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Bill Clinton to give nomination address for Obama

AFP, Washington
Bill Clinton will sprinkle his political stardust on President Barack Obama's re-election bid by giving the nominating address at the Democratic Party convention, the campaign announced Monday.
The 65-year-old former president, still a hugely popular figure more than 11 years after leaving office, will outline the economic arguments for giving Obama a second term in a speech on September 5 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are locked in a neck-and-neck battle for the White House ahead of November 6 elections likely to be dominated by the economic concerns weighing heavily on the electorate.
The US economy has grown slowly in recent quarters as much of Europe has slipped backed into recession. Unemployment remains stubbornly high, above eight percent, and Obama has struggled to produce lasting economic momentum.
Given the tough economic climate the address could be a tough task for Clinton, whose outspoken remarks on tax policy and one-time endorsement of Romney's "sterling" business record have frustrated the Obama campaign team.
But he is also a massively popular figure and a charismatic speaker who is seen as having a wonderful personal touch and who can appeal to certain demographics that Obama struggles with.
A Gallup poll released on Monday showed that two-thirds of Americans have a favourable opinion of Clinton, tying the record-high favourability he achieved at the time of his January 1993 inauguration.
"President Clinton oversaw the longest economic expansion in US history, pursuing many of the same policies that president Obama is proposing and implementing today," said 2012 Democratic Convention Chair, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
"That economic progress was squandered in the following decade by a set of decisions that exploded our deficit, crashed our economy, and hurt the middle-class.
"So, there is no one better to lay out the choice in this election between moving forward with president Obama or falling backward with Mitt Romney, who supports the same failed policies that led to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression."
Clinton addressed the convention four years ago under very different circumstances after his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, narrowly missed out to Obama in a bitter contest for the Democratic nomination.
His address and endorsement of Obama, after being one of his fiercest critics, was seen as a crucial step in unifying the party behind what turned out to be a winning ticket.
In US politics, a couple of months before polling day, raucous conventions are held at which rival candidates are formally nominated and party grandees and rising stars try to whip up support with stirring speeches.