DNC Convention Highlights: Governor Lincoln Chafee (I-RI)

Governor Chafee is a former Senator from Rhode Island. He left the Republican Party because of their extreme views, this is a speech worth listening too.

Read the full text of his speech, here.

Romney ceding Ohio (4 now)

Mitt Romney? Nothing. Obama’s Republican challenger has spent much of the summer racing around the country gathering campaign donations to pay for advertising. And the legal restraints that kept him from spending money raised for the general election were lifted a week ago, when the party officially nominated him for president. Yet for reasons that his advisors declined to discuss, Romney has ceded the advertising airwaves to Obama over the last week in Ohio and other battleground states. The sudden cease-fire offered a surprising lull in what for months had been a guns-blazing advertising war waged in Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Nevada, Colorado, Iowa and New Hampshire — on one side, Romney and his allies; on the other, the president and his.

Look, we all know what is going on here. Romney categorically eliminated his primary opponents by blistering, negative ads. He did not have a ground game and will not have one this fall. His whole premise will be the AIR WAR. He may cease now, but he and his super pac(s) will come out blazing with some of the most negative and racially tinged ads this country will see during a presidential election. Just hold your hats and get ready for the fight. Full article, here.

DNC Convention Highlights: President Bill Clinton

NOTE: Clinton ad-libbed half of his speech, so part of the text will not match the video. He made the case to re-elect, Barack Obama.

Full text of the speech, here.

DNC Convention Highlights: Elizabeth Warren

Full text of speech, here.

DNC Convention Highlights: Sandra Fluke

Her speech was short, powerful and on point. WOMEN HEARD HER.

Full text of her speech, here.

DNC Convention Highlights: House Minority Leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (CA)

Full text of speech, here.

DNC Convention Highlights: Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (MO)

One of the most powerful speeches at this convention, he was on fire. He starts speaking at 5:50 mark.

Full text of speech, here.

DNC Convention Highlights: Senate Majority Leader, Senator Harry Reid

Money Quote: "We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who don't recognize common ground even when they're standing on it."

Read the full text, here.

DNC Convention Highlights: Tammy Duckworth

Full text of this speech, here.

DNC Convention Highlights: First Lady Michelle Obama

This whole speech was outstanding. A full take down of the Romney/Ryan ticket without even stating their names. Michelle Obama has elevated what speech making is for any future First Lady of the United States of America.

Full text of her speech, here.

DNC Convention Highlights: Mayor Julián Castro, San Antonio, TX (Keynote Speaker)

This stuck with me: "In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor. My grandmother never owned a house. She cleaned other people's houses so she could afford to rent her own. But she saw her daughter become the first in her family to graduate from college. And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone."

Full text of speech, here.

DNC Convention Highlights: Mayor Corey Booker (New Jersey)

Full Text of Speech, Here.

DNC Convention Highlights : Governor Deval Patrick (MA)

This whole speech was EXCEPTIONAL from start to finish. But this stayed with me:

"This is the president who delivered the security of affordable health care to every single American after 90 years of trying. This is the president who brought Osama bin Laden to justice, who ended the war in Iraq and is ending the war in Afghanistan. This is the president who ended "don't ask, don't tell" so that love of country, not love of another, determines fitness for military service. Who made equal pay for equal work the law of the land. This is the president who saved the American auto industry from extinction, the American financial industry from self-destruction, and the American economy from depression. Who added over 4.5 million private sector jobs in the last two-plus years, more jobs than George W. Bush added in eight.

The list of accomplishments is long, impressive and barely told—even more so when you consider that congressional Republicans have made obstruction itself the centerpiece of their governing strategy. With a record and a vision like that, I will not stand by and let him be bullied out of office and neither should you."

Full text of speech, here.

DNC Convention Highlights: Former Gov. Ted Strickland (OH)

Money Quote: "If Mitt was Santa Claus, he'd fire the reindeer and outsource the elves."

Full Text of speech, here.

DNC Convention Highlights: Lily Ledbetter

The Money Quote: "Maybe 23 cents doesn't sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account, Cayman Island Investments and an IRA worth tens of millions of dollars. But Governor Romney, when we lose 23 cents every hour, every day, every paycheck, every job, over our entire lives, what we lose can't just be measured in dollars."

Full Text of speech, here.

This is a devastating ad, Mitt Romney is going to cry even MORE...

Keep it up Obama Campaign, define Romney early and often....