From: Judy Miriga
Folks,
President Obama defended and confirmed his record of achievements giving specifics, the Democrats too laid down details of their progress clearly. President Obama’s struggle to establish foundation for recovery is for all our benefits so we are able to achieve better things with bright future with prospects for progress and growth. Because of his the good results, we have record of history and now we have lessons a path for achievements on forward plan. On stability of economy, President Obama reiterated that the road to recovery is not quick or easy, and that it takes some time; atleast more than a few more years to fix the economic mess he inherited. In fairness, the mess in economic crisis was huge and it will be wrong to expect President Obama to perform a miracle but to help strengthen the economy, we all must support the President on his plans to bring back jobs to America. The old economy is gone, and we must focus on the future to improve it. With determination without faltering and because we are the reason he is fighting for us, we must keep the fire on and push our country forward to finish the foundation work already started.
All speakers at DNC were all fired up………..
Prior to, VP Joe Biden gave a moving speech. Gabrielle Giffords moved many to deep thoughts and tears and with rousing cheers when she led Democrats in sighting Pledge of Allegiance, and I must accept I was captured in the moment.
Most importantly, the President reminded us that we are the change, but if we lose hope, if we stop striving, if we stop pushing, if we stop embracing people because they are not like us, our country stops. We are the engine of this great nation.
In honesty, how logical will it be to hand over the weak economy to the same people who messed it up in the first place? The People must decide……..and the Rich must play in the same set of rules like everybody else and where “everyone must get a fair shot”……People, for unity of purpose, we have work to do as a people……..We must not allow those few rich in wealth to destroy our costly peace and unity……….We need each other and we cannot afford to live in isolation hating one another…….
President Obama being the first Black American President, it is just honorable that we support his second term in office by giving him all the votes he need to win. It is not a favor but he earned it, and because of that, he should be rewarded. He has done us proud by working hard and sacrificing doing most of what he promised voters in his 2008 campaign……he is honest and can be trusted; for that we all love him and look forward to better things ahead under his leadership………..The best we can do, and irrespective of Party affilliation, we should vote responsible leaders committed to serving the people so in a bi-partisan way, and although with differences of ideas, things can be done and we all move forward in harmony and at peace with each other……..
Cheers everybody…..!!!
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
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President Barack Obama Full DNC Acceptance Speech 2012
Published on Sep 6, 2012 by mncance9843
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THANK YOU PRESIDENT OBAMA! Thank you for keeping the democratic party classy and with values NORMAL PEOPLE have. Thank you for reminding me why I voted for you in 2008 and I will be doing it again in? 2012. THANK YOU FOR BEING MY PRESIDENT. Thank you.
redheadedvegan8 minutes ago
Joe Mahoney … I’m 32 years old, a business banker and I voted for George W twice. This will be the second time I will vote for Obama. I won’t? try to explain why I changed my thinking as it will be a waste of my time and energy as you are the type of American who doesn’t want to listen and digest new ideas.
Ian Harris25 minutes ago 11
Obama: ‘America, our problems can be solved’
By Olivier Knox, Yahoo! News
White House CorrespondenThe Ticket – 5 hrs ago
President Barack Obama, transformed from inspiring hope-and-change candidate into struggling stay-the-course incumbent, promised Americans wary of giving him another term that “our problems can be solved” if only voters will grant him four more years.
“Know this, America: Our problems can be solved,” he told thousands of delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. “Our challenges can be met. The path we offer may be harder, but it leads to a better place. And I’m asking you to choose that future.”
His appeal aimed to build on a rousing speech from Michelle Obama and former president Bill Clinton. The first lady assured disenchanted voters who backed her husband in 2008 but are wary or wavering today that four years of political knife fights and hard compromises had not stripped her husband of his moral core. And Clinton cast the current president as the heir to the policies that charged the economy of the 1990s and yielded government surpluses.
“I won’t pretend the path I’m offering is quick or easy. I never have,” Obama told the cheering crowd in the Time Warner Cable Arena and a television audience expected to number in the tens of millions. “You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth. And the truth is, it will take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up over a decade.”
Obama’s main vulnerability is the still-sputtering economy with a stubbornly high unemployment rate at 8.3 percent nearly four years after he took office vowing to restore it to health. In Charlotte, he ridiculed the Republican approach championed by Mitt Romney.
“All they have to offer is the same prescriptions they’ve had for the last thirty years: Have a surplus? Try a tax cut. Deficit too high? Try another. Feel a cold coming on? Take two tax cuts, roll back some regulations, and call us in the morning!” he said, to laughter and cheers from the crowd.
And it was with ridicule, too, that he portrayed Romney and vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan as heirs to George W. Bush’s foreign policy, and unfit to manage America’s relations with the world.
“My opponent and his running mate are new to foreign policy, but from all that we’ve seen and heard, they want to take us back to an era of blustering and blundering that cost America so dearly,” he said.
“After all, you don’t call Russia our number one enemy—not al Qaeda, Russia—unless you’re still stuck in a Cold War mind warp, he said. “You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can’t visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally. My opponent said it was “tragic” to end the war in Iraq, and he won’t tell us how he’ll end the war in Afghanistan. I have, and I will.” (In fact, Romney has supported an Obama-endorsed, NATO-approved timetable to withdraw the alliance’s combat troops by the end of 2014.)
The speech reflected Obama’s drive to convince voters to see the election as a choice, and not as a referendum on an embattled incumbent whose job approval ratings are below the 50-percent mark, a traditional danger zone.
“On every issue, the choice you face won’t be just between two candidates or two parties. It will be a choice between two different paths for America. A choice between two fundamentally different visions for the future,” he said.
At the same time, he did not spell out in detail his plans for a second term should he get one–even as he acknowledged that he is not the candidate he was when he pursued his history-making 2008 drive for the White House.
“You know, I recognize that times have changed since I first spoke to this convention. Times have changed—and so have I,” he said. “If you turn away now—if you buy into the cynicism that the change we fought for isn’t possible, well, change will not happen.”
Obama’s speech came after an evening studded with stars, from Hollywood’s Scarlett Johansson, who pressed young voters to register and cast ballots in November, to James Taylor, who quipped: “I’m an old white guy and I love Barack Obama” in between renditions of his folksy classics. And he was preceded onstage by Vice President Joe Biden, who gave a long-form version of this memorable reelection slogan: “Osama Bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive.”
In addition to the economy, the president highlighted his support for access to abortion, and offered his longest remarks on the fight against climate change in recent memory.
“Yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet—because climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They’re a threat to our children’s future. And in this election, you can do something about it.”
Obama had moved his speech from nearby Bank of America Stadium into the Time Warner Cable Arena citing concerns about the weather. Republicans charged he merely feared not being able to fill the 74,000-seat space. Democrats countered that they had more than 65,000 ticket holders.
Gabrielle Giffords leads Democrats in Pledge of Allegiance
By Olivier Knox, Yahoo! News
White House CorrespondenThe Ticket – 9 hrs ago
CHARLOTTE, N.C.—Former Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, grievously wounded in a January 2011 assassination attempt, led Democrats in the Pledge of Allegiance on Thursday as they opened the final day of their political convention.
Giffords walked uneasily onstage, relying on Democratic National Committee Chair—and close friend—Debbie Wasserman Schultz for support, as the crowd chanted “Gabby! Gabby!” Her appearance onstage at Time Warner Cable Arena brought cheering Democrats to their feet for a standing ovation.
As she led the crowd in the pledge in a strong voice, Giffords held her right hand over her heart with her left. She won more cheers when she blew a kiss to the crowd. Cameras showed delegates weeping as they clapped.
Even as the two women disappeared backstage, the crowd began chanting “fired up, ready to go.”
Below are the remarks of Sen. John Kerry as delivered to the Democratic National Convention on September 6, 2012:
Thank you. Thank you. In this — in this campaign we have a fundamental choice. Will we protect our country and our allies? Advance our interests and ideals? Do battle where we must and make peace where we can? Or will we entrust our place in the world to someone who just hasn’t learned the lessons of the last decade? We’ve all learned Mitt Romney doesn’t know much about foreign policy. But he has all these Neo-Con advisers who know all the wrong things about foreign policy. He would rely on them. After all he’s the great out-sourcer. But I say to you this is not the time to outsource the job of commander in chief.
DNC 2012: John Kerry’s speech to the Democratic National Convention (Full text)
Video: Former Presidential candidate and Senator John Kerry spoke at the DNC in Charlotte, N.C. Thursday night.
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Our opponents — our opponents like to talk about American exceptionalism, but all they do is talk. They forget that we’re exceptional, not because we say we are, but because we do exceptional things. We break out of the Great Depression, win two World Wars, save lives fighting AIDS, pull people out of poverty, defend freedom, go to the moon and produce exceptional people who even give their lives for civil rights and for human rights. Despite…
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…and despite — and despite what you heard in Tampa, an exceptional country does care about the rise of the oceans and the future of the planet.
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That — that is a responsibility — that is a responsibility from the Scriptures. And that too is a responsibility of the leader of the free world. The only thing exceptional about today’s Republicans is that almost without exception, they oppose everything that has made America exceptional in the first place. An exceptional nation demands exceptional leadership.
KERRY: It demands the leadership of an exceptional president and, my fellow Americans, that president is Barack Obama.
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Now, just — just measure the disaster and disarray that he inherited. A war of choice in Iraq had become a war without end and a war of necessity in Afghanistan had become a war of neglect.
Our alliances were shredded. Our moral authority was in tatters. America was isolated in the world. Our military was stretched to the breaking point; Iran marching towards a nuclear weapon unchecked and Osama Bin Laden was still plotting.
It took President Obama to make America lead like America again.
(APPLAUSE)
It took President Obama to restore our moral authority. It took President Obama to ban torture. The president understands that our values don’t limit our power. They magnify it.
He showed that global leadership is a strategic imperative for America, not a favor that we do to other countries. And President Obama kept his promises.
He promised to end the war in Iraq and he has. And our heroes have come home. He promised to end the war in Afghanistan responsibly and he is and our heroes are coming home.
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He promised to focus like a laser on al-Qaeda and he has. And our forces have elminated more of its leadership in the last three years than in all the eight years that came before. And…
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And after more than — after more than 10 years without justice for thousands of Americans murdered on 9/11, after Mitt Romney said it would be naive to go into Pakistan to pursue the terrorists, it took President Obama, against the advice of many, to give that order and finally rid this earth of Osama bin Laden.
Glenn Kessler SEP 6
FACT CHECKER | He says more jobs have been created under Democrats than Republicans. Is that correct?
(APPLAUSE)
Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago.
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Barack Obama — Barack Obama promised always to stand with Israel, to tighten sanctions on Iran and take nothing off the table. Again and again the other side has lied about where this president stands and what this president has done.
But Prime Minister Netanyahu set the record straight. He said our two countries have exactly the same policy. Our security cooperation is unprecedented. And when it comes to Israel, my friends, I’ll take the word of Israel’s prime minister over Mitt Romney any day.
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President Obama promised to work with Russia to reduce the threat of nuclear weapons and signed an historic treaty that just does that.
He promised to lock down nuclear materials around the world and he has done just that.
He refused to accept the false choice between force without diplomacy and diplomacy without force. When a brutal dictator promised to hunt down and kill his own people like rats, President Obama enlisted our allies, built the coalition, shared the burden so that today, without a single American casualty, Muammar Gadhafi is gone and the people of Libya are free.
(APPLAUSE)
So on one side — so on one side of this campaign we have a president who has made America lead like America again. And what is there on the other side?
An extreme and expedient candidate who lacks the judgment and the vision so vital to the Oval Office, the most inexperienced foreign policy twosome to run for president and vice president in decades.
You know it isn’t — it isn’t fair. It isn’t fair to say that Mitt Romney doesn’t have a position on Afghanistan. He has every position.
(APPLAUSE)
He — he was against — he was against setting a date for withdrawal. Then he said it was right. And then he left the impression that maybe it was wrong to leave this soon. He said it was tragic to leave Iraq. And then he said it was fine. He said we should have intervened in Libya sooner. Then he ran down a hallway to run away from the reporters who were asking questions. Then he said, the intervention was too aggressive. And then he said the world was a better place because the intervention succeeded. Talk about being for it, before you were against it.
(APPLAUSE) Mr. Romney — Mr. Romney — Mr. Romney, here’s a little advice; before you debate Barack Obama on foreign policy, you’d better finish the debate with yourself.
(APPLAUSE)
Now — President Mitt Romney — President Mitt Romney, three very hypothetical words that mystified and alienated our allies this summer. For Mitt Romney an overseas trip was what you call it when you trip all over yourself overseas.
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You know, it wasn’t — it wasn’t a goodwill mission. It was a blooper reel.
(LAUGHTER)
KERRY: But — but — but a Romney/Ryan foreign policy would be anything but funny. Every president of both parties for 60 years has worked for nuclear arms control, but not Mitt Romney. Republican secretaries of state from Kissinger to Baker, Powell to Rice, President Bush, 71 United States Senators all supported President Obama’s new START treaty, but not Mitt Romney. He’s even blurted out the preposterous notion that Russia is our number one political/geopolitical foe.
FACT CHECKER | He says more jobs have been created under Democrats than Republicans. Is that correct?
Folks, Sara Palin said she could see Russia from Alaska. Mitt — Mitt Romney talks like he’s only seen Russia by watching Rocky IV.
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I — I tell ya, so — so here’s the choice — here’s the choice in 2012; Mitt Romney out of touch at home, out of his depth abroad and out of the mainstream? Or Barack Obama, a president who is giving new life and truth to America’s indispensable role in the world. A commander in chief who gives our troops the tools and training they need and more, the honor and help they have earned when they come home. A man…
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…a man — a man who will never ask other men and women to fight a war without a plan to win the peace.
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And let me say — let me say something else — let me say something else, no nominee for president should ever fail in the midst of a war to pay tribute to our troops overseas in his acceptance speech.
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Mitt Romney — Mitt Romney was talking about America. They are on the front lines every day defending America and they deserve our thanks.
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AUDIENCE USA! USA! USA!
KERRY: Some of us — some of us — some of us from a prior remember coming home was not always easy. President Obama has made it his mission that we welcome our troops home with care and concern and the respect they deserve. That is how an exceptional nation says thank you to its most exceptional men and women.
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Mitt Romney says he believes in America and that he will restore American exceptionalism. I have news for him, we already have an exceptional American as president and we believe in Barack Obama. Thank you and God bless America.