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DAWN
| 9 months ago
President Barack Obama's acceptance speech on Thursday night drew the largest television audience of this year's political conventions and ranked as the biggest political moment ever on social media site Twitter. More than 35.7 million people tuned...
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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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USA Today
| 9 months ago
The sites of the first presidential primary and caucus will help Obama kick off the newest phase of his re-election campaign, the morning after he formally accepted the Democratic nomination for a second term. Joined by Vice President Biden, Obama...
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Zee News
| 9 months ago
US First Lady Michelle Obama has said that there is absolutely no' chance that President Barack Obama will lose his re-election bid in November. When she was asked if there is a reasonable chance' Obama could lose, she replied, absolutely not'.
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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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The Hutchinson News
| 9 months ago
There's no point trying to find something wrong with Michelle Obama's speech to the Democratic National Convention...The first lady ruled the first night of the convention, and that's saying something given the lineup of oratorical stars she followed,...
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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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Boston Globe
| 9 months ago
You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear,'' Obama said in excerpts of the speech he was delivering Thursday evening at the Democratic National Convention. You elected me,'' he said, to tell you the truth.'' The message was reminiscent...
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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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USA Today
| 9 months ago
Newsmakers session. "The president is going to make crystal clear the choices ahead." Clinton delivered an often folksy, often eloquent argument for Obama's re-election, burnishing Obama's muddled track record on the economy and laying out a road map...
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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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Zee News
| 9 months ago
08 Charlotte: Emphatically endorsing Barack Obama for a second term, charismatic former US president Bill Clinton on Wednesday night made a passionate plea to voters to renew the contract of the incumbent, who was cool on the outside but "burns for...
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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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Las Vegas Review-Journal / Sun
| 9 months ago
I haven't felt this sought after since my senior year in high school, when I switched from hideous cat eye glasses to contact lenses and went from no boyfriends to three boyfriends. I give total credit to contacts for the turnaround in my social life.
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The Journal Gazette
| 9 months ago
Washington Post The Democrats launched their convention Tuesday with a series of speeches that put the best possible gloss on President Barack Obama's economic record and took various shots at GOP nominee Mitt Romney. First lady Michelle Obama, who...
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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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Arab News
| 9 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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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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The Washington Times
| 9 months ago
President Obama 's abysmal jobs record is the elephant in a room of donkeys at the Democratic National Convention. The goal in Charlotte, N.C., seems to be to avoid any mention of the bad economy, hoping no one will notice. The result is convention...
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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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San Francisco Bay Guardian
| 9 months ago
You couldn't have scripted it better (and that's what it was, carefully scripted). The contrast between the mayor of San Antonio, Julian Castro, grandson of immigrants, child of a working-class family, and the first lady, Michelle Obama, daughter of...
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Truthdig
| 9 months ago
Sep 5, 2012 Fox News was not impressed with Michelle Obama's highly praised prime-time address at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night, criticizing the first lady for, of all things, using the speech to focus on government. But as...
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GMA News
| 9 months ago
Michelle Obama wowed Americans with an emotional speech at the Democratic National Convention that set the Twitterverse alight with gushing praise and boosted husband Barack Obama's social media standing as he makes his bid to stay in the White House.
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 9 months ago
Democrats opened their convention here on Tuesday night with a parade of officials telling voters that Mitt Romney does not get it and with a rousing speech from Michelle Obama making the case that President Obama does. Mr. Obama's roster of...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 9 months ago
She did not give a single mention to Obama's Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, who has derided the President's failure to produce the "hope and change" he promised in 2008. Yet much of her speech implicitly rebutted criticisms from Romney, the...
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CNN
| 9 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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United Press International
| 9 months ago
The Democratic National Committee move the event indoors after the threat of rain. N.C., Sept. 5 (UPI) -- After Hurricane Isaac forced the GOP to alter its convention in Tampa, Fla., weather is again a factor at the Democrats' party in North Carolina.
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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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Celebuzz
| 9 months ago
Much of Tuesday's opening night of the Democratic National Convention seemed programmed as a direct rebuttal to speeches the Republicans made a week ago at their convention. If you watched both, you got a weird mirror effect weirder than watching...
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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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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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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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The Reporter
| 9 months ago
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 and a "man we can trust" to revive the nation's weak economy as president, beckoning the...
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Denver Post
| 9 months ago
N.C. First lady Michelle Obama lovingly praised her husband Tuesday night in a prime-time Democratic National Convention speech as a devoted husband and caring father at home and a "man we can trust" to revive the nation's weak economy as president,...
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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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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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Sky News
| 9 months ago
Michelle Obama has defended her husband's record in office in a deeply personal speech to the Democratic National Convention. Describing herself as America's "Mom-in-Chief", the First Lady said President Obama had stayed true to his core values...
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News Press
| 9 months ago
Michelle Obama picked up where Ann Romney left off last week, with a strongly worded defense of her husbands first term in office, a recitation of all the economic woes and problems the nation faced on his Inauguration Day in 2009 and a vision of...
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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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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 9 months ago
N.C. (AP) 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 and a "man we can trust" to revive the nation's weak economy as president,...
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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...
