This is probably the first time in American political history
where all of the living former Presidents of the United States (from opposing
parties) have, in one way or another, endorsed the challenger to the incumbent
executive.
President George H.W. Bush has formerly endorsed Mitt Romney
for President. George W. Bush has done the same (“I’m for Mitt Romney!”). Those
two endorsements from Republican former presidents would be expected. The
following endorsements? Not so much:
Bill Clinton, on several different occasions, has defended
Mitt Romney’s qualifications (as governor) and his “sterling business career”.
He has also given us a timeline for when we can expect the economy to improve
and who to hold accountable. Two years ago (September 2010), speaking at the
Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio, Clinton said that if the
Democrats don’t have this mess straightened out, the voters should “vote them
out”. Well, it is two years later and there is an election coming up, so…
I’m now standing by to hear what Jimmy Carter has to say
about President Obama. Oops, wait a second. In an interview with MSNBC this
past April, former President Carter said Romney had been “fairly competent” as
governor of Massachusetts and that Carter would be “comfortable” with Romney as
president (though he did try to pin the “right-wing extremist” tag on Romney
later in the interview). Not a ringing endorsement, but close enough coming
from Carter.
Geez, with friends like these…
The last endorsement (though indirect) of Romney (or whoever
the Republican nominee would be) comes from none other than: President Barack Obama
himself! During the 2008 campaign, Obama said that if he didn’t have the economic
situation worked out by the end of his first term, then it would be a “one-term
proposition’ for him. Well, we’re coming up on the end of his first term, so…
