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Obama Faults Bill Clinton For Dem Losses In 1990s
Last week I noted that this mailer that Obama dropped blaming Bill Clinton for Dem losses in the 1990s suggested that this was going to become a stock argument for Obama.
Yesterday, at a campaign rally, Obama made this case himself:
“Keep in mind, we had Bill Clinton as president when, in ’94, we lost the House, we lost the Senate, we lost governorships, we lost state houses,” he said. “And so, regardless of what policies they wanted to promote, they didn’t have a working majority to bring change about.”
The argument represents a ratcheting up of one of Obama's main arguments -- that Hillary is too encumbered by her role in the political battles of the 1990s to reach the independents and even Republicans Dems need to build a durable majority. Now Obama is making this case by directly attacking Bill's presidency for Dem losses in that decade, thus raising the specter of a similar failure under a Hillary presidency.
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