Reaching out to supporters, he praised Obama's record on jobs, citing the successful stimulus and the auto bailout; blaming Europe and Republicans for the slowdown."Who would have ever thought that the Republicans who made a living for decades deriding 'old Europe' would embrace their economic policy?" he said to the laughing audience. "Their economic policy is austerity and unemployment now, and then a long-term budget that will explode the debt when the economy recovers so that interest rates will be so high nobody will be able to do anything."
That's it. Make the audience think it's the Pubs who want to be like the EU. The mind boggles.
Referring to Republican freshman Congressman Allen West, Clinton continued "He's had to get all this done with a House of Representatives that had one of the tea party members claim that 78 to 81 members of the Democratic caucus were members of the Communist Party.
"This is not the 1950s. At least Joe McCarthy could skate on the fact that there was one or two living Communists walking around," he added to laughter from the crowd. "Nobody has seen a Communist in over a decade."
Spin it, Willie, twirl it! Make 'em all dizzy!
"As usual, he pretty much summed it up," Obama said. "So I don't have to add too much - don't want to guild the lily here. Nobody has a better grasp and understanding of the issues than this man."
Not even his wife, O? Moving farther and farther into a dream world.