"I worked with the president to reduce the deficit ... and I respect the choices he made to help create 23 million jobs and low inflation and low unemployment. The president did a terrific job and the country has a sense of that," Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts said while campaigning in Iowa.
Hummmm. How many elections do Democrats have to lose before they realize that people vote for strength? FDR won re-election twice during bad economic times. But the people perceived him as strong. Why do you think he refused to be photographed in the wheelchair? Bush is successfully prosecuting a war and the economy isn’t all that bad.
Along with Kerry and Dean, Rep. Dick Gephardt and Sens. John Edwards, Joe Lieberman and Bob Graham talk about once a month with the former president.
These guys have been in politics a long time, why do they need Clinton to tell them what to believe? The real lesson they learned from the 1990s is that you can easily fool the people by running as a centrist and then jacking up the welfare state later. Now, President Clinton, how exactly do we do that again?
In the conversations, as related by the candidates and their aides, Clinton has:
- Told Edwards to spend less time on TV if he needs more time to study issues.
- Complained to Edwards about President Bush‘s plans for rebuilding Iraq, and suggested that Democrats press the issue. "It's not going right," the former president said.
- Urged Lieberman to be tougher on Bush.
I’m surprised that the candidates are really admitting all this. Don’t they know he’s just being a ventriloquist to get his own ideas in the debate? He doesn’t think they can beat Bush and doesn’t want them to. He’s thinking Hillary in 2008. Even if they were successful in weakening Bush, Hillary would jump in the race and Bill would be giving speeches criticizing the very people he is “helping” now.
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