Monday, 2 April 2012

Bill Clinton: Obama can argue he steadied economy

File - In this July 2, 2007 file photo, vehicles enter the Little Rock National Airport in Little Rock, Ark. The Little Rock Municipal Airport Commission has voted unanimously to change the name of the Little Rock National Airport in honor of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. ?I?m pleased with the action today and the airport will immediately now operate under the name of Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport,? said Commission Chairman Jim Dailey. (AP Photo/Mike Wintroath, File)

File - In this July 2, 2007 file photo, vehicles enter the Little Rock National Airport in Little Rock, Ark. The Little Rock Municipal Airport Commission has voted unanimously to change the name of the Little Rock National Airport in honor of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. ?I?m pleased with the action today and the airport will immediately now operate under the name of Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport,? said Commission Chairman Jim Dailey. (AP Photo/Mike Wintroath, File)

(AP) ? Former President Bill Clinton says he believes President Barack Obama can win re-election if he can persuade voters he steadied a shaky economy.

Clinton tells ABC's "Good Morning America" he believes likely Republican nominee Mitt Romney will have a difficult time reconciling positions he's taken during the primary season with what he'll say against Obama in the fall.

Clinton was asked if Obama can argue that Americans are better off than they were four years ago, as he argued in winning re-election in 1996.

He replies that if Obama can't make that case, "it is only because of the financial collapse that occurred in September 2008" before Obama took office.

Clinton says Obama can assert that "we put a floor under the recession and kept it from becoming a depression."

Associated Press

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