Hope for the best.

Expect the worst.

Some bring champagne, some die of furs.

No way of knowing which way it's going.

Hope for the best expect the worst. Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Thursday, August 22nd, 2024. It is Kamala Harris Day and we will be here tomorrow morning to evaluate Kamala

Harris Day, but yesterday was Tim Walt's Day and we are going to evaluate Tim

Walt's Day and by we I mean executive editor a

Greenwald hi aye jon

Washington commentary columns Matthew Cottonetti hi Matt

hi John and joining us today our old friend the author of the wide world of news

newsletter and maybe more immediately the host of the very original YouTube chat series, I don't know quite what to how to describe it called

two-way almost either daily or almost every day,

convening people from across the country

and pundits and thinkers on politics to discuss in a atmosphere of comedy and smoothness the political issues of the moment that is our friend Mark Halperin.

Hey Mark, thanks for joining us as ever.

Good morning, honor to be here as ever.

Okay, so yes, so last night had two qualities to it.

One was it was not the overwhelming,

it didn't have the overwhelming emotional force of Tuesday night, the, maybe the most fun

convention night that I can remember in my lifetime and it was actually kind of dragging there for a while and then Oprah showed up and it kind of kicked into a new gear and then was capped by what I think was a really brilliantly conceived

speech by Tim Wall's that was 15 and a half minutes long and created, Mark, just share with me this thought.

Bill Clinton in 1992 was thought to be a candidate of nothing.

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