Bill Clinton Thinks Americans Are 'Impatient' for Recovery

Gee, Bill. We’ve only been waiting three years.

Associated Press:

Former President Bill Clinton said Friday that President Barack Obama is facing a tough re-election race because “impatient” Americans haven’t fully recognized an economy on the mend.

Campaigning for Obama in Green Bay, Wis., Clinton urged voters to stay the course as more signs of a recovery sink in. Clinton said voters should judge Obama on the past three years, in which private sector job growth has made up for lost ground.

“This shouldn’t be a race,” Clinton said. “The only reason it is, 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.”

The former president said Obama’s difficulty in his race with Republican challenger Mitt Romney is that “people don’t feel it yet” even as the unemployment rate ticks down and the manufacturing sector perks up. Clinton said Obama deserves credit for stabilizing a situation that saw the country hemorrhage jobs well into his first year.

“Gov. Romney acts like from the minute the president took his hand off the Bible he was responsible for every lost job,” Clinton said.

Everywhere he goes, Romney argues that the tepid recovery is grounds for a change. The shape of the economy consistently tops lists of voter concerns.

A local police official said 2,200 turned out to hear Clinton at a college fieldhouse. Clinton won Wisconsin in both of his presidential campaigns.

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The “official” end of the recession was June 1, 2009. Today, the average length of unemployment is 39 months. That means it is possible for someone to have been laid off just as the recession ended and have spent the entire Obama “recovery” being unemployed.

What’s there to get impatient about?

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