice on the other end of the line.
It was Bill Clinton and he was angry.
“If you bastards want a fight, you damn well will get one,” Clyburn recalls Clinton screaming at him, a moment the congressman recounted in his new memoir, “Blessed Experiences: Genuinely Southern, Proudly Black.”
“He was very upset,” Clyburn told “The Fine Print” of the incident. “His wife had just suffered a major defeat in the South Carolina primary, and I had not been involved in it, but Bill Clinton thought otherwise.”
Despite Clinton’s belief to the contrary at the time, Clyburn maintains that he played no role in Obama’s sweeping victory over Clinton in the South Carolina primary, having made a promise to the Democratic National Committee that he would stay out of the 2008 nominating fight between Clinton and Obama.
Since the time of their heated late-night phone call, Clyburn said his relationship with Clinton has healed somewhat.
“We got over that,” Clyburn said. “We met by accident several weeks later… we’ve seen each other several times since. In fact, I had a lovely breakfast with Hillary two to three years after that. I think everything’s okay.”