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10:34 PM: Still weird to me, as a Clinton diehard from the 90s, how suddenly Bill is not only universally revered among Democrats. But even Republicans fall over themselves apparently to profess his awesomeness, if only to trash his would be successor.

10:37 PM: Still a mystery to me why Republicans spent the last month building Bill up when he’s going to slip them the shiv like no one else.

10:44 PM: “It turns out advancing opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because of poverty and ignorance restrict growth.”

10:53 PM: Brings it back to the key question: Are you better off?

10:53 PM: Folks with a hard copy of the speech tell me it bears little resemblance to what Clinton’s actually saying.

10:56 PM: “I believe it. With all my heart, I believe it.”

10:57 PM: Hard for me even to fathom how much Clinton is relishing this. Like a caged animal let back out for a brief run in the wild.

11:10 PM: Shorter Bill Clinton: W’w’wait! There’s more!

11:11 PM: Shorter Bill Clinton: Hey, I got a million of these!

11:12 PM: This is excellent news for Mark Halperin!

11:18 PM: This is starting to remind me of when my Daddy taught me to gut and clean fish. I think we’re at scraping off the scales now.

11:22 PM: Okay, I think we’re rising to the finish here. But how can you know?

11:23 PM: Wow, like every great Bill Clinton speech, incredibly long but incredibly good. At post-1988.

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