Bush Hides From GOP Convention As Dems Spotlight Clinton

Democrats are set to give former President Bill Clinton a major role at the 2012 Democratic Convention.

According to a New York Times report, Clinton will formally nominate President Obama at the event while giving a strong economic argument for the President’s re-election. Clinton left office in 2000 with high approval ratings after leading the U.S. economy through its longest peacetime expansion.

By contrast, former President George W. Bush has declined an invitation to the Republican convention. Bush left office in the midst of a major economic recession that happened on his watch. In his last month in office, the U.S. economy lost nearly 850,000 jobs.