Bill Clinton To Speak At The Convention

CNN is reporting that Bill Clinton will give an address Wednesday night at the Democratic Convention, the same night the VP nominee is set to speak. They also indicate that Clinton was personally asked by the presumptive nominee during a phone conversation earlier this afternoon. More soon...

UPDATE: The Clinton intransigence can sometimes be quite breath-taking. Earlier this week, the former president refused to be pinned into declaring Obama "qualified" to be president, instead responding to a question from ABC reporter Kate Snow, "you could argue no one's ever ready to be president." [ABC News, 8/4/08] Days later, he secures a prime-time slot at the nominating convention while his wife simultaneously negotiates her own nomination and roll call vote as a means of achieving the ever elusive "party unity." It's beginning to look the convention may not be a repeat of 2004's stage-managed coronation.