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DNC 2012: Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx “When this convention ends on Thursday, our work does not”
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DNC 2012: United States Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar “For the first time in more than a decade we import less than half our Oil”
VideoDNC 2012: San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro “America will prevail”
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DNC 2012: TX State Rep. Joaquin Castro introduces keynote speaker San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro
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DNC 2012: Arizonan ACA Beneficiary Stacey Lihn and family “1 in 100 children are born with a congenital heart defect. President Obama is fighting for them”
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DNC 2012: Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley “President Obama is moving America forward, not back”
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DNC 2012: Xavier Univ. Dir. of Veteran Affairs Nate Davis “800,000 vets have gone back to school on the GI Bill. A law Barack Obama championed in the senate and expanded as President”
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DNC 2012: Women’s Rights Activist Lily Ledbetter “If we hadn’t elected President Barack Obama the Supreme Court’s wrongheaded decision would have been the law of the land”
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DNC 2012: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel “That was a change we believed in. That was a change we fought for. That was a change President Obama Delivered!”
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DNC 2012: Former Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Lt. Col. Tammy Duckworth “Barack Obama has also lived up to his responsibilities as Commander in Chief”
Video“…Mom took in sewing, my 55 year old dad kept looking for work, but at 15 years old I was the only with a job. After school, for minimum wage.
Thank god for the food stamps, Pell Grants and public education that helped me finish high school and college.”
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DNC 2012: US Sec. of HHS Kathleen Sebelius “For us Democrats, Obamacare is a badge of honor”
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DNC 2012: Newark Mayor Corey Booker: “We are pleased to move for the adoption of the two thousand and twelve Democratic national platform!”
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Democratic Party Platform is here
DNC 2012: Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick “When the American Dream is on the line, we want Barack Obama in Charge”
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DNC 2012: Actor & Former Assoc Dir. of the White House Office of Public Engagement Kal Penn “Let’s keep fighting for a President who has never stopped fighting for us”
VideoDNC 2012: Former Ohio Governor Ted Strickland “Barack Obama has stood up for us and now, by god, we will stand up for him!”
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Mitt Romney: “If your child gets on the honor roll…congratulate them, don’t say thanks to the bus driver.”
VideoNote: The reason why this is so dick-ish is that I would believe most of us were taught that we sure as hell do thank anyone who does their job to your benefit you whether you pay them, someone else pays them or no one pays them. Especially the driver who gets your kid safely to school day in/day out for years.
“Your world just becomes fantastically complicated when you don’t believe in evolution.”
VideoEmpty Chairs achieve personhood at RNC (also Romney lied some more)
VideoThis Clint Eastwood nonsense was just staggering. The worst piece of convention stagecraft I have seen:
As usual: Romney’s speech was full of lies and empty claims. Besides all that: it followed an old white guy with white hair arguing with a muther f*cking chair!
Of course the response:
This seat’s taken. OFA.BO/c2gbfi, twitter.com/BarackObama/st…
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 31, 2012
Joy Behar: “The left wing of this country has to get out there and vote”
VideoJoy Behar “he talks nicely, but don’t trust this guy”:
Prop 8 got passed in so very liberal California not because of blacks and latinos, but because liberals, progressives, lefties whatever got caught slipping and right wing evangelicals and Mormons took advantage. Period.
The Romney Campaign is based on lies. Period.
VideoThe Obama Administration granted governors the right to apply for waivers to welfare to work current requirements. These waivers don’t take away the responsibility of states to run welfare to work program, they allow states to implement alternatives that would be required to be 20% more effective than regular welfare to work programs or they are cancelled. Period. Republican governors have requested this repeatedly over the years. That means anything Romney has said with regards to welfare is a lie: