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My guess is that he will stick to his text and he is often better when he does because when he goes off extemporainiously, it can go on for a very long time. i once wrote an article about him and we had a discussion over the telephone about whether he would sit for an interview for it -- i was working for abc news and he said, you never cover me. the truth didn't use much what have he said because it was seldom much use. he said, why is that? and i said, frankly, senator, i think you are a windbag. it is characteristic of biden that he laughed, took it very well and i have been friendly with h...

Confident with his chest out. he may have that same attitude as he walks on stage tonight, but he has this record, 3 1/2 year, where he hasn't met the challenges that were put before him and the ting things that he said that he would solve. this is going to be even though it's a forward-looking speech. it is by its nature, a defensive speech, which is new to barack obama on this stage. >> brit, home thees ago, we saw senator kerry offering defense the president in foreign policy and to offer a few attacks on rom prom as well. >> i thought it was interesting. one thing, it was ferocious in its ...

Secretary of state to take. there are plenty of secretaries of state in the past who have been act 95 politics and a multitude of ways, many of them have run for office, witness hillary clinton for example. but one has a hard time with george schulz or james a. baker, or even warren christopher making this speech. john kerry has a political background and maybe that's fine. but it is interesting. >> you mentioned that line. you finish with the debate about afbefore you move to the debate with barack obama. it's interesting person to deliver that message, the 2004 presidential candidate who los...

The u.s. out of iraq and set a deadline in afghanistan. >> steve, we are told by the campaign that the speech is going to be about vice-president as a character witness to history, if you will. they paint it as being in the room when barack obama has made his toughest decisions and that he will describe that and what it's like. that benefits the president? >> yeah, i think it does. i expect joe biden to give a good speech here. if he does in fact, stick to the script as brit suggests he will. he is somebody who has been in the room and can offer that sense to viewers, to voters, what it was li...

And no rain in sight. bret and megyn, back to you. >> let's bring the panel. the senior writer for the weekly standard, steve hayes, juan williams and brit hume. brit, you know, every campaign puts out excerpts before speeches. we got a few from barack obama's speech. the associated press had this headline. hope has become hang in there. that's not exactly the headline that i am sure the campaign wanted to see out of the gate? >> no, it is not. one notices as well that the things that are set forth at least in the show we have ahead of time is a set of goals, this time business, not a set of p...