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In reply to the discussion: 3,000 Flock To See Bill Clinton and Alison Grimes While McConnell Rally Draws Crickets [View all]greatlaurel
(2,020 posts)It was a great honor to hear Obama speak in person. He gives a good speech, but he does not have that quality that Bill Clinton has. Bill Clinton used his talent for far more good than bad. The speech Bill gave at the 2012 Democratic National Convention for Obama was the greatest speech given in decades. Bill turned the tide for us in that election.
You can throw all the slurs you want at Bill, but he won the White House for the Democratic Party for 8 years and appointed good judges to the Supreme Court and the lower courts and he helped Obama win a second term. There is not a politician ever that is a saint and they all do political favors or end up forced into actions that are wrong, including Jack Kennedy and FDR(neither of whom were faithful to their wives). Obama has done some really horrible things as president and he is still heads and shoulders above and far better for the American people than any of the GOP choices. Really, Obama is no babe in the woods. He is as crafty and cunning as any politician out there. The biggest problem was obvious early on in his primary run in the people he had around him. Rahm Emmanuel and Larry Summers were big warning signs about the direction he was headed.