Deval Patrick: Grow A Backbone Dems!

Governor Deval Patrick (D-Massachusetts) brings forth a rousing yet partisan speech at the Democratic National Convention. The governor succeeded Mitt Romney in 2007. Romney is a perennial candidate for higher office. He achieved his goal as the Republican nominee for the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election.

 
The Democratic National Convention is on. I am watching it. First Lady Michelle Obama and Julián Castro will be the headliners of this "Save Obama" National Convention.

The speakers included the president's sister Maya Soetoro-Ng, his brother in law University of Oregon Basketball head coach Craig Robinson, San Antonio mayor (possible 2016 U.S. presidential candidate) Julián Castro, Newark mayor Cory Booker, Tammy Duckworth, candidate for U.S. Congress, Lily Ledbetter, Maryland governor Martin O'Malley, Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Subileus, Chicago mayor Rahm Emmanuel, Ted Strickland, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-California), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada), Congressman Jared Polis (D-Colorado), and Democratic National Leader (Congresswoman) Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida). 

One thing that got me inspired was the speech from the Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick.

He spoke clearly of the need to bring forth an united front to reelected President Barack Obama.

He spoke of the dispirited supporters and their frustrations with progress. He told a tale of the Republican's strategy to bully the president right out of office. The governor is the predecessor of former governor and perennial candidate for president Mitt Romney.

Besides the heartwarming tribute to the late Massachusetts senator Ted Kennedy, we heard from Tammy Duckworth a disable war veteran running for congress against Illinois Republican Congressman Joe Walsh.  We heard the inspiring speeches from Martin O'Malley the governor of Maryland. A former managing executive Lily Ledbetter who was underpaid after 20 years of service to her company. Her legacy is an imprint on President Barack Obama. The first legislation signed into law as the Equal Gender Pay Act (known as the Lily Ledbetter Act).

When Governor Patrick came to the stage, it's turned out to be one of the most interesting things of the night.

Patrick was reelected in a nail-bitter election after the resurgence of Republicans. The Tea Party elected Scott Brown, a state legislator to the United States Senate ending the Kennedy legacy with an overwhelming victory over the Democratic opponent.

Patrick the father of two grew up with a single mother in the city of Chicago. He managed to win a scholarship to Milton Academy in Massachusetts in the eighth grade. He went on to attend Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he was President of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. After graduating he practiced law with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. He later joined a Boston law firm, where he was named a partner at the age of 34. In 1994, President Bill Clinton appointed Patrick Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, where he worked on issues including racial profiling and police misconduct. Patrick returned to Boston in 1997 to work in private law. In the following years he worked as general counsel for Texaco in New York City and Coca-Cola in Atlanta, which were both facing large racial discrimination settlements.

Somehow I gotten the the spirit back in me when the governor told the American voters to get a backbone and look at the risk if you elect Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. The price the American public could pay. They could undermine the progress that President Barack Obama's successes.

He told his party faithful that under the leadership of then governor Romney, the state of Massachusetts is ranked 47th in the United States job growth. Patrick managed to keep the state unemployment at level. His state's unemployment is 6.1%, below the national average of 8.3%.

Patrick gave one of the most rousing speeches so far. The media is loving it. But is the American voter buying it?

Patrick's partisan speech may give the Democrats a little spirit but could this impact help reelect President Barack Obama?

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Words To Michael Clarke Duncan!

Le Reyna posted the tragic news of actor Michael Clarke Duncan passing away today. I just found out about it and I want to share a few words about the famed celebrity.

Standing at 6'5" over 300 lbs, the former bodyguard is best known for his Oscar nominated role as John Coffey in the movie The Green Mile.

He participated in movies and television programs such as the Will Ferrell movie Tallageda Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, King of The Hill, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Friday, and Sin City.

To hear about his passing has completely shocked me. I was alerted by my friend and her link to the celebrity news agitation website TMZ.

Many in Hollywood and abroad have send their condolences to the lovable giant.

Publicist Joy Fehily released a statement from Clarke's fiancée, reality television star, Omarosa Manigault, saying the 54-year-old actor died Monday morning in a Los Angeles hospital after nearly two months of treatment following the July 13 heart attack.

The 6-foot-5, 300-pound Duncan appeared in dozens of films, including such box office hits as "Armageddon," "Planet of the Apes" and "Kung Fu Panda,"

Duncan had a handful of minor roles before "The Green Mile" brought him an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor. The 1999 film, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, starred Tom Hanks as a corrections officer at a penitentiary in the 1930s. Duncan played John Coffey, a convicted murderer.

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family and many friends of Michael Clarke Duncan.

A Video Tour of the Food Desert that is Dayton, Ohio

An estimated 78,000 people in Montgomery County live in what would be considered a "food desert," locations where the availability of healthy and nutritious food options are severely limited. The Dayton Informer took its hidden cameras inside of three grocery stores on North Main Street to highlight what kind of choices residents in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods have compared to citizens in economically advantaged areas.