Former President Bill Clinton and President Barack Obama are offering extremely conflicting messages for the 2014 election cycle.
Clinton campaigned for Sen. Mark Pryor (D- Ark.) Monday and called it a Republican “scam” to make the midterm elections about Obama.
“They’re really running against the president aren’t they?” Clinton said as quoted by The Hill. “They see these polls, the president’s unpopular in Arkansas, and yeah the economy’s coming back, but nobody believes it yet because you don’t feel it.”
Pryor is running a tough reelection campaign against Rep. Tom Cotton (R). Clinton said Cotton only believes that people should “vote against the president.”
“It’s a pretty good scam isn’t it? Give me a six-year job, for a two-year protest. That’s Mark Pryor’s opponent’s message.”
But considering Obama just announced last week that all of his policies are basically on the ballot, Clinton’s claim doesn’t really make much sense.
Speaking at Northwestern University, the president declared that his policies were up for a referendum and said it was “implied” who he wanted the crowd to vote for in the midterms.
“I am not on the ballot this fall. Michelle’s pretty happy about that,” Obama began. “But make no mistake: These policies are on the ballot. Every single one of them.”
If that’s the case, then isn’t Cotton’s argument about voting against Obama’s policies spot-on? Maybe Clinton and Obama should talk it out.
