Former president Bill Clinton waves as he takes the stage during day two of the Democratic national convention. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Live Sort by: Latest first Oldest first Auto update: On Off Updates: "Say what you want about Bill Clinton -- and people do -- but he gives good convention," writes the Guardian's Gary Younge . "And so he should. The last time he didn't address a convention was 1984. He knows which delegates' buttons to press because he sewed so many of them on himself." Last night, in a long, always spirited and occasionally rambling performance, he reminded the country not just who the good guy is but where the bad times came from. "In Tampa the Republican argument against Obama's re-election was pretty simple, pretty snappy: 'We left him a total mess, he hasn't finished cleaning it up fast enough, so fire him and put us back in.' I like the argument for President Obama's re-election a whole lot better. He inherited a deeply damaged economy, put a floor under the crash, began the long hard road to recovery and laid the foundation for a modern, more well-balanced economy." Another shock this evening: Barry Goldwater is the godfather of the modern Republican party, a sort of John the Baptist to Ronald Reagan's Jesus, and the 1964 GOP presidential candidate. Well, his granddaughter just cast Arizona's vote for Barack Obama at the DNC here. And as Clinton concludes, Obama comes on stage and the crowd explodes with a