Posted on 06/01/2012 8:39:50 AM PDT by Justaham
Former President Bill Clinton suggested in a television interview Thursday that he believes President Obama's re-election campaign should stop trashing Mitt Romney's work in the private equity industry.
In an interview with CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight," Clinton, a top Obama surrogate who is set to raise cash with the president next week, directly contradicted Democrats who have attacked Romney's business record, suggesting it does qualify him for president.
"I think he had a good business career," Clinton told guest host Harvey Weinstein, a movie mogul who is one of Obama's top fundraisers. "There's no question that in terms of getting up and going to the office and, you know, basically performing the essential functions of the office, the man who has been governor and had a sterling business career crosses the qualification threshold."
Adding that he has "friends" in the private equity business," Clinton suggested it was dangerous for Democrats to go after Romney's record at Bain Capital—adding that in private equity, "like everything else you try, you don't always succeed" in saving companies or making them more productive.
"I don't think that we ought to get into the position where we say this is bad work," Clinton said. "This is good work."
Instead, the former president argued that the Obama campaign should turn its focus to the "real issue" of what Romney will do as president and how it stacks up against Obama's record. He told CNN that he believes Obama will win re-election when that comparison is made.
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Over at DU, they’re not having a very good day.
Billy Clinton betrayed them, BarryO won’t go to WI, and the economy is in the toilet.
aWWWW!
Both "evolve" to meet their constituencies' demands.
This is the second time bj bill stuck it to obummer in the past few weeks. I suspect the motive is to influence the convention and possibly get the hildabeast's name into nomination.
He can't directly do it for the sake of party unity, but hey, if others do it by acclimation they're in. This is looking very much like bobby kennedy torpedoeing LBJ resulting in LBJ's "I will not seek..." speech in '68.
Did Bill just say that Obama was not even qualified to fetch his coffee ?
Did Bill just say that Obama was not even qualified to fetch his coffee ?
Clinton is saying that we can’t survive another 0bama term. 0bama is toast.
The White Water fraudsters cooking up plans to sell timeshare lots on Planet Kolob these days are they?
Birds of a Feather.
NO SALE.
You’re exactly right. June 5 will be telling.
oh, wow. does alan grayson really post at DU? well, actually, it’s not that surprising if you think about it. he would fit right in.
Zero hasn’t recanted or backtracked on this, merely has proxies appear to do it for him — having cake, eating too strategy. Thanks Justaham.
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