From the BBC Online
Dated Tuesday July 27 10:04 GMT (3:04 am PDT)
Analysis: Democrats off to a good start
By Justin Webb
BBC correspondent in Boston
Bill Clinton can still rally the troops in the Democratic Party.
And on the first night of the party's convention here in Boston, he showed John Kerry and other Democratic leaders how to rouse a crowd.
But Bill Clinton also showed them how to make a speech that has real content but also humour delivered in simple language.
And he showed how to do it in a way that gets the message across to people in the hall as well as people watching on television.
The former president showed once again that he is a political master.
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