Update 10:45am Here is the video:
Update 6 — 10:20pm EDT — Lawrence O’Donnell just said on his show that he’d like to replay as much of the speech as possible throughout his hour!
Update 5 - 9:15pm EDT — Rachel Maddow covering the speech as we speak! She just played a 5 minute excerpt of the video.
Some live transcribing by me:
“Trump’s narcissism has become more important than the country he leads...incompetence, anxiety...is this what we want?...I won’t traffic in fear and division...I will take responsibility, I won’t blame others...there’s never been anything we couldn’t do when we did it together. That’s us at our best.”
(partial paraphrasing possibly)
Thanks, all!
Update 4 — Our own poopdogcomedy has posted a diary with the COMPLETE transcript of the speech, here: www.dailykos.com/...
Update 1 — Speech ended a little before 10:30am EDT. Biden spoke for only 22 minutes, but he was Presidential, comforting and confident in the extreme. And he totally dismantled Drumpf.
Update 2: Folks in the comments are raving about how good this speech was. Check out below — they’re saying “...best I’ve ever seen Biden”, “perfect speech for the perfect moment...” and lots more very high praise.
Also some have given better, longer transcription of parts of the speech. Scroll down and enjoy.
Update 3: From GoBlue08 in the comments:
A number of commenters have hit a point that I think is important: this was likely a watershed moment for Joe and Democrats. Telling people what we want and need to believe of ourselves as a America, what it takes to be true to that belief and make good on it, to contrast that with the forces in power, and provide a way to take individual action in our collective need, that is leadership in the American presidency. I’ve been for Joe for a long time, but this really makes me feel even more right about supporting him, and that he can not only beat the orangutan and the orangutan’s party, but start the cleansing of the American soul.
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