More Clinton Cronies Creating Trouble for Obama

The Clintons and their friends are making life tougher for the Obama campaign:

Former aides to President Bill Clinton are calling for a dramatic shift in their party's economic message before the November election, warning of an "impossible headwind in November," if they continue on their current path.

The two political operations — Clinton and Obama — have never seen eye-to-eye, and now some of the top voices of the Democratic 1990s have shifted into open criticism of a political operation they cast as overly negative and reactive, and failing to offer a positive set of plans for the economy.

Clinton's 1992 campaign pollster, Stan Greenberg, and his former campaign manager, Democratic, raised alarm today about President Barack Obama's economic message in a memo written with pollster Erica Seifert for Democracy Corps (and first reported by POLITICO).

"What is clear from this fresh look at public consciousness on the economy is how difficult this period has been for both non-college-educated and college-educated voters — and how vulnerable the prevailing narratives articulated by national Democratic leaders are," they write. "We will face an impossible headwind in November if we do not move to a new narrative, one that contextualizes the recovery but, more importantly, focuses on what we will do to make a better future for the middle class."

The election, they add, is not a vote on economic performance, but on which candidate has the best prescription for the future. They advise a program of new taxes on people earning more than $200,000, and new spending aimed at securing the future of the American middle class.

Note, their plan is more taxes and spending. Don't ever think the Clintons and their cronies are anything but liberals, they're just a different shade of liberal than Obama. However, they may end up relieving us of Obama and that would be a good thing.