Democrats to talk up a wise and humane Obama at convention
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September 5, 2012, Wednesday
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DEMOCRATS bang the opening gavel on their national convention to re-nominate Barack Obama for the presidency, where they will sell him as the wise and humane alternative to Republican challenger Mitt Romney, a pitch they will repeat endlessly to an American electorate that is more politically divided than ever.
As they watch the political stagecraft, there may be only one thing all Americans can agree on: deep concern over the halting economic recovery from the Great Recession and meltdown of the US financial sector that began shortly before Obama took office.
First lady Michelle Obama's speech last night was set to be an early highlight of a three-day schedule that has drawn thousands of delegates to North Carolina.
Popular former President Bill Clinton, whose 1990s presidency is trumpeted by Democrats as the last great period of economic growth, speaks later today.
The first lady previewed her remarks yesterday in a radio interview, indicating she would offer a very personal reminder of "the man that he was before he was president."
"The truth is that he has grown so much, but in terms of his core character and value, that has not been changed at all," Mrs. Obama said.
Through the course of the Democratic gathering, Obama and his party will be fighting Romney's argument that the president has failed and will only lead the US deeper into debt and economic despair. That was the Republican theme at their national convention last week in Tampa, Florida.
For his part, Obama set the tone for the Democratic gathering, declaring on Monday that Romney's governing prescriptions are something out of the past.
"Despite all the challenges that we face in this new century, we saw three straight days of an agenda out of the last century. It was a rerun.
"You might as well have watched it on black-and-white TV," Obama told an audience of auto workers in Toledo, Ohio.
He is hailed by auto unions for saving General Motors and Chrysler Corp. Romney opposed the move, famously writing an editorial headlined òLet Detroit go bankrupt."
The president then made a convention-eve visit to the Hurricane Isaac-flooded coast of Louisiana, where he vowed that government officials would do all possible to aid the thousands who were forced out of their homes by flooding and try to reduce the impact of future storms "to make sure it doesn't happen again."
At times like these, "nobody's a Democrat or a Republican, we're all just Americans looking out for one another," said the president, after inspecting some of the storm damage and hugging its victims.
Romney paid a similar visit last Friday but made no reference at the time to federal aid.
As they watch the political stagecraft, there may be only one thing all Americans can agree on: deep concern over the halting economic recovery from the Great Recession and meltdown of the US financial sector that began shortly before Obama took office.
First lady Michelle Obama's speech last night was set to be an early highlight of a three-day schedule that has drawn thousands of delegates to North Carolina.
Popular former President Bill Clinton, whose 1990s presidency is trumpeted by Democrats as the last great period of economic growth, speaks later today.
The first lady previewed her remarks yesterday in a radio interview, indicating she would offer a very personal reminder of "the man that he was before he was president."
"The truth is that he has grown so much, but in terms of his core character and value, that has not been changed at all," Mrs. Obama said.
Through the course of the Democratic gathering, Obama and his party will be fighting Romney's argument that the president has failed and will only lead the US deeper into debt and economic despair. That was the Republican theme at their national convention last week in Tampa, Florida.
For his part, Obama set the tone for the Democratic gathering, declaring on Monday that Romney's governing prescriptions are something out of the past.
"Despite all the challenges that we face in this new century, we saw three straight days of an agenda out of the last century. It was a rerun.
"You might as well have watched it on black-and-white TV," Obama told an audience of auto workers in Toledo, Ohio.
He is hailed by auto unions for saving General Motors and Chrysler Corp. Romney opposed the move, famously writing an editorial headlined òLet Detroit go bankrupt."
The president then made a convention-eve visit to the Hurricane Isaac-flooded coast of Louisiana, where he vowed that government officials would do all possible to aid the thousands who were forced out of their homes by flooding and try to reduce the impact of future storms "to make sure it doesn't happen again."
At times like these, "nobody's a Democrat or a Republican, we're all just Americans looking out for one another," said the president, after inspecting some of the storm damage and hugging its victims.
Romney paid a similar visit last Friday but made no reference at the time to federal aid.
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