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By Callum Borchers, Globe Correspondent The Mitt Romney campaign is continuing to cast Bill Clinton as asort of double agent, after he appeared to undermine PresidentObama again Tuesday by endorsing a wholesale extension of Bush-eratax cuts. Clinton is one of the Obama campaign s most utilized surrogates;the former president accompanied Obama at a trio of high-dollar NewYork fund-raisers as recently as Monday. But Clinton s statement in a CNBC interview that extending allBush tax cuts is probably the best thing to do right now contradicted the Obama administration s position that thegovernment cannot afford to continue forfeiting the revenue lost tothe cuts. The president has proposed extending breaks forhouseholds earning up to $250,000 and allowing cuts for higherearners to expire at the end of the year, as scheduled. A Clinton spokesman sought to clarify Clinton s remarks after the interview. As President Clinton has said many times before, he supportedextending all of the cuts in 2010 as part of the budget agreementbut does not believe the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americansshould be extended again, the spokesman, Matt McKenna, said in astatement. In the interview, he simply said that he doubted thata long-term agreement on spending cuts and revenues would bereached until after the election. Clinton did stress in the interview that a tax cut extension shouldbe part of a short-term effort to avoid doing anything that wouldcontract the economy now, adding that Obama should not agree toRepublicans demands to make the breaks permanent. But Clinton included tax cuts for top earners when he said Congress will probably have to put everything off until early next year and again when he said I have no problem with extending all of itnow. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy Lawrence Summers, Clinton s Treasury secretary and a formereconomic adviser to Obama, also appeared to back a temporary Bushtax cut extension on Wednesday, saying on MSNBC that the realrisk to this economy is on the side of slow down -- certainly noton the side of overheating -- and that means we ve got to makesure that we don t take gasoline out of the tank at the end ofthis year. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the Obama campaign was upset by Clinton sremarks and asked him to correct them, prompting the statementby McKenna. Romney, who supports a permanent extension of the Bush tax cuts,added Tuesday s interview to his list of Clinton moments thatsubvert Obama. On Monday, the Romney campaign recirculated a 2007 interview inwhich Clinton questioned Obama s qualification to be president. The Romney camp contrasted those remarks with ones Clinton madelast week, when he asserted that Romney crosses the qualificationthreshold to be president. Callum Borchers can be reached at callum.borchers@globe.com. Followhim on Twitter @callumborchers. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as LED Skin Rejuvenation , body slimming machine for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Ultrasonic Cavitation Slimming Machine.
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