Investor's Business Daily ^ | May 1, 2012
Politics: The president who wagged the dog and let bin Laden get away raises millions for the president who jokes about eating one while taking credit for Osama's death. A deal for Hillary as veep, perhaps?
Politics makes strange bedfellows, the cliche goes. In 2008, Hillary Clinton waged a protracted and sometimes bitter battle for the Democratic presidential nomination against a former community organizer and absentee state senator from Illinois only to wind up as President Obama's secretary of state.
Husband and former President Bill Clinton even made racially tinged remarks about Obama's primary victory over Hillary in the South Carolina primary.
That was then and this is now, and maybe "strange" is not the word to use after Bill Clinton appeared in Obama's campaign opus about Obama beheading the al-Qaida dragon and appearing at a backyard fundraiser outside the home of former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe that pulled in some $2 million for Obama's re-election coffers.
Obama, who rails against alleged Republican intransigence as the root of all his problems, needs all the help he can get from the man who got re-elected by working with Republicans, led by then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, producing balanced budgets and a pay-down of the national debt in the process.
Clinton was elected using the slogan, "It's the economy, stupid." President Obama may be defeated by GOP nominee Mitt Romney's observation, "It's still the economy, and we're not stupid."
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