didn t sound anything in that room like it did on television. i was on tv you were like whoa. i was in that room last night, and i watched that speech from a couple hundred yards away and imt not watching it on the big monitor and watching the podium and i m listening to the crowd and i m saying to myself she had that crowd as fired up. that place was loud, and that was an early speech. it was only when i got back afterwards on television, i said on television, it s a completely different experience when you actually see her face. ffs funny watching it, the mixed reactions on twitter. the moment that surprised me the most last night was john kerry. where has he been all my life? too bad he didn t run in 04. we have a match-up of the two speeches. let s take a look. i want to address these next words directly to president george w. bush. in the weeks ahead let s be
evening out. it s possible the democrats are getting more fired up. i think some of the old memories of 08 are being rekindled, and i think that would be good news for the democrats. i don t know that the middle will move that much and you ll see that much of a bounce in the polls. i think it would be critical if obama has begun to activate that base that was pretty diseffective for the last couple of years. we played earlier in the show the clip from biden, the clip everybody is plays about osama bin laden is dead and general motors is ahive. i want it to ask you about biden s speech last night and what it means long term. he was in an interesting position in the convention the re-election for the vice president, al gore in 1996 for the next time around. biden is making it clear he s very interested in running for president after barack obama s done, but i thought if you want to think long term, the big winner out of this convention wasn t joe biden but maybe hillary clinton. rig
rnc was any mention of afghanistan from paul ryan or romney maens speech. i want to read you something that bill cristol wrote last week. leave aside the question of the political wisdom of romney s silence and the opportunities it opens up for president obama next week. what about the sift proceed pry rit of a presidential nominee failing to mention a war we re fighting. how much of a miss was this for republicans? it was a pretty big one. i find it so bewildering things have played out the way they have on national security. republicans have completely seeded any superiority they had on these issues that define most of the oos. i think mitt romney, you get the sense that he s nervous talking about it. he s uncomfortable talking about. he has no military or foreign policy background. president obama did not really until he became president, but now, you know, he killed osama
his entire first term there s been a reckoning between what a person can actually do in this office versus the supernatural vision of him during the election. this speech is representative, too. i think it was a very good speech. i think there were incredibly solid moments and accomplished what he needed to accomplish, but there was no way he could meet the expectations that people have for him. we ll see if it gets him a bounce at all. much more on the convention later. but now the jobs report. glass half-empty or half-full? the unemployment rate fell to 8.1%, about the only 96,000 jobs added well below expectations. how can the rate drop with so few new jobs created? the work force dropped and more took part-time job. peter and jared, two of our favorite economists. peter, you re a glass half-empty gull and jared is the glass half-full guy. peter, explain why this is bad
i agree it wasn t. i m not sure it was the right decision. my sense of why that was is because they were spooked by one of the republican lines in the attack against president obama. 23 million is the number. 23 million out of work, chronic economic pain in this kuncountr and this guy is sfuk in the clouds. sort of ab tract stuff. people struggle day to day. think of the line in romney s speech and a lot of people at the left mocked it about the oceans and healing the planet sxaul of that. it wasn t about the ecology but to make the point that obama is up there in the clouds and i m saying i want to help you and your family. that s what romney s pitch was. it was designed to address that. what obama was trying to do is intentionally avoid the big speech obama we came to know and focus on the meat and potatoes recitation of we did this, we did this. make it stound to the casual viewer not so much they re caught up in the policy details but that you take it all as a