Does Clinton's Great Convention Speech Matter?

A professor friend of mine once told me that the best teacher is the one who can explain the most complex subject matter in the simplest, easy to understand, terms and manner. And I was reminded of that when I listened to Clinton's convention speech. He's an excellent teacher, and he gave a great, and informative, lesson explaining why no President could have turned this economy around in less than four years. He made a much better case for Obama than Obama has been able to put forth for himself, because Bill's simply a better teacher.

I think Clinton's convention speech mattered because it actually had substance, and intelligence, behind it. It exposed the shallowness of most of the Republican rhetoric I heard being leveled at Obama at their convention in Tampa. The Republicans seem to be hoping the electorate isn't bright enough to really understand how deep and how severe this current recession is, and what a reasonable time-frame for recovery might be--regardless of which President had been sitting in the White House since Bush left office. Clinton, in that speech, provided all the Democrats with a lesson plan they can continue to use to to educate and persuade voters, and make their case for Obama's re-election.

Clinton remains very popular with the American people, with high favorability ratings, even before his convention speech.

His wholehearted endorsement of Obama may also help to boost Obama simply by association with Clinton. Currently, they're running Obama ads featuring Clinton, probably for that reason.

So I definitely think that Clinton's convention speech mattered, and will continue to matter, and may help to pull in more independent and still undecided votes for Obama. I also thought that speech showed just how unified the Democratic party is right now, and Clinton's speech was the evidence of that--Obama needed him, he really needed him, and Clinton showed up and delivered. That's in marked contrast to the Republican party, which has factions pulling it in such different directions that Romney wound up being handed a party platform that he doesn't entirely endorse or support, but which he's got to accept, because he really doesn't have all that much clout as the leader of his own party. It's hard to know who Romney will be answerable to, even within his party, because it's hard to know who's controlling, or actually leading, the Republican party these days. If nothing else, Clinton showed that the Democrats are now a united front.

It would have been helpful for the sales pitch of a united democratic party had Woodward left out of his book how Polosi and Reid submarined Obama during the debt talks last year, how they refused to get for Obama the one thing he needed.

Relations between the white house and congressional dem leadership is still very frosty the way I hear it. Your claim Firefly that the dems are united sounds to me like another one of your lies. And united to what effort? Beat the GOP?? Sure but who cares about their never ending fights...we want to see our leaders working together. What else do they have on their dance card?

The Democrats are united, as a party, in their basic positions on the issues and their aims.

The Republicans are very fractured, by factions like the Tea Partiers, the religious right, etc., who have their own agendas, and it cannot be said that Romney is the leader of the party--he's being led around as much as he's "leading". And the party platform they handed him is evidence of that.

Other than 'I'm not Obama' Romney has no campaign specifics. Even with the fuzzy math his sketchy tax plan doesn't add up. Ryan has had to cede his states rights attitude concerning medical maijuana. Romney has flip-flopped fom repeal the whole of Obama(neeRomney)care to accepting cetain provisions.

The GOP platform is a clusterf**f. A document witten to require the specifics of a committee.

Jebus! You can't paint yourself into a tighter corner--it seems the
GOP has forgotten that politics is compromise by interest.

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The GOP is always sending its tent out to get cut smaller and smaller each election sequence.

I love how th GOP platform committee is now pushing back on what Romney said about how hed accept certain parts of Obamacare.