Obama Clinton Beef: Romney Says President and Ex-CIC Not Pals
Presumptive GOP candidate Mitt Romney is insinuating that there’s an Obama Clinton beef (many assume the pair are BFF), and in doing so, suggesting that Obama’s presidency lacks the policies of Clinton’s that proved so popular.
The idea of an Obama Clinton beef seems to be a Romney campaign trail invention, but it’s the kind of thing that preys upon an America that feels more divided than it ever has been. It has often been said lately that this is the first time people have markedly disagreed on what basic facts are true, rather than just disputing how to approach those issues.
But to suggest an Obama-Clinton beef is also a way to distance the president from frequent advisor and campaign trail pal Clinton, who presided over an era of relative peace and prosperity in the US. Romney tacks the quip onto the end of a laudatory bit about Clinton, which is kind of funny considering Republicans were cool even then with gridlocking the entire country over an act of fellatio.
Of the supposed Obama Clinton beef, Romney says:
“Almost a generation ago, Bill Clinton announced that the era of big government was over, even a former George McGovern campaign worker, like President Clinton, was signaling to his own party that Democrats should no longer try to govern by proposing a new program for every problem.”
Romney continues:
“President Obama tucked away the Clinton doctrine in his large drawer of discarded ideas, along with transparency and bipartisanship… It’s enough to make you wonder if maybe it was a personal beef with the Clintons. Probably, it runs much deeper than that.”
On Romney’s remarks, Obama spokeswoman Lis Smith countered:
“Mitt Romney simply wants to return to the same policies that caused the crisis and weakened the middle class: budget-busting tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and letting Wall Street write its own rules.”
Tags : Bill Clinton, Mitt Romney, Obama Clinton beef, President Barack Obama
Posted: May 16, 2012
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May 16, 2012
Free Passes for the military at Yosemite and Arcadia. Do people in the military get paid or is what they do for the love of their country? They get a paycheck to fight and die for this country and it is a all volunteer army. Right? So why the free stuff? My future son-in-law is Army but my x-husband Charles controls their missions, that's where the credibility for their mission are duties are lost. A foreigner who doesn't know his real name, cheats at everything he has done since he has been in this country and he is ineligible to serve in a army he sends out American men to die to protect his evil against American citizens and me. Very Interesting. Think, think, put on your thinking cap.
May 16, 2012
Note to Lis Smith, you are repeating a very tired mantra, intelligent people won't fall for it.
May 16, 2012
Romney is pathetic. He'll flip-flop, waffle, cheat, and outright lie; anything to get one more vote. That is who Republicans have chosen as their candidate for President.
May 16, 2012
I hate the liberal bias that is so obvious even in this article. It isn't surprising as that is how the left-wing media operates, but it doesn't pass the common sense test to say that tax cuts hurt America and put us in this mess. Putting money back in the pockets of hard working Americans, believe it or not, is a good thing. I don't want my tax dollars going to ten thousand useless government programs that do not have any benefit for the majority of the U.S. population. Stop taxing to death, so the eceonomy can get back on track ON ITS OWN. Quit blaming Wall Street and take individual responsibility for yourself. That is how America gets back on track, not through handouts and entitlements.
May 16, 2012
Mitt, you're a tattletail! I'm telling Mom on you!
May 16, 2012
You may or may not be right in your assesment of Mitt Romney….but even if you are right……he's still better than Obama!!
May 16, 2012
Willard has never told the truth in his life.
May 16, 2012
it's no wonder other countries look at this circus of ours every 4 years and increase the already contempt they have for us.
May 16, 2012
He is really reaching if he has to bring up something as unworthy as this.
May 16, 2012
He's (Romney) a weenie with dough.
May 16, 2012
Who's Liz Smith and why should we care?
May 16, 2012
In the meanwhile in other trivial news…we're broke….thanks for tuning in…have a pleasant evening.
May 17, 2012
Back in 2008 during the Dem primary Bill Clinton called Obama a "Chicago thug". Bill wasn't too far off the mark. This past week journalist Ed Klein interviewed Rev Jeremiah Wright. Wright was Obama's pastor for 20 years. Wright was noted for his racist anti-american sermons (Not god bless America, but god Damn America). During the primary the Obama camp attempted to bribe the reverend to keep his mouth shut offering him $150,000. Klein has this interview in writing and on tape. This is payback for Obama throwing Wriight under the bus for political expediency.
May 17, 2012
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May 17, 2012
Obama has ruined the country why not try something that will work! Go Mitt Romney…What does it matter if he is rich more power to him.
May 17, 2012
I didn't know you were political!
Xo! You tell em bear!!!
May 17, 2012
Obama's only good in one thing, delivering speech.
May 17, 2012
Saul Alinsky tactis. He has nothing to run except shooting OSAMA all by his loathsome. Lets give MITT some conservative congress people, to help him CUT the SPENDING.
May 18, 2012
What a nut job.Romney, get a clue.
May 18, 2012
Who let the teabags, inbreds out? Romney sucks!! OBAMA2012!!!!!
May 18, 2012
Republicans didn't gridlock the government over the act, they did it because Clinton lied under oath, aka Perjury.
May 18, 2012
Bill Clinton is way out of Obamas league!