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TroyD

(4,551 posts)
Wed Sep 5, 2012, 06:44 PM Sep 2012

Clinton: Give Obama time to clean up GOP ‘mess’ (speech excerpts)

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Bill Clinton will tell delegates at the 2012 Democratic National Convention that Republicans left President Barack Obama “a total mess, he hasn’t finished cleaning it up yet” and that the incumbent president deserves another four years to implement his vision for the country.

In early excerpts of the former president’s remarks, Clinton amplifies on the message Democrats delivered on the first day of the convention Tuesday, describing Obama as a champion of the middle class and Republicans as hostile to the interests of regular people.

“In Tampa, the Republican argument against the president’s reelection was pretty simple: We left him a total mess, he hasn’t finished cleaning it up yet, so fire him and put us back in,” Clinton will say. “I like the argument for President Obama’s reelection a lot better. He inherited a deeply damaged economy; put a floor under the crash; began the long, hard road to recovery; and laid the foundation for a more modern, more well-balanced economy that will produce millions of good new jobs, vibrant new businesses and lots of new wealth for the innovators.”



Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/80784.html#ixzz25eLpHFWj
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Clinton: Give Obama time to clean up GOP ‘mess’ (speech excerpts) (Original Post) TroyD Sep 2012 OP
It is true still_one Sep 2012 #1
Thank you for saying it Willie! SoapBox Sep 2012 #2

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)
2. Thank you for saying it Willie!
Wed Sep 5, 2012, 07:05 PM
Sep 2012

Yup!

We had 8 years for BushCo. to dump America into the crapper...and now the Party of Thug, Bully and Bagger want
everything to be roses.

Ain't gonna happen Baggers...AND, Prez O has had to fight the "one term president" mentality of the Congress obstructionists.

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