Clinton: Kerry Is Not Too Far Left [View All]

[DrFunkenstein]

Clinton, speaking to reporters after meeting Democratic senators on Capitol Hill, praised Kerry's record on national security, social and fiscal issues in the Senate, while insisting he was not taking sides in the Democratic contest.



The former president, considered by many in his party as a centrist, spoke after a reporter asked whether Kerry was "a little too liberal" to win the general election in November should he be the Democratic nominee.

Clinton recalled that Kerry had been helpful when Clinton was in the White House trying to reverse large budget deficits. Among other things, Clinton raised taxes in 1993 to do so and Kerry voted for that increase.

"All I know is when I was trying to reverse 12 years of what we've had for the last four, where we were taxing less and spending more ... and we were running this huge deficit, he (Kerry) was there to help," Clinton said of Kerry.

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