Barack And Michelle Obama Are Fired Up: DNC Night 2
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🗓️ 21 August 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:16.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Susan Davis I cover politics I'm |
| 0:23.8 | deeper shiver on my cover the White House and I'm Mara Liason senior |
| 0:27.1 | national political correspondence and it is 1116 p.m. Central time on August 20th, and the second night of the Democratic National |
| 0:36.0 | Convention just wrapped with former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama |
| 0:40.8 | headlining. |
| 0:41.8 | Mara, I expected to start this podcast off talking about the |
| 0:45.1 | former president but it really felt like Michelle Obama was the news coming |
| 0:49.2 | out of tonight. No doubt about it. She stole the spotlight, she hit it out of the park. I can't think of a figure that is more beloved and even worshipped in the Democratic Party. The ovation she got was like no other speaker here and even Barack Obama said something like I'm the only |
| 1:05.9 | person here is stupid enough to speak after Michelle Obama. |
| 1:09.4 | But she did an amazing thing. |
| 1:11.3 | I sometimes think about this convention as the political |
| 1:14.4 | equivalent of speed dating. They have to define Kamala Harris as fast as |
| 1:18.6 | possible. They have very little time to do it before the Republicans do it for |
| 1:22.0 | them and she got right to it. I thought |
| 1:24.7 | that my reaction when they both spoke was wow the communicators are back and |
| 1:29.3 | she gave a kind of master class in rhetoric and how to give it a personal emotional moral speech that really told a story. |
| 1:38.0 | She called Kamala Harris my girl Kamala. |
| 1:41.0 | She made this bond. She talked about how Kamala Harris and I both have similar |
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