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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill Clinton, President Obama team up at fundraiser to hammer Romney
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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/224437-bill-clinton-obama-team-up-at-fundraiser-to-hammer-romneyPresident Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton teamed up for a fundraiser in Virginia on Sunday, taking shots at presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney.
While neither mentioned him by name during the event at the home of former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, the two presidents delivered harsh criticisms of Obama's likely November opponent.
"This is crazy, he's got an opponent who basically wants to do what they did before, on steroids, which will get you the same consequences you got before, on steroids," said Clinton.
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"Hillary and I, weve spent the last three and a half years cleaning up after other folks messes, and by the way, weve got them, were starting to get them pretty cleaned up. The war in Iraq is over. Were transitioning in Afghanistan. Weve got the strongest allies weve ever seen and al Qaeda is on the ropes. So weve done what we said wed do," said Obama.
Obama and Bill Clinton campaign together on economy
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Turning to foreign policy, Obama said he and Hillary Clinton had "spent the last three and a half years cleaning up other folks' messes," and made fun of Romney's recent comment that Russia was the United States' "No. 1 geopolitical foe."
"I'm suddenly thinking, 'What? Maybe I didn't check the calendar this morning. I didn't know we were back in 1975,'" he said. The comment echoed Vice President Joe Biden's criticism last week of Romney as being stuck in a Cold War mindset.
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-bill-clinton-campaign-together-stress-economy-004219693.html
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Bill Clinton, President Obama team up at fundraiser to hammer Romney (Original Post)
cal04
Apr 2012
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longship
(40,416 posts)1. Obama's let the Big Dawg out!
Together helping to protect liberty, justice, and the American way.
Go Obama. Go Big Dawg.
Woof woof!
Jester Messiah
(4,711 posts)2. "I didn't know we were back in 1975"
To be fair, most of the Republican base never left that era. Keeping up with current events is hard, living in the past is easy.