DNC Convention Day 3: Vice-President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama

Posted on September 6, 2012 by rikyrah

Pres. Obama: “I’m no longer just a candidate; I’m the President.” #DNC2012


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  1. SouthernGirl2 – A Native Texan who adores baby kittens, loves horses, rodeos, pomegranates, & collect Eagles. Enjoys politics, games shows, & dancing to all types of music. Loves discussing and learning about different cultures. A Phi Theta Kappa lifetime member with a passion for Social & Civil Justice.
    SouthernGirl2 says:
    September 6, 2012 at 11:57 pm

    Amelia Boynton Robinson, 101-Year-Old Voting Rights Activist, Attends The Democratic Convention

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/06/amelia-boynton-robinson-dnc_n_1863273.html

    CHARLOTTE, N.C. — On Thursday afternoon, an old lady in a wheelchair and her caregiver waited near the exit of the convention center here, delayed from their next stop by one of the week’s intermittent downpours.

    The woman in the wheelchair was Amelia Boynton Robinson. Five decades ago, she offered up her home in Selma, Ala., to civil rights activists for use as a base of operations in their voting rights efforts. The Selma-to-Montgomery marches were planned there, and they would have seismic implications for the American political landscape.

    “We were working to get the right to vote,” Robinson, who is 101 years old, said slowly. In 1965, as she and other protesters tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge during a voting rights demonstration, they were brutally clubbed with nightsticks and tear-gassed by state troopers.

    “I was the one that was left for dead, if you saw the picture of the person who was lying down,” she said. That photo of Robinson, laying unconscious and bloodied in a man’s arms, appeared in publications across the country, and that march became widely known as “Bloody Sunday.”

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  3. rikyrah
    rikyrah says:
    September 6, 2012 at 11:49 pm

    just made a donation to the President…

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  4. Monala says:
    September 6, 2012 at 11:48 pm

    I love seeing the huge smiles on Malia’s face. Sasha usually smiles like that, while Malia seems more subdued. Here, she’s just beaming!

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  5. rikyrah
    rikyrah says:
    September 6, 2012 at 11:26 pm

    thank you, Mr. President.

    our First Family is terrific.

    and Ride-or-Die Joe ROCKS!!

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  6. vitaminlover
    vitaminlover says:
    September 6, 2012 at 11:25 pm

    What a lovely First Family. the girs dresses made a statement. They are growing up.

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