September 7, 2012 Compiled: 12:19 AM
President Vladimir V. Putin praised President Obama and said that if he is re-elected, a compromise could be reached on the contentious issue of American plans for a missile defense system in Europe.
When President Obama’s campaign moved his speech to a smaller venue, aides tried to mollify those who could no longer see him with an old, homespun (and cheap) standby: the watch party.
In accepting the Democratic nomination for a second term, President Obama conceded the country’s difficulties, but argued that it would “take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up over decades.”
The girls’ appearance at the Democratic convention will underscore their importance to their father’s image as a likable family man.
The August employment report, to be released Friday, may limit President Obama’s convention bump and serve as a blunt reminder of the forces working against him.
Many of the grass-roots activists, union members and others at the convention acknowledged that the president had fallen short in some areas, but they said he had earned a second term.
Franklin D. Roosevelt built the state from scratch in the 1930s, but Barack Obama is trying to overhaul a massive state machine that has existed for decades
