We’ve read all the coverage, but we don’t think anybody in the major media has yet picked up on the best line from a speech out of the Democratic National Convention last week. (Hint: It was not from Barack Obama’s kickass acceptance speech, either.)

No, for our money, we think former President Bill Clinton gets the gold for this line from his speech: “People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.”

No doubt this was aimed squarely at the neo-conservatives, whose faith-based foreign policy provided the intellectual architecture for our misguided invasion of Iraq. Boiled down, their philosophy has been that if the United States demonstrated its awesome military might in favor of democracy in Iraq, the entire Middle East would be transformed and surrender to the American way.

Of course that — along with nearly every other neo-conservative promise and premise — has been proved fatally wrong. And in the process, the “power of our example” has been soiled.

Let’s hope we can change that, in, oh, a couple months from now.