{"id":6324,"date":"2008-08-27T01:31:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T08:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6324"},"modified":"2008-08-27T19:49:50","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T02:49:50","slug":"day-2-bidens-late-night-walk-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6324","title":{"rendered":"DNC Day 2: Biden&#8217;s Late-Night Walk-Through&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late night in the Pepsi Center, after almost all of the delegates had cleared out, and only a few folks in the press corps remained, Sen. Joe Biden came out to do a walk-through for tomorrow night&#8217;s speech. We happened to be there to catch it, along with a phalanx of camera&#8217;s and Andrea Mitchell who asked the only questions, including the insightfully probing &#8220;Senator, what did you think of Hillary&#8217;s message?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, Biden didn&#8217;t say &#8220;it really sucked, Andrea. Worst speech I&#8217;ve seen in years.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the quick video&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"340\" height=\"280\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1a_VHYBe26s&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1a_VHYBe26s&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"340\" height=\"280\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Later, at the CNN Grill, someone slapped me on the ass and said, &#8220;Good game, buddy!&#8221; When I turned around, it was an apparently inebriated Charles Barkley.<\/p>\n<p>These conventions are weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late night in the Pepsi Center, after almost all of the delegates had cleared out, and only a few folks in the press corps remained, Sen. Joe Biden came out to do a walk-through for tomorrow night&#8217;s speech. We happened to be there to catch it, along with a phalanx of camera&#8217;s and Andrea Mitchell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,122,320],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dnc","category-election-2008","category-joe-biden"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6324"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}