Good for the country because you are seeing the last president that governed during prosperity explaining the recovery, explaining how you cannot expect as deep a recession as we had gone through to recover within four years. so i thought it was very good. and i think it was important, not for the president personally or even politically, i think it was important because it set the context of what we re going to go through the next few weeks in the campaign. so i don t think it s whether president obama needed clinton or clinton needed him for a legacy, i think it was that things have become so distorted, thomas, and we heard so many lies that bill clinton unquivocally but the contest how to judge this race. last night clinton praised bush and other republican presidents while lashing out at other republicans at their refusal as president obama
Belief that president clinton did the best he could and that going back to the bush policies would be a disaster. and also a real respect for president obama and how he s handled president clinton. they have a mutual respect and admiration and even general friendship. i think president clinton has been enormously impressed with that. i think this is all out, 100%, n not leaving anything out on the table. i d like you to go over that. it has been you have a close relationship with the former president. it s his feeling about the personal and professional respect between the president and the secretary of state which has endeared him politically at least to obama. i think absolutely. i mean, the president has given hillary clinton the ability to go out there and create a persona for herself, and she s
Done a great job with the american people, love what hillary clinton has done, and i think president clinton is very appreciative of the way president obama is handling it. it s amazing, mark, you re a political strategist, but i had no idea watching this all i do is watch politics well, i do other things, but i do it that hillary clinton would be so smart, and i m sure she made the decision along with her husband, from what you hear to take that. she should have been the loudmouth, if you will, senator from new york, being the lightning rod. she could like ted kennedy was all those years. but she chose to join the team and become the major personality beside the president, and it s made her grow as a global figure. i ve never seen that. i always thought that was a great decision on her part. from the beginning. absolutely. it gave her a chance to get out and speak for the united states of america for four years, to not be not only in politics but
Know if she wants to right now. if clinton gets to step down and get a little rest, i think she ll think about 2016 seriously again. i for one hope she does. you re smiling now because you re primarily a clinton guide, mark. that s why we have you on. almost exclusively a clinton guy. how does this help clinton get elected? i think it s a great decision by the president because it gives him a second vp out there. you need really strong, great surrogates and he and president clinton can go out to ohio, kentucky and talk about health care. all the things he specialized in as president of the united states to support obama. i think it s a great decision. i think it will help the obama campaign. i don t think kerry made a smart
We showed that to you. and also resolved in taking out osama bin laden. last night clinton introduced obama at a fundraiser in virginia, the first time they appeared together at an event. he started out saying, you guys get two presidents for one at this event, which is a pretty good deal. a democratic source described last night s event as kind of a first date, if you will, between clinton and obama. former mayor of philadelphia, msnbc political analyst mark penn. he was the chief strategist of hillary clinton s 2008 presidential campaign. i always look to you, governor rendell, for anything to do with the clintons. you are their guy. you re close. it s a relationship. it s not transactional, it s for life. so here s the question. is this a good marriage? will it last through november, which is all that matters? absolutely, yeah. it s a marriage borne of a lot of things. number one, president obama s