Revisiting Bill Clinton's classic walk to the podium at the 2000 DNC in L.A.

Bill Clinton's relationship with Barack Obama is getting the full bore media treatment from such sources as the New Yorker and the New York Post in anticipation of the former Democratic party president addressing the audience at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte this week, where he is expected to deliver a forceful speech on why Obama should be re-elected this fall.

It will be Clinton's seventh consecutive speech at a Democratic convention, going back one of his most ignominious moments ever, when he delivered an interminably dull keynote speech in 1988 that last 35 minutes in Atlanta.

But one of the great entrances by him or any politician occurred in Los Angeles in 2000, when the convention cameras caught the president (who had just five months left on his term) walking down a hallway in the Staples Center before he was to join the stage.

Our attempt to obtain that clip proved nearly fruitless, until we were able to access it as a "Moment of Zen" from Jon Stewart's The Daily Show.

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