“I thought that Democrats had a tendency to shy away from things they had done that were unpopular, (and) talk about positions they had that were popular,” he said. “And that my own experience had convinced me — going back to ‘94 and even more when I was governor [of Arkansas] — that that was always a terrible mistake. That you had to turn in toward all controversies and embrace them — even if you said you were wrong or a mistake was made. You couldn’t not deal with it.”
Clinton’s comments concerned both the 2012 presidential election and this year’s midterms, the piece said. Clinton’s spokesman confirmed that they were offered in an interview.
“When [Obama] asked me to speak for him in North Carolina [at the Democratic National Convention], I said that I would do it — but that I could only do it and be effective if he let me explain and defend the health care deal,” Clinton said.
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