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Barack Obama Official Democratic Party Nominee
Dems choose Obama; Clinton joins in acclamation Barack Obama, standing where no black has ever stood before, swept to the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday as thousands of national convention delegates cheered his improbable triumph. Former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton asked the convention delegates to make it unanimous, the culmination of a painstaking agreement worked out between the two camps to present a unified front.
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(Bill) Clinton: 'Obama is ready to be president'
7 minutes ago · Former President Clinton, setting aside his own criticism during wife's primary fight, delivers a full-throated endorsement of Barack Obama following his historic nomination.
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Vet leaves message for Obama aide
13 minutes ago · OUTSIDE PEPSI CENTER -- The group of antiwar Iraq veterans who marched to the edge of the Pepsi Center perimeter has turned around to move "to a better strategic location," one of the veterans told the men and women standing on Aurora Parkway. Former Marine Lance Cpl. Jeff Key has continued contact with the campaign of Barack Obama, seeking to read the demands of Iraq Veterans Against the War in person to either the candidate or a direct representative. Key left a message for Obama's veter
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Obama's Acceptance Speech to stress change
1 hour ago · DENVER (AP) -- Barack Obama will accept his party's presidential nomination by laying out a case for sweeping political change and illustrating the choice voters face between his candidacy and that of Republican John McCain, a top adviser said Wednesday. Previewing Obama's convention speech for reporters, senior strategist David Axelrod said the Illinois senator had substantially finished the text but would probably continue to edit it right up until he delivers it Thursday night. Obama bega
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Prosecutors seek to slash Abramoff prison term
1 hour ago · WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department on Wednesday recommended a dramatic reduction in the prison sentence of imprisoned lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who became the key witness against lawmakers and congressional aides he spent years corrupting. Prosecutors asked federal judges in Washington and Florida to shave years of prison time of his sentence, citing his work in an FBI investigation that sent numerous powerful people to prison and contributed to the Republican Party's loss of Congress. "It
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OSHA: Boy injured at construction site was 13 (child labor outlawed 1938)
1 hour ago · Kris Kirschner/Eyewitness News Greenwood - A forklift accident two weeks ago claimed the life of a Greenwood construction worker. His teenage son was also on the site, and was also injured. Now OSHA officials may be looking into more violations. As the new Value Place hotel takes shape in Greenwood, so too are state officials making progress on their investigation into an accident on the site two weeks ago. Three tile workers were coming off the fourth floor into an aerial basket when,
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Court rules in favor of unions (won another round in their 14-year legal battle)
2 hours ago · CARSON CITY, CA Culinary and bartenders unions have won another round in their 14-year legal battle with former owners of the Sahara and Hacienda hotel-casinos in Las Vegas. But there's still no final decision in the case. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the National Labor Relations Board to reconsider its decision to let former hotel-casino owners Paul and Sue Lowden stop collecting union dues from employees after a contract expired. Richard McCracken, the Las Vegas attorney
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Louisiana eyes Gustav, activates Guard troops (New Orleans considering evacuation)
2 hours ago · NEW ORLEANS—On the eve of Hurricane Katrina's third anniversary, a nervous New Orleans watched Wednesday as another storm threatened to test everything the city has rebuilt, and officials made preliminary plans to evacuate people, pets and hospitals in an attempt to avoid a Katrina-style chaos. Forecasters warned that Gustav could grow into a dangerous Category 3 hurricane in the next several days and hit somewhere along a swath of the Gulf Coast from the Florida Panhandle to Texas—with New O
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Police confirm Denver officer on shoving tape
2 hours ago · It was a Denver police officer who was videotaped shoving a Code Pink protester to the ground with his baton on Tuesday, police confirmed today. Denver police spokesman John White would not reveal the name of the officer but did say he is with the Denver Police Department. The officer is accused of manhandling Alicia Forrest to the ground on Tuesday morning as she tried to question the officer. The incident happened as police were trying to gain control after a man was denouncing homosex
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US, Russia anchor military ships in Georgian ports
3 hours ago · BATUMI, Georgia - A U.S. military ship loaded with aid docked at a southern Georgian port Wednesday, and Russia sent three missile boats to another Georgian port as the standoff escalated over a nation devastated by war with Russia. Georgia's government said its short war with Russia had caused $1 billion in damages, while European leaders called the Kremlin's moves in two breakaway Georgian regions an unacceptable attempt to unilaterally redraw the map of the Caucasus region. The dockings
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Fed, ECB plan to take foreign collateral - paper (Fed to use Euro for lending)
3 hours ago · BERLIN, Aug 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank are planning to change collateral rules to allow commercial banks to use foreign currency collateral, the Financial Times Deutschland reported late on Wednesday. The FTD cited "information from financial circles" as saying that the Fed and ECB were considering setting up a formal arrangement that would allow banks to use euro-denominated collateral to borrow dollars from the Fed and vice versa. The FTD said i
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Aug 27 · They are kept from the entrance by fences and concrete barriers, but the marchers have arrived, and the police are there and mean business. I saw one heavy armored vehicle and there are police wearing body armor and carrying batons, plastic handcuffs and pepper spray guns. I took many pictures, but Elad and I are going to go ahead and go on to the DU meet-up. It seems pretty clear that there will be at least some arrests outside the Pepsi Center. I am struck by how young most of the marcher
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Aug 27 · Wexler speaking right now, but Elad and I are going to head out from the blogger's Big Tent to go in search of the protest march. Wish us luck... GOBAMA!
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Aug 27 · C'mon DU! You can do it! Please kick and recommend this thread so more DUers will see it. Thanks.
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Aug 27 · The screams of "AYE!" when the chair called for the voice vote were deafening. The floor is now a mess of dancing, applauding people. I'm quite pleased that they let my home state get in the second-to-the-last word so that our delegates could give the litany of Dem pols and notables on national TV. What the delegate giving the speech said is true-- New Mexico WILL go blue in 2008 and it WILL be because of our Hispanic and Native American votes.
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Aug 27 · was electric. The place went crazy. It's been so loud and crazy in here all day, and when Hillary took the microphone and started speaking, everyone got hushed. When she started the motion to nominate Obama, the whole place cheered and screamed. When Nancy Pelosi asked if there were any seconds to the motion, the whole place screamed, "YES!" even though we're blocks away from the Pepsi Center! When Pelosi asked for the "AYES", the entire place shouted with the convention-goers. It was
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Aug 27 · MY home state, New Mexico, yielded the floor to Illinois, which yielded the floor to New York. They're letting HILLARY cast the votes! HUGE ovation... Smart, smart lady... that albatross is NOT gonna hang around her neck if she can do anything about it. She's asking for the suspension of the rules and selection by acclamation! GREAT political theater. The Blogger's Dungeon erupts with applause. The ovations on the floor are just going on and on.
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Aug 27 · The nomination roll call of states is playing live here in the Blg Tent. Everyone has just erupted in applause as Hillary called for the suspention of the rules casting of all votes for Barack Obama. Some began chanting "OBAMA! OBAMA!" Sen. Clinton is on the floor with the New York state delegation. "Barack Obama will be our president!" "Suspend the procedural rules." The Big Tent erupted in applause several times and now Pelosi has announced that Sen. Obama has accepted the nomination. My under
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Aug 27 · I make it to the Bloggers' Dungeon at the Pepsi Center just as the Roll Call is gearing up. My home state, New Mexico, will be casting its vote soon. Everyone is obsessively focused on the screens showing the delegates casting their votes, here. So far, the unity has been simply amazing and thrilling. Everyone is waiting for New York to vote... I think New York is gonna come through for us. More in a minute... I have stories to tell, but I'm gettin' too keyed up to type!
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Aug 27 · She praised all the work that bloggers have done, and called us "revolutionary agents of change." The remarks were short but it was great of her to take the time to encourage bloggers to keep on keepin' on.
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Aug 27 · to applause from all the bloggers, and is now getting a lesson in blogging. "Don't do it, governor, you'll get sucked in!" I exclaimed. Everyone laughed. They thought I was kidding. :-) There is a nice sense of comaraderie here in the tent, and I have settled in here for the afternoon to get my pictures posted. They are forthcoming. Then it is off with Elad and hopefully Ava to the DU meet-up. Kudos to HawkeyeX for setting this up. On a not particularly significant note, my mother cal
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Aug 27 · The announcement says that he is doing a "live blog" from the Big Tent. I'm not sure where it is being posted, so keep your eyes peeled. He generated quite a lot of interest from the bloggers here at the Big Tent. Today the heat is a little less oppressing, and I hear it's only supposed to get into the low 80's, which is a huge relief after yesterday. However, the weather report says that tomorrow is supposed to be hot again. Hissyspit and I saw a lot of cool lightning off to the nort
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Aug 27 · We spent the morning wandering around downtown Denver and taking in some of the abundant street theater on tap during the Convention: Pile O' Cops In spite of a reported 106 arrests yesterday, the abundant law enforcement around seems to have time on their hands for practicing the famous "Pile O' Cops" tableau. I strongly suspect that of the 106 people arrested yesterday, somewhere upwards of ninety were let go immediately. Cops just love paperwork, yanno. 16th Street Mall This ple
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