Gingrich: Bringing Clinton to DNC "Enormous Risk"
The former House speaker and presidential hopeful said Bill Clinton would remind viewers what a failure Barack Obama's been
Twenty years after accepting the Democratic nomination for president at Madison Square Garden in New York, Bill Clinton returns to center stage Wednesday night in an effort to help — but not overshadow —President Obama.
It's a delicate dance: Both the former president and his eight years in office seem to get more popular with age. Clinton's 69% favorable rating in a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll is his highest in the 136 times Gallup has measured it, even at the time of his inauguration in 1993. A month after he left office in 2001, it was 39%.
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