Clinton dubbed Obama 'incompetent', claims book

May 13, 2012 18:28

Former United States President Bill Clinton dubbed Barack Obama "incompetent" and pressed wife Hillary to quit her job as secretary of state to challenge the incumbent President in the primaries, a new book has claimed.

"The country needs you!" the former president had told Hillary Clinton, urging her to run this year, according to accounts of the conversation included in Edward Klein's newbiography of Obama.Obama, Bill Clinton had said, according to book excerpts, "doesn't know how to be president" and is "incompetent.

"The title of Klein's explosive, unauthorised biography of Obama, The Amateur, was taken directly from Bill Clinton's bombshell criticism of the president, the author said.

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