DNC Day One: Michelle Obama and the Clintons

Complete FORA.tv coverage of the DNC: http://for​a.tv/topic​/democrati​c_conventi​on New Republic Editors Frank Foer and Michael Crowley recap day one of the 2008 Democratic National Convention, discussing Michelle Obama's opening night speech and the dominating influence of Bill and Hillary Clinton. The New Republic on FORA.tv: http://fora.tv/partner/new_republic ----- Franklin Foer is an American political journalist and the editor of The New Republic. Foer graduated from Columbia in 1996. Before joining The New Republic, Foer was a frequent contributor to the online magazine Slate. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Spin, U.S. News and World Report, Lingua Franca, The Atlantic Monthly, The Wall Street Journal, New York and Foreign Policy. In 2004 he published his first book, How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization. Michael Crowley is senior editor at The New Republic. He joined TNR in 2000 after working for The Boston Globe and The Boston Phoenix. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, GQ, Slate, and other publications. He is also a contributing editor for Readers Digest and a frequent political commentator on MSNBC. He is a 1994 graduate of Yale University and lives in Washington, D.C.