It wasn't quite what anyone had expected. But the raucous crowd who gathered to see Barack Obama nominated for a second tilt at the US Presidency last night have heard a lifetime’s worth of Bill Clinton speeches, so they knew to expect for the unexpected. And when the moment came, they lapped it up.
In a warm, folksy, and entirely unique closing speech on the second night of the Democratic Convention, Mr Clinton turned on the old southern charm, offering a ringing endorsement of current occupant of the White House, and a sometimes-detailed evisceration of the man who seeks to wrest it from him.
He heralded "a man cool on the outside, but burning for America on the inside," who had "inherited a deeply damaged economy, put a floor under the crash, and began the long hard road to recovery." And he cast Obama as the man capable of leading an old-fashioned Democratic revival, built on the middle class.
"In Tampa, the Republican argument against the president's re-election was pretty simple: 'We left him a total mess, he hasn't finished cleaning it up yet, so fire him and put us back in’," Clinton announced. "But I like the argument for President Obama's re-election a lot better."
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