Defeated presidential candidate. but then he went on further and he argued that there is light at the end of the tunnel for dole that was an improbable career, pitching visa, duncan donuts and viagra. and he goes on to say, the greatest of life blessings cannot be counted in electoral votes. so he s telling mr. romney, i assume, don t worry about it. you can do what i did and i guess that s soothing. it s soothing in a many of speaking but there s a crucial different here and that is that bob dole in 1996 fought the good fight. but, look, the economy by then was booming. nobody really gave him a chance of winning. what is happening here is you have romney losing a race that everybody thought he was perfectly capable of winning. so if that is indeed what occurs, it s possible he doesn t even get the viagra ad in the end and may be cutting some ads
This president got health care reform passed and i didn t. but you still felt a lot of sort of clinton protectionism of his own memory of working together with republicans. i was amazed, melissa, that bill clinton, only bill clinton could have gotten a room of activists, most of whom are to the left of center to cheer for these positions. this was a dlc president who was to the right in a lot of ways of barack obama, but he got the room to stand up and cheer despite on things like marriage equality and don t ask don t tell he was on the other side of barack obama. but that said, you can t beat having a former president do the bill of particulars for you. because if anyone was a swing voter will listen, they may not listen to the partisans they get on stage, but a former president has a weight. and for the republicans not to disappear their president and not to be able to bring a president to bear, they lost a huge opportunity to get nonpartisan-type voters who bill
After bill clinton s speech that absolutely demolished the republicans. unmasking their phony messages and their mean spirited policies. are we where we want to be today? no. is the president satisfied? of course not. but are we better off than we were when he took office? of course we are. it was an economy that was shedding private sector jobs by the thousands. he stopped that. and then he led us to 29 straight months of job growth. romney/ryan don t want to talk about that. they say that s for a quiet room or something. the romney plan fails the first test of fiscal
Any means. it helps if you re 29 years old when you get elected to the senate. but he was a serious senator and legislator, which is the other reason why people such as senator schumer respected him. i understand when he walked that train and talked to people every night, it s because he liked to do it. no tv, no cameras. he s a people person. here s joe biden giving his salute to the working people at a campaign rally in detroit this week. let s watch him. romney and ryan don t seem to think so much of y all, of you guys. they view you, the working men and women of america, as the problem. we view you and know you to be the solution in america. look, folks, we know who built this country, and we know who s going to rebuild it. it s you. and instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. we owe you. let s talk about a group that i m very familiar with,
Responsibility. the numbers just don t add up. republican economic policies quadruple the national debt before i took office in the 12 years before i took office. and doubled the debt in the eight years after i left. we simply cannot afford to give the reins of government to someone who will double down on trickle down. just like that. clinton delivered crippling blows to the romney/ryan argument. but he did it with a tone that even left the secretary of state smiling some 10,000 miles away. he did it with a tone that showed why he was the perfect surrogate. i want to nominate a man who s cool on the outside but