Former President Clinton has had an illustrious political career, a statement of fact that no one will ever dispute. Such a life grounded in politics and public service carries with it a media component that some in the political arena are not very good at handling.
Many argue that the current President is one such politician, and so, in his fight for reelection, Obama called upon the one Democrat who always has his media grove on: Bill Clinton.
That Clinton spoke on the President’s behalf and nominated him at the Democratic National Convention was a historical first. No former president has acted in this role before delegates at a convention. Then again, not since FDR have we had a Democratic president as successful as Bill Clinton was, so it seemed to make perfect sense.
Clinton’s DNC speech was widely watched and viewed by pundits and politicians as a soaring success –a success weighed and measured as such on both sides of the aisle. But after watching Clinton speak, I had a very different view.
While I’m certainly no pundit, and definitely not a political writer, as someone who has followed and admired the former POTUS throughout his political life and who readily admits to voting for him twice; in my view, both his delivery and message at the DNC seemed a bit forced, labored, and at times, mechanical.
