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August 28, 2008
Bill Bradley on "Hannity & Colmes"
Hannity & Colmes
ALAN COLMES, CO-HOST: Welcome to HANNITY & COLMES. I'm Alan Colmes.
We are coming to you tonight live from right outside of Invesco Field where Barack Obama will make his nomination's acceptance speech in front of more than 75,000 people in just a little more than an hour.
And we'll have the speech for you live right here as well as on FOXnewspolitics.com where it will be streaming live.
But that's not the only big news tonight. FOX News can confirm that John McCain has made his VP choice, but his pick, at least for now, remains a secret until tomorrow when McCain will appear with his number two in Dayton, Ohio.
Joining us now, former presidential candidate and former New Jersey senator, Bill Bradley.
Senator, welcome. Good to have you on the show tonight.
BILL BRADLEY, FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Good to be with you both.
COLMES: What's your take on what's going on tonight? Historic night, isn't it, for the United States of America.
BRADLEY: Well, I think it will be historic night. I think that we'll be seeing some of our ideals realized in Barack's acceptance speech for the Democratic nomination.
I think he will talk and say to us we can do great things again as Americans. We just have to defeat the culture of Washington. I think he will appeal to hard-working Americans who had a difficult time over the last eight to 10 years, and tell them that he's got some very specific answers to try to make their lives better.
COLMES: What does he have to accomplish tonight and how does he do it?
BRADLEY: Well, I think that he's got to get across where he wants to take the country. He has been able to do that throughout. And as I said, the message is very clear, that we can do great things again as Americans.
I mean, you know, for the last eight years we've had a can't-do administration such as we can't provide health care for everybody. We can't make sure that every public school is great. We can't break our addiction to oil.
And he offers what, I think, will be a can-do message about a can-do spirit and a can-do administration.
COLMES: You know, the polls, for the first time today in the daily tracking poll of the Gallup Daily Tracking poll show a little bit of a bump for Barack Obama.
Are you surprised that there's not more of a bump so far, that it's been so neck and neck and why do you think the polls have been as they've been?
BRADLEY: Well, I think it takes a while for the impact of a convention to settle in to people. I think the main thing that's come out of the convention so far is that the party is absolutely unified.
I think Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton gave great speeches and demonstrated that we are one party with one set of causes and one set of values and we are fighting to see those realized because the hard-working Americans out there need us.
COLMES: How will McCain's pick of VP affect the Democrats? Does it matter one way or the another whether it's Romney or Pawlenty or maybe a surprise choice we haven't talked about yet?
BRADLEY: You know, I can't see how a pick he would make would make -- would be -- make any difference at all. In the case of Joe Biden, I think there is a real good complement there in terms of his growing up in Scranton.
Last night I thought he gave a great speech appealing to those kids he grew up with and people who work hard all over the country, and adding some foreign policy, national security depth to Barack Obama's candidacy.
So there were very -- two very specific things that he was able to accomplish. Quite frankly, this is Barack Obama's night. Not whoever is going to be the vice president announced tomorrow for the Republicans.
SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: Senator Chuck -- I think it's going to be a big announcement. But, Senator, good to see you. Welcome to HANNITY & COLMES.
BRADLEY: Hey, Sean, how are you? How is the weather out there?
COLMES: Let's talk about the weather.
HANNITY: The weather is fine, Senator. I'm looking forward to next week. I'm not going to lie to you. But thank you for -- thank you for being back on the program.
Now, look.
BRADLEY: My pleasure.
HANNITY: We've got 70,000 plus people right behind me at Invesco Field. I know the bumper sticker and slogan, "Yes, We can, Obama, Change, change, change." That's which is all fine and good. I think that's what conventions, in part, are about.
But what are the things that we're not going to hear tonight? We're not going to hear that he's going to negotiate with dictators without preconditions. We're not going to hear that Iran is a tiny country and not a serious threat. We're not going to hear that he's going to raise our taxes.
We're not going to hear that he supports eliminating, you know, private ballots for unions. There's a lot that we won't hear tonight. We're going to hear a lot of slogans, right?
BRADLEY: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, Sean. Hold on. Hold on. No, I don't know specifically what he's going to say but I think over the next two months one of the things you will hear, dealing with something you specifically said, was that 95 percent of Americans will get a tax cut under Obama.
It's true the wealthy will pay more. Some will pay a lot more.
HANNITY: Yes.
BRADLEY: But they've made a lot of money.
HANNITY: All right. But we got.
BRADLEY: And so 95 percent of Americans will get a tax cut. In terms of negotiating with Iran, that is precisely.
