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Your speech at the DNC was certainly
one of the most memorable at the conventions. Did you know going into it that
you’d be that fired up? No! In fact,
what’s so funny about it is that
I’ve spoken at conventions before. I get one of the afternoon
time slots, and you go up there
and everybody’s on the floor milling about and talking, and the
people in the back tell you don’t
worry, don’t take it personally,
just remember that you’re delivering your remarks to the people
back home. Just look at the cameras and keep going. So in this
case, what I assumed would happen was that I’d get up, nobody’d
be paying attention, and I knew
there was a huge time crunch
... Well, when I got out and the
crowd started to react, I was totally surprised by that. I thought
“OH, this is great!”
During your speech, you came down
pretty hard on Mitt Romney and his time
at Bain Capital, stressing that “too often
he made [his wealth] at the expense of
middle-class Americans.” Since then his
“47 percent” remarks have rocked the
race. How important do you think these
issues are to voters? It just shows
that they are dividing the country
[against those] who might take
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advantage of something that perhaps they paid into, like Medicare
or Social Security, because of the
moment that they’re in in life, and
that’s okay. And to say they’re victims or that they’re moochers is
just so utterly offensive.
You played Sarah Palin during Joe
Biden’s debate prep back in 2008. What
is that process like? We on the Biden
side were in the hotel room in
One way or another, this
will be fixed. The container
will explode otherwise. I don’t
think there is any way we
won’t get beyond it.”
Delaware, and the stage was built
to be an exact replica of the stage
and the podium that were going to
be at the actual debate. The room
was equipped with computers and
all of that for people to be able
to do their research, background
checks, pull up what was happening — not just during the debate
prep, but for what policy positions that [Biden] could go after
Sarah Palin and John McCain on,
and to make sure that he was on
the same page as the president...