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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConason: Called Out by Republicans, Clinton Answers in Masterful Convention Speech
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/09/08/called_out_by_republicans_clinton_answers_in_masterful_convention_speech_115381.htmlBill killed.
Nominating Barack Obama for a second term, the former president brought to bear the full weight of his political experience and forensic skill Wednesday night, on behalf of a man who was once his adversary. Rewritten up until the final hour before he took the podium, this was among his finest campaign speeches, even surpassing the address he delivered at the last Democratic convention in 2008. Clinton presented an exhaustive argument for Obama (and against the Republicans) with four key elements:
A lesson in presidential economics delivered in professorial style, acknowledging complexity while at the same time presenting issues in an understandable and even simple style. There has been no political leader since FDR with Clinton's capacity to perform this rhetorical magic, and there is none today who can match him. He possesses a singular authority to discuss employment, spending and debt, having proved his GOP opponents wrong so decisively in the past that they now attempt to cite him as a model.
Calling him out that way -- as both Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have done in recent weeks -- was a woeful mistake. He repaid the cynical compliment by "scoring" them and their party on budgetary arithmetic and job creation, an exercise from which they did not emerge unscathed.
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Conason: Called Out by Republicans, Clinton Answers in Masterful Convention Speech (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Sep 2012
OP
Brilliant, I look forward to seeing & hearing more of Bill on the trail doing what he does best.
Historic NY
Sep 2012
#4
Why the hell they chose to go there is beyond me. That'll teach 'em to let sleeping "Dawgs" lie.
Tarheel_Dem
Sep 2012
#8
BeyondGeography
(39,379 posts)1. Republicans forget they gave him the same treatment as Obama
Never acknowledging his legitimacy and doing whatever they could to terminate him. Bill doesn't forget.
dsc
(52,166 posts)9. no they hope we will forget
tnvoter
(257 posts)2. Excellent and insightful article.
This is a must read. I'm recc'ing it.
1monster
(11,012 posts)3. Great article. Well worth reading.
Historic NY
(37,452 posts)4. Brilliant, I look forward to seeing & hearing more of Bill on the trail doing what he does best.
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)5. I love that the anti-Obama RW spin is now "Clinton's speech was BETTER!"
They really are grasping at straws.
Z_California
(650 posts)6. Voters forget (or were wearning diapers)
when the radical right was attacking our President as a corrupt drug runner, murderer, etc. They are cancer and need to be eliminated from our government. Hopefully this election is the beginning of that process.
jsr
(7,712 posts)7. "He will make Romney and Ryan regret that they have ever mentioned his name"
Tarheel_Dem
(31,239 posts)8. Why the hell they chose to go there is beyond me. That'll teach 'em to let sleeping "Dawgs" lie.
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)10. K&R