Bill Clinton refuses to say Barack Obama is 'ready' for White House

Seeded on Tue Aug 5, 2008 9:35 PM EDT (NY Daily News)

Bill Clinton, in what seems like either a high stakes game of poker or an act of self-indulgent bitterness, refuses to acknowledge that Obama is ready for the White House, preferring instead to suggest that perhaps "nobody is ready to be President."

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