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An Irishman Abroad

Did The DNC Hope Fest Deliver? - Irishman In America with Marion McKeone

An Irishman Abroad

Jarlath Regan

Society & Culture, News, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture:personal Journals, Personal Journals, Politics

4.8834 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The bells, the whistles, the fanfare, the flags and an awful lot less celebrities made this year’s DNC a sight to behold. Marion McKeone jetted in straight from Electric Picnic. I caught up with her just before Kamala Harris made the most important speech of her life. Did this convention pack the punch it needed to? Or did we get the Instagram version of events? Who were the biggest winners and losers? And how many small willy jokes does it take to piss off Donald Trump. Become a member and get weekly hour long episodes in the lead up to the 2024 election - www.patreon.com/irishmanabroad or come see Jarlath live www.jigser.com/gigs

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0:00.0

My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be President of the United States, I could be, I could be vice president.

0:07.5

Former Vice President Joe Biden has been elected president of the United States.

0:13.1

It is my greatest honor and privilege to have been your president.

0:17.1

We will be back in some form.

0:19.3

We are still deeply divided.

0:24.6

Public health experts warned this was coming unless more was done, and here we are now. Are you proud of what happened here today?

0:26.6

Absolutely.

0:27.6

Never before in American history, has there been an uprising like this?

0:31.6

Of the 75 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump, I don't know how many today are feeling,

0:38.2

dear God, what was I thinking? But I would wager a lot more our thinking, let's carry on this

0:43.5

fight. Character matters. It matters. Tell them the truth matters. The 21st century is going to be

0:50.4

the American century, because we lead not only by the example of our power but by the power

0:58.6

of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

1:03.3

It's the all singing, all dancing, DNC, live from Chicago with our Artura guide for

1:09.1

this presidential election, Marion McKeown.

1:12.2

Marion, did it live up to your expectations or was it something else entirely?

1:18.4

Wow. Well, first of all, the first thing I'm going to say, Charlotte, is if anyone is coming to the States and they haven't been to Chicago, I've been here many times.

1:27.2

Put it on your itinerary. It is the friendliest they haven't been to Chicago. I've been here many times. Put it

1:27.6

on your itinerary. It is the friendliest, most raucous, chaotic bonkers, good-humoured

1:33.7

city. You can come to an America. It's just, it's, the culture is so rich. But I don't

1:39.8

think I've ever been to an American city where the bellylapse you hear on every corner on the subway

1:45.2

with the you know the transit workers it's just got this kind of joieuade revive and grit that is

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