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Clinton Snubs Obama’s Millionaire Tax

source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/09/21/bill-clinton-snubs-obama-s-millionaire-tax-...

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Bill Clinton undercuts Obama’s economic message about raising the taxes of the wealthiest Americans, telling a conservative magazine the economy must get off the ground first. Just when it seemed President Obama was rallying his Democratic base anew, he still can’t escape the long shadow of his most recent Democratic predecessor.

In an extensive interview with the leading conservative news website Newsmax, former President Bill Clinton undercut Obama’s leading economic message about raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans.

“I personally don’t believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending until we get this economy off the ground,” Clinton said. In just 23 words, Clinton undercut his party’s current standard-bearer—and Obama’s current negotiating chit with Republicans. And to add injury to insult, the silver-tongued, silver-haired 42nd president with the Arkansas drawl did it in a magazine favored by conservative critics of the current president.

And Clinton didn’t stop there. Seizing upon the political paralysis between the White House and Republicans in Congress, Clinton lectured Obama and Republican Speaker John Boehner, calling for them to put aside their differences.

“What I would like to say to the president and Speaker Boehner is, OK, you both have your deal. Go work it out. Meanwhile, focus on putting Americans back to work because it just confused Americans. Americans lost the fact that whatever you feel about this millionaire surcharge, it won’t solve the problem.”

The White House declined to comment on the record regarding the remarks, but a senior spokesman conceded privately Wednesday night to being surprised and displeased. It certainly wasn’t the first time the elder statesman of the Democratic Party brushed up against Obama, publicly body-checking his successor without offering advanced warning to senior White House staff, as tends to be customary in high-level politics, especially among members of the same party.
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  • CitizenHill
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      CitizenHill  

    • Clinton is quasi-diplomatically hinting that O'bama really needs to wise-up and get out of his own way. - - Being the sociopathic narcissist that he is, there's as much as snowballs in hell of him reasoning beyond his own delusions of grandeur.

    • 8 months ago
  • dcrog
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      dcrog  

    • Certainly, I'd take Bill back in a hot second. I don't really think Obama is brain dead, because only the brain dead would think that a tax on the evil rich would do anything to help the economy. It's all about Obama trying to stir up the indigents who voted for him the first time around. Whenever a Marxist spews class warfare, it stirs up those who have nothing and no ambition. Obama's attitude, and the other Marxists is classic and reminds me of an old Russian tale; there were two old men walking down the street, one had a donkey, the other did not. The one with no donkey found a genie bottle, a genie came out and gave him one wish, the old man wished for his friend's donkey to die. Therein lie the attitude of the Marxist. A normal person would have wished for wealth, a Marxist wants to destroy wealth.

    • 8 months ago
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