Bill Clinton thought so little of President Obama â mocking him as an âamateurâ â that he pressed his wife last summer to quit her job as secretary of state and challenge him in the primaries, a new book claims, âThe country needs you!â the former president told Hillary Clinton, urging her to run this year, according to accounts of the conversation included in Edward Kleinâs new biography of Obama. The title of Kleinâs explosive, unauthorized bio of Obama, âThe Amateurâ (Regnery Publishing), was taken directly from Bill Clintonâs bombshell criticism of the president, the author said. âBarack Obama,â Bill Clinton said, according to book excerpts, âis an amateur.â The withering criticism is incredible, given the fact that Bill Clinton is actively campaigning for Obamaâs re-election. But according to the book, Bill Clinton unloaded on Obama and pressed Hillary to run against her boss during a gathering in the ex-presidentâs home office in Chappaqua last August that included longtime friends, Klein said. âThe economyâs a mess, itâs dead flat. America has lost its Triple-A rating . . . You know better than Obama does,â Bill said. Bill Clinton insisted he had âno relationshipâ with Obama and had been consulted more frequently by his presidential successor, George W. Bush. Obama, Bill Clinton said, âdoesnât know how to be presidentâ and is âincompetent.â http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/bill_blockbuster_an_amateur_XJHYdaV5LT1vpr5I39IKrN