Did President Bill come through or what!!  Wow!!!   He put the fear of the righteous cause in the McBu$hite hords.  Bill Clinton put them on notice that its no more Mr. Nice Guy, no more turning the other cheek for the Republicken propaganda organ.

        

Here are a few of my favorite parts:   

   

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Clearly, the job of the next president is to rebuild the American dream and to restore American leadership in the world.  

 

(APPLAUSE)  

 

And here's what I have to say about that. Everything I learned in my eight years as president, and in the work I have done since in America and across the globe, has convinced me that Barack Obama is the man for this job.  

 

(APPLAUSE)

 

Now, he has a remarkable ability to inspire people, to raise our hopes and rally us to high purpose. He has the intelligence and curiosity every successful president needs. His policies on the economy, on taxes, on health care, on energy are far superior to the Republican alternatives.  

 

(APPLAUSE)  

 

He has shown -- he has shown a clear grasp of foreign policy and national security challenges and a firm commitment to rebuild our badly strained military.

His family heritage and his life experiences have given him a unique capacity to lead our increasingly diverse nation in an ever more interdependent world.  

 

(APPLAUSE)  

 

The long, hard primary tested and strengthened him. And in his first presidential decision, the selection of a running mate, he hit it out of the park.  

 

(APPLAUSE)  

 

With Joe Biden's experience and wisdom, supporting Barack Obama's proven understanding, instincts, and insight, America will have the national security leadership we need.  

 

And so, my fellow Democrats, I say to you: Barack Obama is ready to lead America and to restore American leadership in the world.  

 

(APPLAUSE)  

 

Barack Obama is ready to honor the oath, to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.  

 

(APPLAUSE)  

 

Barack Obama is ready to be president of the United States.

 

[…]   

      

Look at the example the Republicans have set.  

 

(AUDIENCE BOOS)  

 

In this decade, American workers have consistently given us rising productivity. That means, year after year, they work harder and produce more.  

 

Now, what did they get in return? Declining wages, less than one-fourth as many new jobs as in the previous eight years, smaller health care and pension benefits, rising poverty, and the biggest increase in income inequality since the 1920s.  

 

(AUDIENCE BOOS)  

 

American families by the millions are struggling with soaring health care costs and declining coverage.  

 

I will never forget the parents of children with autism and other serious conditions who told me on the campaign trail that they couldn't afford health care and couldn't qualify their children for Medicaid unless they quit work and starved or got a divorce.  

  

Are these the family values the Republicans are so proud of?   

  

What about the military families pushed to the breaking point by multiple, multiple deployments? What about the assault on science and the defense of torture? What about the war on unions and the unlimited favors for the well-connected?   

  

(AUDIENCE BOOS)   

  

And what about Katrina and cronyism?   

  

(AUDIENCE BOOS)   

  

My fellow Democrats, America can do better than that.   

  

(APPLAUSE)

   

[…]      

     

And it is, to be fair to all the Americans who aren't as hard- core Democrats as we, it's a philosophy the American people never actually had a chance to see in action fully until 2001, when the Republicans finally gained control of both the White House and the Congress.

  

Then we saw what would happen to America if the policies they had talked about for decades actually were implemented. And look what happened.   

  

They took us from record surpluses to an exploding debt; from over 22 million new jobs to just 5 million; from increasing working families' incomes to nearly $7,500 a year to a decline of more than $2,000 a year; from almost 8 million Americans lifted out of poverty to more than 5.5 million driven into poverty; and millions more losing their health insurance.

   

Now, in spite of all this evidence, their candidate is actually promising more of the same.

   

(AUDIENCE BOOS)

    

Think about it: more tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans that will swell the deficit, increase inequality, and weaken the economy; more Band-Aids for health care that will enrich insurance companies, impoverish families, and increase the number of uninsured; more going it alone in the world, instead of building the shared responsibilities and shared opportunities necessary to advance our security and restore our influence.   

  

They actually want us to reward them for the last eight years by giving them four more.   

  

AUDIENCE: No!   

  

[…]      

     

My fellow Democrats, 16 years ago, you gave me the profound honor to lead our party to victory and to lead our nation to a new era of peace and broadly shared prosperity.

  

Together, we prevailed in a hard campaign in which Republicans said I was too young and too inexperienced to be commander-in-chief.   

  

(APPLAUSE)   

  

Sound familiar?   

  

AUDIENCE: Yes!   

  

CLINTON: It didn't work in 1992, because we were on the right side of history. And it will not work in 2008, because Barack Obama is on the right side of history.

(APPLAUSE)   

  

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Wow!  Inspiring!!  The full transcript may be appreciated at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/us/politics/27text-clinton.html?pagewanted=1

        

The enthusiasm is electrifying, and we will look back on it as the opening of the floodgate to drown the Bu$hite regime and its lackeys in a long overdue tsanumi.  If you can’t drain the stinking swamp, wash it away I always say.