four-year time period. but we were losing 750,000 jobs a month in the last several months of the bush administration. and we have gained 4.5 million new private sector jobs, so in that respect, we are better off. bill: but her point, her point, lanny, bill clinton was setting up president obama making his case later tonight. you can not avoid the following comment from the today show a few years ago. here is what the president said if he does not get things straightened out. roll this. one nice thing about the situation i find myself in is that i will be held accountable. if i don t have this done in three years, then there is going to be a one-term proposition. bill: so as we listen to that comment tonight, how tough is that sell, lanny? it s a tough sell and this is a tough arguments we democrats were in which is why monica is onto something but what she s missing is that americans for a long
and the in terms of the income, incomes an wages were going down for a decade. last year they started going up. so we are putting the building blocks back in place that we, that president clinton spoke to last night. that created the greatest economic expansion. martha: how do they feel? do they feel better now and the country is headed in the right direction. abc news poll said 67% think we re headed on wrong track. tonight in terms of how the president will carve out and explain to the american people because he is criticized not being clear where he will take us in the next four years and how he will accomplish those goals. we heard a lot about shared prosperity and shared responsibility. how does that play out? how do we share the prosperity and share responsibility? as opposed to what we heard last week in tampa president obama will talk about ideas, achievable concrete things that we can do for this country to move it forward. you know we have a vision of huy to rebuild this
martha: well the former president also said that america is better off than it was four years ago. and that no one would be able to fix this economy in just four years. no president, not me, not anybody would have been able to fix what was handed to this president. that is his argument. later this hour, senior romney advisor governor john sununu will respond to that. we ll talk to stephanie cutter as well. bill: romney team responding now, to the former president saying in the statement the following, quote, president clinton drew a stark contrast between himself and president obama tonight. bill clinton worked with republicans, balanced budget and after four years he could say you were better off. barack obama has not worked across the aisle. he has barely worked with other democrats and has the worst economic record of any president in modern history. president clinton s speech brought the disappointment and failure of president obama s time in office clearly into focus. martha: so w
move inside. it has been a significant scramble for the dnc. thanks, bill. bill: stephen hayes. martha? martha: president obama got some big backup last night. former president bill clinton it on the fired up the dnc crowd on the floor behind us. he urged americans to keep president obama on the job and painted republican as ob stack kel of obstacle of change. nobody is right all the time and a broken clock is everyone of us,y. everyone ever us and everyone of them, we re compelled to spend our fleeting lives between those two extremes. snowing we re never going to be right all the time and hopefully we re right more than twice a day. unfortunately the faction that now dominates the republican party doesn t see it that way. they think government is always the enemy. they re always right and compromise is weakness.
simpson-bowles commission came out last september, he never even mentioned it in his state of the union, why is i doing it now. a lot of people have been calling for him to embrace simpson-bowles. like you say he ll have to backtrack and say this is the reason i didn t like it the first time, and this time i do. while i think it s a very responsible plan it doesn t do anything to jump start the economy it tkaoelts with th deals with the long-term deficit. i thought clinton s speech was very effective. he said here is why where x are now doesn t feel better and to even make the argument this feels like what happened to me in 95, and it will change. they had a video before clinton spoke and they had these headlines from his days, unemployment was some ridiculous number like 4.5% or something. he balanced the bulge. barack obama high school done none of those things. i ve got to think that first of