joining me today, the man who helped bring the word game change into common parlance. msnbc political analyst and national affairs editor for new york magazine john heilman. world news america s patty kay. msnbc contributor, sam stein of the huffington post and mark leibovich making his debut from the new york times magazine. warming up. how do you give a 48 minute deeply wonky highly technical policy address that also happens to be must-see tv right down to the last second? the answer, america, is bill clinton. the romney campaign believes it will win if they make this campaign about the economy and the former president took that as a challenge. he made a passionate pitch for what president obama has done to save the economy. here it is. he inherited a deeply damaged economy. he put a floor under the crash. he began the long, hard road to recovery and laid the foundation for a modern more well-balanced economy that will produce millions of good new jobs, vibran
change into common parlance. msnbc political analyst and national affairs editor for new york magazine john heilman. world news america s patty kay. msnbc contributor, sam stein of the huffington post and mark leibovich making his debut from the new york times magazine. warming up. how do you give a 48 minute deeply wonky highly technical policy address that also happens to be must-see tv right down to the last second? the answer, america, is bill clinton. the romney campaign believes it will win if they make this campaign about the economy and the former president took that as a challenge. he made a passionate pitch for what president obama has done to save the economy. here it is. he inherited a deeply damaged economy. he put a floor under the crash. he began the long, hard road to recovery and laid the foundation for a modern more well-balanced economy that will produce millions of good new jobs, vibrant new businesses and lots of new wealth for innovators. b
the 82-year-old actor-director, took the stage and did an ad-lil, sort of a one-man chai , directing what was supposed to be mr. obama. i have mr. obama here, what do you want me to tell romney? i can t tell him to do that. can t do that to himself. you re absolutely crazy. i you are getting as bad as joe biden. of course, we all know joe biden is the intellect of the democratic party, kind of a grin with a body behind it, you know that was just part of it. mike halperin, i had a very
seasoned political expert tell me it was the most bizarre scene he had ever seen in politics. what did you make of it? mark, you got me? well, we lost our connection to mike halperin, what a shame. but if we get him back, guys let me know. we want to play a little bit of marco rubio. mike halperin mentioned his speech, and another guy who could be the future of this party. a few years ago during a speech, i noticed the bartender behind the portable bar in the back of the bar room. i remembered my father who worked for many years as a banquet bartender, he was grateful for the work he had. but that was not the life he wanted for us. you see, he stood behind the bar in the back of the room all of
harry does, followed by a response to 662639. we ll have the best responses later in the show. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for friday, august 31st. can you believe it is the last day of august? and quite the final night at the republican national convention. many talked about clint eastwood s entitled show the invisible man. and 41-year-old senator marco rubio, drawing big praise, for the vision he laid down in his speech to introduce mitt romney. this morning, mitt romney hit the campaign trail on a freshly wrapped plane that shows he is the official nominee of the republican party. he will hold a rally in virginia, where he appears alongside his running mate, paul ryan. and a night nobody will forget, from clint eastwood, to marco rubio, to romney himself. the former governor of massachusetts making an entrance as he made the rope line towards the stage. he made appeal, as did many speakers this week to women voters, talking about the parents who shaped