Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton’s double-barrelled attack on the “awful legacy” of the last eight years on Monday left liberals confused and angry, even as they disseminated official spin from his spokesman.
“If you believe we can all rise together, if you believe we’ve finally come to the point where we can put the awful legacy of the last eight years behind us and the seven years before that when we were practicing trickle-down economics and no regulation in Washington, which is what caused the crash, then you should vote for [Hillary Clinton] because she’s the only person who basically had good ideas will tell you how she’s going to pay for them, can be commander in chief and is a proven change maker with republicans and democrats and independents alike,” Clinton told an audience in Spokane, Washington, while campaigning for his wife.
The remarks baffled liberal pundits and their readers.
“Why would such a skilled politician as Clinton so clumsily throw the current Democratic president under the bus? Is this an indication of a potential split from Obama from the former secretary of state as well?” Slate asked Tuesday.
The New York Times noted that Clinton’s remarks were so odd that even his wife’s rival for the 2016 presidential nomination was using them to launch political attacks.
“Don’t know that I’d call President Obama’s 72 straight months of job growth an ‘awful legacy,’” Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders tweeted Monday.
Clinton spokesman Angel Urena issued a statement to USA Today on Tuesday framing the remark as an attack on Republicans.
“When Republicans controlled the White House, their trickle-down approach drove our economy to the brink of a collapse. After President Obama was elected, Republicans made it their number one goal to block him at every turn,” Urena said. “That unprecedented obstruction these last eight years is their legacy, and the American people should reject it by electing Hillary Clinton to build on President Obama’s success so we can all grow and succeed together.”
Urena’s comment ignores the fact that Democrats controlled both the U.S. House and Senate for two years after Obama’s 2008 election. Salon readers picked up on that and offered a different opinion: The Clinton family dislikes Obama.
“We all know what he meant. He is a politician who understands the weight of every word. He threw that out on purpose. They hate the president,” said a user identified as Blue Collar Peep.
“This has to be about the most schizophrenic campaign ever. Bernie and Hillary are both tripping over themselves to both embrace and distance themselves from the current [White House] occupant. At this rate, we likely will end up with President Trump,” added Dienne77.
Salon’s Sophia Tesfaye noted that Clinton’s speech reminded voters of the time he called Obama’s campaign a “fairy tale” in 2008.
Salon wonders what former President Bill Clinton meant when he referenced the “awful legacy” of the past eight years
“Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen,” Mr. Clinton told a New Hampshire audience Jan. 7, 2008.
Political observers have said Clinton may hold animosity towards Obama for essentially taking his wife’s best shot at the White House away from her. Hillary Clinton is now 68 years old, has mysterious coughing fits on the campaign trail, and the FBI is conducting an investigation into her handling of government documents while secretary of state.
Sign up for free news alerts from WND.com, America’s independent news network.
A general election campaign by the former secretary of state is likely to be hobbled by:
- Hillary’s role in encouraging Obama to oust Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi from power in 2011. The nation has become a breeding ground for the Islamic State group since she declared during a CBS interview on Oct. 20, 2011, “We came, we saw, he died!”
- Hillary’s response to the Sept. 11, 2012, terror attacks in Benghazi, Libya, which resulted in the deaths of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, foreign service officer Sean Smith, and CIA contractors Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods. She initially blamed the attacks on an obscure anti-Islam YouTube video.
- Hillary’s “home brew” email server that she used as secretary of state. More than 100 agents are examining the contents of the server to determine whether or not she should be prosecuted for violating a subsection of the Espionage Act related to “gross negligence.”
A CBS/New York Times poll released Monday shows Hillary Clinton, who is well on her way to securing her party’s presidential nomination, holds net-negative ratings with voters in the double digits. The former secretary of state is viewed favorably by 31 percent of voters and unfavorably by 52 percent for a net-negative rating of -21.
Obama’s 2012 rating by comparison was 41 percent favorable and 41 percent unfavorable for a net-negative rating of zero.
Hillary Clinton’s net-negative rating with registered voters of -21 compared with President Obama’s net-negative rating of zero during his 2012 re-election campaign
RELATED:
What’s got into Bill Clinton: Trashing Obama?
Hillary emails so secret senior lawmakers can’t read them
Hillary email ‘word game’ exposed during town hall
Clinton Foundation subpoenaed, Huma in crosshairs
Choke: Hillary suffers massive coughing fit
from PropagandaGuard https://propagandaguard.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/bills-broadside-against-obama-confuses-left/
from WordPress https://toddmsiebert.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/bills-broadside-against-obama-confuses-left/
No comments:
Post a Comment