Susan Glasser

There is actually a long record in the recent past of people who have really made a hash of that.

It's not an easy role to have.

I think, you know, remember Katie Britt from Alabama a few years ago.

I mean, just absolutely.

There was the glass of water.

I mean, you know, remember that?

I still want to know what happened to all the stuff in the kitchen.

But putting that aside, you know, she said all the things that one could expect.

She said it pretty clearly.

I thought it was, you know, the sort of case for why...

it's still worthwhile to live in reality reality as opposed to Trump's reality.

But, you know, let's be real.

I mean, no one was listening.

I'm curious what you think about this, but I noticed before the speech that John Favreau, Obama's former speechwriter, was basically saying what a lot of people think, which is these speeches actually don't matter even if they're good as opposed to epically terrible speeches.

you know, they don't move the needle politically.

Nobody likes them.

They're, you know, sort of long and awful.

And they disappear within 24 hours.

No one can remember what was said.

With that in mind, when I thought at the end, you know, well, maybe this is the one that's really sort of