Bill Clinton goes off message: Calls Romney's Bain Career 'Sterling' [View all]

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Bill Clinton became the most prominent Democrat to go off message and disavow President Obama's strategy of attacking Mitt Romney's work at Bain Capital. "I don't think we ought to get into the position where we say, 'this is bad work,'" said Clinton. "This is good work.'"

Clinton told guest host Harvey Weinstein that Romney "had a sterling business career," and gave a lengthy defense of his work at the firm:


"If you go in and you try to save a failing company, and you and I have friends here who invest in companies, you can invest in a company, run up the debt, loot it, sell all the assets, and force all the people to lose their retirement and fire them. Or you can go into a company, have cutbacks, try to make it more productive with the purpose of saving it. And when you try, like anything else you try, you don't always succeed."

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