Video: Carter Snubs Clinton at Inauguration
In the new land of hope, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton still aren’t getting along. As they stood in the foyer preparing to go out on stage, Carter totally snubbed Clinton. Watch the look that passes between Hillary and Bill after Jimmy gives the Clenis the Big Ig.
UPDATE at 1/20/09 1:44:24 pm:
More at ABC News: Political Radar: Carter ‘Snubs’ Clinton?
President Carter disputes there was any snub and says any suggestion there was is “erroneous.” Through a spokesperson at the Carter Center in Atlanta, the former President told ABC News that he had earlier spent a half hour talking to the Clintons and therefore wanted to use the opportunity to say hello to the Bushes while he could. According to the spokesperson, cameras only caught the later encounter.
Relations between the Carters and the Clintons have reportedly been frosty for years, dating back to 1980, when Carter’s landslide defeat to Ronald Reagan may have cost Clinton the Arkansas governor’s mansion. At least that’s what Clinton reportedly believed.
In the 90s Clinton was said to resent some of Carter’s freelance diplomacy. Carter, for his part, spared no criticism of Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
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