Washington, Nov 5 (ANI): Former US President Bill Clinton has claimed in his new book that the Obama administration has made two major political mistakes in recent years.
First was not raising the federal debt ceiling in the first two years of the president's term, when Democrats still had a majority in Congress, and then failing to devise an effective national campaign message during the midterm elections of 2010, the Washington Post quoted Clinton, as saying.
He also suggested that Obama's criticism of Wall Street was too harsh and counterproductive.
The 42nd president periodically surfaces with cheerful tips on how he managed the economy and offers these observations in his book "Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy."
Clinton also said that Obama has struggled, both to identify workable economic policies and to outsmart his Republican foes.
"The Democrats did not counter the national Republican message with one of their own," Clinton writes of the Democratic losses in 2010.
"There was no national advertising campaign to explain and defend what they had done and to compare their agenda for the next two years with the GOP proposals," he added. (ANI)
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