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Republican National Convention: President Barack Obama

Mitt Romney Dept: America has been patient, he told the nation. Americans have supported this president in good faith. But today, the time has come to turn the page. , according to CTV. Romney capped a high-energy night closing the Republican National Convention with a spirited and unusually personal speech infused with his family life, touching on his Mormon faith and recounting his youth. The cheers were loud and frequent, surely music to the ears of a candidate who struggled throughout the bruising primary season and beyond to bury doubts among many in his party that he was the authentic conservative in the field and tAMPA, Fla. -- Lifted by a show of Republican unity that once seemed so distant, Mitt Romney plunged into the presidential campaign's final 67 days focused more than ever on jobs and the economy, and depicting U.S. President Barack Obama as a well-meaning but inept man who must be replaced. Obama, who will hold his own convention next week, served notice that he will use his powers of incumbency to make Romney's mission hard. Obama planned to visit a Texas military base exactly two years after declaring the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, the war that haunts the last Republican president. This, as Democrats prepare to gather in Charlotte, N.C., for Obama's convention. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.