What a stupid, whining response. This is what I expect from Democrats, not Republicans.
He should not question Ms. Clinton's right to make her comments, nor attack her for being "partisan."
He would have done better to cite the point I made in another thread, to wit:
History shows that Mrs. Clinton lacks the expertise to make serious economic criticisms of the current administration, since in addition to her ridiculous attempt to nationalize one-seventh of the US economy through socialized medicine, she and her co-President Bill Clinton also demonstrated their abysmal economic ineptitude by inheriting a growing economy and leaving office with an economy virtually in recession.
During the election cycle of 1992, George Bush the elder lost his job after Bill Clinton hammered him relentlessly for having caused the “worst economy of the last 50 years.”
In fact, as CNN’s Brooke Jackson has reported: “Three days before Christmas 1992, the National Bureau of Economic Research finally issued its official proclamation that the recession had ended 21 months earlier. What became the longest boom in U.S. history actually began nearly two years before Clinton took office.”
This last sentence is particularly telling, since public perception is that Clinton inherited a bad economy and saved it by raising taxes during his first term – something thatI don’t believe is ever possible.
Clinton spin doctors have created the impression that he had a stellar economic record during his own presidency, in spite of the fact that the economy was already starting to decline during the last year of his term after the stock market crashed in March 2000.
According to a report by MSNBC: “The longest economic expansion in U.S. history faltered so much in the summer of 2000 that business output actually contracted for one quarter, the government said Wednesday in releasing a comprehensive revision of the gross domestic product. Based on new data, the Commerce Department said that the GDP — the country’s total output of goods and services — shrank by 0.5 percent at an annual rate in the July-September quarter of 2000.”
Clinton spin doctors have created the impression that he had a stellar economic record during his own presidency, in spite of the fact that the economy was already starting to decline during the last year of his term after the stock market crashed in March 2000.
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More of the tragic HYPOCRISY of the far left. Clinton did not do ANYTHING FOR our economy, JUST TO IT, by giving us the largest single tax increase in history. The liberal lies just keep surfacing, mainly due to the complicity of the leftist MSM.
great post, thanks
According to the group of people I know/work with, you are totally wrong.
Perception is reality. They all believe the economy was GREAT under Clinton. They believe we were at peace (if you say "Bosnia" they give you a puzzled look). They believe that terrorism began on 9-11. They believe that Hillary will lower their gas prices. They are even beginning to believe that Hillary was right about socialized medicine. They believe that Hillary will fight to "protect" their Social Security.
If you asked me 10 years ago if I knew anybody who would vote for Hillary, I would have laughed out loud. Now I am beginning to think that most of the people I know will vote for Hillary to be our next president.