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Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords led the Pledge of Allegiance at the DNC Convention on Thursday. She received the longest sustained applause of any nonspeaker at either party's convention. The emotional moment moved many convention delegates to tears. Go Gabby!
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North Carolina native son and five-time Grammy Award winner James Taylor opened the evening with crowd favorite “Carolina On My Mind.” As he took the stage, Taylor joked about the stool set on the stage for him. James Taylor makes 'empty chair' joke – POLITICO:
“I know it’s an empty chair. It makes you nervous, doesn’t it?” Taylor said after he walked on the stage. “It’s alright, I’m gonna sit on it. I’m not gonna talk to it.”
After the final refrain, Taylor smiled and said, “You know, I’ve been watching the coverage, and I’ve got to say, there’s something; I don’t get it. I mean, I’m an old white guy, and I love Barack Obama,” Taylor said to cheers from the crowd.
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In advance of President Obama's convention speech tonight, the Obama campaign unveiled a web video this morning called "Promises
Kept." It features promises from his acceptance speech four years ago, highlighting
Obama's follow-through.
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Cristina Saralegui, the Latina Oprah, was introduced by a DREAMER, Benita Veliz from San Antonio, Texas, an honor student and valdectorian of her high school class at the age of 16, and a college graduate at the age of 20.
Cristina Saralegui's talk show had 100 million viewers in 40 countries. She addressed the need for comprehensive immigration reform, and passage of the DREAM Act. She has never endorsed a political candidate in the past, but she has endorsed President Barack Obama for his efforts towards immigration reform.
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The "Big Dog" delivered a virtuoso performance on Wednesday night. President Bill Clinton was the Fact-Checker-In-Chief, point-by-point debunking the GOPropaganda "big lies" upon which the "Galt – Gekko 2012" campaign is built, as well as the fallacy of the disproved and discredited faith based supply-side "trickle down" GOP economics.
Bill Clinton was both professor, explaining how policies work in clearly understandable terms, and prosecutor, sorting through the weight of the evidence and making his closing argument to the jury. He wielded folksy humor and mockery like a stilleto knife. By the time Clinton finished, the "Galt – Gekko 2012" campaign and the GOP were decimated in the dust.
This was a tutorial to Democrats — and the feckless media villagers — on how to respond to the Big Lie GOPropaganda campaign. Bill Clinton's speech will be studied in political science classes for years to come.
There is a wealth of material that can be used from Bill Clinton's speech. You can expect to see clips from this speech used in 30 second and one minute ads in the near future. Here are some of the highlights. DNC 2012: Bill Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention (Full transcript):
Philosophy of Governance
Now, folks, in Tampa a few days ago, we heard a lot of talk all about how the president and the Democrats don’t really believe in free enterprise and individual initiative, how we want everybody to be dependent on the government, how bad we are for the economy. This Republican narrative, this alternative universe says that every one of us in this room who amounts to anything, we’re all completely self-made. One of the greatest chairmen the Democratic Party ever had, Bob Strauss, used to say that every politician wants every voter to believe he was born in a log cabin he built himself. But, as Strauss then admitted, it ain’t so.
We Democrats, we think the country works better with a strong middle class, with real opportunities for poor folks to work their way into it, with a relentless focus on the future, with business and government actually working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. You see, we believe that “We’re all in this together” is a far better philosophy than “You’re on your own.”
So who’s right? Well, since 1961, for 52 years now, the Republicans have held the White House 28 years, the Democrats 24. In those 52 years, our private economy has produced 66 million private- sector jobs. So what’s the job score? Republicans: twenty-four million. Democrats: forty-two. [See Democratic presidents are better for job creation.]