Former President Bill Clinton’s speech, supporting President Barack Obama as the Democratic Party’s nominee has evoked thrilled responses with the media unequivocal in its appreciation and praise.

Clinton spoke for around 40 minutes, taking the stage at 10:30 p.m. and continuing well into the 11 p.m. hour, sending networks schedules haywire, prompting critics to say, that he could have spoken for a little shorter time, the only criticism that his speech got.

Mr. Clinton said, “If you want a you’re-on-your-own, winner-take-all society, you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of shared prosperity and shared responsibility… you should vote for Barack Obama and (Vice President) Joe Biden.”

To all Obama critics who blame him for the country’s economic woes, Clinton said on the contrary he has done a magnificent job, considering that he inherited an even worse economy than he did.

“President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did,” Mr. Clinton said. “No president, not me, not any of my predecessors, could have repaired all of the damage he found in just four years.”

The flood of praise began to pour in hardly had he concluded. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer said that he had never heard speak Clinton better and that he outdid himself. “I’ve been watching this president…going back to 1992 when I was CNN’s White House correspondent,” he said. “This may have been the best speech I have ever heard Bill Clinton deliver over all these years.”

GOP strategist and CNN pundit Alex Castellanos said that as far as he was concerned the convention was over. He called the moment a deciding moment that has tilted the elections in Obama’s favor, “This will be the moment that probably re-elected Barack Obama,” he said.

Analysts have predicted a tight race between Romney and Obama and Clinton’s speech, given his popularity amongst white voters, a group that is divided in its allegiance, must have surely won some of them to Obama’s side.

Fox News’ Brit Hume said that Clinton’s charm and talent made all the arguments he presented sound reasonable and rational. “No one in my view can frame an argument more effectively than he can,” he added. Hume was critical of the length of the speech and said that it should have been curtailed by about one-third of its length.

However, in the former President’s defense it can be said that the deafening and constant applause from the audience also ate into his time.

Anderson Cooper and Paul Begala, a Clinton confidante expressed similar opinions saying that inspite of the speech being substantive and detailed, it never became boring. Cooper found the level of detail “surprising,” whilst Begala said that inspite of it, it was “riveting.”

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews was effusive in his praise. He said what Clinton did was what he needed to do and boy, did he do it well. “Bill Clinton came in and beat up the other side…he hit them hard where they were weak,” he said. “I wouldn’t want to be the guy fighting Bill Clinton if the issue is Barack Obama.”

Without doubt it was vintage Clinton, with his trademark quips, his unaffected grin, interspersing his prepared speech with his own time in office, and a one liner “Heck! He even appointed Hillary,” that brought the house down – it was indeed a rousing message.

Andrea Mitchell summed up the general feeling; she said that it was an “extraordinary speech.”

Former President Bill Clinton’s speech, supporting President Barack Obama as the Democratic Party’s nominee has evoked thrilled responses with the media unequivocal in its appreciation and praise.

Clinton spoke for around 40 minutes, taking the stage at 10:30 p.m. and continuing well into the 11 p.m. hour, sending networks schedules haywire, prompting critics to say, that he could have spoken for a little shorter time, the only criticism that his speech got.

Mr. Clinton said, “If you want a you’re-on-your-own, winner-take-all society, you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of shared prosperity and shared responsibility… you should vote for Barack Obama and (Vice President) Joe Biden.”

To all Obama critics who blame him for the country’s economic woes, Clinton said on the contrary he has done a magnificent job, considering that he inherited an even worse economy than he did.

“President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did,” Mr. Clinton said. “No president, not me, not any of my predecessors, could have repaired all of the damage he found in just four years.”

The flood of praise began to pour in hardly had he concluded. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer said that he had never heard speak Clinton better and that he outdid himself. “I’ve been watching this president…going back to 1992 when I was CNN’s White House correspondent,” he said. “This may have been the best speech I have ever heard Bill Clinton deliver over all these years.”

GOP strategist and CNN pundit Alex Castellanos said that as far as he was concerned the convention was over. He called the moment a deciding moment that has tilted the elections in Obama’s favor, “This will be the moment that probably re-elected Barack Obama,” he said.

Analysts have predicted a tight race between Romney and Obama and Clinton’s speech, given his popularity amongst white voters, a group that is divided in its allegiance, must have surely won some of them to Obama’s side.

Fox News’ Brit Hume said that Clinton’s charm and talent made all the arguments he presented sound reasonable and rational. “No one in my view can frame an argument more effectively than he can,” he added. Hume was critical of the length of the speech and said that it should have been curtailed by about one-third of its length.

However, in the former President’s defense it can be said that the deafening and constant applause from the audience also ate into his time.

Anderson Cooper and Paul Begala, a Clinton confidante expressed similar opinions saying that inspite of the speech being substantive and detailed, it never became boring. Cooper found the level of detail “surprising,” whilst Begala said that inspite of it, it was “riveting.”

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews was effusive in his praise. He said what Clinton did was what he needed to do and boy, did he do it well. “Bill Clinton came in and beat up the other side…he hit them hard where they were weak,” he said. “I wouldn’t want to be the guy fighting Bill Clinton if the issue is Barack Obama.”

Without doubt it was vintage Clinton, with his trademark quips, his unaffected grin, interspersing his prepared speech with his own time in office, and a one liner “Heck! He even appointed Hillary,” that brought the house down – it was indeed a rousing message.

Andrea Mitchell summed up the general feeling; she said that it was an “extraordinary speech.”