Masterful Bill Gets Convention on Track

Bill Clinton has made the case for Barack Obama better than anybody else at the Democratic Convention, Peggy Noonan writes in the Wall Street Journal. "Crazy, red-faced Rageholic" Bill was absent and in his place was a masterful statesman, who delivered a "great tee-up" up for Obama's acceptance speech tonight, where the choice of an outdoor venue could prove risky, Noonan notes.

Noonan's highlights of the convention so far:

• Hillary Clinton making the best speech of her career;
• Ted Kennedy's speech—a "masterpiece of generosity;"
• Ted Strickland of Ohio's riff on the old 1988 joke that George H. W. Bush was "born on third and thought he hit a triple." Strickland quipped that George Jr. "was born on third and then stole second."

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