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Convention Notebook: N.C. delegates told that they should behave themselves
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Published: August 27, 2008
Updated: 08/27/2008 01:45 am
DENVER -- North Carolina Democrats got an earful yesterday about how to behave on the convention floor.
There were no reported problems with delegates Monday, but with Sen. Hillary Clinton scheduled to speak last night, the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama was taking no chances. They dispatched Clinton and Obama campaign whips to tell the North Carolina to "do the right thing."
Clinton's lead North Carolina delegate, Susan Burgess, the mayor pro tem of Charlotte, told delegates that Clinton "is asking you not to do anything that might embarrass her."
Obama's whip, Rep. Dan Blue of Raleigh, repeated a stern call for party unity, telling delegates: "This is a unifying effort coming off here. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise, and don't you go telling anyone anything different."
Biden owns up to having misspoken now and then
LITTLETON, Colo. -- Vice-presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden thanked Delaware delegates yesterday for standing by him, and served up a mea culpa for his foibles and imperfections.
Biden, known for an unscripted style that sometimes gets him into trouble, told a small breakfast gathering that he could not have weathered personal failures without their help, and allowed that his spot on the ticket will come with challenges, drawing knowing laughter from the crowd.
Arrested men posed no danger to Obama, authorities say
DENVER -- A group of suspected drug users arrested in Denver this weekend with methamphetamine, guns and bulletproof vests made racist threats against Sen. Barack Obama but posed no true danger to the presidential candidate as he accepts the Democratic nomination here this week, federal authorities said yesterday.
The three men -- all high on methamphetamine when arrested -- are the subject of an assassination investigation but so far, authorities say, it appears that they had no capacity to carry out any attack on Obama.
The three have been charged with drug and weapons offenses but not with threatening to assassinate Obama or with other crimes related to national security.
Laid-off textile worker from N.C. assails McCain at convention
DENVER -- A laid-off North Carolina textile worker was part of a chorus of speakers at the Democratic National Convention yesterday who criticized Republican Sen. John McCain as out of touch with working Americans.
Gloria Craven of Eden worked for textile manufacturer Pillowtex for 30 years before being laid off when her plant was closed in 2003, putting thousands out of work.
Craven told delegates and an international television audience that she and her husband have struggled since the plant closed, getting by without health insurance on a meager retirement income.
But McCain will be no different than President Bush, she said.
"When he said a few months ago that we've made great progress economically, it made me wonder: Who does he mean by ‘we?' And then, I read he owns seven houses, and it was clear that ‘we' didn't include me."
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