The Clintons bounce back & Jumpoff Joe Biden lays down the gauntlet
Posted in Politics, Videos on August 28th, 2008 by Hyphen
Now this is the Bill I remember. I can’t believe we impeached this man because of a booty call while George ‘Strategery’ Bush literally broke law after law while ruining our country and his only punishment is going down as the worst president of all time. What a world.
Anyway, at last night’s Democratic National Convention, Bill dusted off his boots and got that old Clinton swag going with an excellent speech in support of Barack Obama. Again, my late night blogging hours are killing me, so I won’t get too in depth here. I just wanted to toss it up on TAOD, along with Hillary’s (good, not great) speech from Tuesday and Biden’s rousing performance, to remind y’all that tonight is the main event.
Forty-five years to the day after Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic “I Have A Dream” speech, Barack is set to formally accept the nomination tonight in Denver. I hate to build the hype, but I’ve been saying for a while that Barack has one of the greatest speeches in history in him, it’s just a question of when he’s going to drop it. You could argue that he’s already given a couple (2004’s keynote address at the Convention, “Yes We Can” in New Hampshire, and “A More Perfect Union” from earlier this year), but I think he’s capable of an all-timer. I’m talking MLK meets JFK meets Gehrig meets Jimmy V meets William Wallace. Will that be tonight? Will that be his victory speech in November? His inauguration speech in January?
Regardless, we’ll see history tonight. Whatever you’re doing, make sure you tune in to watch. It’ll be on every channel and there’s a good chance it’ll be a moment you remember for the rest of your life.
Hit the jump to watch the speeches from Hillary and Biden (especially recommended).