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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
You see, even though back then Barack was a Senator and a presidential candidate...to me, he was still the guy who'd picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the...
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The Tribune
| 10 months ago
If it were a job interview, Kerry could point to his work for the administration in the Senate and abroad. The Massachusetts lawmaker shepherded a new arms control treaty with Russia to Senate ratification over conservative opposition in December...
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| 10 months ago
Every American was relieved the day President Obama gave the order, and Seal Team Six took out Osama bin Laden, Romney said Aug. 30 at the Republican National Convention. On another front, every American is less secure today because he has failed to...
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The Guardian
| 10 months ago
Charlotte First lady Michelle Obama spoke about her and Barack Obama's student loans in her convention speech. Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images "We were so young, so in love, and so in debt," Michelle Obama told delegates in Charlotte on...
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The Economist
| 10 months ago
Israel's prime minister, seems to have signalled that he will wait at least until after the American presidential election before deciding whether to bash Iran's nuclear facilities. He let it be known that he expects Barack Obama, in return, to...
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Kansas City Star
| 10 months ago
The hour and the stage belong to President Barack Obama.After basking in the glow from speeches by First Lady Michelle Obama, former President Bill Clinton and fired-up delegates, Obama is stepping forward to make his case for a second term. He'll...
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Pascak Valley Community Life
| 10 months ago
Global investors are souring on President Barack Obama while still expecting him to be re- elected in November...While investors back Republican Mitt Romney for his economic vision for the United States, they prefer Obama to manage the global economy...
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National Public Radio
| 10 months ago
Alan Greenblatt President Obama won't be giving the speech he might wish tonight. All presidents accepting their party's re-nomination seek to shift from a message of hope and change to one of progress and accomplishment. Although Obama will...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
| 10 months ago
To a nation short on job security, President Barack Obama has his night to protect his own. Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday will be about promise the kind he'll say he has kept, and the kind of feeling he wants to...
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Jamaica Daily Gleaner
| 10 months ago
Bill Clinton, the popular former president who oversaw America's 1990s boom days, was scheduled to nominate Barack Obama for a second White House term last night, an unusual move by a Democratic Party determined to lift the spirits of voters who have...
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The Globe & Mail
| 10 months ago
U.S. first lady Michelle Obama addresses delegates during the first session of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Sept. 4, 2012. Both President Barack Obama and (especially) Mitt Romney suffer from perceptions that they're...
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Arab News
| 10 months ago
Democrats turned Wednesday to a hero of the past, Bill Clinton, to boost the shaky re-election prospects of Barack Obama, with the popular former president from the prosperous 1990s assuring economically strapped Americans that better days lay ahead...
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The New York Times
| 10 months ago
Stuart Slawsby, a lawyer outside Boston who works in real estate and who is a Democrat, felt similarly, saying that he found Mr. Obama right on the money. And Eric Kent, a Chicagoan like Mr. Obama, felt sure that he was going to do good. But today...
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Japan Times
| 10 months ago
This presidential election will likely determine whether the United States and Russia undertake a major new reduction of nuclear weapons; whether U.S. arms are supplied to Syrian rebels; whether more U.S. troops are withdrawn from Afghanistan next...
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CNN
| 10 months ago
Bennett, a CNN contributor, is the author of " The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood ." He was U.S. secretary of education from 1985 to 1988 and director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under President George H.W. Bush. (CNN)...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 10 months ago
Yet no matter how good her performance, it is not clear that it will be enough. The most recent CNN poll puts Mr Obama and Mr Romney in a dead heat, 48-48. One supporter was thrilled that the First Lady had managed to stir rank-and-file excitement...
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The New York Times
| 10 months ago
11 am Sciencedebate.org Sciencedebate.org posed 14 questions about science policy to President Obama and Mitt Romney. President Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, have spelled out their views on climate change in a bit more detail than...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
N.C. Michelle Obama wrapped her husband in the warm embrace of what she described as an ever-growing love. That may be the indelible moment from her speech to the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday. But what was extraordinary about the 25-...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
In the event President Barack Obama loses the 2012 presidential election (which I'm starting to think is likely given his multitude of failures in office), he stands to become a very rich man, indeed. Share This Story Ex-presidents settle into a...
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The Courier-Mail
| 10 months ago
Mitt Romney on the opening night of their convention, skewering the wealthy Republican presidential hopeful as elite and out-of-touch. In a rowdy start to three days of political theatre in Charlotte, North Carolina, speaker after speaker on Tuesday...
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Inquirer.net
| 10 months ago
North CarolinaDemocrats beckoned Americans to return Barack Obama to the White House despite the agonizingly slow economic recovery as they opened their national convention, casting the president as someone who understands the struggles of ordinary...
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Indian Express
| 10 months ago
On the first day of the three-day convention here last night, speaker after speaker lashed out at Romney for several hours from his policies to his personal bank accounts and his record as the governor of Massachusetts. Star speaker, First Lady...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
39 Charlotte (North Carolina): The Obama campaign has questioned the foreign policy credentials of Mitt Romney, alleging that the Republican presidential candidate's world view seems to be stuck in the Cold War, in the past. "Mitt Romney has failed...
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
Michelle Obama made the case Tuesday for her husband's reelection by contending that he was the same person who voters embraced four years ago and by implicitly skewering his November opponent. The first lady's enthusiastically received remarks were...
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Orlando Sentinel Online
| 10 months ago
Michelle Obama says change takes time, urges another term Steve Holland , Reuters 12:37 a.m. EST, September 5, 2012 First lady Michelle Obama takes the stage during day one of the Democratic National Convention at Time Warner Cable Arena on September...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
EDT Michelle Obama has strongly pitched for another innings for her husband at the Democratic Party Convention. Conceding that change is a slow process, the US first lady asked voters to give Obama a chance to carry on the change he initiated four...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 10 months ago
They simply believed in that fundamental American promise that, even if you don't start out with much, if you work hard and do what you're supposed to do, then you should be able to build a decent life for yourself and an even better life for your...
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National Public Radio
| 10 months ago
Eyder Peralta If you missed the opening night of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., we live blogged it here . We've also compiled five things that struck us about the night: 'Mom In Chief' Takes A Stand: There is no question that...
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The New York Times
| 10 months ago
A one-stop destination for the latest political news from The Times and other top sources...Instead, the wives of presidential candidates give competing convention speeches. Michelle Obama on Tuesday said she loved Barack Obama more now than she did...
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The Hindustan Times
| 10 months ago
First lady Michelle Obama acknowledged on Tuesday that the change her husband Barack Obama sought in his White House campaign four years ago has proven difficult but urged voters to give him another term to fix the weak US economy. "He reminds me...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
Michelle Obama closed out the first day of the 2012 Democratic National Convention with a rousing speech that paid personal tribute to her husband but also seemed built to coalesce support among Democrats at the start of the three-day gathering.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 10 months ago
He knows what it means to want something more for your kids and grandkids." The speech was clearly intended to draw stark contrasts with Mr Obama's rival in November, a multi-millionaire businessman born into privilege as the son of former...
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Inquirer.net
| 10 months ago
North CarolinaDemocrats launched President Barack Obama on his uncertain bid for re-election as they opened their national convention Tuesday. They looked to help Obama recapture the hearts of Americans once drawn to his message of hope and change,...
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Miami Herald
| 10 months ago
Obama said serving as first lady is an honor and a privilege. But four years ago, at the Democratic convention in Denver that nominated her husband, she worried that her two daughters might be affected by the glare of the national spotlight and being...
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Boston Globe
| 10 months ago
In one of his most forceful rebukes of his predecessor, Governor Deval Patrick said that Mitt Romney talks a lot about all the things he's fixed, but I can tell you Massachusetts wasn't one of them, according to remarks prepared for delivery Tuesday...
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SF Gate
| 10 months ago
President Barack Obama is just like you. "Barack knows the American Dream because he's lived it," the first lady told the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday in an address intended to reassure voters that her husband share their values hard...
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Orlando Sentinel Online
| 10 months ago
Democrats defend Obama economic record at convention Steve Holland and John Whitesides , Reuters 9:02 p.m. EST, September 4, 2012 The convention gives Obama a chance to seize the political spotlight from Romney and Republicans , who used their...
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The Globe & Mail
| 10 months ago
First Lady Michelle Obama waves as she appears at the podium for a camera test on the stage at the Democratic National Convention inside Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C., on Monday, Sept. 3, 2012 The Associated Press watch President Barack...
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Al Jazeera English
| 10 months ago
28 Michelle Obama speaks with actor and Obama administration official Kal Penn as she tours the stage [Reuters] Democrats are to kick off their 2012 convention on Tuesday with First Lady Michelle Obama to fire the first shots of a three-day salvo...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 10 months ago
Michelle Obama will highlight the human side of her husband tonight (Tuesday), as she makes the case for four more years of Barack Obama in the White House despite high unemployment and a sluggish economy. In the opening speech of the Democratic...
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International Business Times
| 10 months ago
The Democrats have gathered in thousands at the downtown football stadium at Charlotte, N.C., for the three-day Democratic National Convention starting Tuesday. The party Monday night unveiled its formal 2012 election policy ahead of the convention,...
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NY Daily News
| 10 months ago
Updated: Tuesday, September 4, 2012, 3:00 AM Melina Mara/The Washington Post Mitt Romney speaks to veterans at the American Legion's national convention in Indianapolis, Ind. on August 29. During the speech he promised major changes to the federal...
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Taiwan News
| 10 months ago
Travel & Delicacy Beauty never Ends Ecological Environment Taiwan News, Staff Writer 2012-09-04 02:42 PM Democrats assemble Tuesday to re-nominate Barack Obama for the presidency, to sell him as the wise and humane alternative to Republican...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 10 months ago
As they watch the political stagecraft, there may be only one thing all Americans can agree on: Deep concern over the struggling American economy that has made only a halting recovery from the Great Recession and near meltdown of the US financial...
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The Globe & Mail
| 10 months ago
President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally at Scott High School Monday, Sept. 3, 2012, in Toledo, Ohio. AP video video video I am looking for him to talk about what he's done, said Danica Oparnica, 64, a nurse practitioner and delegate...
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The New York Times
| 10 months ago
A day after fumbling a predictable and straightforward question posed by Mitt Romney last week are Americans better off than they were four years ago the Obama campaign provided a response on Monday that it said would be hammered home during the...
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The Globe & Mail
| 10 months ago
Paul Ryan at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Aug. 29, 2012. Reuters video video The findings were from the seventh day of a rolling online poll conducted for Reuters by Ipsos to judge voters' attitudes around the political...
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USA Today
| 10 months ago
So is the presidential election less fun, the second time around? "Well, I'll tell you, it's different," he says with a slightly pained expression on his face, then offers: "But the plane is a lot nicer." At this moment, Obama is perched on the edge...
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The Daily Star
| 10 months ago
Barack Obama's campaign surrogates, a day before Democrats open their national convention, were trying Monday to put their economic message back in positive territory following a weekend of Republican claims that Americans are not better off four...
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Boston Globe
| 10 months ago
Polls show that Obama is the first Democratic presidential candidate in decades to hold a clear advantage on foreign policy over his GOP opponent in this case a former Massachusetts governor with little experience in international affairs. How much...
