Bill Clinton is back to trying to score political points by criticizing Barack Obama’s America.
During an appearance in Fargo, North Dakota on Friday, the former president analyzed the economy and political environment created by the current president. Spoiler: it wasn’t positive.
“You’ve got all these people today who feel disempowered,” Clinton said, “and it is the source of the road rage you see in both parties primaries.”
He added, “When you feel you’ve lost control of your economic life and then your social order is upended, that leads people to very high levels of anxiety and great vulnerability to anger.
“And a lot of the anger is well justified,” Clinton said.
It’s just the latest instance of Clinton indirectly criticizing Obama’s legacy.
During a rally in Spokane, Washington in March, Clinton seemed to tear down Obama to boost his wife.
“Literally from the time I met her till we talked yesterday, she is the best change maker I have ever known.
“She always finds a way to make something good happen, to make people feel empowered, to buy people into the process, to make democracy work the way the framer intended for it to work,” Clinton said.
“Now, if you don’t believe that we can all grow together again, if you don’t believe that we’re ever going to grow again, if you believe it’s more important to relitigate the past, there may be many reasons that you don’t want to support her.
“But if you believe we can all rise together, if you believe we’ve finally come to the point where we can put the awful legacy of the last eight years behind us and the 7 years before that when we were practicing trickle-down economics and no regulation in Washington, which is what caused the crash, then you should vote for her,” Clinton said.
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