now let's go to michael shore political
correspondent for the young turks on
current cv now joining us from charlotte
north carolina michael we've we uh... i
think should start with recapping that
last night at the republican convention
in tampa
we had the clint eastwood bizarre almost
sad yelling at
furniture speech and then we had the mit
romney speech in the media it's been
monday-morning quarterback all over the
place with republicans kinda saying it
was good although the the uh... of
running campaign is completely remove
moved all evidence of the east with
thing from their r_n_c_ video and then
we've seen democrats understandably say
wow that was horribly embarrassing but
i'm curious
what was it like actually being there in
tampa what were the republicans that
were there what were they saying what
were they doing
or you know beforehand that as you'd
expect when they switch and now there
was a huge ovation two board cited the
clint was going to be there because
billionaires
uh... you know i was saying to my
colleagues at current i i i i couldn't
believe that there was a suicide men
but eighty two-year-old actor i
understand he still working understand
he still director but uh... you know
their their policies uh... hearken back
eighty two years in some respects and
here they are trotting out this a_t_t_
rolled actor who is charming
and uh... you know he is clint eastwood
he's iconic he's an american um... and
but afterwards i think yeah i think that
people were saying work were kind of day
xd if that's what i think that's the
best work today wanted to say it was
great they didn't
really know what had happened
and then the next day i think people
were really mused over the fact that no
one was talking
about romney's speech at all it totally
took over a it was usurped by clint
eastwood and and that is not all the
superintendent
dot i'd it was not a memorable speech to
begin with i was in a bad speech of the
sort of work when life is as far as
acceptance speech stuff but nobody is
talking about nobody sharing anecdotes
because everybody was on that that sort
of snafu uh... of clint eastwood's
wasn't considered a snafu
move by kind of made i was talking this
morning actually
not on any kind of uh... show i was
talking on the phone with the white keys
and why sake
and he was saying that the uh... he
expected to see a very broad makes of
republicans and reasonable people and
blah blah blah
and he said really everybody can bump
into fits some kind of stereo type of
who we assume is that these events
and in really find those reasonable
people that have a kind of more
down-to-earth view on things what what
do when you're talking to where they
just incredibly stunned by how great the
split was aware that bank
date on surprises
they're expected to see serve a wide
swath there there's a guerrilla
homogeneity that you don't see at the
democratic convention but of course you
see at the republican convention all the
people i spoke to afterwards after that
speech both end with
the media and mostly the delegates in
the srebrenica puppy publicity next to
it because inside the hall uh...
uh... system sort of said whoops that
was a bad thing he he seemed senile are
known to be born fat offended by this
reference to the f_ word but just sort
of the senility and then the awkward
moments there it kind of drowned the
room but what's really think it is
another thing admitted it was the first
night that there was any real energy in
the hall i mean like the kind of energy
that would be close our eyes and you
imagine what it would have open mention
is like that kind of energy is the only
night at their that that existed it
totally sap the energy
uh... that romney was counting on an and
i think you know so people were saying
that the uh... you know get bored of
tending to people show it doesn't matter
is not running for president only an
actor oh was kaunas clint eastwood you
never know you're gonna get we try to do
know you're gonna get with clint
eastwood
and it's not when he got
uh... and so i i think that
was was felt largely by the delegates to
try to apologize are trying to put the
best face on it understandably so if
anyone would but it was in the back door
open for
are a how is that charlotte so far
feeling different or similar to the
atmosphere in tampa
i would sit at charlotte feels all
littlest security in the way that you
don't feel like you're entering
the baghdad greens on the we talked
about last week on uh... but it feels
like no i don't feel any less safe i
should also set uh... there is you know
democrats look a little more like
america uh... when you see of the
democratic party see democratic
convention
isi lots of different faces you see lots
of different sruti economic strata you
see congressmen out you see senators out
you see all of that
but that the energy is a little bit
different it's a little less organized
to uh... but it seems like a as if
you're looking a little more uh... at
america than than it was at the uh... at
the republican badge
arthur tonight we've got michelle obama
will be doing instead response to that
speech as we did all of last week i
expect to be an interesting speech
i'm curious to see and romney's speech
see she opened by saying this isn't
about party for politics it was
exclusively about that
i'm interested to see whether michelle
obama will make a similar disclaimer but
also how much a reference to specific
policy where it will there be we just
don't know yet
no we don't know i don't expect is going
to be a tremendous amount into thursday
you know that that she's going to be
calling the president brought allot and
that that would be my guess and she's
gonna try you know it in command
interesting way both sheehan and rodney
king by really dig into this analysis
and
i'm one who doesn't think we should over
analyze what the first lady in the
potential first lady or say
but if we want to for this exercise they
both have the same task in a way is to
soften there ma'am we know brocco bomb
is unknown quantity but there is no
looseness there's a distance to prabhat
of out of that i think maybe this past
system to try and ring in for people
people who lost touch with them or or
who are new to this process up eyad i
think may there maybe a little bit of
that i don't think you're gonna get it
serious policy and again everybody here
is waiting um... produc oakland people
are waiting for joe biden people
obviously waiting for a prop obama
all right michael for political
correspondent for the young turks on
currency they will check in with him
tomorrow
david thanks
