In a Feb. 19 Newsmax article bashing the idea of a Hillary Clinton presidency as a de facto third term for Bill Clinton, James Humes writes:
True, George H.W. Bush made private fundraising appearances for his son in 2000. But never once did he personally criticize John McCain, Al Gore, or John Kerry. For that matter, he never made any public statements that expressed opposition to his successor’s (Bill Clinton’s) policies.
In fact, the elder Bush repeatedly criticized Clinton administration policies while Clinton was in office.
Humes also writes that Bill Clinton called Barack Obama “another Jesse Jackson,” putting that phrase in quotes. We could find no instance in which Clinton used the phrase “another Jesse Jackson” to describe Obama. What Humes is presumably referring to is Clinton’s noting, after Obama won the South Carolina primary, that Jackson won it as well when he ran for president, but Clinton never specifically called Obama “another Jesse Jackson,” as Humes claims.
Humes is described as “professor at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs” (as well as a “former White House speechwriter”). Shouldn’t a college professor have researched his article better than this?