Obama can only stand Clinton 'in doses', cutting short a golf match with the joke-cracking ex-president and inviting buffers to a private dinner

[mystery-ak]

Obama can only stand Clinton 'in doses', cutting short a golf match with the joke-cracking ex-president and inviting buffers to a private dinner

    Barack Obama can only stand Bill Clinton 'in doses'
    Their strained relationship is detailed in Mark Halperin and John Heilemann's new book, Double Down
    They claim the pair couldn't finish an 18-hole golf game organized to bring them closer in 2011
    Obama dragged aides to a private dinner with Clinton because he couldn't 'handle any more undiluted Clinton'
    Clinton infuriated the president by calling Mitt Romney's business record 'sterling' last year

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED: 12:38 EST, 3 November 2013 | UPDATED: 13:17 EST, 3 November 2013



Barack Obama can only handle Bill Clinton 'in doses', once cutting short a golf match organized to bring them closer and inviting aides to a private dinner as conversational buffers, it has been revealed.

The strained relationship between the U.S president and his predecessor is no secret inside Washington.

However, journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann's explosive new book, Double Down: Game Change 2012, provides revealing glimpses into the politicians' personality clashes.

More here
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2486471/Obama-stand-Clinton-doses-cutting-short-golf-match-joke-cracking-ex-president-inviting-buffers-private-dinner.html

[mountaineer]

See also this thread (different source).

[mountaineer]

Two egos too huge to be in the same room at the same time.

[Carling]

Two egos too huge to be in the same room at the same time.

Clinton has a reason for his ego, as he is a very smart man.  Obama is smoke and mirrors, and it drives him crazy to be around a true Alpha male like Clinton.