Hello and welcome to the Victor Davis-Hanson show this is a Friday news roundup and we've got of course

lots on the agenda from this week especially on the convention we've just heard the

Obama's give speeches last night, so we're going to talk a little bit about that.

And also, oh, yes, and R.F.K. Jr. We don't seem to be able to figure out who he might support, but we do know

that his campaign is closing its doors. So stay with us and we'll be right back.

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Victor is also the Martin and Neely Anderson Senior Fellow in Military History and

and the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marsha Buskey Distinguished Fellow in History at Hillsdale College.

So Victor Lott's going on at the DNC and really about Chicago in general.

And I was wondering your thoughts first, of course course on the Obama speeches both Michelle and

Baroque gave a speech last night. Well Baroque was too long it was so self-indulgent

it would have been good if you'd never heard him before, but I've heard him for eight years do that stuff. The hoping change these stuff.

Yes. And we're going to do this. The funny thing was, it's a new chapter, it's a new chapter you said.

And I'm thinking wait a minute she's been vice president of the

United States for three and a half years so now all of a sudden they're saying

she's got all these new initiatives, well she's got as I said before she's got five months in her tenure.

If she loses she can still be vice president for three more months after November.

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