Obama Using Bill Clinton

We now know the new line of attack from president Obama in his re-election campaign. Since Obama has no positive record on which to run, Obama is going to try to run on Bill Clinton's record. That's right, the last sentence was not a typo. Obama is going to run on Clinton's record of twelve to twenty years ago.

The other day, when Obama actuallly announced that the Democrat plan for the economy had worked, he responded to the hoots of derision from the media and the GOP by explaining that he meant that the plan had worked during the Clinton Administration. Of course, Obama did not bother to mention that he had not followed the path taken by Clinton in the 1990's. Clinton actually presided over a balanced federal budget; Obama has run up more spending and debt than any other president in history. Clinton used progrowth policies to invigorate the private sector; Obama has villified private business and attacked the success that Clinton praised.

Now we hear that Bill Clinton will be the one to place Obama's name into nomination at the convention in North Carolina. Really? Things are so bad that Obama has to use someone with no connection to the Obama Administration to put his name into nomination? How can this be? Clinoton is even going to get the prime speaking position of the second night of the convention and deprive vice president Joe Biden of that slot which goes by tradition to the candidate for VP.

This is more of the avoidance of reality by Obama. Will the American people actually buy into Obama as he just tries to hide from reality? Maybe for now it will work. Obama's problem is that as we get closer to November, more and more folks will start paying attention. Most of these people do not care what happened 15 years ago. They want jobs now. They want to be able to pay their mortgages now. They want to be able to send their kids to college now. They want a better life now. When they hear nothing from Obama, I bet that they move to Romney.