A guest on The Charlie Rose Show Friday night, Bill Clinton was taking roundhouse punches at Barack Obama, while backstage, Bubba's advisers were attempting to get Rose's producers to cut the interview short. Indeed, that's what Rose was telling anybody who would listen in the interview's aftermath.

With Obama surging in polls in Iowa and New Hampshire and the inevitably of Hillary gaining the Democratic presidential nomination seriously in question, an obviously agitated Bill was out to put a verbal hit on his spouse's main rival. Claiming voting for Obama for the White House was "rolling the dice" with the country's future and comparing the Illinois Senator to "a gifted television commentator running for President," Clinton was playing the role of hit-man for his wife's campaign. Obviously, fearing that Clinton's attack-dog style could backfire, Clinton's handlers pushed to end Rose's conversation with Clinton early.

Fortunately, the show went on. Great TV.