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To: koan who wrote (26514)	9/6/2012 7:49:22 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

Big Dawg's first convention speech in '88 went way too long. Best applause line of the night was , "In conclusion,...". This was 15 minutes longer, and I watched it twice.

To: koan who wrote (26514)	9/6/2012 9:54:23 AM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Respond to of 85487

he just so comfortable with lying it just comes natural. Like Debbie Wasserman shultz, she just lies and lies. Like she said it was obvious 2/3 vote. when the democrats denied god 3 times last night "Verily I say unto thee, That this day, even in this night, before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice."

To: koan who wrote (26514)	9/6/2012 10:01:24 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 85487

Krauthammer: Bill Clinton speech ‘a giant swing and a miss’ by JEFF POOR SEPT. 6, 2012 For the second straight night, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer bucked the trend of the television punditry and criticized a Democratic National Convention keynote speaker, in this case former President Bill Clinton. In an appearance during Fox News Channel’s coverage of the convention, Krauthammer said the 43rd president of the United States under-delivered with his speech. “I think it was a giant swing and a miss,” Krauthammer said. “Mighty Casey — and Bill Clinton is a natural — he struck out on this. I don’t think it would move the needle whatsoever. Look, it had all the classic Clinton elements — it was engaging, it was humorous. In some cases, it was generous: I think there were more mentions of the Bushes than I heard in three days in Tampa. But on the other hand it was also vintage Clinton in that it was sprawling, undisciplined and truly self-indulgent.” “This is one of the strangest nomination speeches, I think, ever given,” he continued. “It was a kind of an amalgam between a State of the Union address, a policy wonk seminar and what sounded to me like a campaign speech for a third Clinton term. Obama was sort of incidental. He’d be shoved in every once in a while in the speech as a way to say, ‘well, he thinks as I do.’” Krauthammer noted the long-windedness of Clinton’s 50-minute speech and suggested Republican vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan could have covered the same subject matter in a fraction of the time. “One last point: It is true that he made a lot of detailed rebuttals — that he is sort of the rebutter-in-chief on most of the stuff heard in Tampa,” Krauthammer said. “But Paul Ryan could handle all of that in 10 minutes in his debate. So I think it was a wasted opportunity of what could have been a great, stirring, rousing endorsement of Obama.”