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The Hindustan Times
| 10 months ago
Former President Bill Clinton made a more comprehensive case for President Barack Obama's re-election in 49 minutes on Wednesday than the rest of the speakers at the Democratic Convention could muster in the 11-1/2 hours that preceded him. In a...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 10 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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Daily News & Analysis
| 10 months ago
Barack Obama has been forced to move Thursday's crucial party convention speech from a huge stadium to a much smaller indoor arena amid fears of stormy weather and accusations that the switch was made to avoid the embarrassing spectacle of thousands...
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The Tribune
| 10 months ago
Some things to watch for at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday: 1...Will the president give voters some specifics about his plans for a second term? Also, as he wraps up three days of Democrats assailing Mitt Romney, watch to see whether...
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Mail Online UK
| 10 months ago
6 September 2012 Former President Bill Clinton delivered a rousing, rollicking speech in Charlotte and an impassioned plea for Americans to vote for President Barack Obama a man cool on the outside but burning for America on the inside'. Speaking...
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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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Las Vegas Review-Journal / Sun
| 10 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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Kansas City Star
| 10 months ago
Former President Bill Clinton in a speech at the Democratic National Convention re-nominating Barack Obama for president.---"Not only did the U.S. deliver (Gadhafi) his enemies on a silver platter, but it seems the CIA tortured many of them first.
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Los Angeles Times
| 10 months ago
Declaring that "America is better off" than it was when Barack Obama became president, former President Clinton lauded the record of his Democratic successor and skewered his Republican rival, depicting the choice before voters as one between "a...
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News 24
| 10 months ago
US President Barack Obama ordered Democrats on Wednesday to reinsert references to God and Jerusalem in their party platform, prompting boos from many angry delegates. The controversy had threatened to detract from the party's drive to draw a sharp...
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India Abroad
| 10 months ago
L abour Day, the first Monday in September is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. The United States and Canada celebrated Labour Day on September 3...Tags: , United States , Canada , American A day in the life of...
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The Journal Gazette
| 10 months ago
President Obama's decision Wednesday to scrap plans to accept his Democratic nomination before a massive crowd outdoors was as much about trying to mitigate political risk in a key battleground state as it was about public safety. His party blamed...
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Boston Globe
| 10 months ago
Former president Bill Clinton, in a fiery nominating speech Wednesday at the Democratic National Convention, mixed passion, policy detail, and humor with an urgent plea for Americans to stay the course with President Obama, who made a surprise...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 10 months ago
The second night of the Democratic National Convention was behind schedule and broadcast against the first night of football season. There was no shortage of hard hits and one high profile platform fumble...Bill Clinton ardently backs President Obama...
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The Durango Herald
| 10 months ago
Lynne Sladky/Associated Press No one could have repaired all the damage (to the economy that President Obama) found in just four years, former President Bill Clinton said in his speech...Before a roaring crowd at the Democratic National Convention,...
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Newsbusters
| 10 months ago
While most of the Obama-loving media gushed and fawned over former President Bill Clinton's nomination speech at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer was singularly unimpressed...Look, it had...
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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. Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney takes over the...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
President Barack Obama should be allowed to finish the job he started, Bill Clinton said as Obama prepared to deliver his party's acceptance speech Thursday. "President Obama started with a much weaker economy than I did," Clinton told the Democratic...
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National Public Radio
| 10 months ago
President Obama still has a case to make for a second term, and specific people to whom he needs to make it. But while it's two months too early to call former President Bill Clinton Obama's closer, he came about as close as it gets Wednesday night...
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Washington Post
| 10 months ago
I hoped it would result in a serious debate about the choice before us. Then I heard his acceptance speechit kept the fact-checkers up all night. The Republicans had this gigantic clock in the arena showing the size of the national debt. Paul told...
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NY Daily News
| 10 months ago
01 AM Updated: Thursday, September 6, 2012, 2:01 AM David Handschuh/New York Daily News After former President Bill Clinton's rousing DNC nomination speech, he was greeted on stage by President Obama...At 48 minutes, Bill Clinton's masterstroke has...
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NY Daily News
| 10 months ago
Bill Clinton offers smartest critique yet of Mitt Romney's economic agenda during DNC speech The former president, frequently veering off script, patiently articulated where Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan go wrong and where Obama is going...
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SF Gate
| 10 months ago
N.C. (AP) God is back in the Democratic platform and people rooting for President Barack Obama hope the dazzle is back in him. With war ending, the health care system recast and the creaky economy overshadowing all, Obama takes the stage of the...
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Asia Times Online
| 10 months ago
There are now serious areas of contention between China and the United States. As China continues her rapid progress towards replacing the United States as the world's largest economy, the entire dynamic of the global political system is experiencing...
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CNN
| 10 months ago
While we learned that rising stars in the Democratic Party come in younger (Sandra Fluke) and older (Elizabeth Warren) versions, it was a party elder and established superstar (President Bill Clinton) who stole the show on Day Two of the Democratic...
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Miami Herald
| 10 months ago
It's time for Joe Biden to show why President Barack Obama is keeping him as his running mate...Advisers say Biden will tell what he saw from his front-row seat as Obama made some of his hardest decisions. And he'll make the case that Republican...
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Miami Herald
| 10 months ago
President Barack Obama's campaign rallies in battleground states aren't just about winning hearts and minds...Join the Discussion The Miami Herald is pleased to provide this opportunity to share information, experiences and observations about what's...
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Chandler Republic
| 10 months ago
Former President Bill Clinton wowed the crowd at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday with a full-throated defense of President Barack Obama's job record during a dramatic speech that heaped ridicule on the Republicans' rationale for...
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The Herald
| 10 months ago
The former president, his image resurrected in the years after his tainted presidency, was greeted with adulation on the floor of the convention. Even before turning over the second night of their convention to him, the Obama campaign has relied...
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Virginian-Pilot Online
| 10 months ago
In a matter of hours, Obama's team dealt with a potentially severe weather forecast by moving his Thursday nomination speech to a smaller, inside venue. Under criticism from Republicans, Democrats hurriedly added references to God and Jerusalem to...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
30 Charlotte: Following criticism from pro-Israeli group and the opposition Republican party, the Democratic National Convention amended its platform to declare Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Through voice vote, the party delegates assembled at...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
29 Zeenews Bureau Charlotte: Former US president Bill Clinton has formally nominated Barack Obama as the Democratic Party's presidential candidate, making a passionate plea to his countrymen to vote in his favour saying the incumbent was cool on the...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
40 Charlotte: Expressing deep disappointment over the inclusion of Jerusalem as Israeli Capital in the Democratic platform, Arab-Americans have termed it as a knee-jerk reaction to baseless accusation. "Today's (Wednesday) amendment to re-insert the...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
57 Charlotte: Seeking second term for US President Barack Obama, the top Democratic leadership launched a scathing attack against his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, stating that the latter, if elected, would take the country backwards. "The...
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Zee News
| 10 months ago
24 Washington: US First Lady Michelle Obama's impassioned speech backing her husband for another four-year term at the White House has got a masterful' verdict from people who attended the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.
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The independent
| 10 months ago
News in pictures From the blogs Upsurge in buyers from London noted Apple have sent out invitations to it's much anticipated iPhone 5 announcement next week, but with s... This sort of rhetoric parroted every year by a generation laughably removed...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 10 months ago
Throughout his presidency, Barack Obama has awarded grades to his national-security staff for his administration's foreign-policy priorities. Some marks, such as for advancing Israeli-Palestinian peace, have been low, officials say; others, such as...
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The Denver Post
| 10 months ago
Fear of rain and thunderstorms on Thursday night forced a Denveresque stadium-style acceptance speech from President Barack Obama back to Time Warner Convention Center. The Obama campaign said 65,000 tickets had been distributed and another 19,000...
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SF Gate
| 10 months ago
America's most popular living ex-president summoned up his rhetorical skills and persuasive power Wednesday night in an effort to help a struggling successor secure a second term. Bill Clinton , hoping to conjure the magic that led him to two...
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Reuters
| 10 months ago
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton holds up papers as she refers to the ''As Prepared'' version of former U.S. President Bill Clinton's Democratic National Convention speech that she had read, during a joint news conference with East Timor's Prime...
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Reuters
| 10 months ago
President Barack Obama wears a mask with his image while waving U.S. flags through uptown Charlotte, the site of the Democratic National Convention in North Carolina September 5, 2012. At their national convention last week in Tampa, Republicans...
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Reuters
| 10 months ago
President Barack Obama waits before joining former President Bill Clinton on stage during the second session of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, September 5, 2012...President Barack Obama on Thursday as its candidate...
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Reuters
| 10 months ago
President Bill Clinton addresses the second session of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, September 5, 2012. Former President Bill Clinton made a more comprehensive case for President Barack Obama's re-election in 49...
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Herald Tribune
| 10 months ago
If President Barack Obama is going to win Florida, he could use a big assist from former President Bill Clinton. It's no accident that Clinton is prominently featured in new television ads for Obama and that he was the biggest speaker of the night...
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Miami Herald
| 10 months ago
Bill Clinton took center stage Wednesday at the Democratic National Convention in hopes of persuading middle-class voters that Barack Obama could turn a troubled economy around the same way the former president did two decades ago. The 42nd president...
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Truthdig
| 10 months ago
There's a reason former President Bill Clinton is still considered one of theif not the biggest star in the Democratic Party. Twenty years after he ran for president, Clinton showed during his Wednesday night speech at the Democratic National...
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Associated Press
| 10 months ago
Clinton was criticized in official Chinese media during that visit, and she exchanged blunt words with Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi over how to end the bloodshed in Syria. China is resisting a push by the U.S. and other countries for U.N. sanctions...
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NY1
| 10 months ago
Former President Bill Clinton wowed the Democratic National Convention Wednesday, delivering a prime-time speech that presented this election as a clear choice between two candidates with starkly different philosophies...A forceful defense of...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 10 months ago
Former President Bill Clinton lent his voice and considerable popularity to President Barack Obama's re-election bid Wednesday, arguing forcefully that a figure "cool on the outside but burning for America on the inside" is the nation's best hope for...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
Former President Bill Clinton nominated U.S. President Obama at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday, saying he "burns for America on the inside." As Clinton exited the stage in the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C., President Obama...
