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Michelle Obama introduces Barack to America

It was a speech about family, about humble beginnings and about Barack Obama. As the first night of the Democratic National Convention kicked off, a long list of speakers touted Obama as American, as middle-class, as a guy just like you.

The Democrats’ Big Tent

The Big Tent is a two-story temporary structure located in Denver’s sleek Lo-Do District about ten blocks north — and a couple of degrees to the ideological left — of the Pepsi Center where the Democratic National Convention opened on Monday evening. The crowd here is slightly younger and hipper, than the delegates and volunteers and TV crews now swarming the klieg-lit arena.

Ted Kennedy: ‘For me, this is a season of hope’

Sen. Teddy Kennedy entered an elated stadium and extended a message that, “It is so wonderful to be here, and nothing — nothing — is going to keep me away form this gathering tonight.”

Republican family values

People who live in seven to ten glass houses …

AP: Obama picks Biden as veep

AP is reporting that Sen. Barack Obama will announce on Saturday morning that Delaware Sen. Joe Biden will join him on the Democratic presidential ticket, according to an anonymous source within the campaign.

My crystal ball on Obama’s VP pick

Based not at all on politics nor inside information nor gut instinct, just a simple examination of a few tea leaves, here’s my crystal ball on Obama’s pick for VP.

Colorado Dems in the spotlight

Just as Denver has gained the spotlight in recent months with the Democratic National Convention coming to town and Colorado has a new status as a toss-up, the state’s elected officials are being thrust into a the national view.
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