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Some Clinton delegates continued - likely in futility - to press for a roll call vote that would occur during today. Disgruntled Clinton delegates have been steady fare in media coverage of the convention. And a speech by former President Bill Clinton - who's had a difficult time letting go of his wife's loss to Barack Obama - promises to rival the speech given by Obama's running mate, Delaware Sen. Joe Biden. Biden will give the prime-time address, and if history is any guide, he'll tear into GOP nominee-to-be John McCain. Thus far, the prime-time fare has been pretty soft on McCain. Biden's nomination fits into the session's attempt to reassure voters of Democrats' ability to keep the country secure. He chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Bill Clinton's speech will also touch on national security issues, though some media reports said Clinton would have preferred to stress the economy. Regardless, convention-watchers will be scrutinizing his appearance for anything less than a full-throated endorsement of Obama. The session will also feature the official vote awarding Obama the nomination. It's not yet clear what form the vote will take, though the Obama and Clinton camps struck a tentative deal to allow some states to cast votes in a roll call - with a vote by acclamation to try to erase the image of a divided party. With Bill Clinton's departure from the stage and with the nomination officially awarded, the convention, finally, will be focused squarely on Obama. Earlier in the session, a roster of Democratic lawmakers and candidates, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh, will address the delegates.
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Our Hispanic Community Also Needs an Apology for the Continue Abuses from Governmental Agencies.
The House of Representatives of the United States, few weeks ago emitted a historical excuse and without precedents towards our Brother Afro-American Community by the discrimination against them during many years and many decades and that still persist until today.
The efforts to remedy the evils of the past, the present and the future to date and welcome, especially to all those who have suffer this type of racial segregation.
Hopefully, some local legislator or Congress would also offer an apology to our Latin Community who has being suffering from discrimination, the abuse, the segregation, and mainly by the psychology abuse by the agency of Immigration (ICE), throughout this time.
Since discrimination is felt on a daily bases and has been reported throughout the media and has built a perception of criminals for the simple reason of people wanting to work and to have a better life for their families and help this great country to grow.
Hopefully the Senate, the Congress and the White House also consider some Resolution, To offer an apology as they did with our Afro-American Brothers, two weeks ago, since also our Latin Community has been Mistreating Humiliating and applying unjust laws to us, where the treatment given is not the appropriate one, when it comes to “REDADAS.”
We have faith that in the near future, our Hispanic Political Leaders who have being occupying a space in the Congress, the Senate and the White House considers seriously resolving the humiliations that has been created in our community a Psychological Trauma of Persecution, for the fact of being working and mainly to try to help boost the economy to this great nation.
We also know that this can be done with our community, the same way it has it has been done with other communities throughout the past decades and at this moment our Hispanic Community needs to hear an apology for the continue persecution and humiliation of our community so unfairly.
With our unity and respect as always. !Yes We Can!
Julio César Aragón
www.burodeasesorespoliticos.com
Presidente de la Asociación Social, Cultural y Deportiva Mexicana de RI.
julio885@cox.net
1(401)274-1038, 1(401)440-9405
Providence, Rhode Island
16 Pembroke, Ave. 02908
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So, the convention has proceeded from an opening which featured a US Senator nearing the end of his political career espousing socialism to the new view of universal government control from healthcare to drilling. But the latter's policy is devoid of any substance except that the taxes of those earning above $250K should be taxed into oblivion. The Democrats are just offering the same old slogans as the 1930s to the 1970s with one difference. Now they are trying to bring their friends, the illegal aliens, into the voting booth.
We the Public are not fooled!
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So, now Obama and the DNC want to hold the roll call away from the main hall, and stop the vote partially through ... just in case Hillary does well, which might embarrass Obama and the DNC. This is what happens when a candidate and a party manipulate the process, and try to force a candidate down the throats of the constituents. Obama might have trashed the Clintons, and gotten over 90% of the black vote, but in the process America has been thrown under the bus.
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