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7:37 PM PT:
Let's face it: Obama is right that some righties prescribe tax cuts as solution to any conceivable problem.
— @RameshPonnuru via TweetDeck
7:40 PM PT:
We’re offering a better path – a future where we keep investing in wind and solar and clean coal; where farmers and scientists harness new biofuels to power our cars and trucks; where construction workers build homes and factories that waste less energy; where we develop a hundred year supply of natural gas that’s right beneath our feet. If you choose this path, we can cut our oil imports in half by 2020 and support more than 600,000 new jobs in natural gas alone.
And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet – because climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They’re a threat to our children’s future. And in this election, you can do something about it.
Take that, Mitt.
7:42 PM PT: Each paragraph of this speech has more policy meat in it than Mitt Romney's entire speech.
7:43 PM PT:
Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We’ve blunted the Taliban’s momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.
Chants of USA echo through the hall.
7:44 PM PT:
Tonight, we pay tribute to the Americans who still serve in harm’s way. We are forever in debt to a generation whose sacrifice has made this country safer and more respected. We will never forget you.
But Mitt Romney did forget them. He didn't mention them once in his entire acceptance speech.
7:45 PM PT:
I HOPE THIS IS THE PART WHERE HE SALUTES THE BRAVE MISSIONARIES SERVING OVER IN FRANCE #DNC2012
— @MexicanMitt via web
7:46 PM PT: I love this:
My opponent and his running mate are new to foreign policy, but from all that we’ve seen and heard, they want to take us back to an era of blustering and blundering that cost America so dearly.
After all, you don’t call Russia our number one enemy – and not al Qaeda – unless you’re still stuck in a Cold War time warp. You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can’t visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally.
7:47 PM PT: We're slightly past the midpoint of this speech.
7:50 PM PT (Kaili Joy Gray): New thread here.