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Clinton Disses Obama Campaign

By: Remington_Steele (Diary)  |  May 31st, 2012 at 11:46 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Add yet another Democrat joining the Bain Mutiny group.  Bill Clinton disses Obama’s strategy all together and states:

There is no question that in terms of getting up and going to the office and basically performing the essential functions of the office, a man who has been governor and had a sterling business career crosses the qualification threshold…

When you try, like anything else you try, you don’t always succeed.  I don’t think that we ought to get into the position where we say this is bad work. This is good work.

This Reuters article also explained, “Clinton also said broadly demonizing private equity politically as Democrats have done to Romney was wrong if restructuring underperforming businesses was necessary to save them and make them more productive.”  Clinton went on to support Obama as a better choice, but failed to articulate why Obama’s record was better.

Obama’s team is struggling to turn this message around, but with surrogates like this who needs enemies?

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  • APA Guy

    …that for all the weeping and gnashing of teeth about Mitt Romney being the GOP candidate, support is rapidly forming behind him as he moves swiftly to the right at exactly the same moment that support is rapidly fleeing Obama because he lurched to the left.

    Romney campaign, take notice: THIS is your path to decisive victory. The American people crave a clear and distinct alternative to Obama…a CONSERVATIVE alternative.

    Keep it up :)

  • westcoastpatriette

    I found this piece very informative as it gives an accurate analysis of the upheaval taking place inside both parties.

    http://townhall.com/columnists/stevedeace/2012/06/02/what_happens_to_democrats_if_obama_loses/page/2

    • acat
      • westcoastpatriette

        unless it’s super complicated. Would love to learn how to do direct links.

        • acat

          Go read about the first 20 paragraphs of this …

          All I did was to paste the URL both as the link destination and as the description.

          &lt a href=” {URL goes here} ” &gt {description goes here, just re-paste URL &lt /a &gt

          (let’s see if I got that right .. )

          Mew

      • acat

        The various interest groups that make up the Dems are past due to reshuffle the upper echelon of the party.

        Unions are weakening, their survival was based on moving from manufacturing* to bureaucracy, via AFCSME or SEIU .. but they appear to have overplayed their cards. What I don’t know is which group is poised to take leadership.. but I’m optimistic that the struggle will be bloody and damaging.

        On the GOP side, I disagree with Deaces’ conclusion – Romney isn’t an etch-a-sketch, he wants the mushy middle to think he’s one, though.

        Look at every distraction Team Obama have thrown so far – Romney has sent all of them back, usually scoring points on Obama along the way. Bain? Solyndra! Wife didn’t work? The creepy Julie story! Dog on the roof? Dog on the grill! That’s not the work of an etch-a-sketch .. that’s the work of a skilled athlete.

        I do think Deuce is onto one thing about the GOP – specifically the gutless D.C. wing of the GOP – we have way too many squishy idiots there… and we have some work to do to change that.

        Mew

        * no, manufacturing is not dying, it is becoming less labor-intensive.

        • trimulchio

          Good Feelings.”

          —The economic tsunami of the last few years is the Tofflers’ Third Wave (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave_%28Toffler%29).

          —Facebook bombed as an IPO. This has reduced the stock market value of other social media sites/tools (Linked-In, etc.).

          —I think, however, that the real value of these types of programs will come in their application to marketing and in creating new platforms to deliver healthcare, legal and other professional services (e.g., building Paul Ryan’s “association health care plans” or creating “law networks” as opposed to “law firms”). Think of this as how personal computers were marketed in the late 1970s and early 1980s: a tool to help the kids with their math, store recipes and maintain the household budget, as opposed to what people really used them for.

          —Put another way, the movie may have been called The Social Network (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/), but the profit is going to come from the value-added provided by operational networks.

          —Further, and this is very far-afield, much of the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community’s trouble in countering AQ is the early days after 9-11 came from assuming it was a typical, Second Wave, command and control-based organization rather than a network.

          —The Democrats have been in free-fall as a national political party since the 1960s, as a result of the loss of the “solid South.” They were able to win the Presidency 4 times since 1968 by making gains in the formerly-Republican “Old Northwest”/Rust-belt. The elections of 2010 demonstrate that hold is fading. If that holds in 2012, the Democrats are no longer a national party.

          —The interesting political question is becoming: What replaces the Democrats?

          —Could it be a new, Adenauer-esque Center Party, built from centrist independents, moderate Republicans and moderate Democrats? Could the Tea Party/Liberty Movement either become a new party or take over the Republican trade marks and trade dress to represent the conservative plurality? Interesting to see how this turns out.

          —The one assumption I think is absolutely warranted is that Walter Russell Mead is right and the Blue Social Model is dying. (http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/05/26/cuomo-takes-on-unions/; http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/04/30/prestigious-law-firm-goes-bust-lawyers-boxed-out-by-changing-industry/, http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/04/18/health-care-of-the-future/, http://aei.org/events/2012/03/13/the-death-of-the-blue-social-model/) This will lead to wrenching change in “Blue” institutions like law, healthcare and higher education.

          —I think real, market-based healthcare reform is inevitable. The ONLY way to fix this system is going to be the kind of federal and state deregulation that telecom and transportation went through in the 1980s and 1990s.

          —I think the next few years will see a shift to even more of a K-1/1099 (vice a W-2) work force than has already been seen. This will improve the opportunities of the Tea Party/Liberty Movement, which is a K-1/1099 movement. No one is more tax-sensitive than the self-employed.

          —This economic shift is more inimical to the continued survival of the Democrats as a national political party than any of the supposed demographic shifts that were supposed to favor them.

          —Unions are dinosaur institutions.

          —You can’t bargain collectively for wages, as everyone you retain has a different contribution to the bottom line. Even individuals contribute to the bottom line in varying ways over time. Further, W-2 “Employment” itself makes little sense anymore. This is the age of the networked or “Shamrock” organization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamrock_Organization).

          —However, other network organizations that help people bargain collectively for healthcare coverage or pension planning or tuition assistance/educational benefits make a great deal of sense (and may even be required) in the coming years. This is the future of unions, on something of the model of the Screen Writers’ Guild healthcare and pension plans.

          —The next few years provide danger and opportunity.

  • trimulchio

    in any case

  • mikeymike143

    and he doesnt even see that.

  • checkmate2012

    and I’m ROFL at their amateur hour. Yes hopey changey worked when O was a pod from another planet, meaning unknown, but now it ain’t working for team O. Sending scary Axelrod into Mass. was a huge mistake and thier Bain blast has backfired.

  • mikeymike143

    and i havent been impressed at all by them this election cycle.

  • Dave_A

    But they can’t do it again, because the hopey-changey-rock-star motif only works when selling ‘He who always votes ‘Present”…

    Once you have a candidate with a clear record, you can’t glamor and glitz your way through the campaign cycle…

    Especially when that record has reversed the electoral dynamics of the last campaign (It’s not a ‘Democratic Wave Year’ like 08 was)….

  • checkmate2012

    now that we know the unknown as in O’s record of nothing. I think we’re saying the same thing if we both re-read.

  • checkmate2012

    great minds think alike as we both typed the same think at the same time- brilliant :)

  • westcoastpatriette

    is context. We now have the context to measure his words against his deeds and we come up with that nauseating feeling one gets when being lied to or conned into believing the unbelievable. So, as cunning and charming as Obama appears, now the stench that surrounds his lies cannot be hidden. The curtain is completely pulled back now and all we see is a wanna-be phony pretending to be all-powerful.

  • mikeymike143

    and yeah, i know mccain was the 2008 republican candidate, but obama and his team ran on a ”blame bush” strategy and the biggest non bush won.

    that wont work this election cycle. obama is going to lose!!!!

  • checkmate2012

    or counterpoint in that the folks were Bush weary. Will still disagree with the Manson reference but sitll we’re saying the same. O was a one time proposition and he’ll fail in a second chance.

  • acat

    they’d probably be doing okay – not great, but well enough – this time.

    Mew

  • APA Guy

    Regardless of the motive, there is no way she would have allowed the economy to steamroll back toward the cliff like Obama has…and her re-election prospects would have reflected that strength, smarts and courage.

    As is it, Obama is heading toward Doomville.

  • cactusjack

    2010 elections, the deal cuttiing and triangulating would have started in hyperdrive and the political landscape would look very different today. I was astounded when Obama, instead,,doubled down on the – call it what is was – Fabian Socialism economic experiments until he ran out of money. .
    “How can this work” I asked myself in 2010. “Does he know something we dont?”
    It didnt. He doesnt.

  • cactusjack

    to let into under the tent. The Dems have the problem of whether to try to mend the schism in their party or split apart. It’s been there ever since the Vietnam War, when McGovern the hard leftists took over their party. Where were the Cold Warrior Democrats to go? Some of them became “NeoCons” and a generation later, showed up in Republican Administrations (Wolfowitz et al.) Some like Prof. Walt Rostow and his school of thought, went into academia (UT-Austin) after they realized that when LBJ was gone,and Scoop Jackson was dead, there was no future for Hawk Democrats. As a party the Dems have refused to deal with the schism or reclaim the foreign policy legacy Truman had left them, but you can see the schismt still clearly manifest today with Hillary on one side and Obama on the other – in foreign policy matters at least. If he loses in Nov it will force them to deal with it. See the link in Acat’s post above. I would expect the Hard Lefties will utterly win and extinguish the least vestiges of rational foreign policy-National Defense, from what is known as the Democratic Party.