Obama's campaign now channels Clinton's successes, will feature Bubba at the National Convention and intends to claim Clinton's record as his own.

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Former President Bill Clinton told CNBC Tuesday (June 5) that the US economy already is in a recession and urged Congress to extend all the tax cuts due to expire at the end of the year.

In a taped interview aired on "Closing Bell," the still-popular 42nd president called the current economic conditions a "recession" and said overzealous Republican plans to cut the deficit threaten to plunge the country further into the debt abyss. (Clinton's office released a statement after the interview).

"What I think we need to do is find some way to avoid thefiscal cliff, to avoid doing anything that would contract the economy now, and then deal with what's necessary in the long term debt-reduction plans as soon as they can, which presumably would be after the election," Clinton said.

Hillary as a Saul Alinsky disciple.

"They will probably have to put everything off until early next year," he added. "That's probably the best thing to do right now. But the Republicans don't want to do that unless he agrees to extend the tax cuts permanently, including for upper income people, and I don't think the president should do that. . . . ."

Voters trust former President Bill Clinton over President Barack Obama and GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney when it comes to managing the economy, a Rasmussen Reports poll finds.

A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 55 percent of likely U.S. voters trust Clinton’s judgment on the economy more than Obama’s, while 26 percent trust Obama's judgment more. . . . . 

The Era of Small Government

By Tom Shoop     February 5, 1997

A year after declaring that the era of big government had ended, President Clinton gave an outline of the smaller, more limited federal government he envisions for the 21st century in his State of the Union message last night.

The President listed a wide-ranging set of new initiatives in his address, from flextime for all American workers to guaranteeing that every child be able to log on to the Internet by age 12. Indeed, Clinton argued, "the enemy of our time is inaction."

But few of the initiatives Clinton proposed involved the federal government in a direct role. Even when the President issued a call for a "national crusade for educational standards," he hastened to add that he meant, "not federal government standards, but national standards . . . . . "

Jan 20th, 1997  -  Clinton's inauguration speech featured these words,  in full contradiction to anything stated by Obama:  "Today we can declare: Government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We—the American people—we are the solution. Our founders understood that well and gave us a democracy strong enough to endure for centuries, flexible enough to face our common challenges and advance our common dreams in each new day.

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As times change, so government must change. We need a new government for a new century—humble enough not to try to solve all our problems for us, but strong enough to give us the tools to solve our problems for ourselves; a government that is smaller, lives within its means, and does more with less. . . [LINK] "