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If you have a former president , Bill Clinton, who is considered to have been a good president with successful policies, etc. for the most part, it stands to reason that if he praises Obama, people will take it seriously. He said in his speech at the convention, things are different today than they were when he was in office and that Obama inherited a worse economy than he did. If you listened to the details, you will know that and most people will believe it.
Among other things it was a pretty powerful rebuttal of republican political & economic dogma. He was effective at dismantling the GOP medicare plan.
He compared the beginning of the recovery under his presidency to today under Obama:
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Among other things it was a pretty powerful rebuttal of republican political & economic dogma. He was effective at dismantling the GOP medicare plan.
Enter the man who signed the original 1996 welfare reform bill into law.
"This is personal to me," Clinton said. "....But I am telling you the claim that President Obama weakened welfare reform's work requirement is just not true. But they keep on running ads claiming it. You want to know why? Their campaign pollster said, 'We are not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.' " The Romney campaign made a gamble with its Clinton praise. Wednesday was a case study in the inherent pitfalls of that sort of approach.
He compared the beginning of the recovery under his presidency to today under Obama:
Obama was starting with a much weaker economy, he said -- and "no president" could repair the damage in a single term. "But he has the foundation for a new modern, successful economy of prosperity. If you renew the president's contract, you will feel it. You will feel it." In other words: an Obama second-term economy would look a lot like mine.
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