What Bubba said.
Via USA Today:
President Obama’s campaign speech on the economy today will be delivered in the same spot where Bill Clinton delivered a 2010 campaign speech Obama might just as soon forget.
In September 2010, Clinton told his Cuyahoga Community College audience in Cleveland that Democrats deserved two more years to fix the nation’s economy.
“The Democrats are saying something like this: ‘We found a big hole that we did not dig. We didn’t get it filled in 21 months, but at least we quit digging,'” Clinton said at the time. “‘Give us two more years. If it doesn’t work, vote us out.'”
Republicans claim two more years didn’t help. As evidence, they cite an unemployment rate still hovering above 8%, slow job growth and an exodus of people leaving the workforce.
Democrats, led by Obama, cite more than 3 million jobs added to the labor force in 20 consecutive months of job growth since Clinton’s speech. Until then, the country had lost more than 3.5 million jobs in the 19 months of Obama’s presidency.
Obama isn’t expected to break much new ground in his speech today. White House press secretary Jay Carney said Wednesday the president would use the opportunity to contrast his economic plan with that of his Republican rival, Mitt Romney.