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ProfessionalLeftist

(4,982 posts)
2. IMO he's right about the economy and Obamacare though
Fri Feb 8, 2013, 03:41 PM
Feb 2013

Clinton urged the party to craft a clear employment program, saying that while the nation needed a long-term debt-reduction plan, but said, “that doesn’t mean austerity is the right response.”

“If you do not have growth, you cannot fix this debt problem,” Clinton said

He also cautioned Democrats not to “walk away” from healthcare as an issue just because the overhaul they supported is now enacted into law. Implementation of the law would be important to the party’s future success because, he said, “we Democrats now own health reform for good or ill.”

If the healthcare law needs to be changed, Clinton said, Democrats “need to be caught trying to change [it].”

“Stay with this. Make it work. Prove that we were right to do it,” he said.

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