When you become President, your job is to explain where we are, say where you think we should go, have a strategy to get there, and execute it,” he began. “By that standard, Barack Obama deserves to be reelected President of the United States. And I’m going to tell you the only reason we’re even meeting here. I mean, this is crazy — he’s got an opponent who basically wants to do what they did before, on steroids {laughter} — which will get you the same consequences you got before, on steroids {more laughter}.” Clinton went on to endorse Obama’s “forward-looking” plans for economic renewal, first outlined in the presidential campaign four years ago, which were derailed by the financial crash in September 2008, “only seven weeks before the election.” Historically such collapses, noted Clinton, leave nations unable to achieve full economic recovery and job growth for as long as a decade — so “he’s beating the clock, not behind it.”
