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Former President Bill Clinton, also at the conference, said he supports the deficit-reduction plan written by the heads of President Barack Obama's debt commission. The panel's two chairmen, former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson, a Republican, and Clinton's onetime White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles, proposed raising taxes and cutting politically sensitive entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security. Budget issues should be central to this year's presidential campaign, Clinton said, urging Obama to talk more about his proposed cuts to Medicare and the Defense Department. "Politicians ought to be talking more about the hard issues," Clinton said. "This budget issue ought to become front and center in the presidential election, in all the debates, in very specific ways." Read more: sfgate.com