Wed Sep 5, 2012, 06:26 PM

cal04 (36,977 posts)

Clinton: No one could have restored economy to full health in 4 years

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Source: NBC

Previewing his primetime speech tonight at the Democratic convention, former President Bill Clinton tells NBC's Brian Williams that he will explain why President Obama's economic approach "is right" and will "pay off" if he's re-elected.

Clinton also says in the interview that no president, in four years, could have restored the current economy "to full health" after the financial collapse of 2008.

BRIAN WILLIAMS: Cover of Newsweek, "Why Barack needs Bill." Why do you think Barack needs Bill? What do you have to offer?

BILL CLINTON: I really don't know. I've always been mystified by that. I was honored when he asked me to nominate him. I hope what I can do, because we did have a good economy, because we did have the longest expansion in history, is explain why I think his approach is right and it'll pay off if we renew his contract. Explain why the economy he faced was much weaker and different than the one I faced, so that there's no way any president, no president could have restored it to full health in just four years.

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Clinton: No one could have restored economy to full health in 4 years (Original post)	cal04	Sep 2012	OP
Bush got two terms to put us into a hellacious place, Obama should get 8 years to get us out...	rfranklin	Sep 2012	#1
Bush and Cheney had 8 years but did most of the damage in one day.	olddad56	Sep 2012	#11
It takes longer to build something than to destroy it. GOP had 8 years	SharonAnn	Sep 2012	#12
Go big dawg go !!!! n/t	cosmicone	Sep 2012	#2
Hello! AND Thank You Bill!	SoapBox	Sep 2012	#3
Why don't they ask Bill Clinton if he regrets the repeal of Glass-Steagall?	Wernothelpless	Sep 2012	#4
and NAFTA?	central scrutinizer	Sep 2012	#5
Exactly ...	Wernothelpless	Sep 2012	#6
don't leave it up to a comedian to do a journalist's job	SemperEadem	Sep 2012	#7
Which is why I thought it might be easier to break the ice on The Comedy Show ...	Wernothelpless	Sep 2012	#9
Remind people the debt would probably be over 20 trillion	zbdent	Sep 2012	#8
I believe Clinton is wrong and that it could and should have been done.	cstanleytech	Sep 2012	#10

Response to cal04 (Original post)

Wed Sep 5, 2012, 06:32 PM

rfranklin (13,200 posts)

1. Bush got two terms to put us into a hellacious place, Obama should get 8 years to get us out...

and then another two terms of another Dem to keep us healthy.

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Wed Sep 5, 2012, 09:10 PM

olddad56 (2,825 posts)

11. Bush and Cheney had 8 years but did most of the damage in one day.

the day of the big false flag attack. That was the beginning of the end. It will take 50 years before the truth even comes out around that one. That led to the illegal invasions, the stripping away of our civil rights, and the destruction of our economy, and our nation. The entire world changed on that one day. And soon after, the pResident's approval rating was over 90%.

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Wed Sep 5, 2012, 10:07 PM

SharonAnn (9,634 posts)

12. It takes longer to build something than to destroy it. GOP had 8 years

to destroy it. Heaven knows how long it will take to get us back to a surplus after all the GOP looting.

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Wed Sep 5, 2012, 06:32 PM

cosmicone (3,371 posts)

2. Go big dawg go !!!! n/t

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Wed Sep 5, 2012, 06:34 PM

SoapBox (5,802 posts)

3. Hello! AND Thank You Bill!

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Finally!

Someone says it!

I'm so over the GOPathetics and Baggers yapping endlessly about why everything isn't roses, now.

How about 'cause it was put into SUCH a mess, by THEM?!? It's going to take years and years and years, if ever, to dig out
of the hell hole that they put us AND the world in.

Thank you Willie for finally stating what should be obvious.

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Wed Sep 5, 2012, 06:45 PM

Wernothelpless (235 posts)

4. Why don't they ask Bill Clinton if he regrets the repeal of Glass-Steagall?

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I, for one, would really like to know his thinking on the subject these days. He's doing the commercial for DNC talking about how The Republicans are against banking reform, but no mention of his role in the problem.

We need an honest conversation ... don't we? ...

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Wed Sep 5, 2012, 07:01 PM

central scrutinizer (5,905 posts)

5. and NAFTA?

which he twisted Dem arms to get through. I believe that betrayal cost the Dems the House in 1994

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Wed Sep 5, 2012, 07:09 PM

Wernothelpless (235 posts)

6. Exactly ...

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It's perplexing for me ...

Jon Stewart had Bill Clinton on hawking his new book and did NOT ask him one pointed question.

How can we accuse THEM of being responsible for all our economic woes when WE take none of the responsibility or fail to ask one tough question?

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Response to Wernothelpless (Reply #6)

Wed Sep 5, 2012, 07:27 PM

SemperEadem (7,996 posts)

7. don't leave it up to a comedian to do a journalist's job

he's already said "'it's a comedy show. The show before it is a cartoon"...

Jon Stewart is the last person I would be mad at for not asking a pointed question. He's a comedian.

I'm mad when members of the so called "main stream media" don't do their due diligence and that's what they're supposedly charged to do in that profession. The media is supposed to be the watchdog on government, not entertainers. It's nice when they do, but it's an unrealistic expectation.

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Wed Sep 5, 2012, 07:55 PM

Wernothelpless (235 posts)

9. Which is why I thought it might be easier to break the ice on The Comedy Show ...

Jon Stewart is so funny and disarming ... he could make a bit of an joke out of it

"So, ah Mr. President, Glass-Steagall ... ah, how'd that work out? ... any thoughts?" ...

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Wed Sep 5, 2012, 07:38 PM

zbdent (34,522 posts)

8. Remind people the debt would probably be over 20 trillion

after McCain re-cut the taxes on the wealthy to "pay for" the invasion of Iran ...

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Wed Sep 5, 2012, 09:02 PM

cstanleytech (5,292 posts)

10. I believe Clinton is wrong and that it could and should have been done.

Of course that assumes that you dont have a party whos mission statement is to seek out any and all means to defeat a sitting president even if the means is by way of crippling the nations recovery like the Republicans have been doing.

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