Bill warms up to Obama, at last

Barack Obama’s fiercest rival wasn’t Hillary Clinton, but her husband. Again and again, the former President hammered Obama for lacking the qualifications to live in the White House. That changed on Wednesday night. At the Democratic National Convention Clinton drew parallels between Obama and himself and bestowed upon Obama his mantle as the candidate of hope. “Clearly, the job of the next President is to rebuild the American dream and restore America’s standing in the world,” Clinton said. “Everything I learned in my eight years as President, and in the work I’ve done since in America and across the globe, has convinced me that Barack Obama is the man for this job.”