Obama does U-turn on Clinton presidency

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Barack Obama praises the U.S. economy under former President Bill Clinton, a turnabout from when he battled Clinton's wife in the primaries, a strategist says. "We need to do what we did in the 1990s and make sure people's incomes are going up and not down," Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, said during a recent rally in Philadelphia. "We need to do what a guy named Bill Clinton did in the 1990s and put people first again." Obama's comments about Clinton's presidency differ from ones he made during the Democratic primaries, when he was running against Clinton's wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, The... [read full story]