Former President Bill Clinton attempted to hit Mitt Romney by tying Hurricane Sandy to climate change, but succeeded only in reminding voters of one of President Obama’s more absurd promises from 2008.

“In my part of America, we would’ve liked it if somebody could’ve done that yesterday,” Clinton told Minnesotans today, referring to Obama’s promise to “to turn back the seas,” as Clinton put it. Obama’s actual prediction ran like this: “This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” (CBS notes that he incorrectly claimed that Romney mocked Obama during the presidential debate for that remark.)