Former President Bill Clinton has turned to a chief campaigner for the Barack Obama re-election bid.
In the last few days, Clinton has been moving round the battleground states, delivering speeches more than Obama himself.
At every stop, Clinton praises Obama.
Just Friday, the 66-yearold former president made five stops in Florida, all to campaign for Obama where he criticised Mitt Romney’s tax-cut plans in Palm Bay.
“I don’t understand how people like me could sleep at night taking another tax cut, and taking it away from you,” he said. “That is what Mr. Romney wants to repeal.”
“I am the only living former president that ever gave you a budget surplus,” he said in Palm Bay.
In return, Obama praises Clinton in Ohio stop on Friday.
“For eight years we had a president who shared our beliefs, and his name was Bill Clinton,” Obama said.
“His economic plan asked the wealthiest Americans to pay a little more so we could reduce our deficit and invest in the skills and ideas of our people.”
Romney opposed that plan, Obama said, and his math “was just as bad back then as it was today.”
Clinton campaigned for Obama on Thursday in Wisconsin and Ohio.
Earlier in the week he was in Iowa, Colorado, Minnesota and New Hampshire.
In Green Bay, Wisconsin, Clinton spoke on why the economy is better than many think. The only reason the Obama-Romney race is close, he said, “is because Americans are impatient on things not made before yesterday, and they don’t understand why the economy is not totally hunky- dory again.”
Clinton also joined Obama yesterday for a rally in Virginia. He is also expected to grace the Sunday (today’s) campaign in New Hampshire, North Carolina and Minnesota.
No state underscores the importance of Clinton.
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