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The Hindustan Times
| 9 months ago
Mitt Romney used a terrible US jobs report to hammer President Barack Obama on the economy Friday, leaving the White House incumbent flat-footed on the defining issue of the 2012 race. The Republican nominee seized on weak employment data to reclaim...
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Tulsa World
| 9 months ago
President Barack Obama had the chance to knock the ball out of the park Thursday night...In his acceptance speech many expected, hoped, that he would lay out a detailed plan for the next four years. That he would energize the convention and give that...
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Sky News
| 9 months ago
Dominic Waghorn US Correspondent US party conventions do not make much difference to the polls, so says conventional wisdom. Both parties did their level best to prove that wrong this time round, knowing that everything counts in a contest this close.
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
Reuters Accepting his official nomination for a second term, President Barack Obama made a passionate appeal to US citizens to re-elect him in the November elections - saying he has unfinished business in the White House. Obama said it needs more...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
Imgur/PresidentObama During his speech at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) 2012 in Charlotte Thursday, the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama , delivered a passionate speech, in which he defended his record in office and...
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The Hindu
| 9 months ago
President Barack Obama addresses the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina on Thursday. Barack Obama, his re-election in doubt, promised better days ahead, as he accepted the Democratic Party nomination for President before...
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The Hindu
| 9 months ago
Washington, September 5, 2012 It was clearly that old game of good-cop, bad-cop. On the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, First Lady Michelle Obama struck a soft, if poignant, note and reminded the party of...
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 months ago
Biden said that the choice in the election is as stark as any in the nation's history, and that the auto bailout and fight against terrorism were tests of character that Mitt Romney had failed. Biden said Romney didn't understand what the auto...
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Just Jared
| 9 months ago
33 pm Barack Obama makes his speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention on Thursday (September 6) at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C. The President of the United States made a plead for patience in his speech, which was met by...
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Washington Post
| 9 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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Star Tribune
| 9 months ago
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Thursday defended his decision not to discuss the Afghanistan war in his convention speech. He said he didn't plan to watch President Barack Obama's convention address but offered some advice, saying...
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The Tribune
| 9 months ago
Wednesday when I pulled up to the small country restaurant with a nine-foot rooster out front...Congressional hopeful Hudson speaks at RNC Congressional candidate Richard Hudson of Concord, N.C., spoke to a partially filled Times Forum arena Tuesday...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
| 9 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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BBC
| 9 months ago
Michelle Obama's reasons to watch the Democratic convention 6 September 2012 Last updated at 06:02 ET Michelle Obama has appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman to deliver his "top 10 list" segment. The First Lady gave 10 reasons to watch the...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 9 months ago
Michelle Obama won plaudits from across the political divide on Wednesday for a speech in which she told Americans that her husband felt their pain and deserved four more years in the White House...In a personal address to the Democratic convention,...
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Jamaica Daily Gleaner
| 9 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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E! Online
| 9 months ago
Besides reasons like the joy of feeling as though a crowded convention center is right in your living room and not having to be a Democrat to enjoy balloons (duh, who doesn't enjoy balloons?!), Michelle Obama gives us some interesting inside info:...
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The Globe & Mail
| 9 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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Just Jared
| 9 months ago
Former President Bill Clinton waves to the crowd as he speaks on stage during day two of the 2012 Democratic National Convention on Wednesday (September 5) at the Time Warner Center in Charlotte, N.C. I want to nominate a man cool on the outside but...
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SF Gate
| 9 months ago
Michelle Obama connected with voters during her moving opening-night speech of the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday. She was smart, extremely likable and the perfect spokeswoman for the American president as she talked about "the unflinching...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 9 months ago
Both Ann Romney and Michelle Obama looked great and spoke well on behalf of their husbands in their convention appeals for the all-important 'Mom vote.' Here's a sampling of views. Los Angeles Michelle Obama and Ann Romney in their newly-minted...
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BBC
| 9 months ago
Mr Emanuel, who addressed the convention on Tuesday, has a reputation as a formidable fundraiser, a boon to Democrats who have not attracted as much money from donors as Republicans in recent months. On Tuesday, Michelle Obama's speech was one of the...
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HNN
| 9 months ago
I'm an unabashed Michelle Obama fan, and my wife is even more so. It's not just Michelle's extraordinary set of talents...If her air of humility and naivete is not genuine, then in addition to all those other talents she's the greatest actress of...
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United Press International
| 9 months ago
U.S. first lady Michelle Obama followed up her Democratic convention speech with appeals to key minority caucuses Wednesday to get "fired up" for the election. In separate appearances before the Human Rights Campaign, the Hispanic Caucus and the...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
Democrats may face an enthusiasm gap in November, hope and change having lost much of its glow. But you wouldn't know it from the opening night of the Democratic convention. Democrats put on a rousing show Tuesday, a program of powerful political...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
Michelle Obama 's speech at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday evening was largely praised by global media. Here is a sampling of how some foreign media outlets responded to the first lady's speech: Share This Story The star of the show...
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NY1
| 9 months ago
President Barack Obama will make his pitch for a second term indoors. Campaign aides say the possibility of severe weather is forcing the president's speech inside Thursday night at the democratic national convention. It was set to be at Bank of...
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Washington Post
| 9 months ago
Michelle Obama 's speech Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention is getting rave reviews as a subtle but devastating attack on Mitt Romney, a heartfelt and gripping tale of personal struggle, and a warm and moving message that...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 9 months ago
Clinton, the last two-term Democratic president, will urge US voters to let Barack Obama lead America back to prosperity, in a highly-anticipated convention speech. The hugely popular figure who presided over a period of strong growth, low...
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USA Today
| 9 months ago
Obama is spending Wednesday morning trying to fire up two key members of the Democratic base: African Americans and Hispanics. In remarks before the African American Caucus at the Democratic National Convention, the first lady made it clear that the...
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CNSNews.com
| 9 months ago
First Lady Michelle Obama, explaining how she and her husband were raised in circumstances, credited the janitors who kept our school clean as one of the reasons for the Obamas' success: Mrs. Obama told the Democratic National Convention about the...
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 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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Christian Science Monitor
| 9 months ago
First lady Michelle Obama wowed the Democratic convention-goers offering reassurances that the presidency hasn't changed Barack Obama and taking a few subtle digs at Mitt Romney...Michelle Obama's emotional speech on the opening night of the...
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The Guardian
| 9 months ago
Michelle Obama tells Democratic convention Barack will deliver opportunity for all video Michelle Obama delivers a personal speech at the Democratic party's national convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Tuesday. The first lady told the 23,000-...
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Towleroad
| 9 months ago
Stepping on to the DNC stage in a rosy luminescent Tracy Reese dress, First Lady Michelle Obama launched into a speech about progressive values, working families, and her own experience in and out of the White House . Well, today, after so many...
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Indian Express
| 9 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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United Press International
| 9 months ago
First lady Michelle Obama told Democrats vision and values guide her husband as former President Bill Clinton was to nominate Barack Obama for a second term. "I've seen how the issues that come across a president's desk are always the hard ones --...
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Truthdig
| 9 months ago
One of the most eagerly anticipated speeches at the 2012 Democratic National Convention belonged to Michelle Obama, who did not disappoint during her address Tuesday night. The first lady delivered what was essentially an affectionate love letter to...
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BBC
| 9 months ago
First Lady Michelle fires up Obama faithful 5 September 2012 Last updated at 01:33 ET US First Lady Michelle Obama has made an impassioned speech backing her husband, President Barack Obama, at the Democratic convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Los Angeles Times
| 9 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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International Business Times
| 9 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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Kansas City Star
| 9 months ago
First lady Michelle Obama says her husband has never forgotten how he started and knows what it's like for struggling families.The first lady' speech Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention is focusing more on biography than on policy...
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NY Daily News
| 9 months ago
Michelle Obama gives impassioned defense of president at Democratic National Convention in Charlotte First Lady urges voters to see President Obama as not just the commander-in-chief, but also a caring husband and father who understands Americans'...
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International Business Times
| 9 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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SF Gate
| 9 months ago
N.C. (AP) Convention Watch shows you the 2012 political conventions through the eyes of Associated Press journalists. She spoke of quiet moments, of a relationship's early days of a man who, seen through her eyes, is not a world leader but a husband...
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The Tribune
| 9 months ago
First Lady says husband `a man we can trust' First Lady says husband `a man we can trust' First lady Michelle Obama lovingly praised her husband Tuesday night in a prime-time Democratic Convention speech as a devoted husband and caring father at home...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 9 months ago
Democrats ridiculed Republican Mitt Romney as a millionaire candidate for president who "quite simply doesn't get it" and worse on Tuesday, opening night of a national convention aimed at propelling Barack Obama to re-election despite high...
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The Age
| 9 months ago
First Lady Michelle Obama is the top speaker on the opening night of the convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, where 6000 delegates are attending the centre-left party's three-day gathering. "I know that whatever I say here today, it's going to be...
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Passaic Valley Today
| 9 months ago
N.C. Democrats have called their national convention to order and delegates will soon move to adopt a party platform that calls for higher taxes on wealthier Americans while backing same-sex marriage and abortion rights. An estimated 35,000...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 9 months ago
First lady Michelle Obama will deliver the keynote speech on the first night of the three-day jamboree in Charlotte, North Carolina. Republican nominee Mitt Romney is expected to spend the week preparing for a series of debates with Mr Obama. Ahead...
