The Boston Globe is reporting that Hillary Clinton’s Democratic rivals are taking on Bill Clinton’s Presidency in their campaign against Hillary:
ONAWA, Iowa - Bill Clinton’s growing visibility on the campaign trail in recent days has brought star power to his wife’s candidacy, but is also increasingly inviting serious criticism of his presidency from her rivals.
In the past week, the Democratic nomination fight has become more of a referendum on the Clinton years and whether Bill Clinton brought the good life to middle-class Americans or squandered eight years in compromise and scandal.
John Edwards told 9,000 Democratic activists in Des Moines on Saturday night that corruption has been building in Washington for decades, a period that conspicuously encompasses the Clinton years.
In Sioux City the day before, Barack Obama sharply criticized the Clintons’ failure to overhaul healthcare, saying “they did it in the wrong way” by devising their plan in secret, making it easier for the insurance industry to label it as socialized medicine.
While it’s interesting to see the Democratic candidates do this, it clearly stands out as a sign of desperation. So far, at least, their stragegy against Hillary doesn’t seem to have been working, assuming that they have a strategy, and it’s not clear how attacking the last Democratic President, who remains popular with Democratic voters, is going to reverse what seems like an irreversible tide.
