Michelle Obama did her part to jump start the Democratic National Convention this week and gave a speech on why she loved the United States and the people that live in it. The wife of Senator Barack Obama has finally revealed that she does indeed love this country. This came after her husband became one of the candidates for presidency.
Barack Obama and John McCain will be holding three presidential debates and at least one vice presidential debate in the fall. This week they decided on the outlined formats, locations, and the dates that they would meet on.
The first debate will be September 26th at the University of Mississippi and will be on the foreign policy and national security. Both parties will answer questions given to them by Jim Lehrer - the moderator. On Oct. 7, the two will meet again for a town-hall style debate at Belmont University. Moderator Tom Brokaw will call on audience members and pose questions submitted through the Internet.
Hillary Rodham Clinton has been chosen to be placed in the nomination at the convention in Denver. The Democrats nominated the senator with a roll call for the rival of nominee Barack Obama.
The party will officially nominate Obama at the convention. But Democrats familiar with the discussions say the former rivals made a joint decision to place Clinton’s name in nomination and do a traditional role call of the state delegations.
John Edwards’ career was on a high rise when he became Senator Vice presidential nominee. However, things began to spiral downward after he admitted over the weekend that he had an affair outside his marriage. His reputation was shot in the two seconds that it took him to confess.