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...After days of backstage carping among both her supporters and his, no one knew exactly what to expect. Obama didn't just beat a strong and popular candidate; he snatched the reins from the party's old guard and ticked off a former President, Bill Clinton, in the process. People might have wondered if Hillary Clinton was preparing to launch her 2012 campaign when the Pepsi Center became filled with thousands of cardboard placards emblazoned with her website address. After all, history holds plenty of examples of also-rans who achieved far less than Clinton did this year...
...Bill Clinton watched the speech from box seats high above the convention floor, flanked by the widow of Arkansas Democratic chairman Bill Gwatney, killed recently by a disgruntled former employee, and the son of the late Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio. When the speech ended, the former President wiped tears from his eyes, mouthed the words "Great speech" and let out a long sigh...
...presidencies. And the primary results suggested that after all the drama over pardons and interns, Travelgate and Filegate, Republicans weren't the only Americans with some Clinton fatigue; it was a telling moment when MoveOn.org endorsed Obama, a decade after it was founded to fight the Clinton impeachment. If Bill Clinton really wants to ratify Obama as the future, he'll have to acknowledge tonight that he and his politics are finally past. That kind of humility is a tough ask of any politician - and as history has taught us, this is not just any politician...
...Bill Clinton probably won't put it quite that bluntly at the Democratic National Convention tonight. But he probably will use his speech to remind Americans that things were pretty good during the Clinton administration, despite a lot of dire warnings from Republicans, and that things are considerably less good now. He'll probably mention George W. Bush's efforts to reverse just about everything he did, and suggest they might have had something to do with our national journey from peace, prosperity and record budget surpluses to a quagmire in Iraq, recession in America and record budget deficits...
...strong argument for Democrats, and nobody makes it better than Bill Clinton. But if he really wants to help Barack Obama reach the White House - a proposition that is at best unclear - he'll provide more than a rousing defense of Clintonism and its 22 million new jobs. Democrats had their chance to extend Clintonism; they didn...