The decision to save the U.S. auto industry is President Barack Obama's biggest achievement — bigger than landmark health care reform, former President Bill Clinton told more than 1,600 current and retired autoworkers Thursday morning.In a 50-minute speech to the United Auto Workers union's Community Action Program convention here, the former president also criticized a Republican presidential candidate for opposing the $85 billion auto bailout.
"Everytime I hear Mr. Romney talking about this, I think his daddy must be turning over in his grave," Clinton said of Mitt Romney's late father George, who was a three-term governor of Michigan and chief executive at American Motors. "We could not afford to lose a million and a half to 2 million jobs."
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