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This convention has seized on many of the themes that dominated its predecessor 12 years ago and propelled little-known challenger Bill Clinton to the White House. And it has embraced the Clinton legacy in a major way besides.
From day one, this has been the Clinton convention. It paints a stark contrast to 2000, when then-Vice President Al Gore ’69 ran from Clinton, even picking a vice presidential candidate with Clinton-bashing credentials earned during the impeachment proceedings. Bill owned the hall Monday night...
The upshot has been that even since Bill skipped town Tuesday, the remainder of the convention has clearly been guided by his spirit. Vice presidential candidate Sen. John R. Edwards, D-N.C., made the upbeat, down-home populism of Clinton his own last night, urging listeners to adopt the...
Sure, there were some new themes, like Edwards’ “two Americas” (which borrowed from Mario Cuomo’s 1984 “Tale of Two Cities” Democratic convention address), but to sum up his speech, he might as well have said...
The rest of the convention has followed in similar fashion. Organizers have tried to hard to make the proceedings positive and forward-looking, avoiding attacks on President Bush as much as possible.