The first full day of activities at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday included the official nomination of Mitt Romney for president and speeches from dignitaries including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Romney's wife Ann. The Huffington Post is providing live updates from the convention. Here are the happenings from Tampa that hit closer to home.
Catching up with familiar faces: WBAL Radio's Scott Wykoff shows you the view from the Maryland delegation's seats at the Tampa Bay Times Forum. The Baltimore Sun reports that both former Gov. Robert Ehrlich and current Gov. Martin O'Malley (chair of the Democratic Governors Association) are working crowds and talking to journalists and supporters. Also working the interview circuit: U.S. Senate candidate Dan Bongino, according to the Sun piece.
Spotlight on fiscal discipline: The Capital News Service reports (via Maryland Reporter) on what Tea Party supporters from Maryland hope to get out of Tampa.
Patched in: Our Patch colleagues in Tampa are also covering local angles in Tampa. Despite the thousands of delegates, politicians and media in town, downtown Tampa businesses . The traffic on the roads has been less than expected, too, . Check out more on this New Tampa Patch topic page.
"AUDIENCE MEMBER: Thank you very much. And quite frankly, good afternoon, President Obama. I’m deeply honored to be in this forum and so grateful for CNBC for making the forum available so you can speak to American citizens just like myself. I’m a chief financial officer for a veterans service organization and that’s here in Washington. I’m also a mother, I’m a wife, I’m an American veteran, and I’m one of your middle-class Americans. Quite frankly, I’m exhausted. Exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the man for change I voted for, and deeply disappointed with where we are right now. I’ve been told that I voted for a man who said he was going to change things in a meaningful way for the middle class. I’m one of those people and I’m waiting, sir, I’m waiting. I don’t feel it yet. While I thought it wouldn’t be a great measure, I would feel it in some small measure. I have two children in private school, and the financial recession has taken an enormous toll on my family. My husband and I joked that we thought we were well beyond the hot dogs and beans era of our lives. And quite frankly, it’s starting to knock on our door and ring through that that might be where we’re headed. And quite frankly, Mr. President, I need you to answer honestly, is this my new reality?" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/20/obama-on-cnbc_n_731917.html
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Barack Obama in his book ” The Audacity of Hope”
http://egypt.usembassy.gov/pr091112.html U.S. Embassy Condemns Religious Incitement September 11, 2012 The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans are honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fitting response to the enemies of democracy. Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others It is becoming quite clear whose side the Islamist Obama is on.
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President uses pious expressions with Muslims" "Several statements by Barack Obama in recent years point to his Muslim childhood. (1) Robert Gibbs, campaign communications director for President Obama’s first presidential race, asserted in January 2007: “Sen. Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian who attends the United Church of Christ in Chicago.” But he backtracked in March 2007, asserting that Mr. Obama “has never been a practicing Muslim.” By focusing on the practice as a child, the campaign is raising a nonissue, for Muslims (like Jews) do not consider practice central to religious identity. Mr. Gibbs added, according to a paraphrase by Paul Watson of the Los Angeles Times, that “as a child, Obama had spent time in the neighborhood’s Islamic center.” Clearly, “the neighborhood’s Islamic center” is a euphemism for a mosque. Spending time there again points to Mr. Obama’s being a Muslim."
God is the greatest. I testify that there is no deity but God. I testify that Muhammad is the messenger of God. Come to prayer. Come to success. God is the greatest. There is no deity except God. In the eyes of Muslims, reciting the adhan in class in 1970 made Mr. Obama a Muslim then — and doing so again for a journalist in 2007 once again made Mr. Obama a Muslim."
(4) When addressing Muslim audiences, Mr. Obama uses specific Muslim phrases that recall his Muslim identity. He addressed audiences in Cairo (in June 2009) and Jakarta (in Nov. 2010) with “as-salamu alaykum,” a greeting that he, who went to Koran class, knows is reserved for one Muslim addressing another. In Cairo, he also deployed several other pious terms that signal to Muslims that he is one of them: “The Holy Koran” (a term mentioned five times): an exact translation from the standard Arabic reference to the Islamic scripture, al-Qur’an al-Karim. “The right path”: a translation of the Arabic “as-sirat al-mustaqim,” along which Muslims ask God to guide them each time they pray. “I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed”: Non-Muslims do not refer to Islam as “revealed.” “The story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus and Muhammad joined in prayer”: This Koranic tale of a night journey establishes the leadership of Muhammad over all other holy figures, including Jesus."
Mr. Obama’s saying “Peace be upon them” has other implications beyond being a purely Islamic turn of phrase never employed by Arabic-speaking Jews and Christians. First, it contradicts what a self-professed Christian believes because it implies that Jesus, like Moses and Muhammad, is dead. Christian theology holds him to have been resurrected, to be living and the immortal Son of God. Second, including Muhammad in this blessing implies reverence for him, something as outlandish as a Jew talking about Jesus Christ. Third, a Christian would more naturally seek peace from Jesus than wish peace on him." http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/11/obama-my-muslim-faith/?page=1
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/120613/obama-defend-economic-recovery-ohio-speech
The same kind that visited strip clubs and drank alcohol before they flew airplanes into the WTC and the Pentagon.
That's pretty cool. Illiterate in not only one but two languages. "Grain of Peas"???
It is all they have, they must make fun or call names or make you sound like the crazy person because they have no facts to back them up. Look, truly we have not held this President to the same standard as others, if there is a supposed issue with a birth certificate, it is an easy fix by revealing it, yet the President battle this in court for years before revealing what many experts throughout the world have claimed to be a forgery, he has sealed his college transcripts, yet everyone was in a huff when Bush wouldn't release his, he is said to have gone to college as a foreign exchange student, but why?(this could be solved by releasing college records) if he was a citizen he wouldn't need to do this...few if any of his supposed college friends remember him being in school...he has waffled on his religion (not to mention his admin apologized to the muslims, for offending them, after they murdered the US Ambassador and three of his staff) my point is this, some of these are just basic ideas around which every other president has been checked and re-checked, yet we don't demand the same? if this was one or two issues then we could argue it is just some people looking to cause problems, but it is a host of odd occurrences that surround the man and where there is smoke typically there is fire....all I am saying is honestly vet the man as we would any other person running for the office of president, if he is truly qualified then what does he have to hide?
"Experts" What "experts"??? This horse is so dead they could even get the Teabaggers to buy tickets to that idiot Sheriff Joe's Birtherfest 2012. http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/birtherpalooza_canceled.php
“OSC concluded that Secretary Sebelius violated the Hatch Act when she made extemporaneous partisan remarks in a speech delivered in her official capacity on February 25, 2012,” the office said in its report. The Hatch Act prohibits federal employees from trying to influence the outcome of an election while using their official authority or using their official title or when speaking about agency business. The OSC reports: “After the event, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reclassified the trip from official to political and issued a statement to that effect. Secretary Sebelius and HHS reimbursed the U.S. Treasury for all costs and expenses associated with her travel to the event. OSC found no evidence that Secretary Sebelius made any other political statements in her official capacity.” The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is an independent federal investigative and prosecutorial agency."
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