Tune into ABC News on Thursday. Diane Sawyer Interviews First Lady Michelle Obama tomorrow on World News, hours before Barack Obama takes the stage to accept his party's nomination and argue he deserves a second term.
But first, lets live blog.
We'll have live commentary and analysis of Wednesday night's proceedings at the ABC News / Yahoo! News live stream - abcnews.go.com/politics/live
Tonight, Bill Clinton addresses the Democratic National Convention. And so does Elizabeth Warren. They're two big voices in the Democratic party, but she's something of a throwback to old-school progressivism and he was father of the New Democrats. An senior campaign advisor told ABC today they'll have the same message.
"It's not about the size of government, it's what you're investing in?" according to the adviser.
The big news today? Obama's Thursday speech will be moved indoors due to weather. Republicans looked at the weather report and argued it was because of lack of enthusiasm. Read more from Falcone and Dwyer about the big move indoors and whether it signals a lack of enthusiasm or a lack of enthusiasm to get wet.
What were people talking about today? Michelle Obama. Her speech. Her clothes. Her shoulders. The whole package.
Democrats change platform to include Jerusalem, God - 5:57 p.m. ET - From Jake Tapper
A Democratic source tells ABC News that the 2012 Democratic Platform is being "updated to reflect the president's position that Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel."
The Platform will also will be updated to include language mentioning "God" that had been taken out, specifically the 2008 language saying "we need a government that stands up for the hopes, values and interests of working people and gives everyone wiling to work hard the chance to make the most of their God-given potential."
The changes in the platform had met with criticism from not only Republicans, but Democrats.
Bill Clinton and Barack Obama; A rocky road - 5:38 p.m. ET - Clinton twice endorsed Obama's opponent in Democratic primaries. It's gotten better recently. But there have been other odd moments. Remember Bill Clinton hijacking Obama's press conference? More here .
Monica Lewinsky's former Rabbi to deliver benediction after Bill Clinton speaks at DNC - 5:37 p.m ET - From Michael Falcone-
Rabbi David Wolpe of Los Angeles' Sinai Temple, where Monica Lewinsky and her family were congregation members for decades and where Lewinsky attended religious school, is scheduled to deliver the benediction at the Democratic National Convention tonight - not long after Bill Clinton speaks.
Not only was Wolpe the Lewinsky family's rabbi, he also sharply condemned President Clinton at the time his sexual relationship with Lewinsky, then a 24-year-old White House intern, was dominating national headlines.
"He was a brilliant, talented, extraordinary child, and for the leader of the United States we need an adult," Rabbi Wolpe told his temple, according to a 1998 Associated Press account. He said Clinton needed to "cleanse his soul."
DNC Purgatory - Which delegation got the worst hotels? -6:03 p.m. ET - From ABC's travel section.
GOP SuperPAC ad calls Biden a 'drunk uncle' - 5:48 p.m. - From Arlette Saenz
Paul Ryan says Dems 'God' omission not compatible with 'founding documents.' But they didn't mention 'God' in Constitution - 5:26 p.m. ET - Read more from Shush Walshe
Convention Panorama - click here:
Snap! Beau Biden on Ryan's marathon: 'I think my mom could take him' - - 5:25 p.m. ET - From Arlette Saenz - Beau Biden, son of Vice President Joe Biden, bashed Paul Ryan Wednesday for shaving more than an hour off his marathon time and even turned his attack into a family matter, saying "my mom could take him."
"The Romney-Ryan budget means what it says. I believe his math as it relates to his budget. I'm not sure if I believe his math as it relates to his marathon times," Beau Biden told the Veterans and Military Families Council Meeting in Charlotte, N.C. "You know those runners out here, Army personnel, Navy guys and women, Marines, airmen, Coast Guard. You know your times, right? You know what your PT score is right? That's not something you forget.
Ryan seeks to connect with 'kindred spirits' in Iowa - 4:32 p.m. ET - He's got the accent and the family background to help Romney in a battleground state where he lost caucuses in 2008 and 2012. Today in Iowa, Shush Walshe reports that Ryan said he felt like he was home.
Could fact check fury hurt Ryan's political brand? - 4:08 p.m. ET - ABC's Greg Krieg investigates -
Ryan has given rise to a furious fact-check revolution, with analysts warning his claims - about everything from Health Care reform to his best marathon time - could imperil what many had painted as his cardinal virtue: Honesty.
It's a stark departure from just two months ago, when The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza called Ryan the leader of the Republican party's " attack and propose faction," an ideas man (and counterpoint to some of his obstructionist Republican colleagues) who had written and passed budgets in the House and drafted two versions of his fiscal manifesto, "The Roadmap."
ABC / Univision Immigration Special- 4:04 p.m. ET - Catch up on our special DNC live stream with Univision. It featured Jake Tapper -
"It's not if, it's when," Rep. Xavier Becerra told ABC News' Jake Tapper in response to a question about passing immigration overhaul. "It makes no difference if it's a Democrat in the White House or a Republican, we're going to get immigration reform."
Becerra of California was one of several Hispanic leaders who joined Tapper, National Journal's Ron Brownstein and Univision's Maria Elena Salinas at today's panel event in Charlotte, N.C., titled "Tomorrow's America: The Hispanic Surge and the New Landscape in American Politics." More here from Elizabeth Hartfield
Introducing Clinton - Elizabeth Warren, intellectual forbear to Obama's 'You didn't build that' comment - 8:15 a.m. ET - The Republicans built their entire convention around the theme that Elizabeth Warren sparked when she said this at a fundraiser in 2011:
"You built a factory out there? Good for you - but I want to be clear: You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for."
The Massachusetts senate candidate has become something of a lightning rod for Democrats and her race to unseat Scott Brown is one of the most closely watched - and interesting - in the country. But she also represents the sort of old-school progressivism that Bill Clinton eschewed as president in favor of moderate New Democrats.
Obama's embrace of Warren's ideology signals a move away from Clintonism. Warren made her name opposing big banks and bankruptcies and arguing that government's role is that of protector. Bill Clinton deregulated those banks. He put the work requirement in welfare.
More on Warren from Elizabeth Hartfield.
Obamagirl returns. Sounds the same. Looks totally different - 8:10 a.m. ET - From Jake Tapper -If Obama Girl looks different but sounds the same, that's because Leah Kauffman - the original singer/songwriter behind the 2008 "Crush on Obama" song and video - actually stars in this one. Last time Kauffman and partner Ben Relles, who is not involved with this new video, hired a model, Amber Lee Ettinger, to lip-synch the song. This year Kauffman steps center-stage.
"You didn't get the change you wanted to," Kauffman sings in the new video. "But here's your chance."
Rahm Emanuel previews Clinton speech - 8:05 a.m. ET - Should Obama be worried about Bill? - Ridiculous, says Rahm.
First, a recap of last night from GMA -8:00 a.m. ET
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