Barack Obama gets the thumbs up from Bill Clinton on getting the stimulus package passed – not all that enthusiastically though.

Here is an AP report:

Former President Bill Clinton said Monday he thinks the country will surmount the current economic crisis and gave President Barack Obama high marks for the 787 billion economic stimulus bill that will be signed this week.
«I think he’s off to a good start,” Clinton said. «I think he’s got a good team.”
He said he thought Obama’s White House handled the stimulus issue relatively well, «given the fact they had to do it in a hurry.”
Clinton also said he believes the massive bill, which combines spending and tax cuts, will be «our bridge over troubled waters.”
Clinton also said he believes the threat of terrorism and global instability are longer-term problems the U.S. must deal with.
confirmed he has talked to Obama about the job of president, although Clinton said he didn’t want to be too specific, saying only that they talked about «nuts and bolts” issues of the presidency.
Asked his perspective on how the country fell into such economic hard times, Clinton responded in an NBC «Today” show interview by asking rhetorically: «Did any of them seriously believe that if I had been president and my economic team had been in place the last eight years, that this would be taking place?”

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