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At the democratic national convention in charlotte, north carolina, last year, the convention at which president obama officially accepted the nomination of his party for a second term, the guy who stole the show kind of, the guy who had the audience in rapt attention for the better part of an hour was, yes, barack obama, well received speech, yes. but the other than that guy, the guy who did that who wasnt barack obama was bill clinton. >> people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budg...

At the democratic national convention in charlotte, north carolina, last year, the convention at which president obama officially accepted the nomination of his party for a second term, the guy who stole the show kind of, the guy who had the audience in rapt attention for the better part of an hour was, yes, barack obama, well received speech, yes. but the other than that guy, the guy who did that who wasnt barack obama was bill clinton. >> people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budg...

At the democratic national convention in charlotte, north carolina, last year, the convention at which president obama officially accepted the nomination of his party for a second term, the guy who stole the show kind of, the guy who had the audience in rapt attention for the better part of an hour was, yes, barack obama, well received speech, yes. but the other than that guy, the guy who did that who wasnt barack obama was bill clinton. >> people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budg...

Services to me. >> i am appalled that you would begin a presidential debate with a topic like that. >> back in my days, they used bayer aspirin for contraceptives. >> excuse me, im just trying to catch my breath from that. >> president obama once said he wants everybody in america to go to college. what a snob. >> men marrying men and women marrying women are entitled the same rights. >> i think same-sex couples should be able to get married. >> put yall back in chains. >> what do you want me to...

Hole bigger before we start to get out of it. when you say what are you going to do about the $5 trillion you just added on? they say well make it up by eliminating... loopholes in the tax code. so then you ask, well, which loopholes? how much? you know what they say? see me about that after the election. im not making it up. that is their position. see me about that after the election. now people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. what new ideas do we bring to washing...

Hole bigger before we start to get out of it. when you say what are you going to do about the $5 trillion you just added on? they say well make it up by eliminating... loopholes in the tax code. so then you ask, well, which loopholes? how much? you know what they say? see me about that after the election. im not making it up. that is their position. see me about that after the election. now people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. what new ideas do we bring to washing...

To reduce the debt well have another $5 trillion in tax cuts. heavily weighted to upper income people. so well make the debt hole bigger before we start to get out of it. now, when you say what are you going to do about this $5 trillion, you just added on, they say well make it up, by eliminating loopholes in the tax code. so then you ask, well, which loopholes and how much? you know what they say? see me about that after the election. now people ask me all the time, how we got four surplus budg...

Appreciate it. c-span just put out a graphic about the various lengths of different bill clinton speeches at democratic conventions. the longest one was 96. second longest one was 1992. third longest one was tonight. but he was close in 2000. he went 40 minutes in 2000. 48 minutes tonight. the substance of what president clinton was talking about tonight was, he was going after the republican critique of president obama. but then he really did a broad-based critique of republican economic polici...

In a debate for the next month with bill clinton, good luck. >> good luck. >> we saw the master tonight. the big guy. the big dog. bubba, elvis was back tonight. thank you. and by the way, we saw the real bill clinton. when we come back, the guy who does bill clinton better than anyone, the great darrell hammond will join us. some of the clintonisms. this will be fun. >> people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. what new ideas did we bring to washington? i always give ...

The floor and said good-bye, marjorie. they mocked the economic program of your guy. >> and pretended they love him. >> and i had the great pleasure of going into montgomery county six years later and saying margie margolis cost you an extra $35,000 on your taxes and your net worth increased by $23,000. >> up next, barack obama and big business havent always had the easiest alliance. can he steal a page from the clinton playbook? this is "hardball." the place for politics. >> people ask me all t...