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"Bill Clinton is typically described as the empathetic, feel-your-pain guy. But his greatest political skill may be as a formulator of arguments — the explainer in chief.

 ...That Clinton, the cheerful political educator, played such a central role at this conclave reflected the extent to which it should be seen as a three-day tutorial designed not only to defend President Obama’s economic stewardship but also to advance a view of government for which, over the past 40 years, Democrats have often apologized.

 ...Obama, Clinton testified, “inherited a deeply damaged economy, he put a floor under the crash, he began the long, hard road to recovery, and laid the foundation” for a new economy whose positive effects they would soon feel. “With all my heart, I believe it,” he said, devoutly hoping that his heart-to-heart talk would get Americans to believe, too."

THE WASHINGTON POST: Bill Clinton’s tutorial on the need for government