Wednesday's Morning Joe was enraptured by Michelle Obama's line from her DNC speech: "hope is making a comeback."
But remind us: who's been in charge for the last—apparently hopeless—four years? Oh, right: it was the administration of President Joe Biden and Vice President—what was her name again?
That irony was lost both on Michelle Obama and the Morning Joe crew.
Thus, Mika Brzezinski observed that people "are just feeling like very, very brought down by the past, I don't know, four to eight years, the Trump years, Covid, the impact that it's had on our kids."
So the Biden-Harris years were a real downer? Mika?
After weirdly insisting the country is not divided, Willie Geist wished: "Let's have hope make that comeback."
So if hope needs to make a comeback, it was absent during the last four years, Willie?
Al Sharpton said that the Michelle/Barack speeches "reignited in us hope that we are better than this, and we can do better than this, and we can strive to make this country better."
So things must get better than they were under Biden-Harris, Rev? And who better to achieve that than . . . Harris?
Beyond hope making a comeback, there was additional irony in Michelle's speech. She spoke of "this country we love" and "this great nation." Such a Super Patriot, that Michelle! You know, the woman who declared that before her husband won the 2008 Dem nomination, she had never been "really proud of my country."
Here's the transcript.
MSNBC
Morning Joe
8/21/24
6:06 am EDTWILLIE GEIST: The roll call was fun and the energy was real and the arena was packed. But then that was just the opening act.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: That was just the first.
GEIST: The headline was Michelle and Barack Obama.
MIKA: And boy, did Michelle bring it. One of the most popular figures in the Democratic party, former First Lady Michelle Obama, gave a powerful 21-minute speech taking on Donald Trump on issues of race and gender. In her remarks, she touched on her family's history and the importance of this election.
MICHELLE OBAMA: Something wonderfully magical is in the air, isn't it? Yeah. You know, we're feeling it here in this arena, but it's spreading all across this country we love. A familiar feeling that's been buried too deep for far too long.
You know what I'm talking about! It's the contagious power of hope. The anticipation. The energy. The exhilaration of, once again, being on the cusp of a brighter day. The chance to vanquish the demons of fear, division, and hate, that have consumed us and continue pursuing the unfinished promise of this great nation. The dream that our parents and grandparents fought and died and sacrificed for.
America, hope is making a comeback.
. . .
MIKA: Michelle Obama, Eddie Glaude, rocked the night. But she was speaking to not just the young people across the nation. I think it's people across the nation who are just feeling like very, very brought down by the past, I don't know, four to eight years, the Trump years, Covid, the impact that it's had on our kids. She really brought people up and said, come on, it's on us. Let's go.
EDDIE GLAUDE: Absolutely. The line, hope is making a comeback.
MIKA: Yeah.
GLAUDE: And she did it with her arms out -- that sleeveless outfit, you know? It was wonderful.
GEIST: President Obama made that same speech, effectively, that same message and point when he said we don't want to live in this country that Donald Trump has been showing us. The picture he's been painting for the last decade. We don't want to be divided. In fact, we're not. It's something we say on the show all the time. When you coach Little League or go to church, we're not the way Donald Trump says we are. So let's not be that way. Let's have hope make that comeback.
AL SHARPTON: I think that the electricity you saw here last night, and in my opinion, electrified people around the country, is that we're not dealing with grievance, and we're not even dealing with the fact that some of us are in unfair situations, as we consider it. But they reignited in us hope that we are better than this, and we can do better than this, and we can strive to make this country better.
