Bill Clinton

MIAMI - Launching a two-day campaign swing in senior-heavy Florida, former President Clinton pushed back Tuesday against what he described as Republican scare tactics over healthcare programs for older Americans - then provided his own frightening predictions about what would happen to seniors if Mitt Romney became president. Clinton said the Republican nominee was misleading voters by arguing that President Obama's healthcare overhaul "robbed Medicare of $716 billion," noting that the money would mainly be cut from future payments to hospitals and insurance companies, not beneficiaries.

Onetime Republican presidential primary contender Newt Gingrich said that former President Bill Clinton's rousing defense of President Obama last week was an implicit indictment of Obama's record, a new attack Republicans are making to blunt any momentum that Clinton's backing might give Obama. The Clinton speech at the Democratic National Convention was “eerily anti-Obama, if you just listen to the subtext,” the former House speaker said on CNN's “State of the Union” Sunday morning.

Given the state of contemporary political discourse, "The Daily Show" rarely has to look very hard to find someone (or something) worthy of ridicule. Occasionally, though, a moment comes along that's impervious to Jon Stewart's satirical gaze, like Bill Clinton's deeply wonky yet riveting speech at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night. On Thursday's "Daily Show," Stewart began with a few obligatory jokes about the length of Clinton's remarks. A Giants fan, he grumbled that "this was not the event from last night I wanted to go into overtime," but from there it was all praise for Bubba.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - As Bill Clinton strode onto the royal blue carpeted stage Wednesday night, his campaign theme song, "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow," blasted through the arena. A more appropriate anthem might have been that Democratic oldie: "Happy Days Are Here Again. " Shouts of "We love you, Bill Clinton" echoed in the Democratic convention hall. The former president was fixing to tell the country why President Obama deserved another four years. And an overflow partisan crowd of more than 20,000 ate it up. The delegates were like jumping jacks, cheering his repeated and generous praise for Obama and, at one point, for Obama's secretary of State and his own wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The crowd may have loved Bubba, but he was no match for football. Former President Bill Clinton gave a rousing, 45-minute oration on behalf of President Obama Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention, which was carried live on multiple networks, including ABC and CBS, as well as the cable news outlets. But the initial ratings were less than thrilling: ABC and CBS each drew fewer than 4 million total viewers with their 10 p.m. coverage of the convention, which included part of Clinton's speech (which ran somewhat longer than its alloted time)

Former President Bill Clinton's exhaustive endorsement of President Obama's reelection Wednesday night was stocked with statistics on nearly every major issue of the election, from healthcare to job creation and the national debt. With frequent off-the-cuff citations of facts and figures, Clinton's speech was sure to be scoured by the army of fact-checkers that has been kept busy with the truthiness (instead of truthfulness) of the 2012 election. For the most part, the fact police gave Clinton high marks.

In the days and hours leading up to Bill Clinton's address before the 2012 Democratic National Convention, many analysts opined that the former president was there to remind the faithful what it means to be a Democrat. Wednesday's convention made that task a little easier. It was a day ruled by in-house arguments over the inclusion of God and the designation of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in the party platform, a day in which the warm-up speeches were given by an assortment of characters including activist nun Sister Simone Campbell, Rush Limbaugh slander victim Sandra Fluke and senatorial candidate Elizabeth Warren, the party's current plain-spoken darling.

It was a clash of titans, and Bill Clinton won. Wednesday night's prime-time coverage of the Democratic National Convention, which featured a fiery and finger-pointing address by former President Bill Clinton, attracted 25.1 million viewers, according to ratings giant Nielsen. The Democrats out-muscled the season opener of NFL football on NBC, which drew 23.9 million viewers. The Dallas Cowboys defeated the New York Giants on the field. The second night of the Democratic convention in Charlotte, N.C., was off slightly from the opening night of the event, which faced significantly less competition on TV.  On Tuesday night, the convention showcased Michelle Obama and drew 26.2 million viewers.  The Democratic convention continues to draw a larger audience than last week's Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. The second night of coverage of the Republican National Convention, which featured Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the GOP nominee for vice president, drew 21.94 million viewers.

Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention, Bill Clinton put on a master's clinic on how to fight a political campaign. It may not have made Democrats wish he was back in the White House (at least not every Democrat), but they sure long to see him out on the campaign trail. The former president took the stage to nominate the current president -- "I want to nominate a man who is cool on the outside, but burns for America on the inside" -- and found a way to turn every vulnerability of Barack Obama's candidacy into a strength.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- In Wednesday's marquee speech at the Democratic National Convention, Bill Clinton will argue that Republicans offer a “you're-on-your-own” society, while Democrats want a “we're-all-in-this-together society,” as he symbolically submits President Obama's name for nomination to a second term. According to remarks prepared for delivery, the former president will say Obama “began the long hard road to recovery, and laid the foundation for a more modern, more well-balanced economy that will produce millions of good new jobs, vibrant new businesses, and lots of new wealth for the innovators.” “The most important question is, what kind of country do you want to live in?