[lt.america]

It is called a catch phrase. Once ones attention is caught the as the term implies, then you supply all supporting details, facts, examples etc.

You can't come out with a 20 page manifesto every time you talk to the press or the American people. I think it is a clever way to re-frame an argument that the Clintons feel they successfully rode to the White House (personally I think it was the third party candidate and not the economy the cost Bush the election)over a decade ago.

[Glenn]

I think it is a clever way to re-frame an argument

8 years of Bush signing spending bill after spending bill negates any cleverness about it. Dems will swat this like a fly. I wish they would focus on the now instead of 2012. I've had enough of their incompetent leadership in the House and Senate.