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GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Former President Bill Clinton took supporters here on a stroll down "fact lane" Friday night, passionately making the case that economy is well on its way to recovery.
"People don't feel it yet. I get that. The deficit was going down three years in a row before a majority of the American people would say 'Ya, it's going down.' People didn't feel it," Clinton told a crowd of more than 2,000 people. "And the damage was much deeper this time around. I'm telling you, we are coming out of this, we are moving in the right direction. If you stay with this policy and you stay with this president and you elect Tammy Baldwin, you will feel it."
The comments come one day after GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's campaign jumped on Clinton's remark that the economy is "not fixed."
At a rally late Thursday, Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan said he agreed with the former president, and used it as an attack against the current administration's economic record.
But in remarks that lasted nearly one hour, Clinton was careful to say the economy is not "hunky dory" but stressed that the nation's economy was on the mend.
In recent weeks, Clinton has been one of President Barack Obama's most active surrogates, headlining rallies in nearly all the key battleground states. His appearance here at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay was also in support of Democratic senate candidate, Rep. Tammy Baldwin. The high profile race in the Badger State has gotten plenty of interest from outside groups who have poured millions into advertising in the state, to which Clinton warned supporters to "follow the money."
The 42nd president was particularly critical of the Super PAC Crossroads, run by Karl Rove, a former aide to President George W. Bush. "You all remember Karl Rove, don't you? Now he was part of a great economic record," Clinton said to laughter. "He's out there plugging for Gov. Romney and plugging for Tommy Thompson, and if you liked the economics of the previous 8 years, you will just love what they do. You gotta follow the money sometimes, folks."
Clinton also used his trip here to reflect on some of the pleasant memories from his own time in office, even briefly addressing his legacy. "When you have more yesterdays than tomorrows, there are only 3 things that matter: Are people better off than when you quit than when you started? Do children have a brighter future and are things coming together or being torn apart?" he said.
"The rest of it is all background music."
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HEY AVERAGE AMERICAN!!! I am a Deomocrat and I am of the working class and I work my butt off every day!!! I would never vote for someone like Romney and the reason why is this is a man who helped cut jobs in this country and ship them overseas. Why should we vote for someone who going to raise taxes for the working class? If you think he is going to cut subsidies that are given to the rich you are sadly mistaken. This man could care less for the working class, he has no clue as to what it feels like every day worrying if you are going to have a job because you have jack a$$ like Romney cutting jobs and sending the work to foreign lands. It so sad to see people actually believing the crap this man spews. A vote for Romney is another knife in the back of the working class.
He's done a hell of a lot better then "Let me change my stance again" Romney. Romney's done nothing to help the working class in this country, if Obama had not stepped in to help the Automotive companies they would all have gone tubes. It was not Obama that turned Chrysler over to the Italians it was Chrylser's board that did that.
Dear MINIMEME :please don't let oBozo and media fool you any longer. It is weak-minded people (not real Americans) like you that MUST get the facts correct.
Why don't you get the facts straight!!! ROMNEY IS NOT FOR THE WORKING PEOPLE AND IF YOU ARE STUPID ENOUGH TO VOTE FOR HIM THEN SO BE IT!!! He will do nothing to help get the economy going in this country in fact he will only brinig it down. AND KOTA I AM AN AMERICA WHO DOES GIVE A DAMN WHAT IS YOUR EXCUSE!!!
Give the president 4 more years to give us an economy "built to last" where everyone will give to their ability and take as their needs. Where have I heard that before?
Think we are going to believe a CONVICTED LIAR whose ONLY purpose is to make millions of dollars off oBozo and dummycrats for his voice? This is the best democraps have? He is a money-whore cut and dried. Hell, if Romney/Ryan ticket approached him, he would become a pitchman for THEM if the money is right!
I know this isn't possible; but I would love to see the President name Bill Clinton as Secretary of State when Hillary leaves. He's eminently qualifed, he'd be terrific at the job, he'd love the job, it would help Hillary when (hopefully) she runs in 2016. I know it's probably going to be Kerry and Clinton might be a handful, you don't want an ex-president hanging around challenging you, etc.....but, wouldn't it be fun and good for us and the whole world?!
I think you might have something Bill as Secretary with Obama's tiparillo in his arse.
SORRY THAT WAS SUCH A BOGUS BIAS SURVEY QUESTION AND OPTIONS
You can feel "YES" that the economy has improved
and still vote "NO" based on the words still in rough shape.
BEING IN "Rough Shape" doesn't mean there hasn't been Improvements
That is like saying not THROWING UP every 10 minutes from being drunk
isn't an improvement over just having a hangover and still being in rough shape
BJ Bill basically said we're screwed. Many close friends say he will vote Romney and why not? obama is throwing all women in the state dept. under the bus. That's what dem's historically do.
Spud
Your post is such BS
"Many close friends" of Clinton said he will vote for Romney
Get real
It would be easier for him to not be flying all over the country and on TV telling millions of people to vote for the President.
Logically his actions would offset his one "No" vote you claim
Just when I thought the Rethuglicans couldn't get any dumber,I read geque's comment. What a bunch of looney tunes.ROFLMAO!
Our fiat dollar has been worth less (less purchasing value) every year since 1913.
Our manufacturing-based economy which supported the Middle and Lower Classes has been decimated by 'Globalism', 'Free Trade Agreements', and especially 'Technology' which creates ways to replace the need for human labor.
Our government is no longer under the control of the people (where it rightly belongs), and has evolved into a corrupt and oppressive bureaucracy.
The 'Constitution of the Republic of the United States' and the 'Bill of Rights' have been edited and interpreted to such a degree that they no longer resemble their original intent.
And the descendents of the brave Patriotic and fearless Forefathers who wrested this Nation from their oppressors for the benefit of the people have become weak, indecisive, and cowardly.
If you want to continue to say we're better off today than we once were, you prove my point.... you are the problem.
Dave434250
Where have you been...and how long have you been blind? Have you ever...ever left the grounds of the good old United States? You said: Atleast Romney embraces free market principles" A joke...the rules are stacked against you...and who set the rules? Mitt Romney and his kind. Tell me why it cost $3.00 per pill ...in America for medication made in America (Bristol-Meyers Squibb) and I can get that same identical pill from Bristol-Meyers Squibb in a Red communist Country for $0.15 cents. Companies sell goods in America for one price...and the rest of the world get 80% off. We pay more for medical than any other country, but we are ranked18th from the top of the list. Romney and the republicans can keep their so call free market principles...go back to Bain Capital.
Here they are, folks: Bob Olson, Hick 46, Paul Bearer, Tracy #s, Steve the Dog and Skrewdriver- the proud standard bearers of the party of Lincoln, Roosevelt and Eisenhower. How proud of you all those august American leaders would be if they could see and hear you today. (Gasp, choke, gag.)
I note, Steve, you saying that "the economy tanked under Obama"- really? REALLY? So with his one vote in the Senate, he was able to single- handedly destroy our economy- and Bush had nothing to do with it? Dude, you seriously need to sober up and turn off FOX. Try reading a book sometime. It won't hurt, honest.
Skrewdriver- yes, I got the reference to your favorite band, and for the record, they SUCK. Now, when did Obama say he would fix everything? He never did, never even promised to keep unemployment under 8%- you are just parroting the same stupid and repeatedly debunked lies from Mush Blimpaugh and FOX Entertainment, without whom you'd likely be mute, because you obviously lack the intellectual horsepower to formulate a coherent original thought other than racist slurs- and if you keep throwing out ill- concealed white power spew, I'm gonna call you on it every time. You, sir, are a sack of garbage in human- shaped skin. You are an embarrasment to your country (but a typical representative of your party).
Blimpaugh, McConnell, Boehner and the rest of thier gang are traitors to the productive class in this country. The RepubliCAN'Ts have opposed (and successfully blocked) EVERY SINGLE jobs bill the Democrats have advanced in the last three years. And don't repeat that tired old canard about all the Republican job bills that were blocked in the Senate; it is an easily verifiable fact that every last one of those bills contained "poison pills" in the form of social legislation that had nothing whatsoever to do with jobs. Your party shot down a jobs bill for returning veterans, but as long as you've got that "Power of Pride" sticker on your Chevy, that proves you support the troops, right? The President's stimulus was not only not a failure, it was directly responsible for throwing the brakes on the runaway economic catastrophe left by the illegal, unelected Cheney regime. You all had your taxes CUT because of the stimulus, but you're too damned dumb to realize it- you'd rather believe what you hear on hatriot radio than spend thirty seconds with a calculator and your pay stubs.
Way to go, guys. Keep waving that flag and vote Republican; support the party that starts wars and then short-changes the warriors. "Believe In America" while you sell it out hand over fist to the Chinese. Your ignorance and self- delusion would be pathetic and ludicrous were it not for the fact that your corporate masters are wrecking the country that the rest of us live in. Go ahead and crank up your seventh- grade insults, BOYS; I've taken abuse from a better class of people than the inbred white trash that your remarks reveal you to be.
All I got to say is if one sheep jumps off the cliff the rest follow. You take the word of a man that disgraced his wife in the White House, lets Obama throw her under the bus. I quess if Bill gives all the Ladies free cigars the MEN will cheer. Obama Lies Brave Men Die, If by now you really think the Obama and his Admin. are not covering up on Libia, you deserve the highest cliff. Good Luck Clinton and Obama will not break your fall, just tell you keep moving FORWARD.
Headlines: What a f%cking understatement.... First Read and NBC... what a joke a news organization.
Dean, apparently you think it's a news organization,you're here. Same with you Insane America. I guess you think Faux is the only credible news source. You know the one that people who watch no news are more enlightened,than people who watch Faux News.
If you guys feel that way, why do you waste your time coming here? I bet it's because Fox closed their message boards because they were to vile even for them.
Thanks Slick Willy, for all your help to Mitt. LMAO. I guess thats payback for throwing Hillary under the bus.
The only ones that pay attention to MSNBCBS any more is the libtard lemmings as they go over the cliff.
Robert
When in doubt to deal in facts and have an intelligent conversation...just call names
Wow I haven't done that since the 2nd grade
What facts would you like Genie?
1 in 6 live in poverty
23 MILLION Americans out of work
16 TRILLION dollar debt
reduced credit rating
gas prices double
47 Million on food stamps
144 Million receiving goverenment assistance.
You mean facts like that?
robert,
your posts read as if you are paid by the retard party. you read like you are a retard. you have romnesia...get help now.
Well just look at the poll that lsdnews put up for all of you Hussein lovers. You can't get enough of raw numbers? You're always harping them. So, how is that 66% number that says NO, it is not getting better. Explain that? Oh, thats right, you will spin those too. Pathetic
Man the democrats kool aid flows freely on this topic. I'll make this simple so even the kool aid won't obscure your thinking.
vote democrat = liberal/socialist/communist/godless (your words not mine) want more government so it can take care of me since I obviously can't do it. More welfare, food stamps, stimulas money. Believe that 97% of the people need to be dependent on government for their daily bread.
vote republican = Constitutional Republic and the belief that you built it and the government didn't.
vote independent = I don't like either of the choices so I'll just not vote. ( actually you are voting for status quo)
Wake up America, smell the stench that comes from the democrats and all their CZARS.
I see you couldn't think of any reason to vote for republicans Les A.
It's clear you don't have a clue what you're talking about, You're just repeating what you've heard.
Really ask youself those three questions, Is Slick Willey, "just being slick again" Throwing Obama under the bus, maybe he does feel bad Obama did it to his wife. Obama is so deeply in love with himself he can't even see it.
Slick Willy is paving the way for Hillary in 2016...and, like everyone else who ever met Mitt Romney, he hates him.
Slick Willy----"I did not have sex with that woman." ----oh yeah I did. The orginal flip flopper.
Not hunkey dory Bill? You freakin moron- things are abysmal! Gas is going up (penalty for the HALF of us that are driving to work every day) groceries are getting more expensive daily (another penalty for the HALF of us still working that have to pay for our food) guess Obama's share the wealth is working. This generation of seniors will be okay, but seriously questionable for the next.
And about that fruit from the tree, Obama's dad abandoned him for a grandparent that was a communist groupie.
Romney/Ryan 2012 the end of an error
We all know that gas prices are controlled more by the Koch brothers than the president (seems they don't care for the half of you driving to work every day), as for groceries getting more expensive...did you hear about the drought this summer--killed most of the crops---or are you blaming Obama for that too?
Obama/Biden 2112
Romney 1040
WOW I don't think I've seen the republicans as angry as they are today. They must be even more desperate than I originally thought. Sorry republicans but the mean mouthed, angry hate, lying comments aren't going to change anything. Willard is the most flawed, flip-flopping lying candidate to ever run for President, you're stuck with him and it's obvious you don't like it. BTW: You can't defend the indefensible.
Very well said, MO!
Mo your angry because you can not defend a failed presidency.
flip flop SEE POST #70
In an act of total tone deafness, last night Paul Ryan did a fundraiser with Leder, the guy who hosted the infamous 47% fundraiser....if you were Romney/Ryan, would you want to remind people of that incident?
In the last gasp desperation to save Oblamo MSNBCBS says Oblamo is ahead in IOWA, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Iowa has no organized republican party so to speak, they only managed to name a state Chairman last month after not having one for a long time. Obama has 4 times as many field offices and boots on the ground in Iowa than Romney has, over one third of Iowans have already voted, Obama is winning that vote by @ 30%...I can't imagine why MSNBC and most other pollsters have Obama in the lead there...CNN by 8 points.
Oblamobots you can not change one very simple factual actual number Romney 51% Oblamo 45% No incumbent president has ever won re election with margins under 50% so get over it the socialist king is dead.
Where are you getting that number? Source?
Voted for Obama by absentee ballot this week. He works for the people of this country not the rich.
If you vote for the republican you will be putting a G.W. Clone right back in as President...
Don't do it! This country cannot survive another lying cheating back stabbing republican...
There are to many in congress as well!!! Get them out. NOW!!!
twocentsin---I never thought I would ever say this 'cause nobody dislikes GW more than I do...but he was better than Romney....and what else is there to say!
Congrats for voting early, now get your friends and neighbors to vote! (Just to toot my own horn, I finally convinced my nephew to change his vote from Romney to Obama yesterday!!!!)
The Republicans and Democrats know what steps we can take to restore America to a foundation of stability and growth. However because they are indebted to the 5% of the population who spend 100's of millions of dollars supporting their Parties they won't.
They will both just keep giving the 95% less and making us pay more. Just like the corporations who give us less product at the store and charge us the same price.
The United America Party is not indebted to the 5%, we are supported by the 95%. We have a clear plan to restore America for our citizens. Read our Federal mandates at www.unitedamericaparty.org become a member, support our growth.
Bill Clinton wants Hilary to run in 2016. He does not want her to run against an incumbent. So, he supports Obama for that reason only. She could than run on "I will fix what Obama did". Romney will not be able to fix the economy either, but he will stop the down hill slide we currently are in and get us going in the right direction.
He stumps for Obama but he will vote for Romney.
If Obama gets 4 more yrs. fixing the economy will be moot. There will be no economy. The gov. will just borrow or print money to give us our food stamps and welfare.
J Bailey and how do you know he will vote for Romney? He's the quintessential democrat and yes he wants Hillary to run in 2016, if even a hint of him not voting straight democrat ticket got out, she wouldn't have a chance.
Even Clinton wouldn't vote for a loser like Obama. Obama will further the decline of America and Hillary will not stand a snowball's chance in Hell of occupying the White House.
I don't know how she could stomach the thought of sitting behind the desk in the Oval Office after knowing what Bill had going on under there.
Clinton being the quintessential politician he is sees the only chance for his wife to assume the Presidency is if she runs against Romney in 2016, therefore his vote for Romney.