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DENVER, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter , Sen. John Kerry and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley will speak at the Democratic National Convention, organizers said Tuesday. The night that Sen. Barack Obama accepts the Democratic presidential nomination, former Vice President Al Gore also is expected to speak, the Rocky Mountain News reported. The convention in Denver runs Aug. ...
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Anti-Israel Figure to address Democratic Convention
GayPatriot —
... Organizers of the Democratic National Convention announced on Tuesday that a former Democratic elected official, James Earl Carter, Jr., also known “Jimmy,” a former governor of Georgia with a lengthy anti-Israel record since his forced retirement twenty-eight years ago, will address the gathering next Monday, August 25. ...
Jimmy the Dhimmi to speak at DNC?
Israel Matzav —
... ). The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) today called on Sen. Barack Obama and the Democratic Party leadership to remove former President Jimmy Carter from the program at the Democratic National Convention. Yesterday it was announced that Carter is scheduled to speak at the Convention in Denver on Monday, August 25, 2008. Through the years, President Carter has consistently demonstrated by his statements and actions a troubling anti-Israel bias. ... "Jimmy Carter's long history of anti-Israel bias has rendered him unfit to address the Democratic Convention. It is incumbent ...
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