how do you press pro-says all of that. what i would say if you describe the bill clinton in three letters so.s. he chose exactly the opposite course when he his party lost control of the house of representatives back in 1994 after an unpopular healthcare bill in his case it failed. very unpopular. after that failed, he tacked to the center. barack obama has not done that and his relationship with bill clinton has been tenuous and distant for some time and clinton has proved to be a remarkably unreliable surrogate doing such things in the middle of the anti-bain attacks as saying that romney had a sterling business record. also suggesting that texas shouldn t be raised on anybody. why is. barack obama is very very serious re-election trouble. bill clinton remains popular and credibility with swing voters of a kind that barack obama is losing. and so i think he thinks they can get help with them. what if bill clinton gets up there and says i like mitt
for three big events and bringing out the big guns former president bill clinton joining him as well. with more on this molly henneberg joining us from washington, d.c. good morning molly. good morning ainsley and patti ann. governor mitt romney had a sterling business record last night at a handful of fund raisers in new york city the former president said elt electing mi electing mitt roo be colamathus for the country. if we ever get out of this thing we are going to cut taxes so much we explode the debt and see just how high we can drive interest rates. that is their economic policy. it was their economic policy and it is and it doesn t work. president obama raised $3.6 million at the events last night. in his remarks the president told supporters he has kept
the new york times called it a cleanup operation. former president bill clinton was back on message at three fund-raisers in new york city last night saying a romney presidency would be, quote, calamitous to our country and the world. this comes just days after he praised mitt romney for, quote, sterling business career. let me just be as simple as i can. i don t think it s important to re-elect a president. i think it s essential to re-elect the president. joining me now washington post deputy national political editor anne kornblut. i think your title gets longer by the day, anne. good to see you on here. sorry about that. that s okay. i love it. let s talk about bill clinton. our first read team points out this hard-hit at romney got a lot of attention because of the perception or reality that he was off message when referring to romney s, quote, sterling business record. yeah. it s almost as if they planned it, right?