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We finally got a glimpse last night of Michelle Obama, The Actress, and exactly how far she will go to pretend to be something she’s not in order to get into the White House. I mused yesterday that Obama’s speech could in no way eclipse the rank absurdity of Teresa Heinz-Kerry’s Ode to Herself four years ago. But I was wrong. In her widely panned speech, at least Mrs. Kerry respected everyone enough to be honest with us about herself. Michelle Obama, on the other hand, simply was not. Her comments last night in no way, in any small part,...

AgapePress) - A black conservative running for Congress in Wisconsin says his potential opponent this fall is the "poster child" for the homosexual rights movement. Democratic Congresswomen Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin made a major speech from the podium of the FleetCenter in Boston during last week's Democratic National Convention. Baldwin, the second speaker on Monday, is a prominent lesbian and a strong advocate for homosexual rights. One of Baldwin's possible Republican opponents this fall is Ron Greer, a former fireman in the Badger State. In order to face the Democratic incumbent for Wisconsin's 2nd District House seat, Greer must win...

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RUSH: I'll share with you some of the notes I took during the speeches because everybody loves those. Everybody wants my notes. You know, people say, "I wish I could sit there and watch one of these things with you. That would really be fun." It might not have been fun last night, folks, because it was basically taking notes. I'll share them with you in a moment, but first this kind of analysis I just finished could be done on charge after charge made by Clinton. For example, false claims that we're cutting funding for veterans. We're not cutting...

BOSTON (AP) A federal judge took under advisement a lawsuit filed by two civil rights groups hoping to stop the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority from inspecting passengers' bags.

John Kerry and John Edwards want to bring you a stronger America. It says so on their signs and the slogan flickers across the thin, ticker-tape video screens that ring the Fleet Center, repeating over and over and over. To that end, they've decided to open their convention with the two biggest losers in the recent history of the Democratic party: Al Gore and Jimmy Carter. Introduced by Bill Richardson, Al Gore emerges to a warm, if not thunderous ovation. By way of introduction, Richardson notes that Gore was the choice of more Americans in the last election. That seems...

Boston, Mass — The union members here seem like liberals. The feminists seem like liberals. The black and Hispanic activists seem like liberals. But appearances can be deceiving, or so the Democrats hope to convince the public at their convention this week: "Liberals? What liberals? Nobody here but war-on-terror stalwarts and cultural conservatives." It must be particularly galling to committed liberals that some time in the past 30 years the natural word to describe them — "liberal" — became a political embarrassment, so much so that Republicans gleefully hurl it as an epithet, Democrats avoid it if they can, and...

Clinton Lets Others Fret Her Hour OnstageBy RAYMOND HERNANDEZPublished: July 15, 2004 ASHINGTON, July 14 - Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Wednesday that she was not upset that Democratic Party leaders had not given her a speaking role at the Democratic National Convention in Boston later this month.During an appearance on a radio show in Binghamton, N.Y., Mrs. Clinton laughed when asked if she was disappointed about not being included in the lineup of convention speakers."No," she said, "I've had many opportunities in the past."At the same time, however, several of her supporters spent the day negotiating with convention...

Bill and Teddy Will Be Heavyweight Opening Acts for Kerry - Hollywood contingency will be strong at Democratic Convention By Maria L. La Ganga, Times Staff Writer BOSTON — Former President Clinton will get the coveted primetime speaking slot on opening day of the Democratic convention here, while hometown favorite Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will speak during primetime on Day 2. Ben Affleck, Sean Astin, Larry David and two Baldwin brothers, Billy and Alec, are set to headline a sizeable Hollywood cast that also will be on hand, helping John F. Kerry accept his party's nomination for president next month....

A federal judge has cleared the way for the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association to picket all FleetCenter entrances starting Tuesday morning, meaning construction workers charged with readying the arena for next month's Democratic National Convention will have to make their way past lines of police officers. The ruling was a victory for the police union, which sued for the right to assemble on FleetCenter property after demonstrating patrolmen were turned away from the city's convention contract-signing ceremony at the arena in late 2002. It comes at a particularly sensitive time for the city as it tries to calm labor disputes...