Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) is shown on the monitor as Democratic Presidential Nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) and Vice Presidential Nominee Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) appear onstage at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, August 27, 2008. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)By Meredith Buel
Voice of America
Washington
28 August 2008
Democrats have formally nominated Barack Obama as their presidential candidate. The Illinois senator is the first African-American to be nominated as president by a major U.S. political party.
In a remarkable show of party unity, Obama's one-time opponent, Senator Hillary Clinton, asked delegates here at the convention to suspend a roll call vote of individual states.
"With eyes firmly fixed on the future, in the spirit of unity, with the goal of victory, with faith in our party and our country, let's declare together in one voice right here right now, that Barack Obama is our candidate and he will be our president," said Senator Clinton.
That led to roars of approval inside the packed convention hall, and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi called for the historic vote.
Pelosi: "All in favor to the motion to suspend the rules and nominate by acclamation Barack Obama as the Democratic Party's presidential candidate please say aye.
Delegates: Aye
Pelosi: All those opposed please say no. Two-thirds of the delegates having voted in the affirmative, the motion is adopted."
Delegates then launched a celebration, dancing back and forth in the convention hall to the song "Love Train."
The nomination sets the 47-year-old Obama, the Hawaiian-born son of an American mother and father from Kenya, on a path to face Republican Senator John McCain in the November election for president.
Later, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, who spent months on the campaign trail questioning Obama's qualifications for the presidency, pledged to strongly support the nominee.
"Barack Obama is ready to honor the oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," said teh former president. "Barack Obama is ready to be president of the United States."
Convention delegates also formally nominated Obama's pick for vice-president, Delaware Senator Joe Biden.
Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, slammed the Republican's foreign policy, calling it catastrophic.
"I have been on the ground in Georgia, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and I can tell you in no uncertain terms, this administration's policy has been an abysmal failure," said Senator Biden. "America cannot afford four more years of this failure."
Then Obama capped off his historic night by making an unscheduled appearance at the convention, bringing a roar of approval from the delegates.
On Thursday, the Democrat's choice for president will accept the nomination at a nearby sports stadium, before at least 75,000 people.
"So we want to open up this convention to make sure that everybody who wants to come can join in the party and join in the effort to take America back," said Senator Obama.
Obama's nomination marks an extraordinary rise in American politics and the culmination of what analysts say was a disciplined and brilliant campaign.
In a remarkable show of party unity, Obama's one-time opponent, Senator Hillary Clinton, asked delegates here at the convention to suspend a roll call vote of individual states.
"With eyes firmly fixed on the future, in the spirit of unity, with the goal of victory, with faith in our party and our country, let's declare together in one voice right here right now, that Barack Obama is our candidate and he will be our president," said Senator Clinton.
That led to roars of approval inside the packed convention hall, and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi called for the historic vote.
Pelosi: "All in favor to the motion to suspend the rules and nominate by acclamation Barack Obama as the Democratic Party's presidential candidate please say aye.
Delegates: Aye
Pelosi: All those opposed please say no. Two-thirds of the delegates having voted in the affirmative, the motion is adopted."
Delegates then launched a celebration, dancing back and forth in the convention hall to the song "Love Train."
The nomination sets the 47-year-old Obama, the Hawaiian-born son of an American mother and father from Kenya, on a path to face Republican Senator John McCain in the November election for president.
Later, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, who spent months on the campaign trail questioning Obama's qualifications for the presidency, pledged to strongly support the nominee.
"Barack Obama is ready to honor the oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," said teh former president. "Barack Obama is ready to be president of the United States."
Convention delegates also formally nominated Obama's pick for vice-president, Delaware Senator Joe Biden.
Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, slammed the Republican's foreign policy, calling it catastrophic.
"I have been on the ground in Georgia, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and I can tell you in no uncertain terms, this administration's policy has been an abysmal failure," said Senator Biden. "America cannot afford four more years of this failure."
Then Obama capped off his historic night by making an unscheduled appearance at the convention, bringing a roar of approval from the delegates.
On Thursday, the Democrat's choice for president will accept the nomination at a nearby sports stadium, before at least 75,000 people.
"So we want to open up this convention to make sure that everybody who wants to come can join in the party and join in the effort to take America back," said Senator Obama.
Obama's nomination marks an extraordinary rise in American politics and the culmination of what analysts say was a disciplined and brilliant campaign.
22 comments:
US the founder and role model of democracy has softened its stance to promotting democracy in Cambodia!!!! What are all of those efforts and assistance you have provided so far US??? You wanna leave Cambodians, starving for democracy, in the middle of nowhere here!!!!! Is the result now responding to your endeavor for all these years???? Cambodians can't believe you US has to leave us here!!!!
When was the last time the United State had nigger president? None.
Will this nigger ready to lead the US? No way and no how!
This nigger will absolutely does nothing for me or my colleagues.
11:43AM! Your fucking comment really disturb us.If you are a fucking Cambodian x-refugee just leave this country and stay where you belong .America is a melting pot.Look at yourself bastard,are you anything resemble a white supremacist ?Don't be such an idiot.Don't act like white kkk because you are not.
9:23am!
Don't blame America..If you feel that your present govt is not fair or did anything unlawfully just revolt or rise up ,after all it's your own country.
1:34 PM
Hey, fuck you, too, you fucking nigger lover!
Go ahead and vote for the nigger, you fucking nigger lover.
So, you think this nigger presidential candidate can win the presidency; also, you might think this nigger can lead the United States.
Listen up, you fucking nigger lover: after the election, come and talk to me (after the nigger lost the election).
I'm not a nigger lover!
1:34 PM
Shut the fuck up, you fucking food-stamp collector!
Hey you bastard 3:15pm
Listen up your yellow belly Asian motherfucker from Cambodia !.Senator OBAMA is an elected official.He is elected by whites and blacks alike of his Party.If you don't like our system of democracy, you must be a TERRORIST, and for that reason alone just return to where you belong.Your outrageous comment about Senator OBAMA is not acceptable and should be condemned.Furthermore,your racist comment has already been forward to HOMELAND SECURITY and defamation league for APPROPRIATE ACTION.Watch your mouth bastard.America doesn't need a scumbag like you who swim ashore for help and bite the hand that feed you.You really brought shame to your race and a trouble to your community as a whole.Through ISP , we will track you down one way another.
don't forget as well that republican is also making history by nominating first ever woman for vice president position. so, they're even, now!!!! by the way, i listen to governor sarah palin (sounds like the town of pailin in cambodia) and think she would make a wonderful, great v.p. for the USA. god bless the USA and cambodia.
2:13 AM
The comment above is outrageous by calling a black person the "N" word! However, I don't think calling an elected official or officials the "N" word constitute a terrorist. For instance, President George W. Bush has been called numerous awful names during his presidential tenure, yet those protesters have had called him and insulted him in front of his secret service. If a person, on the other hand, maade a personal threat against the elected officials , and therefore would present a clear and danger to the officials, that is a federal crime. However, again, calling the elected officials the "N" word or what have you, does not represent a clear threat, and does not constitute a terrorist. Moreover, we think it's unnecessary to disproportionately react to the situation.
For the sake of argument above, I ran into this footage from youtube as I viewed other video clips.
2:13 AM said that 3:15 PM is a terrorist for making such remark.
Now, check the following video clip from youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YeUqWZ_B1o
Would you, 3:15 PM, consider this guy a terrorist.
I think 2:13 AM is out of touch with the reality. Maybe it's time for you to spend sometime with black or Asian people -- not just you people.
Or, perhaps now it's time for a black man to run this country, after nearly eight years of Bush. What do you think?
Again, well, check out the video below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YeUqWZ_B1o
Oh! Personally and legally, I don't think this guy in the video is a terrorist, so does 3:15 PM.
I think 2:13 AM is being too protected and out of reach.
Also, if this person is, in fact, from the US, he, mostly like was not educated about the freedom of speech, because he absolutely has no knowledge or clue as to what constitute a "terrorist." Also, if you considered people who called the elected officials names, and then automatically be on the terrorist list, you're wasting the US taxpayer dollars. You need to get a grip of the reality, and get a lift, jack!
It is my sincere hope that this person does not work for Cambodia in Cambodia, because I believe this person is ignorant.
Further, you have unabashedly opened your mouth and called people terrorist with the fact that the person called a black person with the six-letter word or "N."
Yes, you, 2:13 AM, definitely need to be reeducated.
If you're in Cambodia, please stay out of Cambodia, because you do not what "freedom of speech is?" Yes, it is quite pathetic for a person like yourself for not knowing what "freedom of speech is?"
Until then, get yourself some education before you call some a terrorist.
Making an incendiary or derisive remark about other ethnic group makes a person a terrorist?
That's new.
Holly cow. This 2:13 AM is insane.
Calling someone niger is not a terrorist. Don't get your self too excited. Barack Hussein Obama was a Muslim. His former name was Barry Dhuram or Barry Soetoro. He changed to a Muslim name when he became Muslim. Maya Soetoro his half sister told AP that her whole family including her brother Obama are all Muslims.
Should the American know the truth he may have tied to the Muslim TERRORIST? Qadafi just gave a speech and urged all Muslims in America to vote for their Muslim brother Obama to spank the Israel.
This Obama is a cell hides in American community.
Obama Biden camp fear of McCain's veep, Sarah Palin. They have tried to trash her in every forum. I saw Boxer of Cali criticized McCain for choosing young attractive Gov of Alaska.
Before I said I didn't care to vote, because I didn't see good candidates. McCain is great but he is old. I definitely won't vote for Obama Biden, the extreme leftist toward Communist. Obama will promote more welfare/foodstamp and more jobs will lose to oversea. He will wreck the whole White House by his Muslim connections and his Racist Pastor, and Farakhan, the uncurable insane con artist.
Obama was picked by the fat pig Christ Matthew and his group. That was so dumb.
Look for video of Lybia leader Qadafi called for all Muslims in America to vote for their brother Barack Hussein Obama.
From my post 853am. But I will vote for McCain/Palin.
3:48 AM
Yes, I agree with you. I think 2:13 AM is a White trash who is trying to act tough.
Calling someone with the six-letter word or the "N" word is a terrist.
Yes, 2:13 AM is insane and stupid and ignorant. Yes, his ignorance amuses everyone here.
McCaian all the way!
The hell with Obama.
Go McCain!
Obama is a parasite from the Muslim who support him to take the White House.
Obama and his wife racist Michelle got into law schools from an affirmative action. GPA was 2.0
Just check their undergraduated degrees tells all.
2:13 AM
Must be fucked up who is trying to protect the cotton picker's people.
Yes, McCain is the MAN.
Honestly, I will never cast a vote for black man to run the country that I darely love, that is the greatest USA.
McCain, we, Khmer, love you, and we'll vote for you.
2:13 AM, go and fuck yourself, or perhaps you should invest in the cotton plantation.
2:13 AM, you make us sick to our stamach, shit head bastard.
Obama is a fake Christian, he was Muslim. His former name was Barry Dhuram then he changed to Barack Hussein Obama II that is Muslim name.
This fucker, 2:13 AM, perhaps can tell you everything about Obama.
The US would be saddened to have Obama to lead for the US (if he get elected).
2:13 AM, have you planted your cotton plantation yet. We're not certain we need people like you or Obama for this country. However, what we need is a person like McCain, the real hero, to run and lead this country so we don't have terrorist-mind like yourself,2:13 AM. Now, it's time for the reality check.
McCain supporter
2:13 AM
Why all sudden, this son-of-bitch so quiet; this shithead must be with Obama
This guy is losing his mind.
Also, this guy should out of Cambodia, and should not be affiliated with Cambodia or stay in Cambodia.
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