One of the reasons it was so frustrating to hear the Clinton campaign use the "inexperienced" line against Barack Obama so often during the primaries was because of how similar the line was, truly, to attacks against Bill Clinton when he ran for president in 1992. Well, tonight, President Clinton finally undid some of that damage done and, proudly, likened Obama to himself. "He has the intelligence and curiosity every successful president needs," Bill said early in the speech. And then, later: "Together, we prevailed in a campaign in which the Republicans said I was too young and too inexperienced to be commander-in-chief. Sound familiar? It didn't work in 1992, because we were on the right side of history. And it won't work in 2008, because Barack Obama is on the right side of history."
--Dana Goldstein
