Wednesday 5 September 2012

[wanabidii] Michelle Obama hails husband as ‘man we can trust’ during DNC speech



 

Awesome people!!!

 

The First Lady Michelle Obama showed captivating outstanding ability to express to the whole world what an abundance loving kindness with passionate care her loving husband has for their family, for which the President pours the same without reserve, to all People of America; how the President has immeasurable compassionate that are synonymous to such of beneficent, humane, kind, benevolent, good-hearted, most tenderhearted, warmhearted to all people of the world irrespectively.

 

Through First Ladies' speech, she gave an emotional walk through to demonstrate how in real life President Obama has never changed but is true to his words.

 

The DNC begun with pompous mood; and with lots of fun. The complex was full to the capacity. Tribute from both Martin Luther and the Kennedy's rained down and soaked everyone. Speakers one after the other were all electrified and are ready to go........

 

The Democratic Convention kick started enthusiastically with no known mishaps.......

 

We expect more goodies to come.......

 

Watch the video and have your say........!!!

 

Cheers everybody...........!!!


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Martin Luther King Tribute
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Martin Luther King tribute with soundtrack from Glory

 
 
 
 
DNC Tribute and Speech by Sen. Edward Kennedy
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Tribute and Speech by Sen. Edward Kennedy at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

 
 
 

Democrats use Kennedy 'tribute' video to attack Romney

Senior Political ReporterThe Ticket – 14 hrs ago

CHARLOTTE—Democrats offered a not-so-subtle attack on Mitt Romney's policy shifts over the years, playing a video of Romney embracing more moderate views on issues like abortion when he was running for Senate in 1994 against the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.

The clips were featured in a "tribute" video to Kennedy aired at the Democratic National Convention and featured footage of debates between Romney and Kennedy during the 1994 race.

 
 
 
MICHELLE OBAMA SPEECH AT DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION IN NORTH CAROLINA (PART 1)
Published on Sep 4, 2012 by RawFootageJA
Michelle Obama: 'Barack knows the American dream because he's lived it'
 


Michelle Obama makes case for another term
MICHELLE OBAMA SPEECH AT DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION IN NORTH CAROLINA (PART 2)
Published on Sep 4, 2012 by RawFootageJA

Michelle Obama: 'Barack knows the American dream because he's lived it'

Michelle Obama makes case for another term

The first lady draws a dramatic line between the candidates without saying Mitt Romney's name. Teary-eyed


CHARLOTTE—First Lady Michelle Obama never once mentioned Mitt Romney's name. But in her speech before the Democratic National Convention speech Monday night, she offered a dramatic contrast between her husband, Barack Obama, and his Republican opponent, insisting he understands the struggles of average Americans because he's lived through those tough times, too.
"Barack knows the American Dream because he's lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are, or where we're from, or what we look like, or who we love," Michelle Obama said. "He believes that when you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. You reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed."
It was a speech meant to bolster her husband's legislative accomplishments — and it did, as the first lady touted the president's push for health care reform, the auto industry bailout and efforts to keep down student loan interest rates.
But not unlike Ann Romney's speech on behalf of her husband at last week's Republican National Convention, Michelle Obama also sought to humanize the president, and to remind voters of the working class background she and her husband came from. With tears in her eyes, she spoke of her father, a pump operator at a Chicago water plant, and how her husband was raised by a single mother and by his grandparents.

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MICHELLE OBAMA SPEECH AT DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION IN CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA

Michelle Obama hails husband as 'man we can trust' during DNC speech

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — First lady Michelle Obama pleaded with voters Tuesday to reward her husband with re-election, telling delegates at the Democrats' convention that President Obama comes from humble beginnings but was able to reach the White House by taking advantage of the same kind of social safety net he defends on the campaign trail.
Democrats convened their nominating convention with a mix of sharp barbs against Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and his personal wealth, and a defense of Mr. Obama's first-term record on everything from health care to gay rights.
Seeking to unify Democrats and win over independents with the inspirational story that powered Mr. Obama to an historic election in 2008, Mrs. Obama told delegates her husband is still pushing for the vision voters embraced four years ago.
She said also the president's push for government programs is personal because they are the foundation he himself used to climb to the White House.
"He believes that when you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you — you reach back and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed," she said, her pointedly personal appeal winning chants of "Four more years" from the frenetic crowd.
Democrats sought to turn the election into a choice between Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney, rather than a referendum on the president — which would be bad news for the incumbent, who polls show many voters are wary of returning to Washington.
"We're making progress, and now we need to make a choice," San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro said in the convention's keynote address, delivered later Tuesday night. "It's a choice between a country where the middle class pays more, so that millionaires can pay less — or a country where everybody pays their fair share."
Mr. Castro becomes the first Latino to deliver a keynote address — a move aimed at highlighting the diversity of the Democratic Party as Mr. Obama tries to rally a disparate coalition of black and Hispanic voters, women and gay-rights supporters that can give him a majority.
The convention begins as polls show the race between Mr. Obama and Republican opponent Mitt Romney to be a tight affair. The Real Clear Politics average of polls gives Mr. Obama a lead of just a tenth of a percent — though the president also holds razor-thin leads in most battleground states.
Most important, Mr. Romney did not get a boost from his convention last week, according to the latest round of polls.
Just as Ann Romney, wife of Mr. Romney, did at Republicans' convention last week, Mrs. Obama humanized her husband, pointing to him as a devoted husband and a good father who shared the same struggles as other Americans when they were a newlywed couple.
She talked about Mr. Obama picking her up for dates in a car that had a rusted-out bottom, and about their upbringings in families of limited means.
"We were so young, so in love, and so in debt," she said — but she put a political point on the message, saying that's why Mr. Obama supports increasing student aid.
"In the end, for Barack, these issues aren't political, they're personal," she said.
The election is shaping up as a clash between dramatically different views of government power and the social safety net.
Democratic officials confirm to Politico that President Obama's prime time address will be moved indoors to the Time Warner Center.

The Thursday address was scheduled to be at Bank of America stadium — an outdoor venue with more than 70,000 seats. ...

The move has an upside for the campaign, which has reportedly struggled to fill all the seats in the massive outdoor arena.

DNC downsizes for Obama speech, citing 'weather'

by: Byron Tau
Wednesday, September 5, 2012


Obama's convention speech being moved indoors

By JULIE PACE and KEN THOMAS | Associated Press – 6 mins ago

              CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Democratic officials are moving President Barack Obama's convention speech Thursday indoors because of the possibility of severe weather.

              Obama had planned to accept his party's nomination in an outdoor football stadium before a crowd of up to 74,000 people. But Obama officials said forecasters have predicted severe thunderstorms Thursday in the 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. hour, raising concerns about the safety of supporters, volunteers, staff members and law enforcement.

              Officials said Thursday's entire program would be moved indoors, including Vice President Joe Biden's speech. The events will be held at the Time Warner Cable Arena, the site of the first two days of the convention proceedings.
              The move will significantly reduce the number of people Obama will speak to in person. The set-up in the arena can accommodate 21,000 people.

              Democrats were warily watching the weather all week. Their worst case scenario was a last-minute cancellation that would strand tens of thousands of people, many of whom had planned to arrive by the busload in the middle of the storm with no place to go.

              Obama's team, locked in a tight race with Republican Mitt Romney in this Southern battleground state, determined that wasn't worth the political risk.

              Democrats were also worried about the possibility of anti-Obama hecklers acquiring some of the free tickets to the event and disrupting the president's speech. The move indoors limits that possibility because most of those in the crowd will be official convention participants.

              Republicans, who canceled the first day of their convention due to weather in Tampa, Fla., accused Democrats of downgrading their events because of low enthusiasm.

              "After promising to hold the event at Bank of America stadium rain or shine, suddenly Team Obama is moving inside after questions about enthusiasm for the event," said Kirsten Kukowski, spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee. "What's the real forecast for the speech? Forty percent chance of lies and scattered excuses."

              Democrats insisted the decision was based strictly on the weather.

              Steve Kerrigan, who heads the Democratic convention, said more than 65,000 people had signed up for credentials to attend the outdoor speech but now could not be accommodated because of the smaller venue. He said organizers were encouraging those credential holders and "Americans across the country to continue to come together with their friends and neighbors to watch and participate in history."

              Kerrigan said Obama would speak to those credential holders on a national conference call Thursday afternoon. "We will work with the campaign to ensure that those unable to attend tomorrow's event will be invited to see the president between now and Election Day," he said.

              Forecasts for Thursday night had been improving all through the week. The National Weather Service said Wednesday morning that there is a 40 percent chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon, but it would drop to 20 percent by the time the president was scheduled to speak in the 10 p.m. hour.

              But there was still no guarantee of good weather for Obama's speech.

              "We're dealing with a warm, unstable air mass, so you can never absolutely say it's not going to rain or storm," said National Weather Service meteorologist Bryan McAvoy.

              It has rained every day since Saturday in Charlotte. Strong storms brought downpours of nearly an inch Monday and Tuesday.

              Jan Bauer, a delegate from Ames, Iowa, said she was thrilled about the move 'because it's not very comfortable sitting in the rain."

              The move also helps Obama avoid comparisons to 2008, when he accepted the Democratic nomination before a capacity crowd of 84,000 people at an outdoor football stadium in Denver. Democrats had been fretting for months that the president might not be able to fill the slightly smaller stadium this time around.

              Obama's campaign had planned to use the larger public rally as an opportunity to boost voter registration and recruit new volunteers. Those efforts will be hampered by the move indoors, but the campaign still has voter information from the 65,000 people who signed up for credentials.

              The move also comes at a huge financial cost, both for Obama's campaign and news organizations covering the convention. Setting up in two venues doubled the cost for most news outlets.

              Did Obama's iPad Just Get Hacked?

              By Chris Taylor | Mashable – 23 hrs ago

              In case you missed it, a hacker group called AntiSec announced Tuesday it had grabbed the identifying numbers of 12 million iPhones and iPads -- and to prove it, released a million of those IDs to the public.

              [More from Mashable: Apple Sends Out Invitations for iPhone 5 Event]

              Now it seems the hackers may have nabbed the most high-profile prize of all -- the unique string of code used to identify President Obama's iPad. (Call it the First Tablet.)

              The suspected Obama ID, first spotted by the blog RazorianFly, has not been confirmed by the White House. But it would make sense, since the hack allegedly came from a government laptop -- specifically that of FBI Special Agent Christopher K. Stangl, a supervisor in the FBI's Regional Cyber Action Team.

              [More from Mashable: Cruxskunk Keyboard Case Turns Your iPad Into a Laptop]

              SEE ALSO: How to Check If Your Apple Device ID was Compromised

              The ID in question, listed with the President's name on the anonymous data-dump website Paste HTML, is for an iOS device called "hobamain." That certainly sounds like a plausible name -- "Obama" mashed up with "main," and beginning with the President's middle initial.

              Obama is a big Apple fan, regularly pictured with his Macbook laptop -- which he used last week to do a Q&A on Reddit -- and he received an early model of the original iPad from Steve Jobs in 2010.

              Why a local FBI agent would have the President's iPad UDID -- let alone that of 12 million other Apple users -- isn't yet known. But it likely has something to do with the National Cyber Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA), a nonprofit that allows large companies and government agencies to share cybersecurity information, and collaborates closely with the local FBI office.

              Image courtesy of the White House, Pete Souza

              This story originally published on Mashable here.

              For Mormon Democrats, a new kind of mission field

              Political Reporter

              The Ticket – 2 hrs 17 mins ago

              CHARLOTTE -- Mormon Democrats attending their party convention this year have a simple message they want to share with the world: We exist!

              Crammed shoulder to shoulder inside a Holiday Inn conference room, members of the fledgling Mormon caucus, LDS Democrats, held its first national meeting here on Tuesday, chatting about the future of the party over plates of fruit, cheese and crackers. Sheltered from the pouring rain outside, a few hundred attendees--not all Mormons--met to provide each other with moral support and to remind each other that yes, there are other Mormon Democrats.

              In fact, there are more than you might think. The caucus, the largest in the Utah Democratic Party, estimates there are more than one million Democratic church members nationwide. State exit polls suggest that about eight percent of Mormons in Utah vote Democrats.
              "We are not small!" shouted Crystal Young-Otterstrom, chairwoman of the LDS Dems Caucus before introducing the gathering's guest of honor, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

              The national group formed last October, and this meeting of about 200 people at the Democratic National Convention provided an opportunity to gather on the national scale for the first time.

              The caucus finds unity around economic issues, with a focus primarily on government assistance for the poor. There is little talk of social issues like gay marriage and abortion within the caucus, Young-Otterstrom said.

              "They don't have to agree with everything, we're a big tent. We can embrace all positions," she said, and paused. "All social positions I should say. We're such a minority within our own religion that we often feel alone. We all know what it's like to squirm in Sunday School when there's the crazy tea party guy spouting off about government control."

              After a prayer and singing of the hymn, "Have I done any good in the world today?" Reid walked toward the lectern in front of the room. As the highest-ranking Mormon politician, Reid was on hand to deliver an address of encouragement, telling the group to continue working to change the notion that Mormons are less politically homogenous than at first glance.

              "For 30 years I've been trying to change that perception," Reid said. "Don't be afraid of what your neighbors think if you know you're headed in the right direction."

              He was speaking to the choir, but Reid implored the group to vote for President Barack Obama, taking special care to assure them that he has "never, ever heard him swear an oath to anybody or about anybody," and that "he's not a foul-mouthed man."

               
               
               

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