Bill Clinton: Obama Literally Not Part of Any of the Good Things’ From the ’90’s
ABC News’ Sarah Amos is traveling with the former president and transcribed his comments.
“There are two competing moods in America today,” Clinton said. “People who want something fresh and new — and they find it inspiring that we might elect a president who literally was not part of any of the good things that happened or any of the bad things that were stopped before. The explicit argument of the campaign against Hillary is that ‘No one who was involved in the 1990s or this decade can possibly be an effective president because they had fights. We’re not going to have any of those anymore.’ Well, if you believe that, I got some land I wanna sell you.”
For the record, in the 1990s, Obama was a civil rights attorney, community organizer, and was in the Illinois state senate.
Presumably, by “any of the good things that happened” in the 1990s, Clinton is referring to the things he did as president (except for the ones his wife now distances herself from, such as NAFTA).
Sometimes, it sure feels like the former president’s defense of his legacy gets in the way of his campaigning for his wife.
UPDATE: Obama campaign spox Bill Burton tells ABC News in response, “It appears that the man who once told us ‘Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow’ has changed his tune and is now singing ‘Yesterday’ everywhere he goes.”
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