Bill Clinton comes around

Bill Clinton was great tonight, especially when he pointed out that critics had also said he was too young and inexperienced when he ran in 1992. (Obama is actually forty-seven, a year older than Clinton was when he won).

Biden's introduction bolstered the argument I've been making that Biden's appeal to older white Democrats may be almost as important as his foreign policy cred. His middle-class Catholic upbringing and often-imperfect life story (childhood stuttering, the tragic loss of his wife and daughter right after his first Senate race, and though it wasn't mentioned, his failed 1988 Presidential bid) serve as excellent foils for Obama's multicultural background and his meteoric rise. Biden comes across as incredibly real and human, and his beaming mother probably won the ticket some votes on her own.