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Former President Bill Clinton made a full-throated endorsement for party nominee Barack Obama as a leader ready to confront any challenge. “Everything I’ve learned in my eight years as president and the work I’ve done since, in America and across the globe, has convinced me that Barack Obama is the man for this job,” he said to a cheering crowd. Clinton was trying to roll back a line of attack made in his wife Hillary ’s primary battle, and taken up now by John McCain , the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Readers, how would you grade the speech? Click on the letters to vote. Post the reason for answer and offer more thoughts in the comments section. View the results. (link)

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