Now Obama praises Bill Clinton...

It's the economy, stupid. From the Boston Globe:

With the economy in crisis and Election Day in sight, Obama can't say enough about the Clinton epoch - the job growth, the budget surpluses, the broad prosperity - and often lauds the former president's economic stewardship as a model.

"We need to do what we did in the 1990s and create millions of new jobs and not lose them," he told 6,000 people in Abington, outside Philadelphia, last week. "We need to do what we did in the 1990s and make sure people's incomes are going up and not down. We need to do what a guy named Bill Clinton did in the 1990s and put people first again."

Well, isn't that just a little late? Better late than never, I guess. Of course, a recent sticking point with me was that Obama went on record as favouring more bailouts for financial corporations while McCain proposed buying out citizens' bad mortgages directly. Who is the Democrat and who is the Republican in this race again?