Bill Clinton says Romney/Bain Attack is a Mistake

[Benvolio]

Hm. I don't see the "anti-business tone", though, just an "anti-playing-with-people's-lives" tone.

BO certainly shares your corporatophobia.

 

[chance1]

I think it was on Hugh Hewitt's show they were talking about Clinton's comments. The guest was saying that one of Clinton's successes as President is he reached out to the business community and let them know that Democrats were not anti-business. The result was a more balanced interaction between the business community and the Democrats that has benefited both sides. The fear is that this would all be undone by an anti-business tone in the Obama campaign.

Bill Clinton was a uniter - and realized that in order for the economy to work, business was NOT the enemy and treating them as such was bad for ALL

Pres. Obama is not as bright and/or perhaps his handlers think the benefit of this tactic outweighs the negatives (I disagree)

Bill is in a different league than the Junior Senator

 

[chance1]

I suppose it could have that effect. But the point is that when Romney "lost", it meant a destroyed company, pensions gone, people with no jobs, towns in trouble... and that's a gamble we can't afford to take with the country.

Bain took on troubled companies - most/many that were NOT going to make it

he did not "destroy" companies - that's just demagoguery

people are not guaranteed employment especially when their companies on not on solid ground

bain's success ratio was good - the attacks on bain are just class warfare disguised as factual assertions

 

[LuvFindsAndyHardy]

Bill Clinton was a uniter

May I ask how old were you during the first Clinton administration? I ask only because I remember that time being one of the most cantankerous and nasty political climates of my entire life (until this one, that is) and, while Clinton is certainly a uniter NOW, he was looked on as anything but at the time.

 

[Kulindahr]

BO certainly shares your corporatophobia.

Where do you get this bizarre notion that he's anti-business?

He caves to oil companies.
He rescues auto companies.
He's in bed with the pharmaceuticals.
He got a law passed that requires people to become customers of insurance companies.

The man is a corporate tool.

 

[Kulindahr]

Bain took on troubled companies - most/many that were NOT going to make it

he did not "destroy" companies - that's just demagoguery

people are not guaranteed employment especially when their companies on not on solid ground

bain's success ratio was good - the attacks on bain are just class warfare disguised as factual assertions

Right -- Bain took on failing companies and loaded them with debt in order to pay themselves huge "bonuses".

And they did it in a way that milked the taxpayers.