HUFFINGTON POST: …. Immediately following the speech, the praise started pouring in. Wolf Blitzer led the pack on CNN. “I’ve been watching this president…going back to 1992 when I was CNN’s White House correspondent,” he said. “This may have been the best speech I have ever heard Bill Clinton deliver over all these years.”
GOP strategist and CNN pundit Alex Castellanos said that Clinton’s speech tilted the scale. “Tonight when everybody leaves, lock the door. You don’t have to come back tomorrow. This convention is done. This will be the moment that probably re-elected Barack Obama,” he said.
Fox News’ Brit Hume said that Bill Clinton “is the most talented politician [he’s] ever covered and the most charming man [he’s] ever met.” He added, “No one in my view can frame an argument more effectively than he can.”… (more)
EDITOR: It seemed more like a college lecture by a popular professor than just a political speech. Clinton works from a preapred speech but then slightly rephrases as he goes along and at times extemporizes. The sense is he is having a conversation with each member of the audience.
