Charlotte, North Carolina (CNN) — Wednesday’s convention programming followed Tuesday’s standard script: red meat for the base in the early hours, capped off with a slightly sweeter offering in prime time for independent consumption.

But there was nothing routine about Bill Clinton’s speech. The 48-minute address — nearly 3,200 words of prepared text and a thousand more of classic Clinton riffs — checked off nearly every item on the Obama campaign’s wish list:

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