Bill Clinton Backs Obama 2009… Breaks With Obama 2011

Principled leadership.
On Sunday Bill Clinton praised Obama’s tax the rich plan.
On Wednesday he decided he was against Obama’s tax the rich plan.
In 2009 Obama was against raising taxes during a recession.
Now he’s for raising taxes during a recession.
It’s so confusing.

Let’s face it. When it comes right down to it, democrats just want to take your money.
Business Insider reported:

Former President Bill Clinton, who on Sunday was one of the strongest supporters of President Barack Obama’s jobs bill, said his tax plan “is a little confusing.”

In an interview with the conservative website Newsmax, said raising revenues in this economy would be counter-productive.

“I personally don’t believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending until we get this economy off the ground,” he said. If we cut government spending, which I normally would be very inclined to do when the deficit’s this big, with interest rates already near zero you can’t get the benefits out of it.”

Clinton said he wants the government to take steps to help underwater homeowners — who are ignored by both the Democratic and Republican jobs plans.

“I don’t think you can tax or cut taxes, I don’t think you can spend or not spend enough to get America back to a full employment economy until we flush that debt,” he said.

#1 September 21, 2011 at 12:37 pm
injunjoe commented:

We might think that democrats want to take our money… But in reality the democrats just think that all money belongs to government to dole out as it sees fit.

At least this democrat administration believes that…
#2 September 21, 2011 at 12:53 pm
Militant Conservative commented:

Careful, I think the Clintons may primary Obama.

Hillary had the same mentor as Obama. Saul Alinsky.

Radicals of a feather……..
#3 September 21, 2011 at 1:10 pm
#1AMERICAN commented:

me thinks bill is now inhaling
#4 September 21, 2011 at 1:25 pm
tru commented:

Obama the Jesus like Harvard Law Review genius wants to go back to the Clinton tax rates.
Clinton the Rhodes Scholar wants to stay with the Bush tax rates.
But somehow it is Bush’s fault.
It is more than a little confusing.
#5 September 21, 2011 at 2:25 pm
southernsue commented:

why can’t the clintons go away.

hillary would not be any better than obama.

vote out all the democrats, they all voted party line on obamacare, locked out the republicans from meetings, did not include their input or listen to it, just rammed the bill through without even reading it.

they are idiots to the highest level and their leader, obama is smiling and vacationing all the way.
#6 September 21, 2011 at 2:26 pm
John Roe commented:

Jim Hotf,
Read between lines of your quote:
In 2009 Obama was against raising taxes (on the middle class) during a recession (but had to compromise to extend Bush’s weathiest tax cuts in ’10 to get unemployed benefits passed in a bundle bill).
Now he’s for raising taxes during a recession (to right the wrong he let happen in that compromise).
It’s so confusing (for feeble-minded people but not the Republicans).
#7 September 21, 2011 at 2:38 pm
John Roe commented:

tru, your quote edited:

Obama the Jesus like Harvard Law Review genius wants to go back to the Clinton tax rates (which was a more prosperous time than under Bush and his tax cuts to the welathiest.).
#8 September 21, 2011 at 2:39 pm
WillofLa commented:

I thought that the reason why Bill backed away from his wife’s campaign during 2008 was that he said on TV that Obama’s campaign had “played the race card” on him. He was thuroughly disgusted with Blacks, and Hillary was told to concentrate on the women’s vote. So I don’t see how Bill liked Obama in 2009, unless he changed his mind like he has done on more than one occasion.

But it doesn’t matter anyway because Bill has the Bush’s to back him on anything he wants to do, he doesn’t need Obama. Bill also has his wife right in the middle of the frey by being Sec. of State. She shmoses with U.N. higher ups so that Bill stays plugged into what is going there. Bill is close friends with MAURICE STRONG (look this Socialist monster up. He’s one of the most dangerous people on Earth) are who are behind all the global warming scams that of anyone Bill Clinton is making millions of dollars a year on, what with Bill’s “Global Initiative” recycling scam.
#9 September 21, 2011 at 2:42 pm
BS-meter commented:

@ #6

Can you define middle class? Neither can Obama. If you’d pull your head out of your ass you’d realize that the Bush tax cuts offered EVERYONE an across the board cut. Everyone!
Obama can’t make up his mind who the middle class is, but youcan bet it will be anybody who PAYS taxes……which leaves out most of his most ardent supporters.

So get used to being rich, dipstick,, ’cause you’re “it”.
#10 September 21, 2011 at 2:45 pm
John Roe commented:

willofla, you thread in fair cognitive analysis and, logic but you let your mind wander into unreal conspiracies.
#11 September 21, 2011 at 2:50 pm
John Roe commented:

BS meter,
by your colorful commentary, i judge you’re a level-headed person with a lot of wisdom between your ears. check this out and then speak your mind in a sensical civilized manner.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/taxes-and-the-wealthy/
#12 September 21, 2011 at 2:53 pm
WillofLa commented:

You can look up Bill Clinton’s “Global Initiative” from Google. On the home page pay close attention to the corporate purpose, stated reason, or whatever it’s called, you know what I mean, I just can’t think of what it’s called right now. It tells you what they believe is what you ought to do, and it has everything to do with the fact that we waste to much of the world resources making waste, and don’t do no where near enough to keep things cleaned up. Now, what I want to know is, is Bill Clinton going into the Congo making sure those poor, desperate people are picking up all their trash and putting it all into their little blue barrels? Is he going into China and making sure they are keeping it clean around their nuclear power plants? And did they put all that dirt they dug up to build that string of hydro electric plants someplace where it will do some good, or did they just dump it in the river so later it can clog up the thing with sand bars that will form and block it downstream? I know because that’s what happens to our river here in town until the Corps of Engineers put these dike things out from the shore on one side that extended out half way into the river. Now, all the sand that used to form right in the middle of the river migrates over towards the dikes and settles there, which in turn creates this nice clear channel in the middle so that ships can use the river now, where before you couldn’t get a canue down it. Bill didn’t have anything to do with that, but it did stop people who used to go down and party on the sand bars and leave trash and all kinds of bad stuff right out where you could see it. And the trash was in the river to. Once it was all dredged out for the dikes that eliminated the bars. So now people have to go way down river to party but it’s next to the shore now where all the sand builds up and not out in the middle like it used to be.
#13 September 21, 2011 at 3:15 pm
gee! commented:

I’m not a mind-reader but is this a hint that Hillary maybe running?
#14 September 21, 2011 at 6:00 pm
tommy mc donnell commented:

the first question that should be asked of any candidate that wants to run for office in 2012, who has the right to the fruits of the american worker’s labor the american worker or the american politican.
#15 September 21, 2011 at 6:02 pm
Tru commented:

John Roe- I don’t need correction from anyone that would use Krugman, sensical and civilized in the same breath. Crawl back to the NY Slimes blog where you belong.