Former President Bill Clinton passed the torch tonight and will now get out of the way, hopefully for Obama. 

His message points were delivered with outrageous hypocrisy but what else is new in politics or better yet what else is new with the Clinton’s?

While Hillary’s head was bobbing in the gallery agreeing with her husband Bill was telling us how Obama is prepared for the domestic foreign and national security challenges that will arise in the coming years.

Interesting, Bill Clinton offers these profound remarks about Obama’s capabilities yet it was he who gave us 9/11 on his watch it was he who failed to respond to the bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi, it was he who failed to appropriately responded to the attack on the USS Cole and it was he who failed to get Osama bin Laden when he had the opportunity to do so?

And now we are to accept this so called endorsement from a presidency that failed to provide us with the security that we are entitled to by our government?

It was classic Clinton.  Prior to this speech we must remember that it was Bill Clinton who said, “When is the last time we elected a president based on one year of service in the Senate before he started running?”

Or last fall when Bill Clinton dismissed Obama as totally unqualified?

Clinton stepped up to the podium to extradonary applause, when allowed to speak he said he was here to support Obama and second to warm up the crowd for Biden.

He also commented that the nomination campaign generated so much heat it increased global warming . . . but my candidate didn’t win.

But he noted in wake of Hillary’s defeat that she was going to do what was necessary to elect Obama and then he said “that makes two of us  . . . actually that makes 18 million of us.”  The latter referring to the votes that his wife got which exceeded that of Obama’s.

He said Obama would choose diplomacy first and military force as a last resort noting that we cannot be strong abroad if we are not strong at home.

There is little modesty in the Clinton family, he said the critics said he was too young to be commander in chief, and in my opinion the critics were correct.  Clinton also suggested that Obama would be successful if he follows his administration  — again it was all about the Clinton’s.

The final point I would like to make addresses an issue Clinton raised about family values, praising Obama’s family values.  To receive an endorsement of family values from Bill Clinton is the height of hypocrisy.