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PRESIDENT OBAMA MAKES THE CASE FOR
RE-ELECTION AT DNC IN CHARLOTTE
THE AMERICAS: UNITED STATES
Jared Loggins
Associate World and Local Editor
Jared .loggins @ yahoo .com
“Were moving forward,”
President Barack Obama emphati
cally said before a packed arena at
the Time Warner Cable Center on
day three of the Democratic Na
tional Convention.
President Obama made the case for
his re-election touting his eco
nomic record, foreign policy and
his efforts to grow the middle class.
He pointedly made the case to the
American people and his Demo
cratic base for allowing him to
occupy the Oval Office for another
four years.
“I wont pretend the path I’m of
fering is quick or easy,” he stated
drawing heavy applause from those
in the arena. “I never have. 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 decades. It
will require common effort, shared
responsibility...”
The Presidents prepared
remarks on the convention floor
marked the end of a convention
that has featured Democratic
heavyweights like former President
Bill Clinton and rising star in the
Democratic Party Newark Mayor
Cory Booker, both who have made
the case for electing a President
who has promised to keep the
country moving forward.
The President went so far as
to quote former President Clinton’s
imperative a day earlier to the GOP
on their analysis of job numbers
where he urged them to “use basic
arithmetic.”
Former Massachusetts
Governor and Republican Nomi
nee for President Mitt Romney and
his campaign immediately released
a statement following President
Obama’s remarks.
“He offered more promises, but he
hasn’t kept the promises he made
four years ago” Romney’s campaign
manager, Matt Rhoades, said in
a statement to reporters. “Ameri
cans will hold President Obama
accountable for his record - they
know they’re not better off and that
it’s time to change direction.”
In an election that has been driven
by the economy, Friday’s jobs num
bers were played by the Obama
Campaign as signs of a slowly
growing economy though he was
reluctant to talk specific numbers
from the recent report.
“Today we learned that
after losing around 800,000 jobs
a month when I took office, busi
nesses added private-sector jobs for
the 30th month in a row,” Presi
dent Obama told a rally in New
Hampshire on Friday following his
speech at the DNC.
The Romney Campaign
pounced back by arguing that the
numbers are all the more evidence
of a President’s failed economic
policies filled with broken hopes
and promises.
Both campaigns are set to
tour key battleground states ahead
of a series of scheduled debates
beginning on October 3rd between
the two candidates and the Novem
ber 6th election which is almost
two months away.
In key battleground states,
Obama leads Romney among likely
voters 51%-45% in Florida, 50%-
44% in Ohio, according to the poll
by Quinnipiac University, the New
York Times and CBS News. A
new Gallup poll also gives Obama
a 52% Job Approval rating, up +7
points from a few weeks ago.
CHICAGO POLICE GET FEDERAL ASSISTANCE AS DEATH TOLL RISES
Jared Loggins
World and Local Editor
Jared.loggins@yahoo.com
gymen have started a petition that aims to collect
100,000 signatures in support of legislation that would
require all statewide residents to register their weap-
▼ In the wake of shoot-
mgs in Chicago that have
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nounced a plan that aims
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violence in the city which
includes the use of federal agents in high crime areas
of one of the largest cities in America.
The announcement comes as Chicago cler
“Our sons and daughters are dying and being
gunned down,” said a local clergyman. “Rifles, AK-47s
and machine guns should not be in the hands of or
dinary citizens. Nobody needs an assault weapon that
was made for the military.”
U.S. marshals and agents from the FBI, the
Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives will help
target gangs, drugs and guns in areas where violence
has been most high and concentrated.
Despite the recent efforts of Mayor Emanuel
and local community leaders to curb growing vio
lence, many across the city and the nation questioned
the Mayor’s decision to attend the Democratic Na
tional Convention in Charlotte along with 50 Chicago
uniformed cops who served as security for the con
vention.
“I would love to know the logic behind that
decision to send them there given all that is happen
ing here in Chicago,” Rev. Ira Acree reported to ABC
hours after he learned of the development.
While the federal assistance lasts only four
months, Chicago Police Superintendent Garry Mc
Carthy’s insists Mayor Emanuel’s plan isn’t “a short
term solution” and will in fact lead to a safer Chicago.
2012 PRESIDENTIAL
DEBATE SCHEDULE
OCTOBER 3. 2012 OCTOBER 11.2012 OCTOBER 16. 2012
TOPIC: Domestic Policy
AIR TIME: 9:00-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time
LOCATION: University of Denver in
Denver, Colorado
SPONSOR: Commission on Presidential
Debates
PARTICIPANTS: President Barack
Obama & Mitt Romney
MODERATOR: Jim Lehrer
(Host of NewsHour on PBS)
TOPIC: Foreign and Domestic Policy
AIR TIME: 9:00-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time
LOCATION: Centre College
in Danville, Kentucky
SPONSOR: Commission on Presidential
Debates
PARTICIPANTS: Vice President Joe Biden
& Congressman Paul Ryan
MODERATOR: Martha Raddatz (ABC
News Chief Foreign Correspondent)
The debate will focus on domestic
policy and be divided into six time seg
ments of opproximotely 15 minutes
each on topics to be selected by the
moderator and announced several
weeks before the debate. The mod
erator will open each segment with a
question, otter which each candidate
will hove two minutes to respond. The
moderator will use the balance of the
time in the segment for a discussion of
the topic.
TOPIC: Town Meeting;
Foreign and Domestic Policy
AIR TIME: 9:00-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time
LOCATION: Hofstra University in
Hempstead, New York
SPONSOR: Commission on Presidential
Debates
PARTICIPANTS: President Barack
Obama & Mitt Romney
MODERATOR: Candy Crowley (CNN
Chief Political Correspondent)
The debate will cover both foreign and
domestic topics and be divided into
nine time segments of opproximotely
10 minutes each. The moderator will
ask on opening question, after which
each candidate will hove two minutes
to respond. The moderator will use the
balance of the time in the segment for
a discussion of the question.
The second presidential debate will
take the form of a town meeting, in
which citizens will ask questions of fhe
candidates on foreign and domestic
issues. Candidates each will hove two
minutes to respond, and on additional
minute for the moderator to facilitate
a discussion. The town meeting partici
pants will be undecided voters select
ed by the Gallup Organization.
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