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Bill Clinton gave a great speech at the DNC endorsing Barack Obama. Click here to read a transcript. The entire Democratic Convention speech videos are included to watch if you missed it.

Vice Presidential candidate Joe Biden also spoke at the convention. Click here to watch his speech too.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton delivered a rousing endorsement Wednesday of Barack Obama, who earlier received the Democratic Party's nomination for the presidency.

Mr. Clinton said his eight years in the White House and the work he has done since have convinced him that Obama is the man for the job. He said Obama is ready to lead the United States and restore American leadership in the world.

Mr. Clinton also said the nation is in trouble both domestically and internationally after eight years of Republican leadership under President George Bush. He argued that Obama's Republican rival John McCain will only bring more of the same.

Mr. Clinton made his endorsement on the third day of the Democratic National Convention, just hours after his wife, Hillary, called on Democrats to suspend their symbolic roll call vote and nominate Obama by acclamation.

Mr. Clinton's convention praise for Obama is in direct contrast to the criticisms he heaped on the Democratic nominee during the long and bitter primary race. The former president campaigned vigorously for his wife and often criticized Obama, her main rival.

During the campaign, Mr. Clinton tried to raise doubts about whether Obama had the experience to lead the country. He aggressively attacked Obama's record as a senator for Illinois, with claims denied by the Obama camp.

But in his convention speech, the former president compared criticisms of Obama's age and experience to similar criticisms the Republicans used against him during his run for presidency in 1992. He said the tactic did not work then, and that it will not work now because Obama is on what he called "the right side of history."

Mr. Clinton's speaking role at the convention was announced earlier this month as speculation grew over tensions between the Clintons and Obama.

Obama has said he is honored to have Mr. Clinton's support. Both he and the Clintons have dismissed reports of tension and tried to present an image of Democratic Party unity. source

Bill Clinton Speech At The 2008 DNC Convention - Part 1

Bill Clinton Speech At The 2008 DNC Convention - Part 2

Bill Clinton Speech At The 2008 DNC Convention - Part 3

A new Vanity Fair article in the July issue alleges former President Bill Clinton had several affairs during his tenure as President in the White House. The article suggests that Clinton had affairs with many women on the road including actress Gina Gershon and billionaire heiress Belinda Stronach.

Over the last few years, aides have winced at repeated tabloid reports about Clinton’s episodic friendship and occasional dinners out with Belinda Stronach, a twice-divorced billionaire auto-parts heiress and member of the Canadian Parliament 20 years his junior, or at more recent high-end Hollywood dinner-party gossip that Clinton has been seen visiting with the actress Gina Gershon in California. There has been talk of a female friend in Chappaqua, a woman in a bar at a meeting of the Aspen Institute, and a public sighting of Clinton, Bing, and a ravishing entourage in a New York elevator that, a former Clinton aide told me, led a business leader who saw them to say: I don’t know what the guy was doing, but it was so clear that it was just no good.

But four former Clinton aides told me that, about 18 months ago, one of the president’s former assistants, who still advises him on political matters, had heard so many complaints about such reports from Clinton supporters around the country that he felt compelled to try to conduct what one of these aides called an “intervention,” because, the aide believed, “Clinton was apparently seeing a lot of women on the road.” The would-be intercessor was rebuffed by people around Clinton before ever getting an audience with the former president, and another aide told me that the effort was not well received by either Bill or Hillary Clinton and that some Hillarylanders, in particular, were in denial about the continuing political risks that Bill’s behavior might pose. source

A former Clinton associate Jeffrey Epstein who was involved in soliciting prostitution was also mentioned in the article.In 2006, Epstein was indicted on state charges of soliciting prostitution in Palm Beach, Florida, and he later came under investigation by federal authorities amid allegations that he hired under-age girls for massages and more in a house stocked with sex toys and genitalia-shaped soaps. source Bill Clinton fired back at Vanity Fair calling the article "a tawdry, anonymous quote-filled attack piece".

Former president Bill Clinton's office yesterday sharply attacked an article on the former president in this month's Vanity Fair magazine, calling it "a tawdry, anonymous quote-filled attack piece" and "journalism of personal destruction at its worst" in a long-memo that detailed its faults.

The article, written by former New York Times White House correspondent Todd Purdum, included former advisers slamming Clinton for bringing negative attention to his wife's candidacy and surrounding himself with friends who former aides thought could tarnish the ex-president's reputation. Many of these former aides, most of whom were not quoted by name, also attacked Doug Band, Clinton's right-hand man since he left office, for not managing Clinton's carefully.

While Hillary Clinton's campaign did not provide a direct response to the piece, her aides are known to coordinate closely with her husband's office, which released the memo. The 2400-word rebuttal not only slammed Purdum for his use of unnamed sources in much of the piece, but detailed the work of Clinton's nonprofit foundation on HIV/AIDS prevention and other issues, calling the Clinton Foundation "a leading global nongovernmental organization." source

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