Bill Clinton says ‘blame him, Bush, Reagan, not Obama’ for country’s weak economy

Former US President Bill Clinton has said that he is to be blamed for the country’s economy and absolve President Barack Obama from any fault.

“I honestly believe it doesn’t matter who caused it or whether the contributing factors all happened under President Bush or something I did or something Ronald Reagan did 30 years ago. Regardless, President Obama didn’t cause it,” Clinton said.

Clinton emphasised that the nation’s economy was in such a turmoil that on one could have fixed it in a single four-year term.

According to Politico, speaking to 2,000 people on the second night of his Florida campaign, Clinton once again delivered a speech praising the Democratic Party in general and giving a nod to Obama’s re-election bid.

“Now, what I want to say again and again and again, it is my opinion, as someone who, beginning when I was governor in 1979, has spent a lifetime trying to create jobs and help people start businesses and expand manufacturing and create opportunity for people to train and educate them to seize those opportunities, it is my opinion that no president, not Barack Obama, not Bill Clinton not anybody who served before us, nobody who ever had this job could repair that much damage to this economy,” Clinton added.

According to the report, in his 34 minute-speech, Clinton delivered a strong defense of Obama’s student loan and health care policy.

He touted the Democrats for having “a responsible debt plan” and urged people to choose “cooperation over conflict and arithmetic over illusion.”

Clinton mocked Republicans who maintain they are seeking to return to the Constitution’s original intent.

“All these people talk about the intent of the founding fathers, when the Constitution was ratified only guys like me could vote. White, male property owners,” he said.

“That was it. But we can grow and we have grown and we will grow again. But you need to re-elect President Barack Obama,” he added.