"No, I don't think — I don't think that's true," Obama stated in an interview with Politico, when asked if Democratic hopeful Sanders is his analog during 2008 primaries while Clinton is herself.
In the 2008 primaries, the Democratic party chose then-Senator Obama over Clinton to be a nominee for the presidential election.
Obama called Clinton "wicked smart" during the interview, adding that the former state secretary knows every US policy "inside and out." However, her main rival Sanders has an understandable appeal in his fight against inequality, he added.
The US president noted that the current gap between the approaches of Republican and Democratic presidential candidates is the widest he has ever seen.
"To me, the relevant contrast is not between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, but relevant contrast is between Bernie and Hillary and Donald Trump and Ted Cruz and the vision that they're portraying for the country and where they want to take us and how they think about everything from tax policy to immigration to foreign policy," Obama said.
The president expressed hope that Republican voters will eventually "settle down" after venting and expressing frustration and anger "that folks like [presidential hopeful Donald] Trump and, to some degree, [Senator Ted] Cruz are exploiting."
Obama has previously stated that a Democrat would win the presidential election scheduled for November 8.
On Friday, the New York-based rating agency Moody's predicted that the Democratic nominee will receive 326 votes in the White House, compared to 212 votes that will be given to the Republican nominee.
