Bill Clinton: Romney Is Running To Steal Credit For Obama’s Recovery

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Source: TPM

Former President Bill Clinton told an Orlando, Fla., audience that Mitt Romney’s vague economic plan is part of a scheme to get elected, then steal credit for a President Obama’s coming recovery.

Clinton cited recent reports that top economists and financial firms are predicting a strong boost to growth soon, likely matching Romney’s current pledge to create 12 million jobs over the next four years, whether or not he’s elected.

According to Clinton, America is looking at 4 percent GDP growth soon, double the current rate, as long as “we don’t mess it up.” The danger then is that Romney will win the election then “cut taxes for wealthy people,” “gut the Medicaid program,” slash aid to education and scientific research, then claim these policies as the reason an already inevitable short term bump occurred in his first term.

Despite the brief gains, Romney will “take the future out” of the budget, Clinton said, undoing Obama’s hard-fought efforts to put the country on a path to more solid gains. That means the president’s work navigating the country through the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression will be forgotten: “Obama won’t even get the credit, because Romney wants to get credit for the 12 million jobs that Obama laid the foundation for.”



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[oswaldactedalone]

1. It's all about the arithmetic

Tell it like it is Big Dog!!

[ProudProgressiveNow]

2. K&R This is true....

the economy is in recovery and the next for years will be much better. PBO made all the tough, correct decisions.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

29. We have to win

go get em Bill!

[Faygo Kid]

3. Go get him, Bill.

[Firebirds01]

6. Bill knows how to connect with people

[bamacrat]

10. Great pic. 30 years between greats. n/t

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

4. Big Dog is right. Everyone knows that as soon as Romney is elected, Republicans will pass the JOBS

bill and then take credit for something that was Obama's idea. In fact, they will steal all of his ideas and make them their own. Not to mention, the trillions that the banks are still sitting on: suddenly they will start lending again. Hiring will pick up. Romney and the Republicans will take credit.

My biggest fear of a Romney/Republican dominance: Americans, convinced that it was the Republicans who saved the economy, will continue to vote for Republicans for years to come.

[crunch60]

25. Please..........don't say when Romeney get's elected....he's not. don't even think it....

He is going down

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

27. I hope so! I really do! I don't know what's wrong with this country. It's very depressing!!

[JackN415]

5. Bill is the best...

On one side, the Democrat are proud of their legacy, heritage, having former president or even failed presidential candidate out front in the public.

On the other side, the Repub hides their past, (Shrub) like a skeleton in the closet, like a felon hides past conviction.

Yet... they run neck in neck in this election.

Sigh!! what the heck is wrong with this country???

[BlancheSplanchnik]

15. a lot of stupid people, an embedded puritan "ethic", and a media that

panders to the stupid--profiting from sleazy shows and twenty-four hour/day infotainment channels that must be filled with sensationalism and micro-measuring (instead of news).

And, a major political party that has become one with the capitalist ethic, "ANYTHING to make a buck". It has attached itself to mega-corporate interests, infiltrated media and allied itself with Catholic and Evangelical institutions in order to propagate pseudo-christian brainwashing.

[JackN415]

19. Nothing wrong with capitalism, there is such a thing as capitalism...

based on ethical principles. It's the unethical one that is troublesome. '

Oh.. and religion. We thought that medieval religious inquisitions went away with the Age of Enlightenment.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

21. it's the unethical and unregulated aspects that I'm talking about.

Seems that's the side the repukes have embraced. They don't want outside regulation and they sure as hell don't self-regulate!

[merrily]

34. She did not say anything about capitalism.

[libdem4life]

23. Vulture Capitalism...Romney Style...will quickly morph into Feudalism.

If PBO is a socialist, Romney is a Lord of the Manor

[crunch60]

26. Citizens United -allowed elections to be bought then sold to the highest bidder..

The Oligarchs are running our country. They will steal/privatize everything that will bring them the most profit, and they will ask us for more, and more will never be enough I hope to see a strong resurgence of Occupy Wall Street. We should all participate and give them our support.

[Tay123]

7. 0. Bill Clinton: Romney Is Running To Steal Credit For Obama’s Recovery

Romney actually said that on his infamous 47% video.

[John2]

8. I

picked up the 12 million jobs prediction earlier. Now President Clinton is pointing out what the Press should have done a long time ago if they just did their jobs instead of going on goose chases perpetrated by the Republican propaganda machine. John Kerry picked it up a while back when he said Romney was perpetrating a fraud on the American people.

Romney lied about the Olympics and Massachusetts. He got Government money from his Republican pals in Congress to help with the Salt Lake City Olympics as well as got tax credits from the State of Utah. He did not save the Olympics on his own. He also got Federal money to help him in Massachusetts when he cut his own state's budget. Why do people think he asked for a waiver on Welfare from the Federal Government? He also had Federal money to help him with Romney care in that state. Most of the credit should have been given to Ted Kennedy because that was his life long project. So Romney pretends he did all those things on his own under False pretenses. This guy has shown a pattern of lying.More like Romnesia.

[amuse bouche]

9. Bill

has Willard's number

[SunSeeker]

11. Actually, Romney would destroy Obama's job-building foundation, leading to double-dip recession.

You can bet there wouldn't be 12 million jobs added like there would be under Obama. Romney would institute brutal spending cuts on the poor, while adding 2 trillion in military spending and huge tax cuts for the rich. That is a recipe for disaster, as we have seen under Reagan and Dubya. That is why Krugman predicts a double-dip recession if Romney wins.

[NYC Liberal]

12. You know that's exactly what will happen. If Romney wins, he will take credit as the economy

continues to recover.

[lark]

13. He might get a bump for a quarter,

but as soon as his deficit expanding, middle class destroying budget gets passed, it's doom city from then until long after he's out of office.

[NYC Liberal]

16. And then a Democrat will get elected and will have to clean up the mess again,

and will get blamed for not doing it fast enough, and the cycle will continue.

[BlueMan Votes]

18. if, or rather WHEN things get worse and worser under a mittministration...

It will all be blamed on President Obama. they'll say that things are a LOT worse than they realized before the election, and that Obama left things in an even more disastrous condition than they could have ever imagined.
the scripts are probably ready to be passed out to the sheepherders at faux news.

[BlueMan Votes]

14. This is my biggest fear, in regard to a rmoney "win".

That things will get much better, due to Obama's policies- and the the repugs will take full credit, backed by their media lapdogs...the hoi polloi will buy into it, the repugs consolidate power by then changing the rules, and the Democratic Party becomes all but entirely inconsequential for a generation or two.

I'm going to need a LOT of medication to make it thru the next 8 days...and if rmoney steals it, even MORE for the next 8 years.

[andym]

17. I agree and even posted about this two weeks ago

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=159494
The second most damning meme from the secret tape is that Romney plans to do nothing for the economy
............
"So in effect, what he plans to do is to take credit for the recovery that President Obama helped engineer.

[BlueCaliDem]

20. That is exactly what I've been saying, that Romney - and the Republicans - are trying to steal

President Obama's achievements and the recovery. As always, Republicans want to take credit for other people's work.

They still haven't bounced back from the reputation they've created for themselves because of the catastrophic failures of twelve years of a Republican Congress and eight years of an inept Republican pResident. They need to regain a modicum of credibility as a political party that can help the country, and it's clear they want to use all that President Obama and the Democrats have worked so hard for in that endeavor.

[DallasNE]

22. I Don't Agree With Clinton Here

Those 12 million jobs will not materalize under a Romney presidency because his plans would cause a decrease in aggregate demand and move the country back into recession. Romney would chop off at the knees the ongoing recovery. Paul Krugman is saying pretty much the same thing. Now I do agree if Clinton is meaning that that is the rationale behind Romney's thinking but I don't read his comments that way.

[wisteria]

24. Oh so true. I am glad he said it.

That is what this is all about for the Republicans.

[Up2Late]

28. Yup, the 12 Million jobs number has been out there since early summer

...and has nothing to do with anything Romney is planning to do. Once again, President Clinton is the Explainer-in-Chief!

[valerief]

30. Rmoney steals everything. nt

[jmowreader]

31. I hate to do this...but I am going to disagree with the Big Dog

As we speak, the economy is taking baby steps toward recovery. (I hate to use that term, seeing as how that fucking idiot Dave Ramsey uses it in his "Financial Peace University," but it is what it is.) Romney's austerity program is fully capable of erasing all the gains President Obama made in his term in a very short period of time. I give Romneynomics six months to send us back to Bush-level despair, and that's being generous.

If Romney wins the election he won't be able to take credit for Obama's recovery because it will no longer exist. The game plan is to completely destroy the economy then blame it all on Obama's policies, specifically ARRA, Obamacare and the automaker bailouts.

[Cha]

32. Of course he would try..mittLies. Bill knows exactly what kind of creep we're

dealing with.

[Kurovski]

33. he's a wise dawg, he is.

R

[merrily]

35. I think this is obvious, but good for Bubba for getting people to hear it.