Romney wonders if Obama has 'personal beef' with the Clintons

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[Sub-Driver]

Romney wonders if Obama has 'personal beef' with the Clintons By Justin Sink - 05/15/12 04:36 PM ET

Mitt Romney suggested Tuesday that President Barack Obama might have "personal beef" with former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Romney was discussing the president's economic record, and suggested that Obama's advocacy of stimulus spending was out of step with even his own party, using Clinton to illustrate the point.

"Almost a generation ago, Bill Clinton announced that the Era of Big Government was over. Even a former McGovern campaign worker like President Clinton was signaling to his own Party that Democrats should no longer try to govern by proposing a new program for every problem," Romney said. "President Obama tucked away the Clinton doctrine in his large drawer of discarded ideas, along with transparency and bipartisanship. It’s enough to make you wonder if maybe it was a personal beef with the Clintons — but really it runs much deeper." Romney goes on to describe the president as "an old school liberal whose first instinct is to see free enterprise as the villain and government as the hero."

There have long been whispers of discontent between the last two Democratic presidents, with suggestion that Clinton does not approve of Obama's job as president and remains frustrated that his wife, Hillary, did not emerge from the 2008 presidential primary. But Clinton has lent his hand to the Obama reelection effort, cutting an ad praising the president's decision to authorize the Osama bin Laden raid and appearing at fundraisers on his behalf.

Earlier Tuesday, Clinton spoke at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation's 2012 Fiscal Summit in Washington and suggested Obama be more aggressive in pushing deficit reduction when facing off against Romney.

The president, I think, should talk more about the Medicare savings he has proposed, and the defense cuts he has proposed, and the fact that he proposes, and this – I disagree with this, by the way – he proposes to take discretionary non-defense spending to its lowest percentage of GDP since president Eisenhower was in office,” Clinton said. “We ought to be talking about this stuff. He has at least tried to honor the deal he made with the Republicans, and I think he should talk more about it, and I think they should talk more about it."

[goseminoles]

It’s The Portly Pepperpot.

Its tubesteak smothered in underwear.

[slumber1]

Romney goes on to describe the president as "an old school liberal whose first instinct is to see free enterprise as the villain and government as the hero."

If Romney will make this case early and often with the electorate he might have a chance.

[uncbob]

What’s not to dislike about Obama and his wife, they are evill people to their very core

Only difference between them and the Clintons is skin pigmentation

[thatjoeguy]

LOL, the Saul Alinsky tactics.

Isolate.. This just might be a fun election cycle.

[Talisker]

I think Obama has somehting BIG on Hillary.

A LOT of people do.

But she's going to go for it - again - anyway.

Now what has been put off far too long, needs to be used.

Or either way the shoe drops, there will be hell to pay.