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President Obama: You’re no Bill Clinton
by Cal Thomas
Aug 02, 2012 

The Obama re-election team must be in panic mode. The president is stuck in a virtual tie with Mitt Romney in some polls and behind him in others, so in desperation it has reached out to the Big Dog, Bill Clinton, for help. 

Clinton will speak next month at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., in a Wednesday night position often reserved for the vice presidential nominee. Obama and Clinton have not had the most cordial relationship, but when you’re drowning, your feelings about the lifeguard matter less than his ability to keep you afloat. And Obama is a sinking man. 

The president’s problem is that he’s no Bill Clinton. While Clinton was willing to compromise with congressional Republicans, Obama and congressional Democrats are not. Clinton signed the welfare reform bill after vetoing two earlier versions crafted by a Republican Congress. Yet now the Obama administration wants to let states opt out of the bill’s work requirement, which forced many people to get jobs. Instead of requiring people to work, Health and Human Services wants to grant states waivers to the work provision so that they can “test alternative and innovative strategies, policies, and procedures that are designed to improve employment outcomes for needy families.” What alternative strategy is there to an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay? Surely we cannot continue with a president whose policies addict more people to government. 

Most importantly in these dire economic times is the contrast that when Clinton’s presidency ended he left a surplus behind. Obama has taken the debt created during the second Bush administration -- mostly because of the response to a terrorist attack and two wars -- and, according to the U.S. Treasury, increased each American’s debt share by $17,013 to $51,433. The Congressional Budget Office says at the end of this fiscal year, the administration will have racked up four consecutive years of trillion dollar-plus deficits, creating by 2020 the largest debt -- $16 trillion --in American history. 

Bill Clinton once questioned Obama’s qualifications to be president. In a 2007 interview with Charlie Rose, Clinton said, “When is the last time we elected a president based on one year of service in the Senate before he started running?” 

In 2008, candidate Obama praised Ronald Reagan above Bill Clinton when he told the Reno Gazette-Journal’s editorial board that under Reagan the Republican Party was “the party of ideas” and that Reagan had “changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way Bill Clinton did not... 

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