Michelle Obama and Ted Kennedy take center stage on convention’s opening night
It was an historic night at the Democratic National Convention. Michelle Obama, wife of the soon to be anointed democratic presidential nominee and the country’s first potential African American first lady, had an important job: to share the Barack Obama she knows, as husband, idealist and father. Adding to the emotion, Senator Ted Kennedy made his first speech since having surgery and treatment for a brain tumor.
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