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Volum eXXX XI
‘City ()f Roses'
Number 34
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Wednesday • September 5, 2012
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A Divided Nation
Awaits Obama Nomination
Democrats will present their prescription for fixing the sluggish economy
(AP) -- Democrats assembled
Tuesday to re-nom inate Barack
Obama for the presidency, to sell
him as the wise and humane alterna­
tive to Republican challenger Mitt
Romney, a pitch that will be repeated
endlessly over the next two months
to an American electorate that is
more politically divided than at any
time in at least a quarter century.
As they watch the political stage­
craft, there may be only one thing all
Americans can agree on: Deep con­
cern over the struggling American
economy that has made only a halt­
ing recovery from the Great Reces­
sion and near meltdown of the U.S.
financial sector just before Obama
took office 3 1/2 years ago.
Through the course of the Demo­
cratic National Convention this
week, Obama and his party will be
fighting Romney's argument that
the president has failed and will
only lead the country deeper into
debt and economic despair. That
was the Republican theme at their
national convention last week in
Tampa, Florida.
For his part, Obama set the tone
for the Democratic gathering in
Charlotte, North Carolina, declaring
Monday that Romney's governing
prescriptions are something out of
the past century.
"Despite all the challenges that
we face in this new century, we saw
three straight days of an agenda out
of the last century. It was a rerun.
You might as well have watched it
on black-and-white TV," Obama
told an audience of auto workers in
Toledo, Ohio. Obama is making a
slow circuit of campaign stops in
key battleground states before com­ Obama has been and will be arguing that Romney's plans and policies are a reprise o f those employed by George W. Bush.
ing to North Carolina later in the
week to accept his re-nomination.
Later Monday, Obama broke off
the campaign trail to console vic­
tims of Hurricane Isaac along the
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Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year, or even one term.
But, America, 1 have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will
gCt there.
- President Barrack Obama %